U T WHY?

5 days worth of trimethoprim took me to Monday and I felt relatively okay.  I was still urinating a lot but I put this down to all of the water I was drinking to flush out the infection.  Then on Tuesday night I got up to pee SIX times and spent 2 hours awake with horrible pains in my bladder.  Needless to say I wasn't convinced that the antibiotics had worked.

On Wednesday morning Aunt Flo showed up - I was told that my period would probably still come whilst on the Suprecur and it was right on time.  That did however add period cramps to my already horrible bladder pain.  I forced myself back to work (I'm having enough time off for appointments as it is) and emailed my nurse in Sheffield.  She reassured me that the Suprecur shouldn't be causing frequent urination and urged me to go see my GP again.  Reluctantly I went back to the GP surgery on Wednesday evening.  I saw a different doctor who was more than happy to test my urine.  Thanks to AF there was obviously blood in my urine and it was hard to therefore interpret the blood on the dipstick as a sign of infection.  However, there were a lot of white blood cells in there as well which is a clear sign of infection.  He sent the urine off to the lab for culture and put me on nitrofurantoin for 5 days.  This GP was pretty helpful (especially after I explained that I really needed it sorting due to the IVF) but the lab will have received my urine today (Thursday) and cultured it.  They'll get the culture results tomorrow and the sensitivity results on Saturday, which means my GP won't see them until Monday morning.  My last antibiotic will be taken on Monday morning, ergo if I'm on the wrong antibiotics again I'll have taken the whole course before we find out and will then have to take a THIRD course.

Extra fun fact - the new antibiotics are making me so drowsy I'm no longer willing to drive and I almost fell asleep at my desk.

Genuinely finding the IVF medication a lot less hassle than these simple antibiotics!