The only UTI attacks I had ever had in my life were when I was going through the menopause. They were treated with a five day course of cephalexin and I had no more problems until August 2014 when I felt that familiar feeling of a UTI – frequent painful peeing which got worse and […]
“I got ill six years ago. I knew the symptoms of cystitis. I’d had bladder infections before so I went to the chemist to buy the over-the-counter remedies that had cleared it up in the past. But four days later things were worse. I was sitting in the kitchen and I started feeling very ill […]
“I had a UTI aged 15 which went away in one day with antibiotics. I never gave it a second thought but then ten months ago I got another. My GP prescribed three days of antibiotics and I felt better but on day four my symptoms came back. I was in the worst agony of […]
“My UTI started when I had just started my first job after university. I had been told to “not to take time off unless you’re dying” so when I got ill it took me about a week to get an out-of-hours GP appointment. I feel this might have allowed the infection to embed and become […]
“My illness started pretty much out of the blue. I was 25 and working in customer service for a cinema chain. I had had UTIs in the past which cleared up relatively easy. I started with the familiar symptoms, however I knew something was different this time. I had a cystoscopy and hydrodistension which didn’t […]
“I was told that I had interstitial cystitis and that all they could do was manage my symptoms. This procedure made my condition far, far worse than I was able to cope with. In time, I lost my identity, my job and all of my confidence.”
“My symptoms first began when I was 14 years old and were frequent painful urination and urgency. The doctor did a dipstick test and said there was nothing showing up and so it was impossible for me to have a urine infection.”
“A year later I asked for her to be referred to a paediatrician as the infections were continuing but nothing was resolved. A consultant told me ‘she is just one of those children that get infections’.”
“If Alice had received the appropriate diagnosis and treatment at the very beginning she would have not have had to endure the pain and suffering she subsequently experienced. She was let down by both the dipsticks and urine cultures which missed her infections.”
“This treatment, as clichéd as it sounds, has given me my life back. Having to plan trips and paths around toilet locations is incredibly draining, especially for somebody deemed to be in the prime of life.”
“I developed a chronic UTI as a result of recurrent childhood urinary infections which were repeatedly misdiagnosed and left untreated, resulting in severe bladder and kidney symptoms which left me with a diagnosis of interstitial cystitis.”
“During my life I have had urine infections but a change took place from 2003 when I had a particularly bad urine infection. I had further infections treated with short courses of antibiotics by my GPs over the years. During 2010 the pain got worse but no bacteria were grown from urine tests even though […]
“I had not experienced any particular bladder problems until the onset of this bladder condition three and a half years ago. Several urine tests taken in the GP surgery and samples sent to the laboratory came back as clear apart from three tests that registered as ‘mixed growth’ and were interpreted as contamination. I was […]
“After another short course of antibiotics, I had no relief from the agonising pain I was in. I visited another GP, who said there was no infection now showing and I should see a urologist. I was left in excruciating pain with no explanations at all.”
