Hi There!

Any walk-in should be able to prescribe an antibiotic, and it should not take long to get the prescription filled. Often for pouchitis, you would be prescribed both cipro and flagyl - usually 500 mg of cipro and flagyl 250 3x day.

That being said, my experience with walk-in clinics is that the vast majority have NO CLUE about j-pouches, and you would have to be really specific with why you need the meds. That being said, is there any reason why you can't go through your own doctor? If not your GI, what about your GP? My GP is familiar with my history and will prescribe me cipro or flagyl over the phone if I can't get my GI. Likewise, your GI's office should also be able to phone in a script, especially if you've had pouchitis before.

Hi there, Please be very careful with cipro, its a good drug for pouchitis, but it has serious side effects, it finished up giving me C.difficille,which is life threatening if not treated, and the symptons are so simular to pouchitis. You cant be tested for c.diff whilst on cipro, I read so many blogs on here about c.diff and i kept thinking my surgeon as never mentioned it to me , this was until i had to see another surgeon, told me to come off cipro and get tested for c.diff, it came back positive???
he said once he had read my notes and seen that i had been on cipro he wanted to test me for c.diff. Just have a word with doc before starting cipro. good luck Bob
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