Hi All,
You know we have to be our own health advocates, so here it goes.
I was put on bactrim for blood in the urine. Day 3 in I was feeling better, but my doc called and said there was no bacteria in urine so stop. I did. But I truly was feeling no pain in my lower half, some of stools were being to firm up in the day.
I looked up what is bactrim used for and one thing was Shigella. You can have it for years and it can be resistant to antibiotics like cipro and rocephin which I've been on many times. I don't remember ever being on Bactrim.
When all my problems started it was after food poisoning. I ate alfalpha sprouts without washing them(rushing to get back to work I made a large salad, that night I became AND I WILL NEVER FORGET, deathly ill! I should have went to ER, but I thought I could tough it out. I was throwing up and diarreah at the same time, that's something you don't forget. I was green for like 3 days of being sick. Then a few months later, I couldn't hold back my poop, starting bleeding, I had a scope they said I was fine, they didn't see anything, said take fiber that I had IBS, i went back another 6 months, bam! UC) That's a long story short.
I'm asking my doctor for a Bactrim once again, if she doesn't I have a back-up doctor who will give it to me. I want to see if it helps again. I hope I didn't screw things up by being on it only 3 days.
I will ask my doc for a stool test on for Shigella. I printed a 20 page sheet saying :
Shigella usually goes undiagnoised
The symptoms are: diarreah, fever, rectal spasms
Long term: pains in joints, irritation of eye and painful urination
The immune system intending to fight Shigella , attacks the body instead. Reactive arthritis can last for months or years and difficult to treat.
Shigella bacteria multiply in the human intestinal tract (I'm writing this down word for word from my document) and invade the cells which results in much tissue destruction. The bacteria can inflammation of the lining of rectum (proctitis) or rectal prolapse. or deadly cases toxic megacolon. A rare complication can lead to low red blood count (anemia) low platelet count. An UNKNOWN percentage of patients which Shigella infection develop digestive disorders, including IBS. This is under "Real Life Impacts of Shigella Infection"
You have to get a stool test and the doctors need to encourage the growth of the bacteria.
It states Bactrim USE to be considered a course of antibiotics to use, but it's becoming more resistant to the bacteria. Use Quinolone or cefixime
Hey I'm just going to try Bactrim for a while, what do I have to lose? I will keep you posted
