Urine benadryl test for

Some info before I start:
Age: 20
Sex: Male
Height: 5’9-5’10
Weight: 180
Not on medication currently

So since late march - early April, so at the minimum of two months I’ve been feeling a constant urge to urinate. I also during this period I’ve been poor bowel movements where I’ve been having small amounts of narrow stool coming out throughout the day with the stool being light colored and soft, and with a feeling of not completely emptying out afterwards. The urgency to urinate has mostly been coming from what I can tell to be the urethra or glans. It wasn’t until around two weeks and a few days ago that one night I felt a tingling and simulating sensation on the glans of my penis and the tip of my foreskin and inside of my foreskin particularly the area around the glans and frenulum. The sensation would get worse after urinating with a feeling of coldness and wetness making it more intense and difficult to ignore causing me to feel uncomfortable, that I need to urinate more, and anxious. The tingling and simulation is by no means pleasurable and not necessarily painful but as stated before extremely uncomfortable and hard to ignore. These sensations sometimes spread to the rest of my genitalia and to my groin with my groin specifically feeling slight pins and needles. The sensation gets worse in the evening and especially during the night when trying to sleep. I don’t know if the feeling has always been their for two months but what I do know is that now I’ve been more focused on it and I’m definitely experiencing it now. My urine is usually clear with it only being yellow after waking up. Urinating isn’t painful however if I’ve already urinated say 20 minutes prior and I go back to try again after urgency reoccurred and if the urine is yellow, I’ll feel a slight warmth and almost burning during urination however to it’s not something that feels very painful.
Since that night I’ve been to my provider twice and given cephalexin and a laxative during my first visit, both of which didn’t work. I was also given lab orders during the first visit. During both visits I was also given a UTI test which came back negative both times. The second visit I was told how to take the laxative properly by increasing water intake but I was also told to try increasing fiber and fruit intake before continuing. The care giver I had the second time was confused as to why I was given cephalexin dispite the negative UTI test and I was told to wait for the lab results as she didn’t want to proscribe me medication when she didn’t know what was wrong. During both visits I didn’t mention yet the sensations I felt around my genitals, just the urge to urinate, which I understand is my fault.
The lab results are to be transferred in two days which means I’ll be able to see my provider then of which intend to basically show them what I have currently written out here. But my mental health during this waiting has gotten quite poor and I don’t know how much longer I’m willing to wait like this. For the past few days I had at some point during the day intense bout of anxiety, I’ve gotten poor sleep, I’ve gotten desperate and depressed, and I can’t bring myself to really eat. I feel like I might snap soon and I’ve had moments of wanting to go to the ER to be tested for what’s wrong with me and for my mental state. As of this morning I’m writing this my bowel movement today actually has looked normal, and I’m currently only feeling a slight urge to urinate from my urethra with a slight sensation at the tip, I suppose itchy would be best to describe it? Sorry for the wall of text but I’m really just desperate for answers and I just would like to know what wrong with me and if I’ll be able to get rid of this feeling.
Additionally I don’t know if this is important but I’ll add it anyways, on two separate occasions where I’ve have these sensations on my glans, urethra, and inside foreskin, I’ve taken ibuprofen and I was able to have some relief however I don’t know if that was coincidental or not.

26M 5’10” 165 lbs
Prescriptions: mirtazipine, singular, Zyrtec, nasonex, symbicort, descovy generic
Possible related diagnosis: wall thickening of gallbladder
About 10 years ago my appendix ruptured and I had several surgeries, including them going into my stomach through my bellybutton. So I have scar tissue all the way deep in my bellybutton.
Tests done: endoscopy, colonoscopy, ultrasound, blood tests, stool sample tests, urine tests. Just took another sample at urgent care 20 minutes ago.
I have a dermatology referral coming up, but not scheduled yet (not happy with my pcp)
I vape nicotine and thc
Bellybutton symptoms- recurring infection of bellybutton. Leaks puss and stinks. Red and swollen, deep in bellybutton. Painful when touching deep in bellybutton. Mupirocin gets rid of the infection, until it comes back. The first infection happened January 2023. My second was February 2024, and I’ve had four bellybutton infections just in 2024. I don’t want to use the mupirocin because it is not a long term fix, and I don’t want the infection to become resistant. started today leaking puss and blood for the fourth time this year
Secondary symptoms- recurring fungal (not confirmed) infection of feet (stinky, yellow, white lines on nails). Muscle fatigue.
Unknown stomach issue- started in January 2023 with extreme pain like when my appendix burst, nausea and stool full of bile (yellow, burning, very soft). Tests done, nothing found. The extreme pain mostly went away, but I still get nausea and stool full of bile to this day. The only medicine to really help is pepto bismal. Also, my body does not break down certain foods. My list includes peas, nuts, spinach, onions, peppers, carrots, and zucchini. There are chunks in my stool. Example, diced onions keep their full shape/color if I swallow one unchewed.
My doctors eventually thought my stomach issues were due to the descovy. I started that in December 2020.
What do you all think is going on?

