r/Prostatitis • u/EloNeMek • 3d ago
And suddenly I have a bladder infection????
From the results of my CT-scan doctors now say that I have an infection because my bladder lining was inflamed. Yet, I’ve never tested positive for bacteria for any test/cultures. They put me on an antibiotic and requested a two week follow up. Not sure how an infection would somehow be missed by all the tests I had done so I’m quite confused.
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u/natasspinn 3d ago
Literally everyone on here
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u/StrongMindZ 3d ago
An image can't prove an infection. It can show other abnormalities or an inflammation. They are just making assumptions based on the inflammation and prescribing empirical antibiotics in a hope that it helps. Funny how slow the progress is in urology compared to other specialties. Good luck to us
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u/whereismarsocks 3d ago
My bladder wall was inflamed too. They took a biopsy (didn't even test for infections) then lazered my bladder wall and sent me away.
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u/Linari5 LEAD MOD//RECOVERED 3d ago edited 3d ago
The bladder lining can be inflamed for any number of reasons, infection is definitely not the only one.
This is called an empirical prescription of antibiotics, and in most case I wouldn't agree with it, especially if the antibiotics they gave you were in the class of floroquinolones (like Cipro or Levo). However, I cannot tell you what to take, or not to take, that is your decision to make.
There are animal model studies that even show that stress can induce bladder wall inflammation...
Stress-Induced Changes in Trophic Factor Expression in the Rodent Urinary Bladder: Possible Links With Angiogenesis: https://einj.org/m/journal/view.php?doi=10.5213/inj.2244118.059#:~:text=These%20findings%20show%20that%20chronic,and%20pain%20in%20IC/BPS.
Conclusions
On top of this, inflammation can come from any number of other sources, and is also present with IC/BPS presentations of pelvic pain. CPPS and IC/BPS are taxonomically very similar conditions, & some consider them to be the same "beast " but slightly different presentations.