LuSmith
15-02-23, 18:27
Hey,
Hopefully someone will be able to maybe ease my mind on some symptoms I'm having.. I have been having worsening urinary symptoms for a couple weeks now (especially more so since a colposcopy and biopsy I had). I had a urine sample taken to which they didn't get back to me and let me know to start some antibiotics, so I ended up starting them late. The urine sample came back with mixed growth (maybe because of the discharge etc from the colposcopy etc) but also had e-coli growth. So three days ago I finally started the antibiotic Macrobid/Nitrofurantoin. However since starting it I've been urinating a LOT and frequently. Even more so than before I was taking the antibiotic. I don't particularly think I've been drinking more or less than I usually do either. I've tried to stay off the usual irritants as much as poss.
I'm wondering if this is something the Macrobid is doing, otherwise I'm absolutely paranoid this is worsening and gonna go to my kidneys or something since I left it for too long before starting.
The other symptoms I'm having are some back pain/side pain (but I get this even without UTI), nausea (probably from the meds) and headache/dizziness (also likely from meds as it only happened after starting them). I'm also feeling colder than usual but I don't have a fever.
Just wondering if anyone's experienced this sort of thing on Macrobid or if I should speak to the GP again and see if it's working or not. They usually tell me to take the whole course before enquiring again and I know a random test now probably won't help if I'm already on antibiotics. :unsure:
Hopefully someone might know whether this is normal or not as it's driving me crazy! I can't even nap since I have to keep getting up :weep:
Thanks..
Hopefully someone will be able to maybe ease my mind on some symptoms I'm having.. I have been having worsening urinary symptoms for a couple weeks now (especially more so since a colposcopy and biopsy I had). I had a urine sample taken to which they didn't get back to me and let me know to start some antibiotics, so I ended up starting them late. The urine sample came back with mixed growth (maybe because of the discharge etc from the colposcopy etc) but also had e-coli growth. So three days ago I finally started the antibiotic Macrobid/Nitrofurantoin. However since starting it I've been urinating a LOT and frequently. Even more so than before I was taking the antibiotic. I don't particularly think I've been drinking more or less than I usually do either. I've tried to stay off the usual irritants as much as poss.
I'm wondering if this is something the Macrobid is doing, otherwise I'm absolutely paranoid this is worsening and gonna go to my kidneys or something since I left it for too long before starting.
The other symptoms I'm having are some back pain/side pain (but I get this even without UTI), nausea (probably from the meds) and headache/dizziness (also likely from meds as it only happened after starting them). I'm also feeling colder than usual but I don't have a fever.
Just wondering if anyone's experienced this sort of thing on Macrobid or if I should speak to the GP again and see if it's working or not. They usually tell me to take the whole course before enquiring again and I know a random test now probably won't help if I'm already on antibiotics. :unsure:
Hopefully someone might know whether this is normal or not as it's driving me crazy! I can't even nap since I have to keep getting up :weep:
Thanks..