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Here's my story....I had a TVT sling put in when I had my total hysterectomy done in April 2006. One year later, I had to have a tubal prolapse repair done. Then in 2008, I started getting UTI's after intercourse. The UTI's have persisted ever since. I also have pain on the lower right side of my abdomen. When I walk on the treadmill, I sometimes have a pinching pain in the uretha area. I have a hard time emptying my bladder. My primary doctor sent me to see a urologist. He did a test (I don't know the name of the test, but it involved looking at the inside of the uretha and bladder with a scope). Everything looked fine there. He did an ultrasound and he find that I wasn't emptying my bladder all the way. He put me on daily Macrobid and told me I would be fine. At a follow-up visit, I told him that my uretha was irriated all the time and it felt like I had to urinate all the time, but with little coming out. During the worst of the irritaion, my lower right abdomen (right of my bladder) and lower back would ache really bad. He then put me on Flomax and again told me I would be fine. The Flomax has helped a little (and I mean very little). I just feel like something isn't right with the sling. The meds I'm taking are making me sick (very queasy with each pill). My Obgyn put me on Premarin cream to see if that would help. Premarin caused a lot of water retention (to the point that it hurt to close my fingers) and I had a really hard time starting urination. Help me, please. I don't know what to do next with all this and it's not a way that I want to live the rest of my life (I'm 38 years old). Have also given up tub baths and swimming pools because of the UTI's.

September 29, 2010 - 7:39am

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