So, a couple of weeks ago, I posted my success story about healing from vulvodynia/pudendal neuralgia using mind body syndrome healing techniques. I got a lot of messages and comments asking a multitude of questions, so I decided to make a post about it.
My Symptoms;

• Burning at entrance of vagina
  
• Burning with urination
  
• Itching around labia
  
• Tailbone pain
  
• Odd nerve sensations around vulva; i.e. tingling, odd pressure around urethra and clit, cold sensations, hot sensations, pulsing, stinging, and sandpaper like feeling.
  

My symptoms kicked off with an initial insult. I had a UTI which led to a YI due to antibiotics, and when I used 3-Day Monistat, crap hit the fan. I had a terrible allergic reaction to the medication, even though I had used it many times in the past, this time I actually sustained chemical burns from it. This led to constant burning pain and PFD for a little over 8 months before I came across TMS, Tension Myositis Syndrome. I learned that our brains are the epicenter for relaying pain messages from our bodies. When we hold our hand over a hot stove, our nerve fibers send a message to our brains to move our hand before we cause damage to ourselves. Pain is a danger signal that let's us know that something is going on and to either move away or take it easy before we get hurt. Pain does not always mean there is something horribly wrong with our bodies. Like when you get a papercut, It's such a small injury but it hurts really bad.
However, sometimes that danger signal can be left in the "on" position and cause pain to become chronic. Our brains can learn pain as it can learn anything else, and unfortunately this is how chronic pain begins.
For example: I had a bad reaction to monistat. I went to a doctor who was not empathetic in the slightest about my pain, blamed me for it, and continued to misdiagnose me with a STD that I did not have. Within this visit I understood 2 things: She doesn't know what happened to me, and she's blaming me for "doing this to myself". It wasn't until 5 doctors later that anyone actually listened to me and suggested that I had chemical burns. By this point, I had constant burning, extreme fear and despair over my symptoms, I was spiraling. Sadly, the fear and attention I was feeding my symptoms had made my pain chronic. I was traumatized by this experience as well, which I held that stress and fear in my pelvic floor, causing it to involuntarily tense up and lead to tight muscles which caused oxygen deprivation to the area and resulted in pain. So, emotional upset > tense muscles > cut off oxygen/blow flow to pelvic floor > pain. See how emotions can affect pain? The more anxious and scared I got, the worse my pain became and I started to develop more symptoms over time which caused more anxiety and more pain. It was a vicious cycle.
How did I heal? I came across TMS by accident and at first I shrugged my nose at the concept, but then I began to notice weird things. My pain would flare in mornings, go away during the day and come back at night. My pain was inconsistent and sometimes be a 3/10 and others be a 10/10. I also had a breakdown moment and scream and cried until I felt "empty" like all the repressed emotions I had finally spilled out of me, and I was pain free for a week after. I also had a 9-da book cure after reading Alan Gordon's book. From this, I learned that my pain stemmed from my fear surrounding my symptoms long after my vulva healed from the chemical burns because my brain learned and memorized that sensation. My brain also associated that sensation with my fear and anxiety, so anytime I got anxious or scared, it would flare up my symptoms. Through TMS healing techniques, I ended up losing my fear of symptoms. I started viewing them as a protective guard dog because they cropped up when I was fearful or anxious and wanted to warn/protect me. I stopped paying attention to them, slowly got back to exercising, sitting for a few minutes at a time, and wearing pants to prove to my brain that I was safe and okay. When a flare would come about, I met it with compassion and understanding, and utilized somatic tracking. Eventually over time and with gentle exposure therapy and somatic tracking, I healed. I had to retrain my nervous system and brain to not expect pain when I did certain activities because after a while my brain perceived danger with things like sitting, touch, and even urinating.
Tension myositis syndrome (TMS), also known as tension myoneural syndrome or mindbody syndrome, is a condition that causes physical symptoms that are not due to structural abnormalities. TMS is caused by emotional tension that signals the brain to reduce blood flow to the body, which can lead to oxygen deprivation and pain.
A good example of a mind body pain cycle would be phantom limb syndrome when a person can lose a limb and their brain sees that missing limb and will cause a pain response due to that missing limb. So amputees will swear that they can still feel their missing limb. The pain is very real and it’s because our brains are in full control of our pain response.
How do we know if our pain is brain/nervous system/TMS related? I will tell you.
Here are some questions to think about as structural pain behaves differently then neuroplastic (TMS) pain/brain pain:

• Have you had test after test and everything always turns out normal?
  
• Has structural causes been ruled out?
  
• Do your symptoms move around (You get an itch on your pelvic floor, then your glute then your leg?
  
• Do your symptoms come and go? (They are better in the morning but worse at night/vice versa; they happen before your menstrual cycle but are better during your menstrual cycle; they seem to vanish when you're distracted or on vacation, etc.)
  
• Do your symptoms seem to vanish when you're sick or have something else going on in your body?
  
• Are your symptoms inconsistent? Is the pain 1/10 sometimes but then they're 7/10 at other times? Do they change location?
  
