urinary tract infection?

Question

my doctor prescribed medication for me for a uti and it sort of worked but not really my penis doesnt burn when im peeing and i dont have any trouble going although i do go frequently. the problem is the constant burning i have after i go that continues on all day long. someone please help

Answer 1

Drink lots of Cranberry Juice. It really works, it cures it. Im not joking, Im being serious.

Good Luck! Hope you get better!

Answer 2

Q: What do you do five to six times a day but never think twice about?

A: Pee!

But if you have a urinary tract infection, or UTI, you're probably thinking about peeing quite a lot. Why? Because it stings when you go - yow! You also might have the feeling that you need to go to the bathroom all the time. And when you do, phew! Your pee smells bad.

These changes occur because bacteria have caused an infection somewhere in your urinary tract. Let's find out more.

What Exactly Is a Urinary Tract?

Your urinary tract is actually a system made up of six main parts: your two kidneys, two ureters (say: yur-uh-turz), bladder, and urethra (say: yoo-ree-thruh). All day long, the kidneys clean waste products from your blood. The waste becomes urine (pee), which drips into the ureters (long, thin tubes, one connected to each kidney). From there, the urine travels through the ureters down to the bladder.

When it's empty, your bladder is about the same size as an empty balloon. It looks like one, too! Then the bladder slowly fills up with the urine coming from the kidneys. When you have about a cup (237 milliliters) of urine in your bladder, your brain tells you it's time to find a bathroom.

Once you're ready to pee, you relax a set of muscles at the bottom of your bladder. That lets the urine rush into the urethra, a tube that leads from your bladder out of your body.

Ahhh! That feels better.

Urinary Tract Troubles
Girls are more likely than boys to get a UTI. That's because their urethras are much shorter than boys' urethras. The shorter urethra means bacteria can get up into the bladder more easily and cause an infection there.

The bacteria that cause UTIs normally live in your intestines. Each time you have a bowel movement (poop), some of these bacteria come out of your body. If they aren't wiped away properly, they stay on your skin. In girls, this means they can grow near the opening of the urethra because their urethras are closer to where they wipe. From there, bacteria can get inside the urethra, causing irritation to the urethra. This is called urethritis (say: yur-ih-thrye-tus).

It's just a hop, skip, and a jump from the urethra to the bladder. If the bacteria go there, they can cause a bladder infection, which is a type of UTI. You may also hear a bladder infection called cystitis (say: sis-tye-tus), which really means an irritation of the bladder.

Sometimes the harmful bacteria keep spreading. From the bladder, they may head into one of the ureters and climb up into a kidney. This type of UTI is called pyelonephritis (say: pye-loh-nih-frye-tus), or a kidney infection, and it's serious because it can damage the kidneys and make you very sick.

Answer 3

I'm just getting over a UTI. However, I understand there are some structural differences between males and females. With me being a woman, I'm sure some aspects are different. For me, the burning went away in a few days, the urgency takes time. Then the last leg of recovery is getting past the more than usual need to go. I advise you to o get rescreened by your physician because sometimes you need more than one course of medication to knock the bugs out, that is NOT uncommon. In the meantime, drink lots of clear fluids and urinate whenever you get the urge to go. Everytime you pee, you're getting rid of more of the bugs, so GO!!! Ask your doctor if you can take goldenseal. It's a natural antiseptic herb that speeds your recovery. Oregano oil, olive leaf extract also helps speed things along, and keeps them from resurfacing.

Be sure to eat lots of yogurt and take a probiotic/acidophilous supplement while you are on the antibiotics, and at least a few weeks afterwards to re-establish your internal flora. Antibiotics have the tendency to wipe out some of the good bugs too, the ones your body needs for digestion and to manufacture some vitamins.

Lastly, even when you finally beat it, GO BACK AND GET A FOLLOW UP URINE TEST!! Just to sure. Good luck!!

