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I have almost exhausted myself trying to figure out what is causing my smelly urine. <snip> Anyway, the antibiotic seemed to squash the smell for about a week and then it returned.
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Seems like there is no one good answer (except from your anatomy that doesn't answer back in English) as to what's always going on.
I'm puzzled often too. Back when I worked full time (88-94) my urine would have a skunky smell to it. My urine made the catheter smell. I figured only I could smell it. I'd always rest my thumb on my upper thigh ON the catheter then ... and then my thumb had that smell. But NO other symptoms besides crystals/sand would clog the cath.
I wasn't on vitamins or eating or drinking any differently. The cath also turned a green or purplish color. I read in a quad magazine an article written by a urologist. He said a certain type of pseudemonas will change the cath those colors and usually a cath change will remedy it. It didn't for me. And because I had no other symptoms .. I didn't go on an antibiodic.
But! Like you said ... an antibiodic WILL get rid of it temporarily so it must be a microbial of some kind.
Then, for no particular reason, it stopped (can't recall when) -- the color change and skunky smell that is for a few yrs.
Sediment still lingered for yrs and I tried all irrigants. In around 2000 that then stopped but symtomatic UTIs started and am battling them to this day.
I'm baffled and frustrated beyond belief.
Lori
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