Ron,
Being on explainable as a quad is an understatement of the year now of the
decade!
Bobbie
Smile Everyday
> On May 22, 2014, at 3:03 PM, RONALD L PRACHT <[email protected]> wrote:
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> I agree with you , if you overuse the antibiotic you will be screwed
> eventually. I average one big uti a year. My primary pretty much understands
> that a quad doing bowell routines, driving thirty miles and basically
> spending an entire day, not to mention the price of gas to get a script for
> cipro is a lot to ask. He will call it in most of the time. Sometimes he does
> make me go in if I haven't seen him in a long while, which I understand. I
> have a half dozen sealed small jars that I put the urine in at home , then I
> just give it to the nurse when I go in the docs office. Saves a lot of
> trouble. I hate trying to use a one man multi gender restroom with people
> beating on the door and Im trying to get urine from an extension tube into
> the bottle, lol. What we quads go through is unexplainable unless you've
> lived it
> On Thursday, May 22, 2014 1:35 PM, "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
> wrote:
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> overuse of anti-botics make them ineffective is what my doctor said. he
> prefers to get a culture test back first to treat the right bug. like you
> ron, a fever isn't always the onset of a uti. I had a rash I didn't call on,
> got a fever, ended up in the hospital with shingles and pneumonia. I wasn't
> coughing so I don't know where they got that. because of cancer, i'll be on a
> anti-viral pill now and i'm still on anti-botics 3 wks later. got another
> month to go.
> dianna
> I cant imagine why a doctor would act that way with something as harmless as
> cipro. Its not addictive or for pain or getting high. In my opinion every
> quad should be given 20 or so cipros to keep on hand to start if they get a
> fever from what they think is a uti.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: RONALD L PRACHT <[email protected]>
> To: quad-list <[email protected]>
> Sent: Thu, May 22, 2014 12:01 pm
> Subject: Re: Fwd: [QUAD-L] Dr. UTI visit ... Huh
>
> I cant imagine why a doctor would act that way with something as harmless as
> cipro. Its not addictive or for pain or getting high. In my opinion every
> quad should be given 20 or so cipros to keep on hand to start if they get a
> fever from what they think is a uti.
>
> Starting an antibiotic when I got a bad fever saved my life in 2011 when my
> appendix burst. My doctor called in cipro, then a stronger set of antibiotics
> to combat what I thought was a vicious uti. Come to find out I was hours away
> from dieing from going septic from a burst appendix. The antibiotics I took
> gave my body an additional two days of fight b4 I reached the hospital and
> got diagnosed and operated on. I was in the hospital for a month, didn't eat
> for three weeks but my life was saved.
>
> Ron
> On Thursday, May 22, 2014 7:48 AM, Larry Willis <[email protected]>
> wrote:
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>
> Wow, Bobbie. Keep us informed of your prognosis. I know we have said it
> before, but growing old as a quad is a little taste of hell. Good luck and
> hang in there. Larry
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Gmail <[email protected]>
> Date: Wednesday, May 21, 2014
> Subject: [QUAD-L] Dr. UTI visit ... Huh
> To: [email protected]
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> I went my GP because I knew I was symptomatic for a UTI. For years I would
> go, tell my Dr. My symptoms (which he would type into his lap top), give him
> a sample, and he ALWAYS would write out a script (in his case email a script
> to my pharmacy) Then in 2-3 days I would find out if the cipro he prescribed
> was sensitive to my UTI or order a different antibiotic.
>
> This time he said he wasn't going to write a script for cipro because he
> thinks "... it's only acting like a placebo."
> Well, I went home and am taking some cipro I have left over that I keep.
>
> He also wanted me to get a colonoscopy. I said "Nope, never." And handed him
> a pamphlet about AD and informed him that I have had a stroke from AD in the
> 1980's I said "Why don't we try a less invasive way of testing?"
> So, he prescribed an ultrasound of my intestines, and did blood work which is
> available right in his office. I went in fastened because I didn't feel well.
> Bobbie C - 4,5,6,7 41 years post
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> Smile Everyday
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