I don't have much interaction with my gastro but he's been prescribing me cipro when I ask for it. Flagyl gives me sides like sores.
I've taken a 10 day course and then about 13 days the second time. I have a 15 day prescription with six refills available.
I'm maybe a week off the last dose of cipro, maybe longer now. The other night I had some night sweats and didn't sleep well. Have some aching symptoms throughout the day, very mild though and goes away for periods of time. Friday night I was very tired, then I slept about 12 hours and felt like I still didn't want to get out of bed. So it's subtle but I'm thinking the pouchitis was never fully eliminated from previous dosages.
Can a pouch just be irritated for extended periods and not be pouchitis? I made the mistake of getting a six pack of Guinness drought last weekend, a very dark irish beer and I think that angered my pouch quite a bit. I'm starting ot think the weekend binge sprees could be all my problems and setting it off over and over again :-/
I get nervous repeatedly taking anti biotics with only 1-2 weeks break between. Is it a big deal to keep taking cipro over and over? Since my symptoms are mild It's tempting to hold off a month before taking again, to reduce tolerance, but I've heard it's better to take sooner to knock out pouchitis earlier.
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