How can I have a UTI while taking Clindamycin HCL for a week?

Medicines are at times, poisons. Good luck to you.

I took that stuff for a post-op infection and I don’t think any bacteria were left in my body. Even the good ones. So maybe DT is right and it just screwed up your UT balance.

What did your doctor say when he told you about the UTI?

@anniereborn He never said anything about my UTI. I haven’t called him. The dentist is the one who prescribed the antibiotic and he and my GP don’t work together.

If the bacteria isn’t susceptible to Clindamycin then it isn’t. UTI’s often are ecoli and I’ve never heard of Clinda for that, but I’d have to look it up.

@Aster How do you know you have a UTI then? Could it be a yeast infection?

So, in essence, you diagnosed yourself and took medication prescribed for a totally different issue and you’re wondering what went wrong?

How about going to an MD instead of a DD. Last I heard DD work above the waist and don’t handle UTIs.

Go see a DR. In all likelihood he’ll change the prescription and do a culture to find out which organism is causing the problem.

@Buttonstc The way I understood it she was prescribed an antibiotic for an infection in her mouth, and while taking it she developed what she believes to be a UTI. She didn’t self medicate.

@JLeslie.
You’re right. I read too hastily. My apologies to the OP.

And, I would suspect a yeast infection as well as Annie, rather than a UTI. Sometimes when a hefty dose of bacteria is taken, it wipes out all bacteria (even the beneficial ones) thus knocking out the normal balance of the vagina and giving the yeast the environment ripe for overgrowth of the yeast cells. With nothing to keep them I’m check they just decide to party party party all the time :)

I don’t see how someone can mistake a UTI for a yeast infection.

@JLeslie I guess you could if you haven’t had many of either like myself. They both burn like hell when you pee.

I’ve never had a yeast infection that burns, but I don’t doubt it’s a possibly symptom. UTI you feel in your bladder usually. It’s most painful as you finish peeing. I don’t think yeast is responsive to pee, except maybe on your vulva? Plus, having the urge to pee more often with a UTI. Probably it feels different to different people.

Clyndamycin happens to be an antibiotic that doesn’t easily cause yeast infections, although people prone to them might still get one. It kills off anaerobes mostly. Penicillins that kill aerobic bacteria and have broad spectrums are bigger culprits.

I wish the OP would come back and tell us what happened.

They have to take a urine test and examine the bacteria -utis are often resistant so they have to identify the strain.

I called my GP and he sent a scrip to the drugstore. I take one every twelve hours for seven days. It worked immediately! Not Cipro or Bactrim.