I have tried taking low dose antibiotics in a prophylactic method. The drawback was that it made the antibiotic ineffective and I began to produce some real difficult bugs. This is why I try to avoid taking anything other than vitamin C and mendelamine (sp.) , and lots of water. Unfortunately, I still produce bad bugs. My GP seems to think that I have built-up an immunity to most minor bugs. My urologist, after a half dozen random samples! has come to the same conclusion as my GP. Years and years of infections seems to have given me the ability to live with a constant minor infection. The antibiotics really only reduce the infection to a comfortable level that I seem to be able to get along with. I do keep antibiotics on hand, but I do notify the doctors when I decide to take any. I still have an overwhelming fear of hospitalization and the half wits making decisions there.John s.
-------- Original message -------- From: Joan Anglin <[email protected]> Date: 07/29/2015 1:01 PM (GMT-05:00) To: 'greg' <[email protected]>, [email protected] Subject: RE: [QUAD-L] RE: Infections I too have been using a low dose of Bactrim for quite awhile and I very seldom have any UTIs (problematic). This last February was my first UTI in almost three years. Like Greg two weeks of Cipro took care of that. Thank goodness for modern medicine :-). I am just finishing up the Outlander series, and I am very glad that I live in today's world and not in the 1700s! Have a great day everyone.
