Doctor-
I am 19 years old, female, healthy other than a recent bout of subacute thyroiditis and then this problem. Three weeks ago I woke up on morning and went to the restroom like I always do but for some reason still felt like I had to go really badly. This lasted all day and and partly into the next, got a little better for a few days, and then got persistently worse. No burning or anything, just a constant extremely annoying urge. By the time I made it into my doctor's office, this had been going on for a week.
My doctor did an uranalysis and said that there were white blood cells and some bacteria in my urine so she put me on levaquin for 5 days. It seemed to get a lot better the first three days, but then stopped working and it just started to get worse again. Unfortunately, my doctor was out of town for a week, so I went to a walk in clinic the day after I finished my round of antibiotics. The took a sample and culture, both of which came back negative & said they found nothing to indicate an infection.
The walk in clinic sent me to a urologist. He took a sample, said there were white blood cells in my urine, put me on 10 days Bactrim but sent out a culture just to see. This morning his nurse called to say culture was negative. I asked her to ask the doctor if I should continue my antibiotics but no response.
When I was really little I had a few urinary tract infections, but since then I have only had maybe one every two or three years. This time, I have no burning or incontinence or pain of any sort. I'm not neccesarrily going any more than usual and I never wake up during the night to go. It's just the constant FEELING of having to go.
Do you think that I should continue my antibiotics? Could I still have an infection even though its not showing up? If not, what else could it be? I have read about things like interstitial cystitis and even though it doesn't sound like that to me I'm still worried. Any help would be greatly appreciated.