After six months or so, friends and family who have supported you through the first difficult months might start to drift away and get on with their own lives â thinking that the worst should surely now be over. Your grief will begin to settle a bit like a stone in the bottom of your stomach.
In one trial of 241 women with acute cystitis, those randomly assigned to treatment with ibuprofen (400 mg three times daily for three days) had a higher mean symptom burden compared with those who received fosfomycin as a single 3 g dose [74].
Nitrofurantoin. Nitrofurantoin (Furadantin, Macrodantin) is an antibiotic that is used specifically for urinary tract infections as an alternative to TMP-SMX or a quinolone. Unlike many of the other drugs, however, it is usually taken for 7 - 10 days, even in cases of simple cystitis.ntil recent years, the standard treatment for a UTI was 10 days of amoxicillin, a penicillin antibiotic, but it is now ineffective against E. coli bacteria in up to 25% of cases. A combination of amoxicillin-clavulanate (Augmentin) is sometimes given for drug-resistant infections.