• Do you have other possible mindbody syndromes like stress headaches, IBS, anxiety?
  
• Does your pain ebb and flow with your emotional state?
  
• Did the symptoms start out of nowhere? You just woke up with them one day?
  
• Did they start with a physical injury but you did not heal within the expected amount of time? (6 weeks to 3 months)
  
• Are doctors unable to find a cause for your pain?
  

These are things that are indicative of mindbody syndrome/TMS. Structural pain does not behave in the way described above. I am going to include some learning resources as one cannot heal from TMS without educating themselves about pain science and TMS. This is not a magic pill, it does take work. But! You can heal from this. Once you begin to unlearn the pain, it will fade. Once you take away the "I'm sick" or "I'm broken" narrative and replace it with empowerment, the pain will fade. If you deprive the pain of fear and attention, IT WILL FADE. You will heal. I did and you can too!
I hope that this post helps you! I really truly do and I apologize for it's length. I want you to recover. It doesn't matter if you've been in pain for 6 months or 15 years, you CAN heal and I don't want you to give up or lose hope about that. You can use these techniques and this knowledge for virtually any chronic pain condition as it can also help in pain management. I wish you an easy road to recovery.
Here are some resources to help teach about TMS and how to heal from it... Bare with me. This comes from my research of over a year.
TMS Healing Books:
Alan Gordon's The Way Out
Unlearn Your Pain
Headache In the Pelvis
Pain science:
Brain Creates Pain
Predictive Coding
How To Determine Cause of Chronic Pain
How To Reverse Chronic Pain
Lorimer Moseley - Why Things Hurt
Pain, the brain and your amazing protectometer - Lorimer Moseley
Success Stories:
Vulvodynia Success Story
Vulvodynia Success Story 2
Pelvic Pain Healed
Pelvic Pain Pudendal Neuralgia
Pudendal Neuralgia
Pelvic Pain (PN) Healed
Psychotherapy for Chronic Pain
Menda Health (Takes Insurance in CA)
Somatic Tracking For Chronic Pain and Symptoms

I took 3 standard pregnancy tests, all “negative”, took 3 digital tests all positive. My last pregnancy, one living baby, around 3 weeks i got my “period” and assumed I wasn’t pregnant, I was. It looked like a period, felt like a period but I was pregnant. I went to the hospital yesterday because I was bleeding they told me my urine test was negative for their standard pregnancy test and that my hgc was elevated at an 8. They told me to come back in 2 days to check my blood again. The doctor was trying to make me feel like I wasn’t pregnant and has 3 false positives. I’m still bleeding though as if my period came. What do you think? I’d be 3 weeks exactly

Update . I found out in December 23 that my mag was low in a urine sample . I was told to take mag everyday , D3 5-10k iu 5 days a week just to keep my levels up. Fast forward a month I had gotten iv infusions with mag once a week and I got a rbc mag test done that came back at 6.2 ( normal high ) (vit d was in 50s) I was confused cause I assumed mag wasn’t the issue cus I had every symptom ( but at the same time I just had a iv infusion 24 hours b4 so it could of affected my test numbers nd gave me a false high ). So I kept taking the 500 mg elemental nd the d3 and took another rbc mag test 5 weeks later with out the IV infusions , Results came back as a 4.0. ( normal is 4.0 - 6.4) and I was still having every symptom of a mag deficiency. Then I was ordered to get 6 weeks or 2g of mag iv once a week and still had symptoms but I was feeling better . During the 6 weeks I was taking D3 with k2 on and off . My iv guy nd one of my friends stated maybe I have some issue thats making me have a hard time absorbing the mag. So I did research and the first thing that comes up is D3 uses mag to work. Nd I was like ohh shii ima stop taking it . So I told my doc I was goin to stop it and he said don’t just make sure I take the k2 with it. So of course I listened and took it most days. And in the back of my mind I knew if I was low in mag nd D3 uses mag to work , the mag I was putting into my body wasn’t going to do anything but I really didn’t pay it any attention. And all the videos online say to take them together and they work synergistically and boost each others absorption. Even though it didn’t all the way makes sense to me, I just went with it. I was taking the D3 like every other day during that 6 week stretch and around week 5 I started to notice I felt more tense on the days I took vit D than the days I didn’t, i even told my IV guy nd we both said that I was probably just trippin . But even weeks later I swore when I took it I just felt worse nd i felt my body was more crampy . At this point I just stopped taking it. But honestly had no idea if it was the D3 or just the the mag deficiency symptoms fluctuating on there own. After about 6-8 weeks of just mag the only symptom I had left was muscle tension. The todo list of symptoms I was having had all left outside of that. But I was trying to get the tension to leave ASAP ND I saw a video on YT saying taking D3, k2 and mag would increase the effectiveness of all 3 vitamins. So I took the D3 a few times nd I was like man I slightly feel a burning sensation in my quads I wasn’t having nd I feel a little achy throught my body (I thought it was from stretching cause I stretch everyday) I took it a couple times this was last week. Then 2days ago I took the D3 again and like 2 hours later boom my quads are spasming over nd over even thought the night my quads are going crazy. I woke up in the middle of the night achy nd hot ( 2 of my main symptoms I was struggling with for years that went away) . After the 24 hour mark the spams slowed down a lot but my body was stiff and heavy. Moral of the story the D3 is the reason I was not progressing much in my Mag recovery it was still depleting my Mag storages even with taking mag. I saw a comment on YT that said taking D3 with MAG if ur already deficit in Mag won’t help.
I will update you all over the next couple of months how I am doing I am goin to make a full recovery back to my original self no question . Hopefully this isn’t confusing or jumping all over the place . Just trying to help someone struggling with this BS.
If u want the full back story go to my page !

