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Posted 12/30/2013 8:04 PM (GMT 0)
I've had what I think is a UTI for over a week. Hoping to kick it with cranberry and probiotics but it is still lingering. I go to pee in a cup tomorrow at my doctor to confirm.

In the meantime she called in Cipro. I am so nervous now that I have been in a good remission for a while. I do not want to start any type of uc flare.

It's only 6 pills. Should I be nervous?
Posted 12/30/2013 8:07 PM (GMT 0)
It's a UTI, not Pneumonia, or TB... Lord, why must Doctors use the nukes for a common infection...
Posted 12/30/2013 8:14 PM (GMT 0)
Same exact thing just happened to me. Doc wanted to prescribe Cipro but I was very nervous about it due to things I had read here and he prescribed Ampicillin instead. I just started it last night. So far I have gotten slightly better and it has not effected my UC at all. I have doubled my probiotics and increased my UC meds during this week.
Posted 12/30/2013 8:28 PM (GMT 0)
Well, for what it's worth Cipro only ever helped my UC symptoms. It's an ideological difference as to whether UTIs warrant using Cipro or not. Personally I would take it rather than wait and risk a more serious infection.
Posted 12/30/2013 8:46 PM (GMT 0)
My doc knows my history and I am allergic to any sulf type drugs which I think is used for UTI.

I am not on any maintenace drugs except for LDN. I hope this is not going to be a problem
Posted 12/30/2013 8:57 PM (GMT 0)
I had to take 5 days of cipro for a UTI .
It gave me 5days of diarrhea. Cured the UTI! turn
Posted 12/30/2013 9:15 PM (GMT 0)
I just got diagnosed with C-Diff from using cipro. I was on day 6 of cipro when I had the worst stomach pain ever. Now I am debating FT to get rid of the c-diff rather than take another strong antibiotic to cure what an antibiotic caused!
Posted 12/30/2013 10:29 PM (GMT 0)
I find these kind of things really fascinating. If you lived in Australia, doctors wouldn't even dare give you a sniff of something even close to the formulation of cipro, unless your life was in question. The result of this prudency is less antibiotic resistant superbugs in the population and subsequently, less deaths from superbugs and less autoimmune complications. The CDC recently warned that it's precisely because of the clown doctors like the one you have that antibiotic resistant superbugs are on the rise.

You need to sign some kind of waiver form so that the doctor knows that you are aware of the long term ramifications of taking a fluoroquinolone antibiotic. He should be held liable if anything happens. The FDA recently updated it's warning on the drug. Don't be that guy who suffers a retinal displacement or a tendon rupture, especially when better and safer alternatives are available to treat UTIs. Personally, I'd choose death than relive my post-cipro experience.

If you DO decide to go on it, you need to prep and supplement with the following as per a Harvard study that mitigated the mitochondrial damage induced by cipro
1) A formulation of NAC
2) Probiotics and saccharomyces boulardii to prevent c. diff
3) Magnesium since it's detailed in the packet insert that it binds to it.

Best wishes in whatever you decide to do. I only wish someone told me this before I took it.
Posted 12/30/2013 10:39 PM (GMT 0)
Oy now I'm really nervous. I really hate going back to the doc and saying..I know you said to take this but I'm afraid. My doc is actually integrative and told me to triple my probiotics and drink lots of water first just to see if that would work. She uses many natural supplements too. Usually her first line of treatment. So I wonder why she chose this antibiotic??

What is NAC again? I used to take sacro b all the time but haven't in a while, not sure I even have any left..

How do you know if you suffer mitochondrial damage? I do take mitochondrial resuciated sometimes and I bet that has NAC in it
Posted 12/30/2013 10:48 PM (GMT 0)
Try asking for an alternative non-FQ antibiotic, or use D-Mannose or nattokinase. Chris Kresser did a nice piece on UTIs here that might be helpful to you.

NAC is short for N-ACETYL CYSTEINE, an amino acid precursor to glutathione.

Post Edited (StealthGuardian) : 12/30/2013 3:59:08 PM (GMT-7)

Posted 12/30/2013 11:46 PM (GMT 0)
Yea I hear ya on your concern, I posted something similar earlier today as my doctor told me I have strep throat and gave me 10 days worth of penicillin......really scared to take although i have taken the first 3 pills so far....just praying
Posted 12/31/2013 12:12 AM (GMT 0)
I've had to use bactrim and macrobid for a UTI. I just tripled my probiotic intake and increased my rectal meds too. I did start to see a little loose stool at the end of the second antibiotic but it did stop. I've never been given cipro for it though.
Posted 12/31/2013 12:13 AM (GMT 0)
Cipro was one antibiotic that never caused me any colon problems, but of course I developed an allergy to it.

If you can take Amoxicillin (Ampicillin), good for you. It gave me D before I had UC. Now it gives me constant, explosive diarrhea - to the point I can't leave the bathroom at all.
Posted 12/31/2013 2:51 PM (GMT 0)
I have begun to have diarrhea after the first 24 hours. Got 6 days left. Started taking Immodium. I haven't had the D in a very long time so this sucks. Hopefully I can get through this.
Posted 1/3/2014 2:27 AM (GMT 0)
So my update. Went to doc and she said to only take 2 doses of the Cipro and gave me Mannose powder too. Took one dose of Cipro (250 mg) and got a huge itchy rash all over. UTI already feels better but had to stop the Cipro. If I get sxs again she will have to prescribe something else. Now I cannot take any mesalamine in any form, no sulfa, no compazine or Reglan and no cipro! I can't tolerate anything! Frustrated.
Posted 1/3/2014 2:38 AM (GMT 0)
Wait, so you can't tolerate mesalamines anymore? Do you get rashes when it take it now?

Like I said before, you are trading the possibility of short term relief for long term consequences, which includes new intolerances. No matter what your doc tells you, it's just not worth it man. Did you try the d-mannose first?
Posted 1/3/2014 4:38 AM (GMT 0)
I could never tolerate mesalamine ever in any form. I did them at the same time...I took one dose and I'm done. She is type of doc who I trust...she won't even give a flu shot to her patients. Too many risks for her. I'm sure some of you don't agree but I decided to trust her and take the 2 doses which turned out to be one. Not always easy to figure it all out. Anyway hopefully I am not harmed in any way. I feel much better and rash is gone. Thanks for all your advice.
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