Sorry if this is gross, but my pee for the last several weeks has smelt like I have a UTI but I don’t have any pain. I really don’t want to have to take antibiotics because they always give me thrush/bv cycles but is it safe to ignore until it actually causes me pain.
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No, don’t ignore it. That’s how it will get worse, and uti can travel up into bladder or kidneys and make it real bad and painful. See a dr asap and get antibiotics. Share your bv symptoms and thrush history, they might prescribe different antibiotics to try
I had a uti once where I had no pain, but suddenly had blood in my urine. Usually I get the “peeing glass shards” pain.
Do not ignore it! A simple pee test can confirm or rule out. Is your urine cloudy?
How old are you? I constantly feel like I have UTIs. Turns out it’s caused by menopause. Estrogen cream vaginally twice a week helped a lot. I’m 50
I had a couple of painless UTI’s when I was in my 20’s. They ended up infecting my kidneys and THAT is something I can not recommend! So go get a test to confirm if you have an UTI or not. Then you know at least.
Don’t ignore it! UTIs can turn bad fast.
Signed a healthcare worker who knows better but ignored some symptoms and now has a bad kidney infection.
You don’t mention your age but this is increasingly common as you get older. My housemate works in the medical field with elderly and when someone collapses, shows signs of hallucinations and a number of other seemingly unrelated symptoms the first thing they test for is an asymptomatic UTI. People can die of this, especially if the infection becomes colonized throughout your system. When you get treated ask the doctor about an anti fungal for the thrush as well.
Please do not ignore it. Most of the UTIs I’ve had in my life have not given me the peeing glass symptom. I ignored one and it turned into a full blown kidney infection requiring IV antibiotics. EXTREMELY painful and dangerous.
Antibiotic stewardship just raised a stink for us recently about urinalysis:
if you have pelvic pressure/pain, pain with urination, urinary retention or urgency, back pain, fever, blood in urine, confusion, -or- a white blood count (but you wouldn’t know that unless you get more testing), then you would get a urinalysis. In young, otherwise healthy pts, a positive UA must have symptoms associated with it to warrant treatment. As you get older, that rule loosens because UTIs can be pain free and cause unusual symptoms.
Most providers will still order a UA, but don’t be surprised if you have no symptoms, blood work comes back okay, and they say you don’t need a urinalysis.
Please consider having D-Mannose on hand if you have a delay in seeing the doctor. It’s OTC and studies have shown it’s equally effective as antibiotics. But please see your doctor!
Each disease should have a collection of symptoms. You don’t necessarily have all of the symptoms when you have an infection.
Definitely don’t sit on this. It’s possible an infection could spread to your kidneys.