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Please help - UTI advice - I’m desperate

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KatiesbigsisterSue · 25/06/2025 13:20

Hi all,

Since April I’ve had issues down below. Started to get a pinching pain around my vagina, urge to pee more. Took a 3 day course of antibiotics and they helped. But symptoms came back.

Mix of pain, aching, burning all over.

Examined internally by nurse, urine sample dipped, swabs taken and all ok.

Still persisted. Saw GP and was prescribed oestrogen cream. It’s been torture. I’ve had some pain free days which I think might be related to my cycle.

I suffer from health anxiety and at the moment with these ongoing symptoms it has spiralled. I’m back on anti anxiety meds, which I started last week.

At some points I’ve felt my bladder isn’t quite right, slight more urgency at times but not consistent. Sunday and Monday I had this but it was contacts for a few hours at a time. I did breathing exercises and managed to sleep well.

Saw GP yesterday and there is blood and protein in urine so they’ve sent it away to the lab and started me on antibiotics.

Since the GP I’ve not stopped needing to pee. And I mean not stopped. I constantly feel bursting. And very little comes out. I was up all night.

I took my first AB last night at 5.45pm. I assumed they would have started to work by now?

Im absolutely demented. Please any advice about how to stop this constant urge would be welcome, I don’t know what to do with myself.

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KatiesbigsisterSue · 04/07/2025 17:07

Apparently antihistamines can help when you have an irritated bladder post infection

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flipflop76 · 04/07/2025 17:08

Topical vaginal oestrogen is meant to be really effective.

ToClimb · 04/07/2025 19:19

KatiesbigsisterSue · 04/07/2025 17:07

Apparently antihistamines can help when you have an irritated bladder post infection

Yes they can. Promethazine is great for irritable bladders.

KatiesbigsisterSue · 04/07/2025 22:37

ToClimb · 04/07/2025 19:19

Yes they can. Promethazine is great for irritable bladders.

Were you told this by a doctor? I just saw it on a thread here and someone mentioned Loratadine.

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ThinWomansBrain · 04/07/2025 22:44

lots of good advice above
when I had similar a few years ago, to ease the constant urge to pee, I spent a lot of time in the bath.

pharmer · 04/07/2025 22:56

I don't know why they do these 3 day courses of trimethaprim /nitrofurin. I don't know anybody who it works for. The infection just comes back worse

ToClimb · 05/07/2025 09:10

KatiesbigsisterSue · 04/07/2025 22:37

Were you told this by a doctor? I just saw it on a thread here and someone mentioned Loratadine.

https://flipbooks.leedsth.nhs.uk/LN004184.pdf

It is an anticholirogenic

KatiesbigsisterSue · 05/07/2025 12:17

pharmer · 04/07/2025 22:56

I don't know why they do these 3 day courses of trimethaprim /nitrofurin. I don't know anybody who it works for. The infection just comes back worse

I suspect this has happened to me? Given that the antibiotics seem to help my symptoms quickly I assume I am on the right type?

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