Uti - A&E?

[londonfieldz]

I've had 4 utis in the last 3 months, having previously not had any. Otherwise in reasonable health.

After calling 111 yesterday with another uti, they sent me to the out of hours gp. I felt shakey and tired but no temperature and BP was fine.

He prescribed a 3 day antibiotic course and said that if I started to feel worse and feel it further up my back then I should go to a & e.

I don't know if it's psychosomatic but this morning I feel like it's aching around halfway up my back and I feel very woozy in my head. It seems a bit much to go to A&E.

What do you think?

Hope you feel a lot better tomorrow. UTIs are misery.

They really are @Chrisinthemorning ! Thanks again for all the support. Crashing out now in the hope my body will regenerate overnight.

Could it be a reaction to the anti biotics? I had this and felt dreadful - flu like symptoms.get well soon

Are you drinking lots of water to help flush out the infection? I found demanos a type of sugar to be good at both preventing and treating utis it is available on Amazon.

OP please take your temperature - if it’s up get seen tonight. Look up signs of sepsis. I have now had it twice from UTIs spreading to my kidneys and then becoming septic. It’s not something you can wait and see about and a lot of GPs in my experience are not that good at spotting it.

Some signs are

• peeing less
• high temp
• high resp rate
• high pulse
• shaking
• muscle pain
• slurred speech

You don’t need to have all the symptoms.

Don't overdo the water if you are still tsking antibiotics as you will flush away the antibiotic. The reason so many women and men end up with an embedded chronic uti is because they are given short courses of antibiotics. There is an ongoing campaign to educate GPs and others about the testing of samples for infection. The NICE guidelines are out dated and as mentioned they miss well over 50% of infection. A contaminated sample is not contaminated its a positive result. White blood cells of any amount mean you have an infection. You have a full blown embedded infection. Read up on ALL the pages in this link and print the GP information sheet.
www.cutic.co.uk/patients/gp-information-sheet/

ClareM13X.
I was wondering if you have any more details on the white blood he'll ccell thing. In a&e for suspected appendicitis I had white blood cells in a urine sample treated with a three day course of antibiotics but nothing cultured. Two weeks later I was in hospital with side affects of naproxcin. Again white blood cells found in urine but no antibiotics this time I do not getting any symptoms except left sided pain and wondered if I should push for another test.

Utter rubbish that drinking water 'flushing away antibiotics' - pharmacokinetics doesn't work like this.

White cells in the urine but with negative cultures (sterile pyuria) are very common and there are multiple causes. These may include urine infections (especially partially treated ones), other infections and some none infective causes. The causes of white cells in the blood are numerous - infection would be the commonest but not the only cause.

@Jellyjumpers - an inflamed appendix sitting next to a bladder can cause both the symptoms of a UTI (because the inflammation also irritates the bladder) and white cells to move into the bladder and probably explain your results. Anti-inflammatories (eg naproxen) can also cause sterile pyuria.

A 'contaminated' or 'mixed growth' sample suggests that small-ish numbers of 2 or more organisms have been grown. Those bugs could have come from skin (which normally has bacteria on it)/bowel (which normally has bacteria in it)/gynae tract. For obvious anatomical reasons it's pretty common to get contamination with skin bugs in a urine sample from women. Doing a proper mid-stream urine sample may reduce the chance of this happening.

Of course none of these things help the OP very much, but hopefully debunk some of the myths that have appeared so far in this thread.

How are you now, OP?

Walkingthroughawall. Its comments like yours that are dangerous.! No its.not a myth that drinking too much water can reduce the effectiveness of an antibiotic when its taken specifically for a infection/uti. Its proven.
I had tests and some came back contaminated with mixed growth. These results were this ignored and thats why ive had this condition 18 years 14 years spent being told i had no infection but had IC. Finally I found Professor James Malone-Leee who diagnosed an embedded infection. Im now on high dose antibiotics and have got my life back.
Profrssor Malone-Lee has 40 years of research anf knowledge. He is the last hope for many and his methids work.
www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/apr/03/everything-wanted-know-urinary-tract-infections-uti-cystitis

I SUGGEST YOU READ THIS
www.cutic.co.uk/patients/gp-information-sheet/