Cipro for ngu
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Hook said that my completing a course of cipro 40-48 hours before my exposure could cause gonorrhea and NGU symptoms to not appear. 3 days after my exposures, I noticed that inside the opening to my urethra (pee hole) was definitely more red than normal. Since then I have experienced mild burning when I first start to urinate (not excruciating burning, and sometimes there is no burning) and the redness areas/spots inside the opening to my urethra are still there.
Welcome to the forum. Thanks for your question.
There is a lot of misunderstanding about both oral sex and symptoms of urethritis. Oral sex is low risk for all STDs (including NGU) and zero risk for some. And urethritis generally doesn't cause things like "tingling discomfort", or urinary symptoms like urgency, frequent urination, etc. Without discharge, you can be confident you don't have it.
last month i received 2 min oral,i had no discharge but was treated with azithomycein 250x5 all in one dose doxy 100 2x day after 10 days my bladder felt really swollen i went to the docter and tested positve for a bladder infection,i was put on cipro 500 2x a day for 10 days.
Different bacteria can respond to different medication
How long should it take for symptoms to subside when on Doxy or Cipro and should i expect relief in a couple days regardless of the prescription duration? what's your opinion on the drugs he prescribed? Thought i'd get your feedback on the matter.
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Thanks for the comments anutiejessie!
As an FYI the symptomes never resulted in any pain or white discharge. Just the sensation or needing of a need to urinate but little drops only came out.
With that said could the bacteria be from diet (heavy alcohol intake the prior 5 days)? Could extensive masterbation (3-5 hours/day) cause a prostatis flar up? Or could the latex or spermicide from the condom irritated my urethra and caused the flare up?
I had described that I had been prescribed cipro for a possible bacterial infection (NGU) without anything other than my doctor doing a physical exam and knowing of my negative gono and chlamydia results.
Was this post directed towards me? I have since had a urinalysis (results pending) and a scheduled scrotal ultra sound. Is this the correct treatment, and if not, what is?
Thank you Grace.
I assumed so, but the testicular pain has caused me to second guess myself and assume its NGU because I hadn't tested for it. I'm also concerned about passing on the NGU to my wife.
My Doctor has given me Cipro 500 for the possibility of Epididymitis. Hopefully this clears up the discomfort.
Ciprofloxacin is effective therapy for many but not all strains of gonorrhea but is not recommended for other, more common forms of urethral infection such as NGU or chlamydia.
6. Respiratory tract symptoms are not due to STDs. Yours may be due to a summer cold or bronchitis. If the symptoms are troubling you, you should check with your doctor. This would be an unusual form of allergic reaction to ciprofloxacin and if it had been due to the cipro, stopping it should have helped.
She then gave me a prostate exam and my prostate was slightly tender to the touch and she gave me a prescription for Cipro 500mg for 14 days which I am currently taking. Yesterday, the day after my exam I was very uncomfortable from my anus up through my urethra and started to panic even more. I also started to notice a slight burning sensation at the tip of my penis when urinating but not every time I urinated. When I woke up today I felt better in the areas I just described.
he didnt ask for any tests or nothing , I start taking the painkiller for 10 days and the pain didnt stop , i saw another doctor and he prescribed 5 days of cipro for prostate and again it didnt work ,,
after like 40 days of pain and i could feel that something really went to my prostate cause it left untreated that hall time i went to another doctor that he did an ulttrasound for my prostat and the size was normal he asked for a urine regular culture and a urine anlysis and the results were n
Now 5-6 days into medication cipro seems to be helping a bit. I tried masturbation today to test the waters and now I feel worse. I really don't feel it as much the moment I wake up in the morning and it seems to be more noticeable as day progresses.
My Questions:
1. Since this was a high risk encounter, should I be retested for above STDs?
2. Does this sound like Prostatitis? Or what could it be?
2a. I heard prostatitis is hard to cure is that true?
1) Ciprofloxacin isn't the recommended treatment for any STD. The injection probably was ceftriaxone, to cover gonorrhea. If the intent was to also cover chlamydia or NGU, you should have had either a single dose of azithromycin or 7 days treatment with doxycycline. However, with two sets of negative tests, and with onset of symptoms too soon for chlamydia or NGU, "I see no need for any further treatment at all.
I think that's obvious from my reply above. You could have been tested any time more than 2 days after your last sexual exposure with the partner you are concerned about. However, I do believe any testing is a waste of money. The chance of gonorrhea from a few episodes of oral sex is very low, and the chance of gonorrhea without symptoms is even lower. The odds that both unlikely events happened to you is too low to warrant testing. But it's your money; feel free.
It also is often misdiagnosed in men who actually have sexually acquired nongonococcal urethritis (NGU), which in turn can cause UTI-like symptoms in women. Further, cipro is not the best drug for NGU. If your treatment has not included a tetracycline antibiotic (such as doxycycline) or azithromycin (Zithromax), you might discuss this aspect with your doctor.
The symptoms you describe do not suggest NGU, for which the main symptom is discharge with little or no painful urination. Your symptoms are much more like a bladder or prostate problem, not urethritis. Conceivably you could have had a viral infection, but virual NGU also doesn't cause the pattern of symptoms you describe. There is no form of bacterial NGU that would not either respond to the antibiotics you received.
Doctor diagnosed NGU (swab inside urethra, looked under microscope). Negative for gonorrhea and chlamydia. Given 1g azithromycin and 500mg cipro 2xday for a week. Cipro gave me diarrhea and that gave me hemorrhoids that I have today.
2 weeks later, my symptoms were still there. They got a little worse then a little better on cipro, but irritation remained. I went to the county clinic and was retested (results not back for a few more days -- unbelievable!).
Thanks Vance. The Dr. called me today and recommended me to a urologist and switched me to cipro saying it really sounds more like a bad UTI and Cipro is stronger than doxycycline. He feels that the chances of me still having an STD are practically zero.
I don't think it's herpes because it really isn't uncomfortable to urinate. I do have red inside my meatus/urethra and it is irritated for sure.
However, because of the UTI symptoms I was experiencing I had been taking Cipro for a few days before the test. My test was on a Wednesday; from the Sunday to the Tuesday before the test I had taken five tables of Cipro 500mg, with none on Tuesday evening or at all on Wednesday. It had been 24 hours since I had last taken the antibiotic when I gave my urine sample.
Given the amount of Cipro I took, the timing, and the nature of the test, can I rely on my negative result?
Basically i was told by 3 different doctors i was negative for any stds but i kept having burning with urination. So finally my gyno did tell me i have chlamydia which was associated to my urethritis even though i had six negative chlamydia tests. So far i have taken 8 weeks of different antibiotics. Im starting to get better but after 8 weeks you would think i would be better and beyond. I have taken 2 weeks of azthrio. 2 weeks of cipro And on my 4th week of oflaxcin.
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