After having 8 UTIs in less than a year, my neurologist sent me to a neuro/urologist a year ago. I was already using pads for leakage and knew I was not emptying my bladder. The urologist did the test which has been so eloquently described here.
I was leaving a large amount of urine in my bladder and that showed on the screen. No matter how hard I tried, I could not expel it. And when they added more fluid it just sat there too.
He diagnosed a urogenic bladder and said he was sure I would have to begin self cathing. My hands are so numb, that just seemed like a way to introduce infection.
My neurologist had already put me on low dose antibiotic just before I saw the urologist. I take 100 mg. of Microdantin (Nitrofuran) daily. We decided to try that for 6 months. I have been on the antiobiotic for 1 year now and have not had another UTI.
I have a number of friends with MS who have been on this antibiotic for years with no problem. I am concerned about building resistance to the drug.
I am now almost totally incontinent and wear the next to heaviest Tena pads. I am so numb in "that" area that I usually don't feel a need to urinate until I stand up and then it is an emergency. I am mobile with a walker, but just don't get to the toilet in time. Kegel exercises have not helped.
Does anyone have an opinion about the low dose antibiotic thing? I am 75 years old and have had MS since 1978; many years of R/R and now S/P.
I was leaving a large amount of urine in my bladder and that showed on the screen. No matter how hard I tried, I could not expel it. And when they added more fluid it just sat there too.
He diagnosed a urogenic bladder and said he was sure I would have to begin self cathing. My hands are so numb, that just seemed like a way to introduce infection.
My neurologist had already put me on low dose antibiotic just before I saw the urologist. I take 100 mg. of Microdantin (Nitrofuran) daily. We decided to try that for 6 months. I have been on the antiobiotic for 1 year now and have not had another UTI.
I have a number of friends with MS who have been on this antibiotic for years with no problem. I am concerned about building resistance to the drug.
I am now almost totally incontinent and wear the next to heaviest Tena pads. I am so numb in "that" area that I usually don't feel a need to urinate until I stand up and then it is an emergency. I am mobile with a walker, but just don't get to the toilet in time. Kegel exercises have not helped.
Does anyone have an opinion about the low dose antibiotic thing? I am 75 years old and have had MS since 1978; many years of R/R and now S/P.
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