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The cranberry juice thing is inconclusive, but I still drink a lot of it as well! >Quite the contrary: doctors should know that that can happen. Okay, thanks

by creep 9y ago

The cranberry juice thing is inconclusive, but I still drink a lot of it as well! >Quite the contrary: doctors should know that that can happen. Okay, thanks for clarifying. This is how I felt. It was silly to me that I could have all the symptoms of a UTI, only to have everything written off because of a clean urine sample. I think it was hopeful thinking on the doctor's part-- she just wanted me out of the bed so she could clear the waiting room. How recurrent were your wife's UTIs, if you don't mind?

ScottBurson 9y ago
This is from memory, but it seemed like there was the better part of a year when it wouldn't be more than two or three weeks after she was over one that she'd get another one. Really, she should have been referred to the urologist a lot sooner.
- creep 9y ago
  That must have been hard, it's good she's on regular antibiotics now. Mine seem to be occurring once a year, almost to the day. I had issues with bedwetting as a child and into my late teens. I went to sleep specialists, urologists, and psychologists but nobody could say anything about it. I think it's somehow related to what I've been experiencing lately but I don't know what to do about it. I was always getting infections as a kid too (ears, eyes, bladder, kidney) but not really flu or colds (despite not being vaccinated). Has your wife experienced any of these things in her youth?
ScottBurson 9y ago
>> doctors should know that that can happen In fairness, I guess it really doesn't happen very often — the ER doc in my wife's situation commented that she had never seen it before. On the other hand, pulled muscles don't cause fever. I understand a little bit of reluctance to offer antibiotics, as they have been overused, but geez, you have a patient with a fever and in terrible pain, indeed with all the other symptoms of a kidney infection, what's really the downside to going ahead and starting the antibiotic to see what happens? That's how I see it, anyway; I'm not a doctor.
- creep 9y ago
  I think the best thing is to do another urine test. I'm also wary about antibiotics, but it doesn't hurt to keep the patient around for another hour or two to get a fresh sample and test it. But, the doctor assured me it was just a mechanical issue ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

by creep 9y ago

ScottBurson 9y ago

This is from memory, but it seemed like there was the better part of a year when it wouldn't be more than two or three weeks after she was over one that she'd get another one. Really, she should have been referred to the urologist a lot sooner.

creep 9y ago
That must have been hard, it's good she's on regular antibiotics now. Mine seem to be occurring once a year, almost to the day. I had issues with bedwetting as a child and into my late teens. I went to sleep specialists, urologists, and psychologists but nobody could say anything about it. I think it's somehow related to what I've been experiencing lately but I don't know what to do about it. I was always getting infections as a kid too (ears, eyes, bladder, kidney) but not really flu or colds (despite not being vaccinated). Has your wife experienced any of these things in her youth?

ScottBurson 9y ago

>> doctors should know that that can happen In fairness, I guess it really doesn't happen very often — the ER doc in my wife's situation commented that she had never seen it before. On the other hand, pulled muscles don't cause fever. I understand a little bit of reluctance to offer antibiotics, as they have been overused, but geez, you have a patient with a fever and in terrible pain, indeed with all the other symptoms of a kidney infection, what's really the downside to going ahead and starting the antibiotic to see what happens? That's how I see it, anyway; I'm not a doctor.

creep 9y ago
I think the best thing is to do another urine test. I'm also wary about antibiotics, but it doesn't hurt to keep the patient around for another hour or two to get a fresh sample and test it. But, the doctor assured me it was just a mechanical issue ¯\_(ツ)_/¯