Hi ladies.
I have been doing at home instills for about 5 weeks. I was taking a low dose macrodantin just before the instill to prevent infection. Well, this past week after taking the antibiotic, I got soooo sick to my stomach and have had severe constipation and bloat ever since. Antibiotics really dont agree with me and since I have slow motility in my stomach and intestines already, anti-B's seem to make it worse for me.
I asked my urogyne and he says I dont even need to take any antibiotics before cathing, he says none of his other patinets take prevenative antibiotics. He said I should not get an infection if I use all the proper percautions with being clean, which believe me, I do. I am just so worried about getting an infection though since anytime you do something invasive like that, there is a risk. The one nurse said that there are people who have to self cath all the time several times a day and they do not take antibitoics and they do fine without getting infections. Do any of you do your instills and not take prevenative anti-B's?
Jen
I have been doing at home instills for about 5 weeks. I was taking a low dose macrodantin just before the instill to prevent infection. Well, this past week after taking the antibiotic, I got soooo sick to my stomach and have had severe constipation and bloat ever since. Antibiotics really dont agree with me and since I have slow motility in my stomach and intestines already, anti-B's seem to make it worse for me.
I asked my urogyne and he says I dont even need to take any antibiotics before cathing, he says none of his other patinets take prevenative antibiotics. He said I should not get an infection if I use all the proper percautions with being clean, which believe me, I do. I am just so worried about getting an infection though since anytime you do something invasive like that, there is a risk. The one nurse said that there are people who have to self cath all the time several times a day and they do not take antibitoics and they do fine without getting infections. Do any of you do your instills and not take prevenative anti-B's?
Jen
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