Patient stories
Danielle’s Chronic UTI Story
A common urinary tract infection left Danielle with chronic symptoms that doctors misdiagnosed as interstitial cystitis (IC)—an incurable, yet...
Carly’s Chronic UTI Story
Carly was 21 when she had her first UTI. She was treated with antibiotics and a week later her symptoms were back. This pattern continued. Her...
Julie C’s Chronic UTI Story
After frequent international travel for work, Julie developed a series of complex symptoms that were badly impacting her health. Her symptoms...
Jean’s Chronic UTI Update
Jean shared her story with us in May 2019. After menopause things had started to go wrong. Among her worries, Jean had developed UTI symptoms...
Elizabeth’s Chronic UTI Story
Elizabeth was struck with gastroenteritis while holidaying in Hawaii. Within days she had also developed a urinary tract infection (UTI) and was...
Samantha’s Chronic UTI Story
When Samantha felt a urinary tract infection (UTI) come on, a negative test at the Emergency Department sent her on a pathway she never expected....
Linda’s Chronic UTI Story
Linda had bladder issues for as long as she can remember. Even as a child she was aware she needed the bathroom more than most. It was...
Diane’s Chronic UTI Story
Diane started to get recurrent UTIs several years after surgery for urinary incontinence using transvaginal tape (TVT). The surgery was...
Kyla’s Chronic UTI Story
For years, Kyla lived with a chronic infection that went unrecognised, controlling every aspect of her life. What began as recurring UTIs became...
Laura R’s Chronic UTI Story
Laura's experience with urinary tract infections (UTIs) was limited. She'd only had two UTIs before, but her third was different. It did not...
Lauren’s Chronic UTI Update
Lauren first shared her story with us in May 2018. She had been misdiagnosed with interstitial cystitis when an acute UTI did not resolve and...
Michele D’s Chronic UTI Story
Michele developed a septic UTI at the age of 21. This was the start of nearly three decades of recurrent UTIs, persistent UTI symptoms, negative...
Jane’s Chronic UTI Story
Jane was diagnosed with interstitial cystitis (IC) after having persistent UTI symptoms that her doctor put down to over active bladder (OAB) and...
Alicia’s Chronic UTI Story
Alicia's first ever urinary tract infection (UTI) struck in the middle of the night. She knew something was terribly wrong, but doctors at her...
Coby’s chronic UTI Story
Coby was familiar with having the occasional acute UTI, just like many of her female friends. She started to worry though when her recurrent...
Bella’s Chronic UTI Story
At the age of five or six, Bella knew there was something different about her. Her bladder often hurt and she could not control the urgent need...
Emma’s Chronic UTI Story
At just 21, Emma failed to fully respond to a course of antibiotics for a UTI. Once her treatment was finished, her symptoms returned. Negative...
Carrie’s Chronic UTI Story
Carrie had only ever had a urinary tract infection (UTI) once before. When she was 40, her second UTI refused to budge and her life soon became...
Naomi’s Chronic UTI Story
Naomi is a young Canadian woman who experienced her first UTI at the age of 19. Following typical antibiotic treatment, she was left with vague...
Elle’s Chronic UTI Story
Elle suffered chronic pelvic pain. By the time she was 25, investigations left her with diagnoses of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), stage III...
America’s Chronic UTI Story
In 2008 America went to the doctor for a urinary tract infection (UTI). She was treated, but her infection came back after each course of...
Angie’s Chronic UTI Story
At the age of 28, Angie has suffered post-coital urinary tract infections (UTIs) for her entire 20s. Following an investigative cystoscopy to...
Áine’s Chronic UTI Story
Áine started experiencing recurrent urinary tract infections (UTIs) at the age of 12. As she grew older, her recurrent UTIs became more...
Mark’s Chronic UTI Story
Mark’s bladder problems began when he was only four. By the time he was a young adult, an anatomical cause had been identified and surgically...
Jessica’s Chronic UTI Story
Jessica was 25 when she felt UTI symptoms come on suddenly. A visit to the doctor and a dipstick test confirmed there was no infection and she...
