Can you still have a uti even if culture came back negative.

3 days keep urinating every 1/2 hr. Dr ck urine in office and was negative but sent out for culture. Could it be negative and culture comes back positive. No burning or pain just pressure . I'm assuming the worse as it came on so suddenly . Put me on macrib for 3 days . Any advice for me

I'm 65 and have had constant urinating  just past week. Went to dr who dip stick urine  was  negative and sent out for urine culture. I drink about 6 bottles of water a day but it is a different feeling. Feel a lot of pressure but no pain,burning,blood or foul smell. She said I could have a start of bacterial infection which would show up in culture and not in office. Only had this this past week. Us this nirmslbto be negative and positive in culture as I get up 3/4 times a nite to urinate  2 hrs apart. Thanks

the reason they are misdiagnosing it is because they are rubbish doctors, except the one who replied that the doctor said it was because of low becteria levels. BV, bacterial vaginosis or gardnerella is invisible to urine testing. I had symptons, ranging from pain in the urinary area, to vomiting and diarrhea for 5 years, in the other comment they are complaining about it being criminal because they missed it for 4 months,i think in my case they deserve to loose their medical license. All bacteria tests came back negative, they accused it of being in my head due to stress, which is then i decided to but a 15 minute veneris 3 in 1 test candida, gardnerella and  trichomas, The test revealed i had gardnerella vaginalis and i believe that i've had it for 4 years now , and initially they refused to test for bacteria believing that my vomiting and diarrhea was just a viral infection, that i was getting nearly all the time. They even said my daughters had a viral infection, even though the infection never seemed to go away. My children went to an alternate doctor in Spain who actually tested them and found out it was an infection. They blamed me for my daughter having a UTI even though my doctor misdiagnosed the infection as being viral. If you want to avoid my predicament, then learn to do urine testing yourself at home through youtube, which is what i did and purchase the 3 in one veneris test, and i found out my doctor got it wrong.

Hi, so I’ve been having the same problem. The UTI came back a negative but I have the synthoms. After I pee it feels so uncomfortable and I hate it especially at night because I can’t sleep after. I got some pills and I only take it just to stop the pain for awhile. 

Hi all, I don't usually get I get involved  forums but this issue is now close to me. I have been suffering with UTi symptoms for about a month with two unsuccessful rounds of antibiotics. 

I've done a huge amount of research and seen a urologist in London. He gave me useful info on natural supplements you can take to resolve this, potentially. The such as interphase plus (attacks bad bacterial biofilm), monolaurin to help

Kill the bacteria the is not e-coli. D-mannose good for flushing out e-coli. Quercitin for inflammation.

Basically the symptoms could be and are likely caused by bacteria that have become resisitent to antibiotics over time. They are good at evolving quickly and adapting. This is why so many women are suffering like this. Also, infections not treated quickly with strong antibiotics are likely to form bio-films. They remain undetected in urine samples. Sometimes you will

Have high white and epithilial cell count indicating infection and sometimes you won't when bacteria formed biofilms and remain undetected but can still can intermittent or constant symptoms. 

Apparently urine broth cultures and DNA testing by some specialist clinics can detect the bacteria but biofilms still difficult. 

My current solution which is starting to help is using the natur supplements ie biofilm protocol to try to get rid of it and taking very strong probiotic and prebiotic plus l-glutamine to help bladder and stomach lining. And Quercitine complex to help

With inflammation. Apparently this regime may need to go on for around 1-3 months depending on when symptoms subside. 

Let's see. Urologists are quick to label IC but har often means that they can't find what the cause is. I don't very much that the majority of women with symptoms but undetected bacteria have an autoimmune disease making bladder repair impossible. That is rare!! 

Don't give up hope

Ladies and do some proper and thorough research into natural medicine and biofilms. There are a number reports of women 'healing IC' in this way. I doubt they had IC!! 

I hope that this all makes sense and can help some of you. 

On a final note I do ageee that antibiotics are not good for the bladder in long term and can actually encourage the formation of biofilms. They need to be taken for adequate time too if they are taken. 

I have taken two and they only helped for a few days then symptoms return. Another indicator of biofilm. 

I have also found Accupuncture helpful. 

Best of luck and hang in there. 

The answer to that question must be a resounding yes but are the doctors taking the correct samples to test ?

Secondly there are infections that can 'hide' in tissue. That must be the case when an eminent Urologist in the 

USA stated that some tissue harbors bacteria can be/is 'walled off'. That situation caused by the bodies immune reaction to infections  and this makes one wonder whether all bodies are the same? Unfortunately

no we are not all the same. 

The research is ongoing with every aspect of health & urinary problems are rife in every generation but are the problems re antibiotics caused by too short a course of those drugs? Even right this minute some practitioners are saying three days is enough for the ladies and some are disagreeing that the short courses are not long enough for complete eradication of the infective organisms.......RIGHT ON....

Believe it or not several so called experts 'think' that bacterias cannot be passed from a man to his wife or partner?????????  A cleaver special nurse agrees with me when she says = well how do you get STI then?     Is it any wonder in Urology the mirriad problems that those suffering from these disabling problems

seem to feel they have absolutely now where to turn?

I believe absolutely you can still have infection even though culture is negative.  I have been suffering with a uti for 2 months and most tests came back negative but 3 positive and ended up in the hospital 6 days with esbl bacteria uti.  Was being treated with IV abtibiotics which were working great and then had a superfiial blood clot so they had to remove my picc line which left me 3 days short on the antibiotics.  I was doing great for a few days and then all the symptoms returned and nobody wilk treat this UTI because cultures are coming back negative.  I will give it 3-4 days and go for another culture,  I am 100% positive this will show an infection but they wont treat it until it does.