pyridium is a God send! When I have UTIs it is the only thing that allows me to keep my sanity. After 24 to 48 hours on the antibiotic your bladder spams should be better, and you should be able to cut back on the pyridium. You can actually buy some over the counter now.

Adding some Cranberry juice (not cocktail) to your diet will help provide some prevention in the future. Cranberry tends to make the bacteria slick, so they cant stick to the wall of the bladder, and slide out in the urine. Make sure to read the lable, many juices that say 100% juice are 50% grape or apple juice, and then add cranberry in as a flavor. Northfield, and others carry the 100% Cranberry juice. Just a small glass in the AM or Pm will help keep those suckers slick. If you cant do the juice, they sell it in pills. much less expensive to just buy the juice though.