Hi everyone,
I have been suffering with some mystery illness for almost a year and am at my wits end!
It started last August when I was camping. It was hot and I wasn’t drinking enough water.
My youngest jumped on my abdomen while I was asleep and I woke me up in excruciating pain. Within a few days, I started having UTI symptoms and got the worst kidney infection of my life. I also started to pass what I thought were kidney stones. I’d never had them before and was urinating black pepper like specs, hard white and black charcoal like stones along with blood. It lasted until about October when the pain and urgency stopped but not the debris.
It kicked back up full fledged in January. I thought I had another UTI and went to my new GP. I also brought in some samples of my debris for analysis . I did not have a UTI, but I had blood and debris in my urine and was given a referral to a Urologist .
Urologist ordered an MRI with contrast and without contrast, renal ultrasound, cystocopy and tested a few different samples of my debris and found nothing. The debris all come back as negative for kidney stones and they cannot figure out what they are made of it where are coming from. There was no swelling/inflammation of my bladder or cancer found during my cystoscopy but I’m still passing ‘stones’ and debris. I have been referred to a gynecological urologist and am waiting for my first appointment.
I have the worst bilateral flank pain that kicks up every time I drink fluids . I have pain in in my abdomen , under both ribs and around and below my belly button randomly throughout the day after I eat . I have constant fatigue and muscle spasms in my lower back and my flank pain will radiate up to my neck sometimes. I am miserable!
I can’t work due to fatigue and pain, my urgency kicks up when I pass debris which is always worse when I first wake up. My feet and legs feel like bricks when I’m exhausted. I cannot carry my toddler around, I get back spasms and tightness when I do. I can’t workout due to fatigue or take my dog for a walk without needing a nap.
I’m miserable and I just want to know what is wrong with me so I can make it stop. I feel like if I wasn’t urinating debris that no doctor would believe a word coming out of my mouth. It’s so frustrating.

