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After frequent international travel for work, Julie developed a series of complex symptoms that were badly impacting her health. Her symptoms were put down to an auto-immune condition that she had to live with. Six years on she developed further symptoms – this time relating...
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 but her urine tests kept coming back negative and she was prescribed antidepressants to deal with her increasing anxiety. She...
We are thrilled to release our 2021 Australian-exclusive interview with Professor James Malone-Lee discussing chronic urinary tract infection (UTI). Professor Malone-Lee has nearly four decades of experience researching UTI and treating thousands of patients with bladder conditions. He shares information from his book Cystitis Unmasked...
Diane started to get recurrent UTIs several years after surgery for urinary incontinence using transvaginal tape (TVT). The surgery was successful but for a time she needed a catheter to empty her bladder. After a routine colonoscopy and stopping hormone replacement therapy (HRT), a tsunami...
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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 fully respond to antibiotics and her symptoms returned within days to weeks after each prescribed treatment. She went through the usual process...
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 tests, positive tests, doctors' appointment, invasive procedures and much ongoing pain and suffering for her. When she was searching online...
Jane was diagnosed with interstitial cystitis (IC) after having persistent UTI symptoms that her doctor put down to over active bladder (OAB) and possibly gynae problems. Despite the shock diagnosis, she discovered her symptoms miraculously disappeared when she took a long course of antibiotics and...
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 local hospital in Spain looked at the negative dipstick and sent her home with some cream. As the weeks went on,...
Coby was familiar with having the occasional acute UTI, just like many of her female friends. She started to worry though when her recurrent UTIs increased in frequency. Just weeks after completing a prophylactic course of antibiotics, she developed a serious kidney infection. Reluctant to...