UTI

Good morning everybody, hope your having a good day, me I'm having my 3rd. case of UTI in 4 months. and I am so tierd of it. Do any of you have this problem? The dr. puts me on the meds. and it gets better and then comes back.

                                                                     Linda

   

      

I feel for you. I have had chronic utis and recommend seeing a urologist to get a cystoscope (where they look into your bladder to see what's going on). I had a bunch of polyps and they stretched my urethra in the office and it helped. Also, they can do cultures and make sure they get the right antibiotics for you. This is important because obviously the problem is resistant to the antibiotics--though they work some. My docs kept giving me the same dose of the same thing over and over and it didn't work. My situation is different though. If your urine fails to culture than you may have an infection the culture wont grow or you have another type of chronic problem. Personally, I prefer a female urologist because they are more sympathetic and often specialize in our more complicated biology. Male urologists are really good with prostates, but the two I went to didn't do well at all with my situation. I ended up getting treatment at an ER at Mayo clinic when it progressed to being really really really bad.

Greetings Linda! I have frequent UTI's, also. When I am put on antibiotics for this, or anything, my rhuemy has me stop taking my Arava (or whatever immuno-suppressnt I am currently taking) until the antibiotic course is fininshed. This seems to help me get over the infection much faster. I do, occasionally, have to have two rounds of antibiotics, though, like right now. This recent UTI has been really bad - painful and, basically, annoying! My prayers to you for a fast recovery!

I read an interesting page on trigger foods for interstitial cystitis and I found that avoiding some of them or cutting back did make a difference, even with infections for some reason--probably because the foods may be acidic or generally irritating. Here's the list I looked at. I was surprised by some of the stuff.

http://www.ic-network.com/handbook/diet.html#list

Linda,

   I hope you are feeling better by now and the UTI is clearing up. Take care and update us when you can. You are in my thoughts and prayers.

                                                   Love, Babs