Hope you're feeling better, Sally!

DebbieD, I've used the test sticks for UTIs many times and keep a supply of them around.

They're by no means very accurate but I use them as a guideline. Sometimes when I have symptoms of a UTI and use the test strip and it comes up negative, I decide not to do anything about it and just hope the symptoms will go away. If it comes up positive, I give the doctor a call. The doctor's office will do its own test because doctors don't have much confidence in those home UTI test kits--or at least doctors I've dealt with don't.

For me, the home test is just a way of trying to make sure I'm not calling the doctor needlessly.