Re: ally really bad UTI after catheterization?
From: jwang,MD (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Mon, 18 Sep 2000 20:16:15 -0500 (CDT)
I agree with the urologist - very likley your bladder was already
irritated from the previous proceures and was therefore more tender.
Given your history, it might be reasonable to give you antibiotics
before any bladder procedures,
At Mon, 18 Sep 2000, gidge wrote:
>
>Hi saw my urologist last week to discuss hydrodistension and urethral
>dilation for treatment of IC and he decided to catheterize me on the
>spot to see if I was retaining any urine...it really hurt when he put it
>in (hence the urethral dilation coming up) but the next day (Friday)i
>woke up with the worst UTI I have ever had, went to the clinic and they
>gave me Cipro and the next day it was even worse so I went to the ER and
>they ran IV antibiotics and sent me home, the next day it was worse
>again...so I am currently on TWO antibiotics...cipro and prolopin? And
>it finally seems to be going away...is this common (I also had
>cystoscopy the week before) and why was this infection so extreme (the
>urologist said it hurt so bad because my bladder was already irritated
>from the IC)
>
>Any insight from the doc's would help , I have told my urologist he
>can't do anything further to me without prescribing an antibiotic
>first!! Thanks Gidge
--
J Wang, M.D
Assitant Clinical Prof.
Tufts University School of Medicine
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