greenbank wrote:
wwboy
Drink plenty of water double what you would normally as this reduces the concentration of the urine and once this starts going through the system helps the pain too. As Justej has said if you can take food with the antibiotics yoghurt helps antibiotics work more efficiently. Don’t forget to finish the course otherwise your body will build resistance and the next time you have a UTI will be more of a challenge for your medical team.
Greenbank
Thanks for your feedback. I’ve been on the new drug for a couple days now and I have a couple days remaining. I feel more or less back to normal. But as you say, I’ll definitely finish the prescription. It’s amazing how quickly the RIGHT stuff went to work. With the first stuff, my pain just kept increasing and symptoms worsening. I even started to see blood clots in my urine which was terrifying. One night last week, I was contemplating waking up my wife and asking her to take me to the ER because the pain was so bad...just agonizing. I took the advice to drink more water; but every time I peed it was so incredibly painful. The end of my urethra just throbbed and throbbed every time I went to the bathroom — and every time I would only get out like 100ml or so... I constantly felt the pain of having a full bladder - but I had no idea if it was full or what.
It’s a scary and uncomfortable and painful place to be in. I have no desire to go back to that! Mercy. This whole thing has reminded me of just how fragile we are as humans. Health is an incredibly valuable and priceless gift that you only really appreciate when it’s threatened. I know some of you live that reality every day. It’s good to be back to (relative) normal.