UTI

Cranberry juice is traditional? Never used it myself

Thanks guys. I 'm about to head to CityMD. Def gonna try the mannose.

whats the easiest antibiotic to take if i want to go that route?

They tried to give me Cipro. I said F no. She wouldn’t prescribe anything else. I’m not thrilled about trying an antibiotic when I finally have my gut healing anyway.

Going to pound 1000mg of d-mannose every hour. Anyone heal one of these this way?

Did they culture the bacteria?

LOTS of water. D-mannose is good. I use a probiotic with d-mannose in it (hyperbiotics). Marshmallow root tea also good. My daughter has had chronic uti’s since May (antibiotics have been amoxy & macrobid - it is based on the bacteria). We have been using Uqora supplements which seem to help. We slacked off and it came right back.

We have always used antibiotics first - mostly bc she’s in extreme pain. Plus I’m paranoid it will move unto her kidneys. I’d do the abx if you’re in pain. Her bacteria is not common so we’re in a worse situation (enterococcus faecelis). Most uti’s are e-coli and easier to treat.

My husband thought he had a uti last year and they prescribed keflex but his culture was neg. He did the entire course but it didn’t help like it does my daughter (she feels better in a day). His got better over a few weeks.

Any updates dcd? Hope you're doing ok.

D-mannose gave me horrible illness and diarrhea. Apparently I'm one of "those" who has the opposite reaction to everything.
Just had a UTI, horrible pain, peeing blood clots. Was Rx'd Bactrim, to which I also had a horrible and very severe reaction. Do NOT recommend ever. Read the insert. It kills people.

Best thing for me is Chinese Medicine, acupuncture, stress reduction, and a supplement called "Cranberry Complex" by Medi-herb.

Helpful are cranberry juice (no sugar added) or pills, uva ursi tea, pipsissewa tea, raspberry leaf tea, adzuki beans, asparagus.

not sure if it helps - but my partner and i started getting bouts of mild to moderate UTI like symptoms ever since getting ill with this thing - frequent urination - pain while urinating and feeling like i needed to urinate all the time - would just flare up for no good reason - then go away again.

my partner had it pretty constantly for a couple of years

mine seems to be gone now - not had any issues for a couple of years - all the buhner co-infection herbs may have helped

in Buhners herbal antibiotics book he says a juniper berry and bidens tincture combinations will almost always work for UTI's

Thanks huddie! I'm actually a guy.

The culture came back negative for UTI. They are suggesting I may have passed a small stone.

Cystistatin is the only thing that really helps me. It’s a supplement with uva ursi in it.

Garzie said...

i am guessing that they have to guess what they think might be there and use a culture medium that suits that group of microbes or a few of the common ones - but one size does not fit all when it comes to culturing bacteria - so my guess is they get a lot of false negative results - especially for the more fastidious organisms that are harder to culture by conventional means - which includes many that come from the gut and also our old friends like mycoplasma, ureaplasma and bartonella.....

Bingo.

My UTI symptoms started in January - first time ever. Had blood and urine labs and cultures 3 times. Was told negative every time. Symptoms were classic, though. Two rounds of abx - Nitrofurantoin (Macrobid) and another obscure abx. Neither eliminated the UTI symptoms, although the Nitrofurantoin apparently killed a crapload of bacteria in my gut.

I dig some digging online, as usual, and found the culture testing is not good. The tests were actually developed and approved for testing kidney infections not bladder infections, yet they use it as the gold standard. They only test for the most common strains of bacteria (according to them).

Three problems here. Because the tests were developed for kidney infections, the threshold of bacteria needed for a positive result is high. Bladder infections could occur with a lower threshold of bacteria, but they don’t consider that. Second, the bacterias that are infecting people now are not limited to the same old bacteria from decades ago. This, of course, is ignored. Thirdly, they only culture for bacteria, not yeast, fungi, parasites, or viruses.

The current medical standards and guidelines are just broken. They’re stuck in the dark ages. The environment both outside and inside of people’s bodies have gone through monumental changes over the past 50 years, but medicine hasn’t budged. They operate in a vacuum.

D-mannose, if I recall correctly, only works on E. coli. It did nothing for me. Neither did cranberry juice or probiotics. The Cystistatin helps but it takes time. When I stop taking it, it eventually comes back.