Welcome to My Story: A UTI That Wouldn't Go Away
Hello! My name is Lexie Fei, or the Vancouver UTI Girl from Vancouver BC Canada. If you don't know what 'UTI' means, it stands for Urinary Tract Infection. My problem started with a UTI in Feb 2018 that wouldn't go away, and it was misdiagnosed as interstitial cystitis, pelvic floor dysfunction, or 'unknown'. One doctor told me I would never be healed, another doctor told me to "get off Google, you're searching too much", and the first urologist I went to dismissed my concerns and said that my nearly brown urine was "normal." I ended up in a wheelchair from severe bladder pain and no doctor in my town knew why it was happening. I knocked on over 20 specialists' doors, and many ignored me or refused to see me. Many were dismissive. I was in so much despair and in such relentless never-ending severe pain that I attempted two suicides. I learned later that interstitial cystitis (or chronic UTI) pain is similar to end stage cancer pain.
