Have I got a disease for you ...

[barbtries]

23. what a nightmare for you!

I hope this round of meds makes you well.

I'd been through a long period of recurrent UTIs and had more than one doctor who did not actually respect my long history with them, until finally last year I got a urologist who listened and respected me. She even tried a dilatation and I was so grateful and hopeful at that point that this would work (which it had for 10 years from ages 28-38). However, it did not and soon I had another infection and when that came back as ESBL e coli (multi-drug resistant "super bug&quot , she said okay we need to remove your kidney stones.

The stones had been there for at least 10 years and I had repeatedly been told that they were in diverticula and not causing a problem for me so no treatment required.

The stones were removed in January, it is now August and I have not had a UTI this year. The only worry now is the stones coming back and she's working with me to do everything possible to preclude that. We have not done any kind of study to see whether my body is otherwise colonized with the super bug, but all signs as of today point to it having originated from just one of the 3 stones I had.

I am not exaggerating when I say I love that doctor. I do. I love her. I'm really happy that you have a doctor who's that good, it makes a huge difference. I can imagine the frustration you've been enduring as I went through that with my issue, but on a much smaller scale.