Hi RW -- UGH. I'm soooo sorry you have your first UTI. They really are the most uncomfortable pain in the butt infections. Antibiotics should make it feel much better in a few days unless you have a resistant bacteria and then you will need a new antibiotic. The lab culture should tell the doc. what antiobiotics will work.

I have gotten 3 UTI's out of the last 4 Tysabri infusions. One was really tough to get rid of because of a resistant strain (I think I was suffering for 3 weeks, it got better, and then 1 week I got another one after the infusion!) I finally went to a urologist and got some really helpful information. I also talked to a nurse at my MS clinic. If I keep having UTI's after Tysabri (and they weren't from sex so I know it's the drug!) they want me to switch to Tysabri every other month. They have found that people getting various multiple infections on Tysabri do so much better when it is every other month.

Anyhoooo...I don't mean to go on about myself! I do hope you are feeling much better soon.