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Took antibiotics and a home test still says it's positive for UTI
21/f, 28/m
This may sound weird to you. But three weeks ago, I had symptoms of UTI. So, I started drinking a lot of water and I took AZO (urinary pain relief), and usually doing just that sometimes help. I did that for six days and it didn't help so I went to a doctor and they prescribed me antibiotics (ciprofloxacin). It didn't help. It relieved the pain, but I was still peeing frequently and I still felt a burning sensation toward the end.
So, I went to another doctor who took a urine test. He was aware that ciprofloxacin didn't work for me (he thought that was strange), tested my urine, and ended up prescribing both me and my boyfriend antibiotics to take twice a day for seven days. He predicted that if he just treated me, he thinks my boyfriend would pass it back to me again. My boyfriend didn't have any symptoms so we thought it was strange, but we took the antibiotics and followed his instructions.
I finished the antibiotics today. The symptoms are gone. I don't have any burning sensations when I'm using the restroom, but I am starting to use the restroom frequently again. I decided to take a home kit test from AZO to see whether or not if I have symptoms of UTI, again. But my test came out positive on leukocytosis but negative on nitrate. Meaning that I have a trace of UTI, still.
I'm a little bit frustrated because i've already been to the doctor twice without insurance, and I have spent money on medication, and somehow I'm not better? I thought it must've been a false positive since I ended the antibiotics, I also started my period today. Should I wait until my period is over and test again? (since I accidentally got blood on my test and then it turned purple). What do you think I should do?
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In this cases dont listen to doctors..I was always for clasical medicine but in my case antibiotics did not helped .But there is one diguasting natural solution.
buy a bottle of white wine and garlic. Cut garlic into a small pieces put into a wine. cook it. next 24 hours dont drink. after that one big glass per day. Most disgusting taste in the world. But that is strong natural antibiotik for urinal problems. Never will get back again.Promise.
Also buy origano oil.Mix it vith olive oil and drink to or three drops per day 15 minutes before every meal.
And a lot of water, lot of tea.. in a week , max two weeks your problem is solved
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I can't say whats going on if the doctors beleive its UTI but cant get rid of. Perhaps its something other than UTI and they haven't discovered it yet.
However, it UTI, there may be something that can help. I learned early on that cranberry is good for helping get rid of UTI's, that is if I catch it in the beginning before its so bad theres a fever and major infection. Since I learned the symptoms, same as you've mentioned, I have never used a doctor since and always gotton rid of mine.Keep in mind that with natural remedies, everyones body is different and what works for two individuals won't work on the other if treatments were switched.
You can get cranberry tablets at any natural foods/health store or section in your store. But I've found I like cranberry juice even better and will drink a whole gallon a day myself until symptoms are gone. Its worth a try.
Another thing to keep in mind is flushing your system with water. If you typically dont drink volumns of water per day, then your bladder never gets a chance to be filled very full a couple times and this means some of the germs causing this, remain at the bottom of the bladder, never being flushed out. So if you tend to drink smaller amounts of liquid as I do, thats a good thing to do in addition to trying cranberry juice.
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