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A member asked:

Feeling very sick while taking macrobid at night why does this feeling only occur at nightime?

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Dr. John Leander Po answered

Specializes in Infectious Disease

Timing of med?: Good question- no good answer except if you are timing your dosage where you get sick shortly before you go to bed, with potential drug- drug interaction if you are on other medications. You should go back to your doctor, to discuss this question.

Dr Smith agreed

Answered 11/25/2012

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I have a UTI & am on Macrobid. On day 2 I saw blood clots in my urine. Im feeling better than day 1. Should I be concerned? Whats causing the clots?

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I am on Macrobid for UTI so far for 5 days. It's a 7 day course. I am feeling back pain and when I go to the bathroom it comes out very little. I repeated the urine test and it it was negative. What can back pain be from?

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I'm on a five day course of macrobid for uti. Culture came back as greater than 100,000 cfu/no Escherichia coli. Is that significant? How soon after I finish the antibiotics should I repeat urinalysis? Feeling some better since being on antibiotics?

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Burning and pressure feeling lower left abdomen just above and below belly button quite a lot of mucus wiping every now and then bowel movements normal did have some blood in urine was treated with macrobid could I have sti kidney stones no fever?

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Is it normal for Macrobid to cause terrible stomach upset and nausea? I take it with food but it still makes me feel so sick.

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