So dispirited. Three courses of antibiotics and uti again.

Thank you so much. So much information. I have vaginal atrophy and was told this some years ago. I am not far off 85 so am probably not a candidate for oestrogen. I took a sample in yesterday although my terrible symptoms of Sunday night had quietened down. Also the sample looked light coloured and normal. The dipstick was negative but he was sending it for analysis. At the moment the only symptom seems to be an uncomfortable feeling around my bladder area. I am continuing to drink a lot. Crossing my fingers and armed with all this extra information I will make an appointment with a lady doctor and discuss things with her. Thank you all so much and I am sure that your posts will be useful for other people who also have this problem.

Estriol cream changed my life after lots of misdiagnoses. Vaginal atrophy mimics UTI very well x

You can use estriol at any age. It doesn’t enter the blood stream. It’s absorbed where it’s put.

Lovetopaint My aunt was 92 and has successive UT Is. She was put on Blissel and hasn’t had one since….she is now 94

Probably due to vaginal atrophy. GP prescribed vagifem, not had a UTI since (over 6 years ago). Talk to your GP. Makes me cross that so many GPS have no idea about this and don't suspect it in menopausal women with repeated UTIs.

Age is no barrier to vaginal oestrogen. It can literally save lives, look it up!

This thread has been fascinating. So often the advice given is don’t ask friends advice about medical issues.
Yet here is a situation where such different advice is given.
I had a string of different meds following delivering a sample to the surgery. It was only when I saw a senior nurse practitioner for something else did she mention Estriol cream So far so good

I can really sympathise lovetopaint. I had a lot of UTI’s some time ago, they came back at the end of a course of AB, but I saw a different GP, a lovely lady who spent her lunch hour looking through my notes. She prescribed me oestrogen pessaries and told me to take D-Mannose, and drink decaffeinated tea. I haven’t had a UTI since. I do think possibly a female doctor will be more sympathetic and may try to get to the root cause instead of just giving you yet another course of AB. Hope you feel better soon.

This has been very helpful and interesting. Thank you to all who have written in. I have had lots of UTIs. I am 83. Just before Christmas my son came round to give me a lift and found me unconscious on the bedroom floor. This was 10am. I did not come round until 8pm. He immediately called for the ambulance and I was kept in hospital for five days. After lots of very good examinations the Consultant found that I had a bad UTI infection, delirium, rock bottom B12, a hurt murmur and other things, so I had a good MOT. All this was caused by a UTI. So yes, they are not nice things to have.

heart murmur.

Vagurux and decaffeinated drinks for me - no more problems. Ask your GP,
if he / she is not on board with the idea , find another / new GP. Go for it and good luck.