Ciprofloxacin 500 Mg. Vs. Nitrofur-macr 100 Mg

My doc recently prescribed me Ciprox 500 mg for a bladder infection. I started to feel improvement but then on the 3rd day it was getting worse again. I was about to call my doctor when he actually contacted me to say that he needs to prescribe me Nitrofur because my lab work came back positive for an E Coli infection. Any idea why he didn't just prescribe the Nitrofur from the beginning? According to my research the Cipro should be able to treat both types of infection. Thoughts?

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I'm not sure why they wouldn't have prescribed Nitrofurantoin first, since it is usually the 'go to' antibiotic for UTIs.

Learn more Nitrofurantoin details here.

Yes, Ciprofloxacin can also treat both.

Learn more Ciprofloxacin details here.

Is the Ntirofurantoin helping?

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Yes the nitro is helping - they said they prescribed the wrong thing - when they got my culture back they prescribed the nitro - by then the Cipro what's no longer working and I was going to call then but they reached me first - seemed odd

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