Hi Teresa, I had the UTI for over a year as all the urine tests came back as"understandable" and not any of the medicines they gave me would work. So I was sent to "disease doc and our OHSU. She couldn't do anything at that time either. So in November my belly hurt so bad I called the ambulance at 1am and went to the hospital. The infection just jumped into my belly and blocked everything from moving. It took the third day in the hospital and they started me on some medicine that they put into my port for nine days. I had to be in the hospital to get it, but could go home till the next day and drive back to the hospital which is 25 miles from me. My son's drove me each day as I can't drive anymore. I have severe oraculard problems. Am doing better now with that and I'm slowly getting better with my broken hip that I did Jan 19 of last year. I will be 87 next month.