
Embedded UTI journey
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Hi my name is Katrina. I never like asking for help but this time I'm left with no choice. For the past five years I've been battling a horrible UTI infection that has embedded itself into my bladder walls for the last five years. The first time I discovered I had an infection, it nearly killed me and I had to be picked up out my bathtub and rushed to ER as I didn't know what was going on and I was shaking to death from it and couldn't even speak. Was then diagnosed with my first UTI in 2017. Since then it's been nothing but continuous infections. I would get through an infection and then it would be right back. I've been in and out of ER and urgent cares dozens of times, on countless amounts of antibiotics to where my body has started to grow immune to them now and nothing is working. I've even gone to a specialist in Louisiana last may who is my last hope at this point. I've been on two heavy antibiotics for the past seven months as this has been the treatment plan to rid this embedded infection hopefully for the next two years, I was doing really good then for the past month almost it has come and hit me hard and the meds I'm on again are not working. My pee tests show up negative and have now for quite awhile due to it being embedded as well and me being on these long term antibitoics making it harder for anyone to help. I've been told there's not much more that can be done if my body keeps growing immune to these. This is now in my kidneys nearly if it continues any longer it can and will kill me, no one up here has been able to help me, I would constantly get misdiagnosed as well. I went to Louisiana to see Dr bundrick a doctor specialized in embedded UTIs, he tested me and sure enough I had an embedded infection. My last hope is my Louisiana doctor he's a number one doctor in united States and specialized in these embedded infections I need to make a trip down there in person and see him so that I still can have a chance in life and so that we can try another way of treatment besides meds. I am now swamped and way over debt now with my specialist doctor bills and my meds every month for this embedded infection. My meds are over $100 a month now and my appointments are almost $300 at times. The trip to Louisiana alone will be super costly. My medical insurance does not cover out of state. I'm unable to work right now due to any of this and also battling endometriosis and I also did not qualify for disability and have been battling for it for years. Any little amount helps at this point, I just want to have a chance in life as I'm only 26 and just started getting my life where I want it.
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Katrina Stano
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Dearborn, MI