@maureenb, @daphne52 and all...I'm 75 years old, had multiple and frequent UTIs all my younger life, and at one time in the '70s, I went to see a urologist. He enlarged the urethra. Ouch! But it did help some., for a while. Last year I had 5 infections. 5 is a lot, so I screamed for help from my great Mayo doctors. Why so many?????

I saw a gynourologist at Mayo. After lots of weird testing, she found, among other things, my urine incontinence was due to a urethra muscle issue and performed a procedure to inject a bonding agent to bulk up the muscle. It was not a fun procedure, I vowed never again, but the alternative is surgery which I will not have. This doctor didn't address the UTIs, to my surprise, but sent me to infectious disease doctors for a consult. They put me on a regime of daily antibiotics for prevention.

Well, I had serious intestinal reactions from the antibiotics, after 5 different types I said no more, please. A doctor in Integrated services, like massage, acupuncture, counseling, the out or normal medical fields department, prescribed a probiotic that solved my intestinal problems completely. I've had IBSD forever, so this is a miracle! I was taking another probiotic, but this one is very different and works!

I also take some supplements, after ckg with my doctors. I get a UTI supplement online from Research Verified with multiple berries, including cranberries, and no UTI since. Amazing to me. Not one in months since taking this supplement. It may interfere with some meds, but at this point, ok. I continue to take it as no UTIs is immense.

Blessings on your journey. It is imperative if you have such recurrent UTIs to see a specialist who knows for what to look. Elizabeth

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