Diagnosis of Degenerative Disc Disease and Spinal Stenosis. Degenerative disc disease may be indicated by a patientâs symptoms and confirmed by an X-Ray, MRI or CT scan which can show the relative dehydration of an intervertebral disc quite clearly as it appears much darker than the better nourished discs.
2 doctors agreed: Hours to days: The antibiotic should begin to work - that is, kill bacteria - within hours. By a day or so, symptoms should be improving. Depending on how complicated the infection is and how long your course of antibiotics is for, it should be cleared within 3-14 days. ...Read more.
Read More. 3rd UTI Oct positive for ecoli over 100000 was resistant to alot of meds so puton macrobid 7 days. Within 48 hours of stopping macrobid symptoms came back culture showed ecoli again and same macrobid for 7 days. Then symptoms returned and again ecoli put inpt on imipenem for 10 IV doses and dc with macrobid for 7 days.