New Member Questions
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Hi!
I am brand new here & have several questions.
First, though, a little history...
I am a 61 year old female not sexually active who has suffered from recurrent UTIs for over 40 years. Sex was often the culprit, but for the past couple years I have been abstinent.
In the past few years my UTIs began to become asymptomatic UNTIL my bacteria levels were pretty high. THEN I would have urgency, foul odor, back pain, urgency & burning.
It would take an average of 2-4 rounds of antibiotics to clear the infection.
Last year I had a UTI I thought had been resolved, but it got into my bloodstream causing sepsis and gangrene. Since then I have insisted I have a urinalysis done every other month to make sure I am clean since I am asymptomatic.
Now to my questions!
I tested positive for bacteria & squamous cells in my recent test. I got the results before my doctor so when I called office about treatment they didnt have report in my chart. The medical assistant told me 'some bacteria' in your urine is normal, but dr. would look over report and get back to me.
Is it true some bacteria in your urine is normal?
2nd, these squamous cells reportedly can come from vagina & what I may think is a UTI could be yeast or vaginitis...not a UTI?
3) If it is yeast or vaginitis is the treatment not with antibiotics?
4) Has anyone been treated for UTIs with estrogen cream? My PCP is recommending it because of my frequent infections. He said post menopausal women often have thinning of the vaginal walls due to lack of estrogen which leads to both vaginal infections & UTIs.
I appreciate any input.
Thank you.
Kathy
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Micklemus kathy219
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Over thirty years of telling my doctors that I thought I had an infection and even paid the most eminent of urologists to check my bladder which he said was OK......... I asked him what could have caused the blood in my urine & he said - might have been an infection!
Over the years I have come to understand that few doctors ever read a patients ancient medical history! This may seem ludicrous because it is ludicrous! It is , I was told it was not easy for 'doctor' to obtain notes that are on paper! Incredible I said but the medical manager was adamant that was the situation..... Things are a changing I am told but even if they are 'on screen' who is to say that a certain doctor will have the willpower to scroll down long enough to see what might be a crucial bit of info to arrive at the correct
diagnosis.
Bacteria and some viruses can survive in limbo within the body for decades and some for a lifetime.
If ones resistance is good the bugs are kept in order and do no harm but as soon as the antibodies are not so lively the invaders strike & make us feel out of sorts & if we know our bodies we notice an adverse reaction is occurring........ Elusive blighters those pesky bugs but can the scientific wallers isolate them?????? So that we and the doctors know we are taking the correct antibiotic which will eradicate those bugs that are plaguing us?
Pen to paper may do more because whoever will surely know you are determined to resolve your problem.
tony44022 Micklemus
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No surprise there! I've long suspected that doctors rarely look at my medical history, and that's with me having a number of chronic health conditions. Trying to get consultants who specialise in different health conditions to confer with each other is a BIG ask too...I've been there!