Jean’s Chronic UTI Story
Jean shares her journey through hormone-related changes, chronic bladder pain and a diagnosis that didn’t fully explain her symptoms. What began...
Sarah’s Chronic Bladder Story
Sarah is an American woman whose UTI problems started in her teens. Antibiotics worked well at the beginning, but overtime the infections...
Clare’s Chronic UTI Story
While on summer holidays, a simple UTI was the start of a horrid year of illness, pain and anxiety for British woman, Clare. Short-courses of...
Accessing Chronic UTI Treatment – five women share their experience
To be diagnosed with a chronic UTI in Australia is no mean feat. Chronic UTI is a largely unrecognised and misunderstood condition. It is...
Alison’s Chronic UTI Story
Alison was in her mid-20s when she was struck with her first UTI. A standard three-day antibiotic treatment cleared her symptoms, but they...
Jenny’s Chronic Cystitis / Vulvodynia Story
Jenny is a young Italian woman who was suddenly struck with a streptococcus infection causing acute bladder and vaginal pain and burning. ...
Michelle’s Chronic UTI Story
A simple bout of cystitis changed Michelle's life. She went from being a happy, productive member of society, to someone who suffered relentless...
Wendy’s Chronic UTI Story
After suffering from recurrent UTIs for 60 years, getting through each day had become unbearable for Wendy. Her recurrent UTIs had become so...
Craig’s Chronic UTI Story
Craig had experienced a urinary tract infection (UTI) before. When he next noticed the tell-tale symptoms of bladder and urethral stinging and...
Christine’s Chronic UTI Story
Christine is a British woman whose recurrent UTIs started at the age of 12. Being prescribed the usual treatments, and offered routine UTI...
Linsey’s Chronic UTI Story
Linsey is a nurse living in the United States. Her problems began at the age of 33 after developing a UTI that did not respond to three...
Lauren’s Chronic UTI Story
When Lauren got her third UTI, she never imagined it would be the beginning of a gruelling 18-month journey taking her from one side of the world...
Olivia’s Chronic UTI Story
Olivia is a British woman whose battle with recurrent UTIs started decades ago. What first began as occasional, seemingly uncomplicated acute...
Jenna’s Chronic UTI Story
Life changed for this Australian woman when a simple, uncomplicated urinary tract infection (UTI) refused to go away. Relying solely on tests...
A Chronic Urinary Tract Infection Took Over My Life At 22
Libby's life came crashing down when her recurrent urinary tract infections suddenly became constant and stopped responding to treatment. Being...
Olimpia’s Chronic Bladder Story
Olimpia is a young Italian woman who suffered constant bladder pain for 12 years after initially delaying treatment for an acute UTI. ...
Beth’s Chronic UTI Story
At 28-years-of-age, Beth developed a simple UTI that she would go on to endure for the next 10 years. Living a life in unbearable and...
Jill’s Chronic UTI Story
Jill began experiencing recurrent UTIs when she was 60. Despite receiving standard antibiotic treatment for these acute attacks, the frequency...
Julie’s Chronic UTI Story
Julie is an Australian woman whose first ever UTI did not fully respond to treatment and turned into a misdiagnosis of interstitial cystitis...
Martha’s Chronic UTI Story
Martha's story began a number of decades ago when she began experiencing UTI symptoms out of the blue. Despite her symptoms, all the UTI tests...
Carol W’s Chronic UTI Story
Carol is an Australian woman who suffered with severe recurrent UTIs and constant, debilitating pelvic pain for several decades. The frequency...
Melissa’s Chronic UTI Story
The following blog entry is a patient story from an Australian woman with a five year history of recurrent UTIs that turned into a diagnosis of...
Lindyloo’s Chronic UTI Story
Lindyloo is a Dutch woman with a history of bladder problems spanning three decades. She was treated for monthly UTIs, until short-course...
Anna’s Chronic UTI Story
Anna is an Australian woman with a history of recurrent UTIs spanning 30 years. Her infections were more an inconvenience than a...