Hello everyone. This is gonna be along one so please bare with me as I vent. This has all taken a toll on m mentally and I feel so stuck, to the point where I am questioning everything.
In December of 2023, I began having very bad pain while urinating, discharge....I suspected a UTI. However, I tested positive for Chlamydia(even though my partner at the time said he was negative.). I got treated, retested and everything came back negative. However, I was still experiencing burning while peeing, vaginal discharge, and etc. I went to the gyno for the first time, around the middle of January and explained my symptoms to her. She said that she saw some yeast while doing the exam and treated me for such. I got tested for the regular STI's and did a vaginal swab. The medicine she gave me did not help much and all my results came back negative. Going into February, my friend passed and I went into a dark place. I stopped caring for my health and I didn't revisit the gyno(although experiencing pain while urinating, itching, discharge; etc) up until March. March comes around, I am still struggling with everything and I visit the Gyno again with the same symptoms. She tested me for Mycoplasma/Ureaplasma and gave me cream to deal with the itching. My results come back and I was in fact positive for Mycoplasma. I am not sure what medicine she put me on, but I remember it was a 7 day antibiotic.
I took it, felt a little better, but a week later the same symptoms started to return. At the end of March/beginning of April, I had a burning sensation while peeing, I began having very sharp pain in my pelvis, hip/leg pain, on and off discharge(somedays it would be brownish, next it would be a very clear heavy discharge), and lower back pain. I returned to same gyno and she thought it was a UTI. She took a urine sample and did a swab(however, i don't believe she retested me for mycoplasma). She gave me a three day antibiotic and it worked. The pain while peeing went away and the cramping subsided. However, the results came back and everything came back negative. But, in my urine my white and red blood cells were high. She told me to go to my PCP because she believed it wasn't a gyno related issue anymore. By that time I was experiencing very bad pain in my chest and back. I ended up going to the ER because I believed I had a kidney issue. I did a CAT Scan, but everything came back fine. The doctor told me it was a muscoskeltal issue and prescribed naproxen to me. Also, it came back that I had a yeast infection. I explained the cramping and such to the doctor and she said I did have a UTI, the test just didn't detect it. I asked her if the cramping was due to the muscoskeltal issue and she said it could be... I went home, took Fluconazole(singular) and began using the Naproxen.
I am a college student and I dorm, so I constantly have to travel back and forth to attend these doctor appointments. I return back to school and my pain subsides in my chest area, but the naproxen did not help the cramping. I still was having pain while peeing. I return back home to see my PCP, and she did a vaginal exam and said she saw yeast again. She told me the cramping was just due to my period(just no). She prescribed Fluconazole and a insertion for the yeast infection. I told her to run every test she can and the only thing that came up was a little bacteria in my urine(she told me this 7 days after I went to her). I told her I am still having pain while urinating and so she gave me a 7 day medication(take two a day), I forget the name. I was taking both that medicine she gave me and the naproxen, but, I ended up stop taking the naproxen because I experienced really bad stomach problems one day and I believed that it cause my period to be almost late(6 days, my period is usually on time and comes between the 14th and 16th).
At this point I stop going to my PCP because of her response to what I am telling her. I make an appointment with a different gyno to address it. BY THIS TIME, I am having pain in my pelvis, abdomen, and lower back(moreso on my left side), and my hip. I am not peeing frequently, there is no discharge or very little, BUT when I PEE IT BURNS. I make an appointment. Before seeing my gyno, I do an ultrasound( my belly and vaginal) and everything is fine. I tell her all these symptoms, she swabs me for everything(including mycoplasma but those results were inconclusive because I was on my period, so i have to retake it), I ask her if it's possible if I have PID, she says I would be in more pain. She refers me to a urologist and gastroenterologist(my abdominal pain was concerning to her). I go to my urologist first(May 29th), she tells me that she believes that due to all the antibiotics I have been taking since December my urethra and stomach have not had time to heal(which I totally agree). She does a vaginal exam(looks fine). She brings up pelvic floor issues and does a fast exam on me, but it doesn't seem abnormal. However, she said its still a possibility. She basically tells me that she thinks I need to stay off antibiotics, use cranberry pills, and visiting the GI is a good idea. She also gave me a lubricant to apply down there just to see if it eases the pain. I have an call with her in two weeks to update her.
Two days after, I visit my GI. I do have constipation, burping, and such. He basically said I don't know what it is but, he prescribed me Pantoprazole to take before breakfast and suggested I use miralax. I also have a follow up call with him.
My results came back from my gyno that I have BV, she told me that it usually goes away on its own, but she will send an antibiotic just in case. Which worries me because of what the urologist said. I am still experiencing pain when I pee, pelvic pain, abdominal pain, pain on my left side, buttotcks pain, and lower back pain as of right now, the pain isn't excruciating, but its there. Sometimes it feels like stabbing in my back or my pelvic like just hurts. I do have some pain in my actual vaginal hole and sometimes it just hurts, kinda like I’m in my period, but I’m not. Due to this, I went to the hospital because of it actually getting worse. I did the regular sti testing, an abdominal x ray, and bood testsing. The x-ray showed I had a lot of gas and basically poop in my system. So she sent miralax and another medicine, "so i wouldn't get hemmorids". That was June 5th, I have been taking all the medicine as is, but the pain has returned. When I lie down, their is pain in my lower back(feels as its pulsating and moreso on my left side), pain in my pelvis, and my whole left leg is hurting. I don't know what to do, this has been going on for months.
edit: i believe its also important to note, the abdominal pain has subsided but the pelvic pain has not. I also had random spotting on friday(two days after the hospital appt). it was light and after a couple of hours it went away(it happened when i was at the gym)

