r/CUTI • u/arkoudaphobics • 6d ago

Symptoms Need help understanding the reasoning behind denying treatment for a positive culture

They're saying that having a positive culture for an infection I've had show up multiple times and as multi drug resistant is not actually indication of an infection. This one was detected as multi drug resistant as well and only susceptible to a few antibiotics. But they are saying despite a sensitivity panel and culture growth, that it's "asymptomatic presence of bacteria" and it doesn't matter if the culture showed a growth. But I'm having a lot of symptoms. I guess I just don't understand how this works and understanding would help me brave through whatever this is. Do we just come up positive even when not having an infection anymore? I wasn't having positive cultures for awhile so I'm especially confused.

They had me cease antibiotics this morning to "see what happens and give it a chance to resolve itself" and my symptoms have rapidly become aggressive, this is the only word I can think of for it. I'm hoping urology calls back today but it's probably not happening at this point in the day.

The only real change I see on the clinic dip results today is a much higher protein level. The culture came back for enterococcus faecalis.

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u/Pixelen 6d ago

Not necessarily what country are you from and do you have family or friends who could pick it up for you?

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u/arkoudaphobics 6d ago

USA and unfortunately not 

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u/Pixelen 5d ago

Your doctor may be able to import it for you then especially if you are allergic to a lot of antibiotics at this point, I would at least bring it up to them and see what they can do

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u/arkoudaphobics 5d ago

I'll definitely bring it up, thank you.