Reoccuring UTI's 5-10 per year

[sandyl1986]

5 to 10 UTIs a year for the last 5 years, On antibiotics almost the entire time, I've change diet and habits and still no improvement......also these aren't normal UTI's, the urine is also very dark, cloudy and foul smelling along with lots of flank pain.....several time when being diagnosed I was told I passing keytones in my urine and that they repeated several urine test as they thought it was a fluke that my urine showed no white blood cells

[Bhupinder Kaur, MD]

Hello,
Presence of ketones in urine is not normal and can be found in metabolic abnormalities such as diabetes, renal glycosuria, or glycogen storage disease, dietary conditions such as starvation, fasting, high protein, or low carbohydrate diets, prolonged vomiting, and anorexia and conditions in which metabolism is increased, such as hyperthyroidism, fever, pregnancy or lactation.

You need to consult a physician and get all these causes ruled out.

It is very difficult to precisely confirm a diagnosis without examination and investigations and the answer is based on the medical information provided. For exact diagnosis, you are requested to consult your doctor. I sincerely hope that helps. Take care and please do keep me posted on how you are doing.

[KiaraGirl95]

Are you by chance diabetic? Flank pain is usually associated with the kidneys, and people with diabetes usually have keytones in the urine.