Need help/encouragement. 8 weeks pregnant and continued urinary urgency/urethra awareness following a UTI. Possible to NOT be IC?
I’ve been wracking my brain and trying to get to the bottom of what I’m feeling for a while now and could really use some help discerning if I should look into a urogynecologist/pelvic floor PT/ prepare myself for a potential IC diagnosis down the road or not. I’m also 8 weeks pregnant so everything just feels a lot harder to cope with right now.
On April 28th, I started to feel my telltale sign of a UTI, constant urgency, and ran to my nearest urgent care. Sure enough, they found leukocytes in my urine (no nitrates) and put me on a 5 day course of cephalexin (500 mg twice a day).
I finished the full course the morning of May 3rd. Ever since, I’ve noticed lingering urgency that seems to get worse at night or in the early morning. It is making it difficult to fall asleep and go back to sleep when I wake up early to use the restroom. I went back to urgent care for another urine test and it showed nothing -no leukocytes, no nitrates, no protein, etc. The doctor said that because I’m pregnant, I could take a 10 day course of augmentin, but I haven’t picked that up yet and am not sure if that’s going to make this urgency issue better or worse when my test is showing no sign of a UTI.
Is it possible for urgency to linger following a UTI, but NOT be IC? Maybe pregnancy urgency is making me confuse the feeling with UTI urgency? Sometimes I am urinating and instantly feeling like my bladder is still not fully empty/immediate urgency. I also feel so much more “aware” of my urethra, like I can constantly feel it. Am I just being incredibly impatient and irrational because I’m pregnant? 🥲 Any advice or experiences you can share would greatly help me.