UTI and bloody urine

Trimethoprine does not always work. For E. coli try amoxicillin

Yes had a number of uti infections with blood. But gp can test your urine to check it is an infection.

My few UTIs have been more blood than urine (drama queen, that’s me) but my mother had lots in her late 80’s and I found DMannose did the trick. The GP have our chemist the go-ahead to include it in her blister pack of meds (although I paid for it privately). A friend swore by cranberry extract. It helped her.

I have a history of recurrent utis .....I am prescribed hiprex ( an antiseptic medication which make the urine acidic and stops and kills any bacteria ) and also blissel gel ( a vaginal hormone gel) .....and any time i DO get a uti, I am prescribed a minimum of 7 days antibiotics and sometimes 10 days . D MANNOSE is fine for ecoli infections but mine are usually enterococcus or klebisella

Unfortunately majority of UTI’s are caused by E.coli - our lower regions in females are badly designed. I had one UTI after another which meant one antibiotic after another - I became immune to most of them . I eventually read about a trial E.coli vaccination and signed up - never looked back - changed my life. That was a year ago - no idea how long it will last but sincerely hope it gets rolled out before too long. Will save NHS a fortune. Also take D-Mannose.

Don’t want to be alarmist but for me it was a lot more serious really. Blood in my urine turned out to be bladder cancer. So please don’t hang about if you ever have any symptoms like this. Get straight to the drs. Get it checked out!!

I had that with a very sudden bout of cystitis. I was going so frequently that when I rang the doctor he delivered the antibiotics in person and took away a sample for testing. The next day he phoned to say it was a descending infection from the kidney not an ascending one - the usual culprit - and he prescribed a different antibiotic, telling me to bin the original ones. I had time off work and had lower back pain - in the kidney area. I went back to work when I felt better but I suffered a recurrence within hours as I couldn't drink enough during working hours to keep flushing the infection through as I worked in a lab where we couldn't eat or drink except during breaks, so I had to take more time off.
Looking back I realise you don't get that sort of attention from a local GP these days. It was in the mid 80s and appointments were easy to arrange at short notice! If that happened now I don't know how I'd cope as I live alone and I couldn't have made it to the health centre even if an appointment was available!