UTI or urinary retention and inhalers

Do the sleep study, but make sure they test for hypo ones..(low oxygen levels when you sleep).
After 6 sleep studies someone finally decided to have a pulse ox monitor attached monitoring throughout the study. They found I barely slept, but every time I did my o2 levels crashed. Now that they have me on oxygen during the night.. no more morning headaches and feeling drained.
It all can be a pain in the butt or daunting, but the diagnosis & management.. it can add years to your life & prevent other problems in the future.

I’m very worried of using Tezspire. Looking into the medicine it only has been out since 2022, therefore, they don’t have enough data to say what the side effects are. I don’t have COPD nor asthma. I do have allergies and get monthly shots, but my chronic cough does not go away. As you, they want to do a sleep apnea study. I don’t see how that’s going to cure my chronic cough. So frustrating!

Muscarinic Agonists like ipatropium and tiotropium are known to potentially cause urinary retention.

Yupelri is a different muscarinic agonist that is only via jet nebulizer and NOT supposed to cause urinary retention if your provider wishes you to try it. I took it for a while.

I’ve been taking Dupixent and Trelegy since November 2024 and so far, it’s been a great combo for me. Trelegy does have a muscarinic agonist though, so may be tough for folks prone to urinary tract infections. The combo has helped keep me free of exacerbations.

Thank you. I will report to my Pulmonologist next visit but in the meantime, I do have other things that I use for mild asthma wheezing/shortness of breath that do not have side effects. I was really experimenting with the Spiriva for something that would help with nighttime asthma so I would not wake up and need to use a rescue inhaler, Xopenex. That is only periodically and usually when I have eaten a food that I do not tolerate.

I hate it when a med or treatment for one thing leads to side effects or problems in another area! Have you reported this to your provider? Perhaps there is an alternate med or dose that will alleviate the problem? I wouldn’t just stop the med on my own without seeking advice from the prescribing provider.

I recently developed burning and painful urination. Urine culture came back negative for bacteria. I did not understand. I have tried 3 antibiotics and nothing is helping with what I thought was a UTI. After some investigating online, I made the connection about recently starting a Spiriva Inhaler and my current urinary tract symptoms. I then found Mayo Connect and was so relieved to find that I am not the only one that has experienced urinary tract issues with inhalers. I will be stopping the Spiriva and will pray that this awful burning in my urinary tract will go away.

I take it AM and PM. If one works that's great!

I finally started using it too and so far (9months) no UTI's. I usually had two or more a year, I'm only taking one a day. Is that how you started out?

I take Mannos twice a day. You should be able to find it in a good health food store.
It helps prevent uti. And lots of water

I was having constant recurring uti. That led me to having CDiff because of the antibiotics. I never connected it with the inhaler. I saw a specialist and one of the things they did to help me was to put me on vaginal estrogen, I am 72. That seems to help a lot. I don't know if they do that with younger people.
It seems like every step forward we take there's a side effect.