How to increase tge chances of bacterial detection in urine culture test?
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I will be doing a urine culture and sensitivity test in couple of days. So far, I have done the culture test three times in more that two months. Every time it came back negative. I was just thinking if keeping the urine sample with me (in a container) for 48 hours before handing it over to lab will increases the chances of detecting bacterias?
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paul96555 SkyBlue1983
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uncklefester SkyBlue1983
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Tim-B SkyBlue1983
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I had it done recently and it was covered by my insurance (if not, I think it is $250).
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uncklefester Tim-B
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You still have to get a Dr to sign off on it. My GP won't nor will uros
jimjames uncklefester
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What reasons did your GP and uro give you reagarding not signing off on it.
Jim
uncklefester jimjames
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My GP said since I was seeing a uro he didn't want to get in the middle. Uros all said I have BPH no need for further testing for prostatitis. That said whether it's the fernasteride or something else I'm doing remarkably well. My average flow is around 20ml/sec a crude test but none the less pretty good flow. My present uro has no interest in doing an ultrasound to determine my prostate size.
jimjames uncklefester
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Sounds like a GP! Don't understand why the uro's think prostatitis and BPH are mutually exclusive. My understanding is that prostatitis can either aggravate and/or be the cause of some symptons attributted to bph/luts.
Jim
joe74831 uncklefester
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That company does not seem really concerned about what type of Doc signs off on it. I got my Chiropractor to sign mine, the insurance might not cover it thst way but its worth the money either way.
My Chiro was so interested, he is ordering one to do on himself.
Joe
alan86734 SkyBlue1983
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Your idea may seem to be O.K. in a logical sense but practically it is a really bad one! You must get your samples to the lab within the specified time frame, or the little dears will have probably died of old age!
joe74831 SkyBlue1983
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Good luck J
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Tim-B joe74831
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SkyBlue1983 joe74831
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It has become a common thing of having an infection yet missed by urine culture. Which test is this DX? I could not find it on Google.
Was your infection treated effectively after the detection of three bacterias by the DX test?
joe74831 SkyBlue1983
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I just ordered my kit yesterday for the follow up test, to see if the treatment worked. Fingers are crossed, but I have thought many times before that I had finally gotten rid of the problem.
It has been almost 8 weeks since I had the procedure.
If you will send me a private message, I will send you a link to the companys web site. I didnt realize you could not say a company name on here, I thought you just could not post urls.
Thanks Joe
paul96555 SkyBlue1983
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That suggestion is far from silly; my urine kept testing as clear from infection, yet acute sudden onset LUTS made it plain as a pikestaff that I had a prostate infection. I think it can tend to be contained within the prostate and not show in the urine. I suspect that if they tested the semen, it would be more likely to be there (surely), but they are probably too embarrassed to ask for that sort of sample and not set up for it, and it might concern some clients too - as might a prostate massage just before taking the sample, but that would be bothersome for the Urologist and bothersome ?for some clients; my VERY stupid friend even said he required an assurance (which he sought in a humorous manner, which he described to me) from his urologist (or GP, can't recall which it was) that the uro was not homosexual, before consenting to a DRE. That friend's father actually died from prostate cancer, so he should have jumped at the chance of a DRE. Anyway, I think what you say makes sense, although best not turn up with a semen sample in the urine bottle, or they might think you were taking the mick (or, to be more accurate, WITHHOLDING the micturate, and providing something else ! A trace of it in the pee might help increase the chance of the bacteria being present...)
paul96555
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Oh, I replied to the wrong post. When I wrote "That suggestion is far from sil?ly", I meant Unclefester's ... as I am sure must be obvious, from what I wrote.
jimjames paul96555
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Jim
uncklefester jimjames
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Good luck with that. I had classic prostatitis symptoms. Suggested to uros that they culture my semen. They wouldn't. Maybe I should have been more forceful. In the end, there's no money in treating prostatitis.
SkyBlue1983 paul96555
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Paul, I got your point. Unclefester's idea makes sense to me as well