Gossy
03-10-2011, 07:44 PM
Greetings peeps!
Sssooooo I've been having an issue lately and am at my wits end. A few months ago I started feeling UTI symptoms. The biggest symptom is the "I need to pee" urgency feeling, even when I don't need to pee - I notice no burning during urination, some cramping after, no weird smells, no odd color in my urine. I am sexually active, but always careful about peeing after sex (and have been recently tested for any potential other infections). I noticed the UTI symptoms seemed to flare up a week or so before my period, along with spotting bleeding.
This past month it got really bad, the urgency feeling, especially right after I empty my bladder and at the end of the day. I also had spotting for much longer than normal, so I went to the gyno because I was getting concerned I had something bad going on. The doc I saw did basically nothing, a very cursory exam, concluded I have low estrogen, with no testing for it, and that birth control would help it. I haven't been on b.c. for a while now, around 8 months, and I've found my periods aren't that bad, are regular, though I still do get headaches. Thinking being on b.c. wouldn't be an awful idea (you know, for birth control) - and that maybe the UTI symptoms were related, I started it about 3 weeks ago. It has been AWFUL. HORRIBLE stomach issues (HORRIBLE cramping, nausea - so bad it wakes me up in the middle of the night). I now feel totally toxic from it - which is probably partially mental but . . .
On the UTI front, the doc blindly put me on a sulfa based antibiotic and ordered a urine culture. The culture came back "no growth" but "contaminated" with enteroccous (e.coli - found in our guts anyway) - she said the culture didn't grow any bacteria though, which usually is present with a UTI . . . after a few days on the sulfa based I felt no better, so she switched me to Macrobid, since I "still had symptoms". After taking two of them, then reading more about it online, I quit taking it. Right or wrong, I'm not even sure I have an infection, and I didn't want to risk the antibiotic side effects for something I might not have.
The past three weeks have been bad. The past two days the worst. The urgency feeling is SO UNCOMFORTABLE. I actually feel like I can sometimes make it a bit less annoying by clenching my stomach/kegels (sp) up . . . but it usually just goes back to uncomfortable. I also kind of feel sore, down there . . . which I realize could be from sex . . . but I've never had that issue from sex before, and I'm not doing anything CRAZY either. I wouldn't call it burning, but there is definitely another kind of crampy/sore feeling the past few days.
I am at my wits end and want to cry. I don't know what to do. I admit, I'm not on 100% raw . . . I try to be good with any non-raw choices though. I am WICKEDLY craving sugar lately too.
I've tried D-Mannose supplementation, Uva Ursi for about a week, cranberry supplements, probiotics, and lots of water, but it isn't getting better. I beg those of you out there with superior knowledge about these things to PLEASE help me! Is there a cleanse I should try? Raw things I should consume a lot of, or avoid? Has anyone else had this issue and made it go away without antibiotics and ick??!?! And any cleansing/detoxing tips would be appreciated - I seriously feel so heavy and toxic from the pharmaceuticals I stupidly took and probably shouldn't have . . HELP!
P.S. - Sorry this is so long . . .
Sssooooo I've been having an issue lately and am at my wits end. A few months ago I started feeling UTI symptoms. The biggest symptom is the "I need to pee" urgency feeling, even when I don't need to pee - I notice no burning during urination, some cramping after, no weird smells, no odd color in my urine. I am sexually active, but always careful about peeing after sex (and have been recently tested for any potential other infections). I noticed the UTI symptoms seemed to flare up a week or so before my period, along with spotting bleeding.
This past month it got really bad, the urgency feeling, especially right after I empty my bladder and at the end of the day. I also had spotting for much longer than normal, so I went to the gyno because I was getting concerned I had something bad going on. The doc I saw did basically nothing, a very cursory exam, concluded I have low estrogen, with no testing for it, and that birth control would help it. I haven't been on b.c. for a while now, around 8 months, and I've found my periods aren't that bad, are regular, though I still do get headaches. Thinking being on b.c. wouldn't be an awful idea (you know, for birth control) - and that maybe the UTI symptoms were related, I started it about 3 weeks ago. It has been AWFUL. HORRIBLE stomach issues (HORRIBLE cramping, nausea - so bad it wakes me up in the middle of the night). I now feel totally toxic from it - which is probably partially mental but . . .
On the UTI front, the doc blindly put me on a sulfa based antibiotic and ordered a urine culture. The culture came back "no growth" but "contaminated" with enteroccous (e.coli - found in our guts anyway) - she said the culture didn't grow any bacteria though, which usually is present with a UTI . . . after a few days on the sulfa based I felt no better, so she switched me to Macrobid, since I "still had symptoms". After taking two of them, then reading more about it online, I quit taking it. Right or wrong, I'm not even sure I have an infection, and I didn't want to risk the antibiotic side effects for something I might not have.
The past three weeks have been bad. The past two days the worst. The urgency feeling is SO UNCOMFORTABLE. I actually feel like I can sometimes make it a bit less annoying by clenching my stomach/kegels (sp) up . . . but it usually just goes back to uncomfortable. I also kind of feel sore, down there . . . which I realize could be from sex . . . but I've never had that issue from sex before, and I'm not doing anything CRAZY either. I wouldn't call it burning, but there is definitely another kind of crampy/sore feeling the past few days.
I am at my wits end and want to cry. I don't know what to do. I admit, I'm not on 100% raw . . . I try to be good with any non-raw choices though. I am WICKEDLY craving sugar lately too.
I've tried D-Mannose supplementation, Uva Ursi for about a week, cranberry supplements, probiotics, and lots of water, but it isn't getting better. I beg those of you out there with superior knowledge about these things to PLEASE help me! Is there a cleanse I should try? Raw things I should consume a lot of, or avoid? Has anyone else had this issue and made it go away without antibiotics and ick??!?! And any cleansing/detoxing tips would be appreciated - I seriously feel so heavy and toxic from the pharmaceuticals I stupidly took and probably shouldn't have . . HELP!
P.S. - Sorry this is so long . . .