I woke up this morning with a strong suspicion that I had a UTI...I had my retrieval on Monday - felt funny the rest of the week but wrote it off to post-retrieval discomfort - but this morning (Sat) I was pretty sure. I called the nurses at my IVF center and they told me I should go to my GP. So we spent almost 2 hours in the GPs office (my DH was so good - with it being a big footie day) - and he confirmed it is indeed a UTI. As I had my embryo transfer of Wed the nurses told me to tell him that I may be pregnant. He tested my pee and confirmed a UTI. He said typically, he'd send my sample to a lab to confirm the exact type of infection but as I may be preg he wanted me to start antibiotics straightaway and prescribed an antibiotic that he said was safe for preg (and good for the typical bacteria that causes UTI) and told me also to drink cranberry juice and the other typical stuff for UTI. He also said to call Monday afternoon as he would have the lab results then and could adjust the antibiotic if necessary.
I'm really nervous - I hope that this doesn't hurt what could otherwise be a viable embryo & that my body doesn't reject it because it's under "stress". Anyone have experience with a UTI so close to retrieval/ET? is this common?
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