Hi
I not posted on here for a while. I have been doing really well with health anxiety for a good few years but it is back again. I came off my tablets this summer after going right down gradually over 2 years.
My new worry is bladder related.
I wonder if anyone can help. I am 49 year old female and all through my earlier years I was bothered with urinary symptoms pretty much every 3months. I would have blood in my urine pretty much all the time . Eventually when I was about 30 I was referred to a urologist who did a few tests and also did a dilation of my urethera . Since then I never had any issues. I went on to have 2 children who are now grown teenagers
Roll on to present day and over last 2/3 years I have had recurrent what feels like uti but samples always come back clear. They tend to just go again and gp did query thrush
However a few weeks ago I woke in night with the most horrible pain in my urethea like I need to go urgently and pain went down my groin as well. It was like a muscle spasm in urethea feeling and took a while for pee to come. The next day I was so sore all day like I had a uti. This has happened 3 times now and I constant feel now like I have a sore urethea and need to pee. I had 2 dipstick samples done at doctor which both were clear and one swab of vagina again clear. I had a culture test done on Friday and had a follow up gp this am.
My gp said the urine showed no bacteria but there was pus in it which I believe is white/red blood cells. She said she thinks I have Urethritis and said to take ibuprofen as it imflammation not infection. However google seems to say that pus is sign of a infection . She wants me to do another sample tomorrow first thing. And she did another swab today
Has anyone had experience like this or pus in urine . Did it go away? I feel very sore with it and starting to get a bit anxious as well that it won't go away and it something more serious
I also not going to start nurofen until I do my second urine test. I also scared I will wake in night with that pains again as they are so horrible and scary. Any help reassure me