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From: "Karen" <wlfhnds@...>
To: <Graduate-OSSG@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, December 24, 2007 10:06 AM
Subject: [Graduate-OSSG] ??? about antibiotics


>I am currently taking a capsule antibiotic for a UTI.....AGAIN!!!
> It didn't seem to be working very well, still having all symptoms
> and lots of pain 3 days into it. In the past, after just the two
> doses in the first day, symptoms would subside and start clearing up
> but not this time. So I figured maybe I wasn't absorbing the caps
> well for some reason. So I decided I would open them, pour the
> powder contents on some peanut butter or sugar-free pudding and down
> the hatch with it. The first two doses went fine, no problems but
> the next several caps had a tiny ball in one end of the cap like a
> filler. It is not a clump of powder but rather an actual
> manufactured little ball with a seem all the way around it. My
> question is, could this just be a filler so they can use generic
> sized caps all the time regardless of how much powder goes into the
> different pills or could this be the generic companies way of using
> less meds than supposed to??? Am wondering why the infection is
> taking so long to clear up and why the antibiotic isn't taking hold
> like it usually does??? Does anyone here have any experience or
> knowledge of this type of thing??? I know lots of you chew up your
> meds or open them cause of the malabsorption issues. I am very
> limited on what I can take for this due to allergies and this is my
> last resort med for UTI's. Any help out there from the world of
> wise WLS'ers???? Thanks and Merry Christmas everybody.
> Karen
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