Anxiety or UTI

[Amaya4]

Hi all,

I don't know if I have a UTI or if this is my anxiety overthinking and making me conscious of going to the toilet thus going more often. Since last weekend I have had an urge to go to the loo more often than normal. Even when I am sitting watching tv I feel like I have to go to the toilet - but I am also constantly overthinking this. It is not stingy / burning sensation when I go. I have some dull lower abdominal pains on and off. I have been drinking lots of water and hoping this helps but I called the GP today as its getting no better but the receptionist first said the GP would leave me an antibiotic but then called back to say I have to phone in tomorrow morning to try and get a GP appointment to discuss this before I can get antibiotics. I have had UTIs in the past and normally when you call in the doctors leave antibiotics or ask you to leave in a sample.

I also have health anxiety and know that the sooner you get antibiotics the
better for a UTI. It has made me slightly anxious that I didn't get any today.

I guess for reassurance I am just wondering if anyone has anxiety that presents mimicking a UTI in terms of frequency to the loo?

Doesn’t anxiety itself make you want to wee? I do anxious wees. Is there anything else going on that might be stressing you out?

If you’ve had UTI’s in the past your anxiety can manifest in the symptoms. Try drinking some cranberry juice and see if you can just drop a sample off.

I’ve had this a bit recently - it def can be an anxiety thing (I’m v anxious atm over a family issue). No harm in doing a sample just to see though.

Could be thrush? It can give you a sensation of urgency but when you go you don’t have that stinging sensation like you do with a UTI. The GP can test you for thrush but you can’t rely on them, I’ve tested negative for thrush before when I’ve actually had thrush and been cured by thrush meds.

Go to the pharmacy and buy a thrush pessary (don’t let them talk you into buying the pills you swallow - they don’t work). If you don’t have thrush it won’t harm you, but if you do it will fix the problem.

Christ the NHS sucks, its like Science was never invented. How hard is it to just send a sample for basic analysis. I can't believe you people put up with it, I really can't. It feels like you only get tests to prove you are really ill whereas this could be prevented so easily. Ignore all the pharmacist nonsense, you have every right to see a Dr and get treatment if you need it. Sepsis from e coli bugs is very real and all too common at the moment sadly. Just insist on being seen, it's literally what GPs are there for, they aren't very much use for anything else, their one job is to deal with the simple, mundane things that untreated can kill. And they won't even do that?