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Periurethral flora
I recently went to Urgent Care for a painful UTI (I had just had one 3 months ago). After a UA, I was given an antibiotic, which seemed to help, but not completely. After 3 days I got a call saying that I did not have a UTI, I had periurethral flora and to keep taking the antibiotic and call my PCP. I recently completed endometrial cancer treatment, radiation and chemo, and have had to wear a pad daily due to bladder leakage. What is periurethral and could it be caused by wearing pads?
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Periurethral means in or around the urethra. I think they are saying that further up inside your urinary tract they don't think you have an infection, but that you have "flora" around the end of the urethra and that area. However, be sure to check this interpretation with your doctor! :-) It would make some sense that either a fungal infection or a bacterial infection could happen in that area if you have to wear pads for bladder leakage. Since different causes of the problem call for different treatments, I'd ask your primary-care doctor if this might be something that a cream like Vagisil (useful for thrush and the like) would treat, versus an antibiotic.
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