urinary and vaginal problems

Get yourself some cranberry juice...the unsweetened kind that you find in the healthy part of the grocery store.  And look into "allergic bladder"

The cranberry juice will take away the painful symptoms.  And the bladder will most likely clear up on it's own if it is not an infection.  I know someone this happens to in the fall months...and there is even blood and protein in the urine when it happens, but it is never an infection.  We figure it is allergic bladder...and is caused most likely by a yeast overgrowth in the body (candida)  Once you get rid of the candida (google this) you will heal the bladder fully and not have any further issues

 

It's difficult to help without some additional information. Did your doctor do a culture to see what type of bacteria was causing the UTI?  A culture would have taken a couple of days to grow.  Or, did she just do a dip stick to diagnose?  If you were just handed 3 days of pills and symptoms returned, perhaps you weren't given enough of the appropriate antibiotic. Sometimes dip sticks won't properly diagnose a UTI.  It seems you still have UTI symptoms and your doctor is going through the motions. Your doctor is treating you for vaginitis, not for a UTI.

Cranberry juice can help.  I suggest you increase your intake of water to about 2 liters a day to clear out your urinary tract. Start taking a women's probiotic daily to achieve a better balance of bacteria in your vagina and urinary tract.  Hope this helps.  xx   

Oestrogen pessaries (vagifem) didn't help my vaginal atrophy or urinary problems either - I had a bad reaction to them a swelled up so much inside, nothing could get in there! I live in the uk and here we have an oestrogen cream called ovestin which I get on very well with. It contains a bioidentical oestrogen called estriol which is considered a weak oestrogen but is also a protective oestrogen. It has been used in vaginal creams in Europe and Japan for some years and studies have shown that it has a protective function and actually protects against cancer and cardiovascular problems (which the other two oestrogen, estrodiol and estrone put you at risk of. Estriol is like the oestrogen that balances out the effects of the other two). Estriol is also very good as helping genitourinary problems.

I have found ovestin to be fantastic. My vagina is moist, plump, robust and elastic again (ovestin has given me a younger vag!).

Are you in the uk? I know others have said ovestin is not available in the US and if they want estriol they have to get it from a compounding pharmacy (whatever that is - we don't have those here). In the US you can get estrace cream which contains estrodiol.

As for the cancer fear, there are higher risk things for cancer such as being obese or smoking. I work in the field of dementia and getting dementia is a far greater likelihood than getting cancer and it is on the increase. 1 in 3 people born in the UK this year will develop dementia in their lifetime. But now I have probably given you something else to worry about! My take on this is: enjoy life while you can and while you are still aware that you are enjoying it!

Oh, yes, and the probiotics and cranberry are also good suggestions. I take cranberry extract suppliments because all the juice in the supermarkets have sugar in which feeds the bacteria or yeast.

Hi sue i have been in the same place as you for over a year . Loads of tests and been so bloody uncomfortable it wss making me ill . I eventually found the best thing that really help me was Estriol cream 0.01% its been a god send 😁 . Does take a bit of time to help but for me its been fantastic . I have tried loads off thing and this has worked for me 100%. Really hope you get sorted this time in life is so tuff we all need to help each other xx

Well, I would say a big yes!  I have this a LOT too! 

I’m going though the menopause and have had problems with UTI all the time. I feel like I need a wee all the time like you feels like something pressing down. I have been told I have too many white blood cells and protein in my urine which means there is blood in there. My doctor is on the case now so I will let you know what comes back.