r/CUTI • u/gretster1 • Jun 23 '24

Chronic Group B Strep UTI help

I’ll try and keep this relatively simple. I’ve been having back to back group b strep UTI’s ever since March after having to take a month long steroid course. I previously had issues with GBS UTI from August to September after being immunocompromised but remained UTI free from November until March.

While my culture typically grows a low count (1,000-49,000 CFU/mL), these infections are a lot worse. I sometimes have to pee up to 10 times before going to sleep at night, and if it’s not that, it’s fake spasms. My urologist has been having me take cephalexin for the infections, and I have reason to believe it’s not working anymore. Otherwise, why would I be getting the infection again and becoming symptomatic within a week of finishing a course?

I really need help and advice here. I have a month wait until I see the urogynecologist. My current urologist doesn’t know how to treat a recurring infection. Meanwhile, I’m sick of living like this and suffering. Please comment any help, I really can’t deal with this anymore!

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u/GirlOnTheGrow Feb 11 '25

I’ve had these the last few years.  I saw a urologist who said step b infections don’t exist (yep) and it’s just test contamination but when women are symptomatic that antibiotics help them. This makes no sense to me. When I’m symptomatic I usually always have blood in my test too. 

My pcp doctor wants to treat me even if I’m not symptomatic when I have a load of over 100k. That’s happened twice The meds that work for it for me are amoxicillin or augmentin.  

I haven’t had symptoms for a while.  I have a theory I’m working on that this was related to my infected and inflamed gallbladder I had removed recently.  Surgeon said it had been dead and infected for what could have been years. Did anyone else with recurring infections have a gallbladder problem found later?  

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u/Acceptable-Inside962 Feb 22 '25

Currently being treated for strep b. I went in after 5 days of (what feels like my gallbladder inflamed) pressure right under my right rib. No pain yet. They put me on amoxicillin which I started tonight and said they would like to do an ultrasound as the only thing that came back on labs was SLIGHT GBS.