Well my water sample shows no signs of infection with the dipstick test but shows traces of blood. I have had this before (not during an infection) and was investigated by camera into bladder and all was well and told its quite common for women of an age to have this. So my sample is being sent off to the lab and results will be back hopefully at the end of the week, then I have to hand another sample in on Monday. The nurse I saw said it may be that my V/A is causing this and that the smear test I had a couple of weeks ago may have made the pain in my bladder worse. She prescribed me another lot of antibiotics, Nitrofurantoin this time. I felt a bit better last night, but I'm sore again this morning. I'm a bit puzzled though, because surely the Nitrofurantoin wont make any difference if there is not a bacterial infection. She also advised me to always have sachets of cystitis relief to hand and to take at the first inkling so I picked some of these up, although I don't think this is cystitis as its not sore when I pee. Therefore, if it is not an infection I am no further forward really as how to calm my inflamed bladder. I suppose if it is an infection, but not one that has been picked up by dipstick , I am best to continue on with the antibiotics and see if that makes a difference. PS. I didn't wear my facemask and nobody said anything to me, but when I arrived, the receptionist who was sitting at her desk maskless, got up and came over to me putting her mask back on, before she spoke to me from behind a glass screen!! Only one person in the waiting room whilst I was there, and I sat for 15 minutes before being taken. The other person was seen to by a nurse too. No doctors to be seen anywhere.
