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Old 04-21-2010, 03:07 PM
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Wow, I'm so glad you're okay!

I just got done yesterday with my antibiotics for my UTI. Mine started Sunday morning, I drank a TON of water and almost two quarts of cranberry juice just that day. Woke up the next morning and it was a lot worse. Nothing quite like peeing razors.

I ended up going to urgent care to get antibiotics, and the practitioner treated me like a criminal for having a UTI. They gave me a Sulfa and after two doses we discovered I'm allergic to them. So a round of Cypro got me over it.

Some signs are dark urine, strong smelling urine, and for me, feeling dehydrated even with drinking a ton of water.

I'm going to have to find me some cranberry pills, that sounds great and I can't stand cranberry juice.

I hope you don't have to go through this again. Oh and something my pulmonologist told me, about sulfa drugs anyway, was that the reason you are supposed to drink a lot of water with them is that they are very hard on the kidneys. I was drinking more than 13 cups of water a day for three days after stopping them and still so dehydrated that when you push on my finger the skin wouldn't spring back for at least a minute.

Hopefully this thing is gone for good, good luck!

Kristie
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