Ureaplasma urealyticum (UU). Is diagnosis significant??
- NealC
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- p7875
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- sho1411
- Bouya33
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» NealC - Ureaplasma is usually considered normal flora.
Ureaplasma is usually considered normal flora. Any good medical microbiology text should have some information for you. Also you could do a search via PubMed to look at the recent literature. The url for PubMed is:http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/PubMed/
-- posted by NealC
» NealC - Re: Re: Significance in identification / testing of UU
In response to message posted by emjay2:UU stands for a bacteria called Ureaplasma urealyticum. It is a bacteria that lacks a cell wall and is frequently found in the normal microbial flora of our bodies. It commonly dwells towards the end of the urethra (the tube that takes our urine from our bodies). It can cause human disease but it is not as common as other well known bacteria. It can cause an inflammation of the urethra.
-- posted by NealC
» p7875 - Re: Re: Re: Significance in identification / testing of UU
I have been tested for UU this time last year and a course of antibitic killed it successfully. However, I have now been tested for it again. Should I treat it again? I have been suffering from UTI or its symtoms for the last 4 years, with repetitive diagnosis of Candida Albicans, E-Coli infection, B-strep infection, vestibulitis, vulvodynia, and now, for the second time, UU. I am having no unprotected sex and my experience of antibiotics over the past 4 years is that it helps only temporarily. what should I do???-- posted by p7875
» NealC - Re: Re: Re: Re: Significance in identification / testing of UU
In response to message posted by p7875:If you are not currently seeing a urologist then you should be. I can't make any recommendations regarding treatment since I am not a physician. It never hurts to go to a different physician or to one that specializes in your particular problem. If you are already going to a urologist then getting another urologist's opinion on treatment might be wise. If both of them agree on your care you can be more sure that they are doing all they can to help you.
-- posted by NealC
» p7875 - Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Significance in identification / testing of
Thank you. I AM seeing a urinologist as well as a gynecologist and GP, and I get tested frequently, at different places, with varying results. Since the result is not consistent and treatment plans also differ from doctor to doctor, I am confused and vary of taking any drugs that are not NECESSARY. I seem to have read somewhere, and correct me please if I am wrong, that UU is commonly PRESENT in the body without giving symptoms and that many never get treated for it. I am wondering if perhaps my problems are, as has been suggested to me, a case of interstitial cystisis related to the vulvodynia diagnosis and that the UU in my spontaneous urine sample is nothing I should be concerned about (because it might be just a UU washed from the vagina or something). This would make the use of antibiotics redundant and unnecessarily provoke the overgrowth of Candida Albicans again, which I'm happy to have momentarily under control. I wonder if indeed the antibiotics can help if UU was once already treated with them once and has come back, without unprotected sexual intercourse actually taking place...perhaos it is just a thing my body has and I ought to not pay attention to it. What do you think?-- posted by p7875
» NealC - Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Significance in identification / testing
In response to message posted by p7875:UU has been considered by many to be normal flora and it might just be an organism you live with that does not cause any harm. However, please remember I am not a physician and take my comments for what they are worth (personal opinion).
-- posted by NealC
» sho1411 - Ureaplasma & males
My significant other (obviously female) found out that she had an Ureaplasma infection. She was told that it might have been contracted from intercourse and that i should tested/treated as well. What might have caused me to be the carrier of said infection?-- posted by sho1411
» Bouya33 - Ureaplasma & Urethral Syndrome
Good afternoon,I'm a female who has seen a urologist for years. First for UTIs, then stricture, then for what they've dubbed "Urethral Syndrome." (This, after they found no stricture, but had dilated me several times anyway.) However, lately I've had the symptoms of what feels like a UTI, but with vaginal itching.
After much research, I found Urethritis caused by ureaplasma to be a likely candidtate for my problem, although I will confirm with my GYN. But what I really wonder is, 1) could urethritis be the underlying true problem I have for what the URO calls "Urethral Syndrome?" 2) If so, why didn't he test for this a long time ago? 3) Or could the unnecessary dilations have caused urethral syndrome?
Thank you for your assistance.
-- posted by Bouya33
» jamie200 - ureaplasma
There is lots of info on the web. Ureaplasma causes all sorts of infections including chronic fatigue, arthritis, urethritis, intersticial cystitis, inferitility. The problem is most doctors know very little or nothing about it. Look at www.drmirkin.com He keeps up on 100's of health studies as opposed to our ignorant dr.s If you've had it for many months or years, its hard to eradicate. Doxycyline 100mg 2 times a day for many many months and sometimes you need what is called empirical treatment which means ureaplasma many times comes with a host of other bacterias that need to be treated by other antibiotics. Doxycline is well tolerated, then you can add biaxin (clarithromycin)(500mg 2x a day for ten day, and perhaps metrondiazole (flagyl).I've about given up on dr.s Many of these meds can be found online. Look up enough or get a nurses med book at borders and find out the prescribing dose for sexually transmitted infections under each medication. (except doxycyline.....which needs to be taken for many months possibly).
As with many health issues concerning women (i.e. heart), we aren't taken seriously and they just are not doing the research! The info is out there for you if you are fastidious. Our dr's are failing us....they are NOT keeping up on the lastest studies!
-- posted by jamie200
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