Hello everyone. This is gonna be along one so please bare with me as I vent. This has all taken a toll on m mentally and I feel so stuck, to the point where I am questioning everything.
In December of 2023, I began having very bad pain while urinating, discharge....I suspected a UTI. However, I tested positive for Chlamydia(even though my partner at the time said he was negative.). I got treated, retested and everything came back negative. However, I was still experiencing burning while peeing, vaginal discharge, and etc. I went to the gyno for the first time, around the middle of January and explained my symptoms to her. She said that she saw some yeast while doing the exam and treated me for such. I got tested for the regular STI's and did a vaginal swab. The medicine she gave me did not help much and all my results came back negative. Going into February, my friend passed and I went into a dark place. I stopped caring for my health and I didn't revisit the gyno(although experiencing pain while urinating, itching, discharge; etc) up until March. March comes around, I am still struggling with everything and I visit the Gyno again with the same symptoms. She tested me for Mycoplasma/Ureaplasma and gave me cream to deal with the itching. My results come back and I was in fact positive for Mycoplasma. I am not sure what medicine she put me on, but I remember it was a 7 day antibiotic.
I took it, felt a little better, but a week later the same symptoms started to return. At the end of March/beginning of April, I had a burning sensation while peeing, I began having very sharp pain in my pelvis, hip/leg pain, on and off discharge(somedays it would be brownish, next it would be a very clear heavy discharge), and lower back pain. I returned to same gyno and she thought it was a UTI. She took a urine sample and did a swab(however, i don't believe she retested me for mycoplasma). She gave me a three day antibiotic and it worked. The pain while peeing went away and the cramping subsided. However, the results came back and everything came back negative. But, in my urine my white and red blood cells were high. She told me to go to my PCP because she believed it wasn't a gyno related issue anymore. By that time I was experiencing very bad pain in my chest and back. I ended up going to the ER because I believed I had a kidney issue. I did a CAT Scan, but everything came back fine. The doctor told me it was a muscoskeltal issue and prescribed naproxen to me. Also, it came back that I had a yeast infection. I explained the cramping and such to the doctor and she said I did have a UTI, the test just didn't detect it. I asked her if the cramping was due to the muscoskeltal issue and she said it could be... I went home, took Fluconazole(singular) and began using the Naproxen.
I am a college student and I dorm, so I constantly have to travel back and forth to attend these doctor appointments. I return back to school and my pain subsides in my chest area, but the naproxen did not help the cramping. I still was having pain while peeing. I return back home to see my PCP, and she did a vaginal exam and said she saw yeast again. She told me the cramping was just due to my period(just no). She prescribed Fluconazole and a insertion for the yeast infection. I told her to run every test she can and the only thing that came up was a little bacteria in my urine(she told me this 7 days after I went to her). I told her I am still having pain while urinating and so she gave me a 7 day medication(take two a day), I forget the name. I was taking both that medicine she gave me and the naproxen, but, I ended up stop taking the naproxen because I experienced really bad stomach problems one day and I believed that it cause my period to be almost late(6 days, my period is usually on time and comes between the 14th and 16th).
At this point I stop going to my PCP because of her response to what I am telling her. I make an appointment with a different gyno to address it. BY THIS TIME, I am having pain in my pelvis, abdomen, and lower back(moreso on my left side), and my hip. I am not peeing frequently, there is no discharge or very little, BUT when I PEE IT BURNS. I make an appointment. Before seeing my gyno, I do an ultrasound( my belly and vaginal) and everything is fine. I tell her all these symptoms, she swabs me for everything(including mycoplasma but those results were inconclusive because I was on my period, so i have to retake it), I ask her if it's possible if I have PID, she says I would be in more pain. She refers me to a urologist and gastroenterologist(my abdominal pain was concerning to her). I go to my urologist first(May 29th), she tells me that she believes that due to all the antibiotics I have been taking since December my urethra and stomach have not had time to heal(which I totally agree). She does a vaginal exam(looks fine). She brings up pelvic floor issues and does a fast exam on me, but it doesn't seem abnormal. However, she said its still a possibility. She basically tells me that she thinks I need to stay off antibiotics, use cranberry pills, and visiting the GI is a good idea. She also gave me a lubricant to apply down there just to see if it eases the pain. I have an call with her in two weeks to update her.
Two days after, I visit my GI. I do have constipation, burping, and such. He basically said I don't know what it is but, he prescribed me Pantoprazole to take before breakfast and suggested I use miralax. I also have a follow up call with him.
My results came back from my gyno that I have BV, she told me that it usually goes away on its own, but she will send an antibiotic just in case. Which worries me because of what the urologist said. I am still experiencing pain when I pee, pelvic pain, abdominal pain, pain on my left side, buttotcks pain, and lower back pain as of right now, the pain isn't excruciating, but its there. Sometimes it feels like stabbing in my back or my pelvic like just hurts. I do have some pain in my actual vaginal hole and sometimes it just hurts, kinda like I’m in my period, but I’m not. Due to this, I went to the hospital because of it actually getting worse. I did the regular sti testing, an abdominal x ray, and bood testsing. The x-ray showed I had a lot of gas and basically poop in my system. So she sent miralax and another medicine, "so i wouldn't get hemmorids". That was June 5th, I have been taking all the medicine as is, but the pain has returned. When I lie down, their is pain in my lower back(feels as its pulsating and moreso on my left side), pain in my pelvis, and my whole left leg is hurting. I don't know what to do, this has been going on for months.
edit: i believe its also important to note, the abdominal pain has subsided but the pelvic pain has not. I also had random spotting on friday(two days after the hospital appt). it was light and after a couple of hours it went away(it happened when i was at the gym). The burning when i pee is still there too. That’s it’s, no frequency to pee and no weird discharge,

yorkie/cocker spaniel mix
12 years old
neutered
18 pounds
issue started about six months ago with him drinking water excessively. i thought maybe he had diabetes and i took him in and they determined UTI and started antibiotics.
he was fine for a bit and then about a month ago got symptoms of a uti again.
went to the vet again. between the visits have had two blood work panels, one urine catch, one urine draw via needle, and an ultrasound. he’s been on two rounds of antibiotics. the urine was not cultured just tested at the office.
blood work is normal other than elevated cholesterol. no signs of diabetes.
he drinks water excessively and urinates excessively. the vet said his bladder was distended and considering there were no signs of problems on the blood work i should limit his water to two cups a day.
the only think i can think of next is an actual urine culture? they are doing testing in the office but without culture for specific bacteria. is there something else i need to ask for?
the other worrying thing is his anxiety is increasing and last night he was very distressed (terror in the way he gets scared of storms, but there was no storm). could all this be neurological?
i adopted him when he was 5 years old and he had untreated worms which the vet said was unusual at his age (i don’t think he had ever fully been de wormed). i don’t know if this could cause issues later in life. he’s never had heart worms and is on preventive.
i just don’t know where to go from here in terms of testing etc.

