WOMENS-HEALTH Messages for February, 2000: Re: Almost thru with 10 antibotic course and still not feeling good

Re: Almost thru with 10 antibotic course and still not feeling good

From: R. Daniel Braun, MD (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Thu, 10 Feb 2000 19:30:16 -0600 (CST)

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In reply to: Kristy: "Almost thru with 10 antibotic course and still not feeling good"

At Wed, 9 Feb 2000, Kristy wrote: >
>My dr put me on Augmentin for UTI thanks to the two kinds of bacteria that has continued to persist. I will be completing the ten day course on Fri, and thanks to the fact that I also have vulvodynia (which makes having yeast and urinary tract infections worse) I'm still having vulvar pain.
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>I've completed 7 days of the antibotic already but now it leads me to ask this question: Shouldn't the pain be nearly gone by now even though I need to complete the full course of treatment? Is this something that I should be calling the dr about, or just wait until Mon when I go to drop off the urine for culture?
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>The reason for my concern is b/c I feel like the pain is starting to get worse again even though at one point I honestly thought it was getting better.
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>Thanks so much for your advice.
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>Kristy :)
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>http://www.geocities.com/HotSprings/Falls/4659/kristyspage.html
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>It's the little things that count with all of us ladies: flowers, candy, finding a good ob/gyn who will truly listen to us, and finding a cure for endometriosis.

It sounds as though either the bacteria were resistant to Augmentin(possible but unlikely) or the bacteria in the urine were not the cause of the pain.

RDB

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