UTI WON'T GO AWAY

Thanks for the update! I'm glad you are feeling better. So have you decided to not pursue Dr. Lee?

Which bacteria did they find in your urine?

God has led me also to a good physician. She did a catheter in order to draw straight from my bladder (ouch). A clean catch had previously shown "normal" colonies of bacteria. That part I didn't like. What is a normal colony anyway? 

But what she did find was that the bacteria that had actually caused the UTI that was difficult to treat was in my vagina. 

Has anyone did a culture on your vaginal fluids?  I am now being treated for that. I can tell that whatever is going on vaginally does affect the bladder. I'm wondering if your urgency would slow down if you found that you had bacteria vaginally and was treated? 

Staying away from sugar was difficult at first, but it's becoming easier and I can tell a difference in the irritation of my bladder if I consume something with sugar.

Keep the updates coming!

And my urologist also agreed that Inshoukdnr try to drink excessive fluids to flush the bacteria because his reasoning was that your bladder has to not lose its a ability to function properly. If it's always releasing urine from the excessive drinking it starts to contract improperly. I have noticed that once I did decrease my liquids my bladder wasn't as irritated. The urgency slowed considerably. I drink about 40-64 oz a day. 

And yes, i have this problem for days now. Because i am always drinking up to 3L of water and 2 cups of tea a day - my urethra is severly iritated, cause me symptoms of burning in it and feeling of some prolapse happening.

But, when i dont drink a lot, my urine smells bad.. dont know why..

Sounds like this advice is coming <indirectly> from Professor Malone-Lee in UK.  

Hmm. Not sure why first response is still being moderated. There was nothing that couldn't be posted in it but please continue to keep us updated. So many times people have success and we never hear from them again. Just from my research, tea is sometimes an irritant because it can cause debris and stone formation. I drink distilled water now and find it helps with irritation. Hopefully they allow the other post as I asked about your bacteria strain. 

And the smelly urine can come from dehydration or bacteria. I had smelly urine for over a year and all cultures were negative for bacteria and positive for blood. I couldn't be treated because of the negative cultures and once the bacteria evolved it was very resistant. But I suspect if you have bacteria that is what is causing the smell. Try what the doctor told you (reduce your intake) maybe try 1-2 liters without the tea and see if it still smells. Once the bacteria was dead in my case the smell went away, but still some irritation remains on some days.

And now i mostly wonder because every day my symptoms start almost at the exact time in a day. After 3pm.. in the morning i am fine and then it starts. To point out, i have generalized anxiety disorder, hypohondria and depression - dyagnozed. Not curing it, just managing.. its not that severe.. so i am thinking maybe this is happening (in the moment). Usually i have positive tests for bacteria presence (which is almost never isolated but sediment shows it) and blood..

If your recent doctor recommended taking the antibiotic long term, why did you stop at 14 days?

I'm no microbiologist, so I do not understand 'sediment' with respect to culture.  My opinion is that if you have blood and/or bacteria that exceeds the normal range, then you have an infection.  Blood especially unless somehow it is coming from the vagina. 

I don't know what you mean when you say bacteria 'is never isolated'.  Does that mean you can't distinguish which bacteria it is?  That confuses me.

I will say this with respect to anxiety and hypochondria, it can cause all kinds of symptoms.  

Anyway, yes i do the culture after first, regular (stripes=sediment=shows lots of bacteria), and in culture they cant isolate it.

I am drinking antibiotic every night 50mg and its just not doing the job..too low dose

Valentina how are you? It's been a while since I've been on this site I found a wonderful group that I think may be able to help you if you have social media. 

Any progress so far?

Hi! I am okay, my bladder is good at the moment, i am taking 50mg nitrofurantoin before sleep and d mannose.

Currently i am battling some jaw problems, but its not for this site 😂

So, regarding the bladder, i have still some feeling in urethra, like its gonna collapse, and it appears for few days and then nothing for some weeks then again (i was told these are the cosequences of long period of infection and that it will take some time to heal)..

How are you?

Yes i am on social media, what is the group?😊

Well hopefully this won't get deleted if I give you the group name. 

I am okay. I ended up getting a UTI which was a double infection and also something similar to BV but it is called AV. These things go hand in hand which I am just now learning. Many women are a symptomatic for it. I had a culture done and one of the bacteria they found also caused my recurrent UTI. 

I've learned so much since we last spoke, like the differences between gram negative and gram positive bacteria and what causes and kills them. If D Mannose is working for you, you probably had a resistant strain of E. Coli and the resistant one likes to hide, which I remember you saying they couldn't isolate it. 

The group focuses on natural remedies and God has blessed me to find these people and try to work through this. Antibiotics mess up my system so bad, but it appears you do well on them.

Yes, you can have residual discomfort after an infection which is what I learned as well. I think my discomfort was due to the bacteria still being there and the antibiotic not fully killing it. It was resistant. 

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