Hello dear people!
I am from Europe (Balkans) and was told by the lab I send urine sample for ureaplasma, mycoplasma and chlamydia that it's not reliable to test those microbes from urine of women - they say I should expect a 99% negative result which can be false. Meaning it only works for men to test it from urine, and that it's best to take a swab.
Please tell me how did you test for ureaplasma - is it possible to test it from urine for women, or is it best to do vaginal swab, or even cervical one? I kept on reading using urine samples in USA. I wonder what's so different in test approach.
I decided to test it anyways, since my OBGYN refuses to swab my cervix stating it's not needed.
I feel neglected by my OBGYN and wanted to try by myself to test for it.
Please help me with your experiences.
Thank you.

I’m desperate- My cats starting fighting out of nowhere and I’m at a loss of what to do. My cat Onyx (6 yrs old) and Franklin (3 yrs old) can’t even look at each other without one of them hissing our trying to fight each other. For reference, they were BEST friends before this. Snuggled together, played etc. I’ve never ever had an issue before.
Sorry this is a long post but this is when everything started: About mid April I took both of my cats to go to the vet for check ups (especially Onyx, I noticed he hasn’t been grooming himself as much and had a lot of matting so opted to get him shaved, and yes we have done this before with 0 issues) & when I called the vet they said to bring them both in at the same time. Everything was fine in the beginning, but they told me to pick up onyx in a few hours since they were running behind schedule- basically the entire day went by and no call from them so I finally called them instead. When the vet tech answered the phone she seemed very frazzled and said there was issues during the sedation & he stopped breathing so they ended up running blood test and X-rays on him & everything came back normal. Overall it was a horrible experience at the vet (which I’ve been going to them since he was a kitten) When I brought onyx home, Franklin came running to the crate and started making weird snorting huffing noises (almost sounded like a pig) and then they started to attack one another. I ended up calling the vet and they said that this is normal and to just leave them be & it will figure out for themselves. So a month and some change has passed and now I’m here coming to Reddit because our household is becoming stressful which isn’t helping the situation. I ended up taking onyx to another vet and we did blood work and urine exam and everything has come back normal. We kept them separated for 2 weeks and now have a clear fence to split up the house so nobody feels threatened but so they can smell and look at each other (per my vets request) and it’s only gotten worse.
Reddit plz do your thing and give me all the advice, I need help & I’m having such pet mom guilt it’s eating away at me..

Hello dear people!
I am from Europe (Balkans) and was told by the lab I send urine sample for ureaplasma, mycoplasma and chlamydia that it's not reliable to test those microbes from urine of women - they say I should expect a 99% negative result which can be false. Meaning it only works for men to test it from urine, and that it's best to take a swab.
Please tell me how did you test for ureaplasma - is it possible to test it from urine for women, or is it best to do vaginal swab, or even cervical one? I kept on reading using urine samples in USA. I wonder what's so different in test approach.
I decided to test it anyways, since my OBGYN refuses to swab my cervix stating it's not needed.
I feel neglected by my OBGYN and wanted to try by myself to test for it.
Please help me with your experiences.
Thank you.

Hi everyone. Curiosity get your thoughts on two questions:

1. For those of you who deal with common allergies, any recommendations on medication that work especially well? I currently take Benadryl allergy, 25 mg twice a day. It’s starting to feel like I need even more than that.
   
2. I’ve dealt with low energy throughout adulthood. I’ve gotten numerous tests done and things always look good. Generally, doctors just recommend a multivitamin doesn’t seem to help at all. Any recommendations on alternatives?
   

Thank you!

I, 34M, had my gallbladder out when I was 20. When i was 29, I started having a lot of gassiness/bloating/burning stomach issues and in July of that year, I got dx with mild gastroparesis. I have "flare ups" every little bit, which are, I'm assuming, from that. In November of '22, I started having bad fatigue (i habe since been dx with moderate sleep apnea, which isn't being treated well) and I have been having a light pain under my right rib cage off and on. Summer of 2023, they were thinking leukemia, but blood tests stayed normal and it wasn't that. But since around that time, the part that worries me, my bms have been lighter brownish and sometimes it's fatty and floats or is sticky. I had an abdominal US in January '24 and showed everything normal, but it only saw a portion of the pancreas and couldn't see the distal duct. I do not have jaundice or dark urine (my liver enzymes as of a week ago were perfect). I guess I'm looking for reassurance but I'm curious, after 18 months of symptoms, wouldn't something have become obvious by now (from jaundice or blood tests) if it was a serious pancreas issue? I haven't had any left or middle pain, or really any weight loss (trust me, I've tried), and my blood sugars have been great for a couple years due to cardio workouts.

130lb female
5 feet 8 inches tall
About 15% body fat
I smoked weed every single day until two weeks ago. I stopped on May 26. I still have 5 weeks until my drug test (July 9).
I lift weights 3 times a week and use the Peloton bike for ~45min, 3 times a week.
Do I have a good shot at passing a urine drug test? I feel like I will be OK but is there anything else I could be doing to clear out my system?

