Struggling with Chronic UTIs and Seeking Solutions

     Hello and happy new year one and all. As some of you may have read in my blogs I have been suffering for the last 20 months with UTI's. Seen a urologist at my local hospital who said keep taking the antibiotics, I wasn't happy with this so asked  my consultant at another hospital I attaned for a second opinion ( I have a spinal injury). I seen another consultant in Glasgow, who said to go on a 3 month course of antibiotics and see how that works, unfortunatly it hasn't helped.. So back to the drawing board again. The plan of attatck now is to go and get a scan with dye inserted into kidneys to see how the urine runs out into my stoma pouch. The consultant is thinking two possibly three outcomes, 1 I could have a really bad infection that will need a massive course of antibiotics, which she thinks is probably  a very slight chance of. 2 there could be some crystals forming that aren't showing up on a normal scan or 3 the most likley one, the conduit carrying the urine from kidney to stoma has narrowed thus restriciting the flow of urine out and causing massive infections backing up the urinary tract.This would mean a full redo of my stoma operation.......................... Watch this space for more info<

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I feel your pain mate, I get these every few months and they are no laughing matter. Ive usually ended up in hospital for a few days. Very very painful.

Hey BigP..why have you ended up in hospital, (if you don't mind me asking)? these damn UTI's can be painful and very frustrating. If you get one everything has to stop until antibiotics try and help, unfortunatly for me as soon as the anti's finish the infection bites again.

I've always been in massive extreme amounts of pain. The only thing that has ever eased it is morphine. Really horrible situation and usually quite scary at the time.