Bobby -- My husband has been suffering with a bunch of different UTI's over the past 3 years. Many of the simple bacterial ones respond to oral medications, but he has had pseudomonas now for 2 years and despite oral, intravenous, and even bladder flushes, he still has it. It hibernates for about a month, then comes back with a vengeance with counts over 100,000. Most of the time it is between 50,000 and 100,000. His infection disease doctor now has him on another polymycin bladder flush regimen that I doubt will work because she's tried it twice already. This time she is dosing him more frequently and for longer duration. We have another infectious disease doctor lined up if this remedy doesn't work. She says he is just "colonized" but someday this bug will kill him when he runs out of antibiotic options..........
Gail -----Original Message----- From: Bobbie Humphreys [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Sunday, June 04, 2017 7:39 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [QUAD-L] UTI drugs, dosage & duration In the beginning of March I had a really bad UTI that required infusion therapy for 5 days. This was after I gave a culture to my GP, results coming in 7 days later with a phone call saying "You need to see your infectious disease doctor right away." I was stuck in bed with a wound, so over the phone Dr. Allegra, my infectious doctor, ordered the infusion drugs after getting the culture results through email ... having never seeing him in person. In a follow-up visit June 2nd, 2 months later, I spoke to him regarding the long wait for cultural results from my GP. Dr. Allerga wrote out a RX, so next time I had symptoms of a UTI all I, or Pete, have to do would be to drop off a specimen with the RX at the closets Labcor. I did last week and over the phone he prescribed amoxicillin to be taken 3 x's a day for 5 days. Does anybody else have a Doctor who does this for them? Or Has anybody ever taken UTI meds like I described above ? Bobbie "Be the change you want to see in the world". Gandhi
