UTI Gram Negative Bacteria

We really are lucky to get most test results within a couple of hours at the Rochester clinic. Thank you William and Charles. Such great service.

@budisnothome That’s great! I get results quickly as well. It’s the culture that takes 2 days. It sounds like Canada’s system is much different than ours. Sad for the patient that’s hurting and waiting to get on the right antibiotics.

Thank you @lacy2 for your testing source. I hope you get past this infection very soon!

Update!
I had my appointment yesterday with the urologist. Infection is gone for now 🙏. She put me on Methenamine one tablet daily .. this is supposed to kill bacteria in your bladder and not allow it to grow. She also has me taking Florajen probiotic. Has anyone tried these meds and did it help?

I've been on methenamine for years. I started with two tablets per day, along with two capsules of D-Mannose (over the counter). After three years, my doctors & myself believe the methenamine was adversely affecting my kidneys, so they cut me back to only half a tablet once per day (P.M.) and one D-Mannose once per day (A.M.). So far, so good. Because of other immune issues a month ago, I had my first interstitial cystisis flare since 2019 and no bladder infections at all. I hope the drug(s) will help you as much as they have me. Good luck!

That’s amazing! Thank you! Your response is so encouraging.

yes. I decided to do alternative. I do not know your other medical but here is what I did. These bugs develop resistance so I tried to break the barrier. The more they use antibiotics the likelyhood it comes back with resistance and angry. While the infections was going this is what I did ,Monolaurin by Solaray 3 times a day , Oreganol 2x/day, Olive Leaf ( Natures way) 3X/ day. Drank lots of water with 1 Alkaseltzer a few times a day to change the pH ( gram - is different and alkaline seemed better).
Drank Colloidal silver 3X/day for 5 days. Started a very high quality Kefir and Activia to change the microbial of my gut. Got one of those expensive probiotics for women vaginal only in the refrigerated section in pill form as well. Found that a small amount of Vodka made me pee easier ( crazy but true). I take a small amount of Alprazolam now and it seems to help.
Now when and if I feel it may be coming on I do the Oregano/Monolaurin/Olive Leaf and up the daily probiotic. I hope this helps and feel free to reach out.

Thank you! I’ve always been healthy. I would get UTI’S, go on meds and go on with my life .. until March of this year when I started with the gram Negative bacteria. I was hospitalized twice in April and pretty sick with this infection. September 4th it started up again and finally by October 6th I was clear.
I have been reading about oregano/leaf and thinking about trying it. I’m taking methenamine and refrigerated florajen for women. I also started with kefir and activia or Greek yogurt. I do take alprazolam when needed. You mentioned some other things that work for you .. so I’m going to look into to it. I’ll try anything that may work.

I forgot to add that I am post menopause but reasonably healthy and I had dryness( Sahara desert) so I found a doctor who prescribed compounded estriol/progesterone topical vaginal in a Versa base. Seems to help significantly. And while I had the active crisis, I sprayed Colloidal silver on the opening of the urethra. I figured if the bad guys can get up there so can some antibacterial silver. Good luck and feel free to reach out anytime.

I’m 73! My urologist gave me an estrogen cream to try. I haven’t tried yet as I’m adding one new med at a time just in case I have a reaction I’ll know which med it is. I will definitely check out the Collidal silver. Thank you