My PA is asking me to take Macrobid (antibiotic) for a UTI. I have needed several doses of antibiotics this past year, preceding extractions of teeth, just one at a time, and the final session of taking anything Keflex, I refused ever to take that again, and wanted something else. I d been in a lot of pain from these extractions from Apri9l 2013 onwards, and eventually needed a biopsy on my jaw as I developed an infection in the bone of my jaw, but after a a dose of amoxicillin, my problem was taken care of, and I d found that although I am elderly (73) i d had injections of pencillin as a child for middle ear infections, and presumed these would not work all these years later, so called them allergy causing. This proved false, and I got better very fast. This present time, I needed an extraction after developing an infection in another tooth, and after being treated with a large dose of amoxicillin, I then got rid of the infection, but a few days later, when having the tooth out, had to take four pills of amoxicillin, to stem any problematical bleeding (I have deteriorating kidneys after taking twenty five years of non steroidal anti inflammatory meds. which were denied me after I d had surgery to clear up my arthritis, very well done, I might say, so my only course of getting around pain now is acetaminophen and that very rarely. Glucosamine is my joint savior. I( have an appt. wity my PA tomorrow to beg her not to prescribe me Macrobid. Do you have any other solutions of how to rid myself of this and previous UTIs without always having to take antibiotics. I am not sexually active.