I agree with you , if you overuse the antibiotic you will be screwed eventually. I average one big uti a year. My primary pretty much understands that a quad doing bowell routines, driving thirty miles and basically spending an entire day, not to mention the price of gas to get a script for cipro is a lot to ask. He will call it in most of the time. Sometimes he does make me go in if I haven't seen him in a long while, which I understand. I have a half dozen sealed small jars that I put the urine in at home , then I just give it to the nurse when I go in the docs office. Saves a lot of trouble. I hate trying to use a one man multi gender restroom with people beating on the door and Im trying to get urine from an extension tube into the bottle, lol. What we quads go through is unexplainable unless you've lived it On Thursday, May 22, 2014 1:35 PM, "diannal...@aol.com" <diannal...@aol.com> wrote:
overuse of anti-botics make them ineffective is what my doctor said. he prefers to get a culture test back first to treat the right bug.like you ron, a fever isn't always the onset of a uti. I had a rash I didn't call on, got a fever, ended up in the hospital with shingles and pneumonia. I wasn't coughing so I don't know where they got that. because of cancer, i'll be on a anti-viral pill now and i'm still on anti-botics 3 wks later. got another month to go. dianna I cant imagine why a doctor would act that way with something as harmless as cipro. Its not addictive or for pain or getting high. In my opinion every quad should be given 20 or so cipros to keep on hand to start if they get a fever from what they think is a uti. -----Original Message----- From: RONALD L PRACHT <r.pra...@sbcglobal.net> To: quad-list <quad-list@eskimo.com> Sent: Thu, May 22, 2014 12:01 pm Subject: Re: Fwd: [QUAD-L] Dr. UTI visit ... Huh I cant imagine why a doctor would act that way with something as harmless as cipro. Its not addictive or for pain or getting high. In my opinion every quad should be given 20 or so cipros to keep on hand to start if they get a fever from what they think is a uti. Starting an antibiotic when I got a bad fever saved my life in 2011 when my appendix burst. My doctor called in cipro, then a stronger set of antibiotics to combat what I thought was a vicious uti. Come to find out I was hours away from dieing from going septic from a burst appendix. The antibiotics I took gave my body an additional two days of fight b4 I reached the hospital and got diagnosed and operated on. I was in the hospital for a month, didn't eat for three weeks but my life was saved. Ron On Thursday, May 22, 2014 7:48 AM, Larry Willis <lwillis82...@gmail.com> wrote: Wow, Bobbie. Keep us informed of your prognosis. I know we have said it before, but growing old as a quad is a little taste of hell. Good luck and hang in there. Larry ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Gmail <bobbiehumphre...@gmail.com> Date: Wednesday, May 21, 2014 Subject: [QUAD-L] Dr. UTI visit ... Huh To: quad-list@eskimo.com I went my GP because I knew I was symptomatic for a UTI. For years I would go, tell my Dr. My symptoms (which he would type into his lap top), give him a sample, and he ALWAYS would write out a script (in his case email a script to my pharmacy) Then in 2-3 days I would find out if the cipro he prescribed was sensitive to my UTI or order a different antibiotic. This time he said he wasn't going to write a script for cipro because he thinks "... it's only acting like a placebo." Well, I went home and am taking some cipro I have left over that I keep. He also wanted me to get a colonoscopy. I said "Nope, never." And handed him a pamphlet about AD and informed him that I have had a stroke from AD in the 1980's I said "Why don't we try a less invasive way of testing?" So, he prescribed an ultrasound of my intestines, and did blood work which is available right in his office. I went in fastened because I didn't feel well. Bobbie C - 4,5,6,7 41 years post Smile Everyday
