Keflex causing diarrhea / UTI on Humira

Did they do a culture of the bacteria?
I used Septra in the past for a bladder infection....can you use that?

Call the doc you're seeing on Thursday and ask what you should do.

Can you take probiotics?

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Family doctor called back and said I could stop taking them. She thought I'd been on them for 3 days and said 3 days is really all you need for a UTI. Guess I'll just take them today and tomorrow then. The script was for 7 days.

Ugh, I am so sick of doctors being idiots. I don't even know what my culture came back as. Maybe I'll call the ER again and ask because I'd like to know.

It wasn't bad compared to UC, like I wasn't in pain and I've only had 3 bouts of D so far. But it was urgent. I was scared a fart was going to be a shart last night...lol. Someone I know who doesn't have IBD told me Keflex gave him bloody D! That scared me.

Thank you!

From what I've read, keflex isn't good for UC and I tried to tell you that I wouldn't take it. It might cause c diff and a flare.

Cranberry juice and soft gels worked for me while I had a painful UTI. I had to take those several weeks. One time I tried to taper off, the pain came back. I just stayed on it a couple of weeks more and it was resolved. I've never treated my UTI with antibiotics.

I've only had diarrhea twice so far and I'm on day 3, so it hasn't been too bad after all. Keflex legit tastes/smells disgusting though! I wish they had given me Cipro or Amoxicillin instead. I will request those if I ever get another UTI. I called the hospital again yesterday, and they still didn't have my culture, and it had been over 72 hours, so not really sure what's up with that. I feel like the UTI is all better though. I barely had any symptoms to begin with.

I just called the ER again and they have no record of a culture result for me and that none was ever ordered. The nurse and doctor both told me they were doing one. The case manager I just spoke to thought it was very odd, she said they do cultures for everything. She also said it was really odd the ER doctor didn't give me antibiotics until I called back and requested them myself 2 days later. She said "I don't know what she was doing." Lol. She said sometimes they won't prescribe antibiotics if the urine bacteria result is 1+, but mine was 2+. They did, however, order a pregnancy test even though I told them I was literally currently on my period and haven't had a boyfriend since last summer! Oh well, it isn't a huge deal, but still, wth.

So, the ER prescribed the Keflex for 7 days, but when I told my family doctor I was having diarrhea, she said you only need to take it for 3 days for a UTI. Then she said you only need to take it for 1 day. However, my GI told me to take the whole course. So, I'm kind of confused what to do. It wasn't a severe infection, but I am on Humira.

Also, the case manager lady I just spoke to in the ER thought all this dizziness could be from the UTI. She said that's common in elderly people and that it could have been the case for me even though I'm only 36. No doctor I've spoken to seems to think that is the cause though.

I saw a new family doctor today. He did not impress me at all, barely seemed interested in my issues and barely spent any time with me. I personally think I have a very interesting medical history and that he should have been interested! LOL. He did order more bloodwork -- he's testing my Vit. D, iron, ferritin, and doing another CMP and CBC. He said he thought my low potassium reading at the ER the other day could be the cause of the dizziness. The ER doctor said my reading didn't worry her at all, and that it was common in people with D or vomiting; however, she never bothered to ask me if I had had any recent D or vomiting, (I hadn't), and I looked at all my old CMPs for the past 2 years, and my potassium was always normal even while in severe flares! That ER doctor was nice, but she didn't seem to know what the hell she was doing, on multiple fronts.

The other interesting thing today was my blood pressure at my appointment early this morning had returned to totally normal for me -- 112/62. It had been 124/82 or higher recently, which I know is still pretty normal for most people so maybe that means nothing. Since I feel fine when I wake up in the morning, and the dizziness happens an hour or two after I wake up, and an hour or two after I take my Uceris, which can cause high blood pressure, I had been wondering if maybe that could be the link. Just grasping at straws here. It hasn't been nearly as bad this week as it was last week though, so who knows.

Sorry I wrote another book. I know I'm starting to sound like a hypochondriac.

Antibiotics are a guaranteed flare trigger for me. I can trace most of my flares back to ABX use, including my first flare which was a doozy. My GI doc told me that taking antibiotics now might put me 6 feet under, since I am fighting valley fever, so I have limited to no options to treat a flare without giving the valley fever free rein to run amok.

I've decided I need to go to medical school so I can just treat myself. Lol. Only half kidding. Think I'm too old for that though.

LOL, yes, I should write a book or something. Ha.

Nope, never seen a cardiologist before!

I feel like it's something wrong with my head, not my heart, but I guess I have no idea. I've spent hours researching online every day and can't figure it out. No one really seems to have experienced exactly what I did. It wasn't like normal lightheadedness when you stand up. It was like my head jerked down like when you're about to fall asleep but I wasn't falling asleep and then it kept feeling like that over and over for hours for two nights in a row last week. I didn't take my Uceris this morning and I did not do my Humira yesterday. I'll see what happens. I can't live like this.

I got my bloodwork results from yesterday. Everything is normal except my Vit. D was super low! 13.8. I've been taking calcium and Vit. D every single day for months, so that is super weird, isn't it? I've never had low Vit. D before. What is recommended for that? I already take more than the recommended daily value every day in vitamins. I get it in my diet too. Great that I just keep finding more things wrong with me but nothing to explain my symptoms. No wonder my foot broke from walking a mile.

My UC is under control though. It wasn't a blood sugar issue for me; I had just eaten when it started. Thanks for sharing though!

Ok, thank you. I was taking about 800-1,000 IU per day of Vit. D2 most days (sometimes I skip my multivitamin so I'd get less). I guess I need to take way more. I'll see if this doctor is going to recommend something. He is out today. Or I might just ask my GI. I read some old posts on Healingwell this morning about their doctor's prescribing them a 50,000 IU pill that you take once a week. I used to go outside a lot and get a lot of sun but not lately so that probably doesn't help. Do you take D2 or D3? Maybe I should switch to D3.