How many take DS Bactrim daily?

[elephant]

I was wondering how many of you take Bactrim DS daily? Do you take one DS tablet daily or two tablets? How long have you been taking Bactrim daily?
I am thinking that I might have to resort to that. thanks

[misskay]

I take 1 Bactrim DS every morning. Have been on it at this dose for 4 weeks, and was on 2 a day prior to that. Was hoping it would help with the sinus issues... but so far no luck.

[elephant]

Thanks for the input Misskay. What kind of sinus issues do you have, if you don't mind me asking.

[julia]

I was wondering how many of you take Bactrim DS daily? Do you take one DS tablet daily or two tablets? How long have you been taking Bactrim daily?
I am thinking that I might have to resort to that. thanks

I used to take it MWF 1 tablet. If I remeber correctly they took me off when I started Imuran. on 2nd thought I think it was when I started coumiden.

[Lightwarrior]

I take Bactrim DS , one tablet once a day on MWF 800/160 strength

[DEE]

i took two 800/160 in the beginning and now take ever other day
ive been doing this for over a year and have been told it will be one if the tabets i wil have to take for a while yet DEEx

[pberggren1]

I take the double strength twice a day. But it is because I have a rare lung infection right now called Mycobacterium Abscessus.

[Jack]

I take one tab every day and have done for many, many years. It stopped me from getting various random infections including sinus and lung, but I believe it does more than that and has other beneficial effects when Wegener's is involved.

[misskay]

elephant, I have severe sinus pressure, the pain is so bad that some days I can't stand to have my glasses on. The bridge of my nose hurts too bad. Also an intense pain like someone is sticking a needle up my nose (like before you sneeze by multiplied x 100), terrible congestion. I go through a whole box of tissues every day. Bloody discharge (clots, grey funky looking hunks of 'something') and random bloody noses several times a day. Plus the crusting...

Funny thing, when I was in the hospital, and we were trying to figure out what was going on they did a CT of the sinuses... they said it didn't show anything but I'm becoming more and more convinced we have major sinus involvemnt. Going to re-visit this with te docs and see if we can take another look.

[Jack]

As far as I am concerned, if you are still having lots of sinus trouble, your Wegener's is not under control and need more or different medication to subdue it.