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On more antibiotics guys!!!

Chloesnavy

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Type of diabetes
Type 1
Still not feeling any better. So now I'm on more antibiotics to see if these ones work! I might just not bother taking them! It's getting ridiculous. I've had about five courses now and none have worked. I'm fed up!!! It's my birthday on Thursday and I wanna have a drink or two. Fmlllll! Scan next week finally though that's one positive
 
Have done any tests to look for what is causing the "infection" and what it is susceptible to? If not, please, please, please complain to the practice manager as they're not doing their job correctly and shouldn't be handing out antibiotics over and over as, if you do have an infections, it is quite possible it is resistant to some or all of the antibiotics you have been given
 
Known the feeling. Everybody around you is carrying something and you pray for miracle that it does not find you! Yeah right!!
 
I'll say it again: you're getting the NHS Shuffle. 5 courses of antibiotics, really? Suffice it to say an infection is not your urinary tract problem. Here you would be referred to what we call a urologist. I suggest you demand to see one ASAP before something bad happens. And Happy Birthday!
 
Can you tell us more about this "NHS shuffle" that you're talking about @TheBigNewt? What exactly are you basing your statement on?

Being from the US; you're a very long way from our health service to comment on its merits...
 
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I'm basing it on the 4-5 threads she's started regarding her urinary tract dilemna. All I know is she's been treated 5 DIFFERENT TIMES with antibiotics by nurses, is not better, has yet to be evaluated for a kidney stone with pain in her flank, and they originally scheduled her to be evaluated for that problem at the end of May (it was moved up but hasn't happened yet). I don't care what country she's in that doesn't sound like good medical care to me and she doesn't sound too overjoyed with it either. I just hope nothing bad happens to her in the meantime.
 
The NHS is far greater that the one surgery that @Chloesnavy has had a far from ideal experience with. I too hope that she gets a fix for her problem sooner rather than later.

You'd do well not to criticise our health care system, given the fact that you do not live here. Further, you'd do well not to criticise our health care system based solely on one negative experience that you've read about on the internet.

Our NHS is a fantastic system, and one which I'm extremely proud of - and I take great offence when it gets criticised by individuals who are in absolutely no place to comment.
 

I agree, not all Gp's and the surgeries are the same, you get the good with the bad, the indifferent too and those that go the extra mile. Unfortunately, times have changed over the decades, over stretched budget's, coping with an aging population too.
I would of thought if after two lots of anti-biotics and the OP is still ill with an infection, it must then be a process of elimination with ongoing investigation.
 

Happy Birthday for Thursday, I hope the infection does clear up soon and you start to feel a little better, you really have had some rotten luck, take care x
 
hi

I had the same plenty of different types but in the end they put me on a 10 days course of Avelox and i am paying dearly for it. Its a last result antibiotic and not suitable for diabetics. I stopped after 5 days as my blood sugars went skyhigh. And 10 days after i stopped i am still struggling, my morning reading is still between 10 and 12, going up throught the days to about 18....sigh..hopeless. I split my basal inject in two to see if that works.
 
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