To be honest , I am a little scared. Up until a few months ago I appeared fine then I noticed symptoms. I had stomach issues, frequent urination but thought due to what I had been told in the past it was oab or anxiety. I had belching , heartburn etc. I noticed brown discharge. I started to feel dizzy, felt my brain was fried. Caused me to have problems at work, make me different etc. I had a uti test at home so I took it and it came back positive so I went to the doctor and got treated w antibiotics. I really wasn't myself and I'm still not totally myself again. After uti had my period then a few days ago got a sore throat. Cough runny nose etc. Last night I really felt under the weather. I've been putting myself through stress and dealing with work issues. I'm afraid of what's going on like cancer , how long I had a uti and thought it was just anxiety , oab like I had been told. My labs were done last year and I'm due for then again. I'm so scared, I want to feel like me again. Can it take time to recover from a uti ? Then I'm sick with a head cold I don't get sick like this . I want to spend time w my husband , I just dint get what's been going on. My stress though had been high fir the last year. I don't get sick like this , and I'm wondering if a uti gets too bad it will cause the symptoms I had. I'm scared, hiding, because I dint feel like myself

[23M] I have been freaking out about STDs over the last two weeks since an encounter in a strip club in which I was severely intoxicated and don't remember what happened fully. I have done two full panels and received clean results so far (5 and 10 day marks ). However , I have had some aggravation on my penis that I am freaking out about for Herpes. I believe the aggravation started the day prior to the club but don't entirely remember and the day after I aggravated it a lot further by masturbating so hard to tell what was due to that and what may be herpes. It has now been ~12 days since then and I still have a good amount of redness and dry skin that is freaking me out . I never had any pain or blisters really but definitely red areas , kinda dots, and dry skin . Some tingling in first few days, not while urinating . It seems to be healing but very very slowly . I initially didn't think about herpes so didn't get it swabbed when had the chance.
My question is , I know the herpes IGG tests are recommended after 4 weeks or longer, is this timeline quicker if there are symptoms ? I figured antibodies would be produced if symptoms are showing . Just freaking out I can't test accurately for weeks it seems .

Hello gentlemen (and possibly ladies too 😃). My symptoms include „only” a constant urge to urinate and frequent urination (but not just a few drops, it’s always a significant amount). I'm currently taking Urosal ( weaker Hiprex ) and am about to start using ointment for bacteria detected under the foreskin. I’ve also been prescribed quinolones and another antibiotic, but reading about their side effects scares me a bit (my body seems to absorb rare side effects like a sponge).
I’m not quite sure what to think about the cultures because the results are quite inconsistent: Initially, I had cultures taken from the urethra, semen, and urine three times, along with two general urine tests. Only two colonies of something appeared in the urethra culture. When I repeated the urethral culture, nothing came up, so it might have been contamination the first time. I could have stopped the diagnostics there. However, I decided to go further and did the Stamley prostate fluid test and a foreskin culture to have a complete set. And here came the surprise: Morganella morganii and some single colonies of oralis/mitis were found, not only in the prostate but in every urine sample (10^3-104 CFU). A week after this, I repeated the urine culture in two different labs, and no bacteria were found, so I’m unsure how reliable these tests are. Under the foreskin, Morganella, single colonies of fecalis, and 2-3 colonies of aureus were found. Should I repeat the prostate test to rule out contamination, or should I go all in with treatment? Oddly enough, Urosal and pelvic floor therapy seem to help a bit, so I’m not sure which direction to take with the treatment. From what I gather from the forum, antibiotics help in about 20%-30% of cases. If anyone made it through this wall of text, thank you 😎

Hi everyone,
I’ve had sex with my partner several time last month in May (using the BC pill as the only form of protection) and then on June 1st, I started noticing my very vivid dreams and my ability to recall them so clearly. My dreams have continued to be this way all week.
Then 4 days ago, I started to notice terrible symptoms such as leg aches/cramps, sore gums, extreme fatigue, nausea, mild back cramps, flu-like symptoms, etc. I went to urgent care and tested negative for flu and COVID. The very next day, I threw up at work, had light brownish spotting, felt very warm, and experienced fatigue, irritability, moodiness, food aversion, shortness of breath, frequent thirst, and urination, and the need to sit a lot.
I feared I might be pregnant, so I took 3 pregnancy tests within a few days of my symptoms, and they all came back negative. So I thought I was good, until I started noticing my nausea turning into morning sickness with dry heaving. I tested again this morning and still negative, and my light brownish flow turned a little heavier, but I’m still nauseous.
All these symptoms are completely alien to me, and I’ve never experienced them before, besides the cramping and bleeding when I’m actually on my period.
Now that my flow has gotten heavier, it may be my period? I’m not sure. But I’m 50% sure I’m not pregnant now. Should I take another pregnancy test at the end of the week? That would mark the 3-week mark from when I last had sex with my partner.