Urine Testing - CUTIC psa

Why Your UTI Test May Be Negative Even When You Have...

so this is pretty depressing and yet sadly I am not even that surprised

saw something on this recently and my mom apparently has a chronic kidney infection which it sounds like they say they can't treat, so I was thinking about it

I genuinely had no idea the tests were so inaccurate

welp! I'm so very glad that I don't get UTIs all that often anymore

I have unfortunately always been pretty prone to them

just seems to me like another "oh, well, it's mostly those disposable not-quite-people with icky lady parts who get these, so who cares if the test is accurate?"

yeah it reeks of that

and it sucks to find out that they build on each other like that

also I am reading The Menopause Manifesto currently. it's a non-fiction book on menopause by a gynecologist because she noticed that women just don't get much info on it

anyway, she talks about UTIs because they can be a real issue during and post-menopause and she says that all the tips they give for avoiding them: cotton underwear, wiping front to back, pee after sex, have not been proven to be effective

which I was very surprised by

I've been given these tips by multiple doctors! and yet...

but I suspect this is how my mom got the kidney infection: UTI, test negative so no treatment, so then it ended up in her kidneys