Re: ally really bad UTI after catheterization?
From: Harvey S. Marchbein, M.D. (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Mon, 18 Sep 2000 21:15:06 -0500 (CDT)
Non-elaborate but honest answer. Some women will get UTIs after
instrumentation and some are more prone than others. The need for 2
antibiotics is unusual unless there are two different bacterias not
resposnive to the same antibiotic.
Hope you feel better soon.
HSM
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
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Harvey S. Marchbein, M.D. FACOG, FACS
Great Neck, New York
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