Refused treatment for UTI

[Anonymous]

You can also drink water with baking soda ( yuck but works)
To stop the burn immediately.
Also: please look into d mannose. Consider taking some at the first sign of a UTI.
We are truly heading toward an epidemic of antibiotic resistant UTI’s. Scary stuff.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Next time go to a walk-in clinic or an urgent care clinic, not the ER, for a minor emergency like a UTI.

+1 Last time I went to an Adventist Urgent Care and they did the test right there and prescription on a Sat. morning -- thank goodness!

[Anonymous]

This isn't an INOVA thing - I've never had a problem getting in for a same day appointment at my INOVA practice.

[Anonymous]

I have Aetna insurance - and they did a tele-health appointment and sent the script to my local pharmacy.

I was shocked at how easy it was.

[Anonymous]

Wait, so they would not let you come in to do a urine sample that day at the office? And they did not hep you get a quick appointment somewhere else to do a culture?

I think the antibiotics thing above may be part of the reason to wait on antibiotics - you may want to determine which strain you have before you choose which antibiotic.

I would write an unemotional, professional one page letter or email to your doctor about what happened.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have Aetna insurance - and they did a tele-health appointment and sent the script to my local pharmacy.

I was shocked at how easy it was.

Same!!

[Anonymous]

Yes, where I go its normal.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have Aetna insurance - and they did a tele-health appointment and sent the script to my local pharmacy.

I was shocked at how easy it was.

Same!!

This.. but with a different insurance provider. The UTI usually seems to hit in the middle of the night and within 10 minutes you can be on a call with a tele-doc and a script sent to the nearest 24 hr pharmacy. My OB/GYN asks why I don't call her office and I told her it would take half a day to get a call back from a nurse.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Next time go to a walk-in clinic or an urgent care clinic, not the ER, for a minor emergency like a UTI.

+1 why on earth would you go to the ER during covid for a UTI??? Omg.

Some people just don’t know. I’m always surprised when people go to the ER for minor stuff, but...it happens.

[Anonymous]

Clinics have definitely been cracking down on prescribing antibiotics for UTIs with the urine culture. This will be particularly true if you are a middle aged, or older, woman because you can have UTI symptoms that are not caused by bacteria. I have had a urine culture that came back negative. I both think it is responsible for providers to see the urine culture before giving out antibiotics, and I get how frustrating it is as the patient to be waiting for days to get relief.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Clinics have definitely been cracking down on prescribing antibiotics for UTIs with the urine culture. This will be particularly true if you are a middle aged, or older, woman because you can have UTI symptoms that are not caused by bacteria. I have had a urine culture that came back negative. I both think it is responsible for providers to see the urine culture before giving out antibiotics, and I get how frustrating it is as the patient to be waiting for days to get relief.

This. I can't believe you wouldn't respect a provider being responsible. I have chronic UTIs now (thank perimenopause). So I got in, leave a sample, then head right to CVS to get some Uritstat. It starts working really quickly and gives me pain relief. Then I wait a day or maybe 2 for the culture to come back. The reason we have to do this is because of patients like OP who is demanding antibiotics STAT.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Clinics have definitely been cracking down on prescribing antibiotics for UTIs with the urine culture. This will be particularly true if you are a middle aged, or older, woman because you can have UTI symptoms that are not caused by bacteria. I have had a urine culture that came back negative. I both think it is responsible for providers to see the urine culture before giving out antibiotics, and I get how frustrating it is as the patient to be waiting for days to get relief.

This. I can't believe you wouldn't respect a provider being responsible. I have chronic UTIs now (thank perimenopause). So I got in, leave a sample, then head right to CVS to get some Uritstat. It starts working really quickly and gives me pain relief. Then I wait a day or maybe 2 for the culture to come back. The reason we have to do this is because of patients like OP who is demanding antibiotics STAT.

For a UTI that was confirmed by urgent care? How is that a problem for you?

[Anonymous]

I just did the online thing, prescription within 1 hour. But I did it because I knew for sure I had a UTI. I had the test strips at home and the typical symptoms.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP I have a ton of experience with UTI's and no your doctor should absolutely be able to culture and tell you within minutes whether you have one.

Get a new doctor.

Also, CVS Minute clinics and or any urgent care would be better than your current doctor. They are idiots.

If the longer culture comes back negative then they should send you to a URO GYN not no antibiotics. There would be an underlying reason for the pain.

Are you saying that the culture results can come back in minutes, or am I misreading you?

[Anonymous]

That is insane. I would have gone to urgent care or minute clinic before the ER, but too late for that.

I would also be writing a letter to the doctors that own the practice and the practice manager explaining the bad medical treatment you received. That should never happen to anyone.