Ever feel like you have a UTI but the test comes back negative? I am pregnant and the pregnancy so far seems great. I told my doctor last week I felt like I had a UTI, she called me today and said it was negative. But if I can recall, when I was pregnant with my 2nd son alot further along, I felt the same thing I ended up having a kidney stone. But this is the weird thing.... I have been drinking a lot of water and cranberry juice and I've felt fine. The moment I have a cup of coffe, gingerale or no water except for gingerale because I've been feeling sick, it feels worse. So I wonder is it a UTI or am I getting ready to pass a stone. My lovely history: I probably have a UTI 5 times a year. I do produce kidney stones about every other year. I have a feeling of constantly having to urinate. and like I said once I start drinking a lot of water it feels a lot better. Should I ask my doctor to recheck? Is there a possibility that I was coming down with one but the bacteria wasn't quite there yet when I did the urine culture?
There are usually imbalances triggered by one's diet that foster the UTI and kidney stone issues - you need to alkalize your diet more. There's a good website called utireport.com that has valuable information about resolving the UTI issues and preventing future occurrences. With cranberry juice make sure it's unsweetened, as dietary sugar contributes to the acidic conditions that feed infections.
If you don't feel better in couple of days, I would ask them to recheck. Any test needs a certain level of backteria to come back positive.
My daughter has had a couple of UTIs and one time had all the symptoms and the test came back negative. She was told to drink lots of water and her symptoms went away.
I had UTIs but they always came back negative. Most doctors offices only look for a threshold of bacteria of a certain amount. When I eventually saw a urologist, he told me that these thresholds are somewhat arbitrary,and when he looks for bacteria he looks at lower thresholds... instructing the labs to report any and all levels so he can make a judgment himself.
Don't live in misery, insist on retesting or go see a urologist.
If your body continues to make uti's you have to look at why. I strongly suggest you remove all sugars from your diet, that an flour products, especially yeast. Those make you get infections. Sugar especially....any sugars including too much fruit esp tropical fruits
my mom suffers form utis she gets them basically EVERY month. She was on a antibiotic for 2 years to keep them at bay but of course her body basically be came immune to the antibiotics. She did have surgery for a prolapsed bladder which is supposed to take care of that. Well she is still getting them. So she recently went to go an meet with her urologist. they had her empty her bladder and then took a look to see what is left. For some reason she can not empty her bladder. It was still more than half way full! She always has the urgency to go. But not always the pain and burning. So you may have a similar issue. Next time you have an ultra sound have them check. (or do it anyway).
I never believed cranberry juice could cure one, but my doctor was out of the country and I was hurting so I downed water and cranberry juice for 3 days and it went away.