Answer 4

You should give your doc a call back and let him know that you still have the burning sensation. He may need to give you a stronger antibiotic and will probably do a repeat urinalysis to make sure that bacteria or yeast are decreasing. Most also prescribe a pain pill to go with it that turns your urine bright orange.
The best sample to give us the the early morning specimen,the first urination of the morning just after you get up, the urine has been sitting and incubating at 98 and the bacteria will have grown to the best concentration for detection,if they are there. However, a regular random urine can do just fine for a culture.

Answer 5

you need to go back to your docter and tell him/her the problem and ask for another prescription and get a regular docter you can see about your uti and tell you what type of bacteria is causing your infection and drink lots of water and cranberry juice it will help with the chances of the infection not coming back .

( I know I've had 3 uti's in 1 year)

Answer 6

Go back to the doctor for a different antibiotic. UTI is pesky and does not sometimes respond to a specific medicine. Drink lots of liquids and cranberry juice. You will get better.

UTIs are treated with antibacterial drugs. The choice of drug and length of treatment depend on the patient's history and the urine tests that identify the offending bacteria. The sensitivity test is especially useful in helping the doctor select the most effective drug. The drugs most often used to treat routine, uncomplicated UTIs are trimethoprim (Trimpex), trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole (Bactrim, Septra, Cotrim), amoxicillin (Amoxil, Trimox, Wymox), nitrofurantoin (Macrodantin, Furadantin), and ampicillin (Omnipen, Polycillin, Principen, Totacillin). A class of drugs called quinolones includes four drugs approved in recent years for treating UTI. These drugs include ofloxacin (Floxin), norfloxacin (Noroxin), ciprofloxacin (Cipro), and trovafloxin (Trovan).

Often, a UTI can be cured with 1 or 2 days of treatment if the infection is not complicated by an obstruction or other disorder. Still, many doctors ask their patients to take antibiotics for a week or two to ensure that the infection has been cured. Single-dose treatment is not recommended for some groups of patients, for example, those who have delayed treatment or have signs of a kidney infection, patients with diabetes or structural abnormalities, or men who have prostate infections. Longer treatment is also needed by patients with infections caused by Mycoplasma or Chlamydia, which are usually treated with tetracycline, trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole (TMP/SMZ), or doxycycline. A followup urinalysis helps to confirm that the urinary tract is infection-free. It is important to take the full course of treatment because symptoms may disappear before the infection is fully cleared.

Severely ill patients with kidney infections may be hospitalized until they can take fluids and needed drugs on their own. Kidney infections generally require several weeks of antibiotic treatment. Researchers at the University of Washington found that 2-week therapy with TMP/SMZ was as effective as 6 weeks of treatment with the same drug in women with kidney infections that did not involve an obstruction or nervous system disorder. In such cases, kidney infections rarely lead to kidney damage or kidney failure unless they go untreated.

Various drugs are available to relieve the pain of a UTI. A heating pad may also help. Most doctors suggest that drinking plenty of water helps cleanse the urinary tract of bacteria. During treatment, it is best to avoid coffee, alcohol, and spicy foods. And one of the best things a smoker can do for his or her bladder is to quit smoking. Smoking is the major known cause of bladder cancer.

Answer 7

You could still have an infection.
The best way to check would be to test your urine. Get a routine urine test done. If there are pus cells in the urine, you could still be having the UTI.
Drink lots of water, it helps in relieving symptoms to some extent. Sometimes the burning is caused by an overly acidic urine.

Answer 8

You might be passing a kidney stone- drink as many fluids as you can to wash it out. Wash your groin and anal area 3 times a day to keep bacteria down.

Have you picked up a STD? That is normally a sign of painfull urination.

You might need another treatment of antibiotics also

Answer 9

Drink drink and drink some more. Also, call your physician. He may not have given you a long enough round of antibiotics. Also, dont hold your urine. Make it a point to empty your bladder every couple hours.

Answer 10

you may still have the infection. you should tell your doctor about your continued problem and they may prescribe another antibiotic for you. drink cranberry too. the pure stuff, not the 10% concentrate crap. it helps. but pure cranberry is hard to find.