I think I really messed up

mel_smiddy

I have been really sick the last couple of weeks and finally went to the express care clinic at the hospital last night they said I had a uninary tract infection and put me on antibiotics. Problem is tomorrow is my all day appt at the surgeon's office for pre op testing and I started taking the antibiotics and looked at the paper work from the surgeon's office a few min ago and found a paragraph that I missed that says I have to stop taking antibiotics 14 days before my appointment!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So now I don't what to do. The surgeon's office is 2 hrs away by car and my appointment is at 7:15 a.m.

They have to test me for some kind of bacteria that lives in your stomach and that's why you can't be on antibiotics when they do the testing. I know I can't fudge and tell them that I'm not taking them it might put my health at risk. Does anyone know if I might be able to take the test at my local doctor's office or hospital and have them send the results to the surgeon? They will be testing for h.pylon.

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Miss Vicki

I'm pretty sure it will be OK. They don't want you to suffer from an infection. You will probably be able to schedule the test at a later date after your infection is gone, just be honest about everything.

mel_smiddy

Thanks that's kind of what I thought and even if I had known I still would have taken it because this UTI is really really bad. But thank goodness it is getting better.

My regular Doctor's office has an in house lab and I live just a couple of miles from a regional medical center hospital. So I'm sure that the test can be done later.

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