@wyliecoyoteuk@mastodon.org.uk
Post #2299282
2026-05-09 06:42 UTC
@stannard@social.vivaldi.net
Yes any changes should be acted upon.
My wife had radiotherapy for ovarian cancer 30 years ago. It undoubtedly saved her life, but caused damage to her colon, kidney and bladder, which has recently become a problem, leading to multiple hospitalisations for blood clots in the urine, recurrent UTIs, sepsis and intestinal blockages.
She now has a stent in her Ureter (the tube between the kidney and the bladder) which has to be replaced every 6 months, and a stoma pouch.
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@wyliecoyoteuk@mastodon.org.uk 2026-05-09 06:51
@stannard@social.vivaldi.net The UTIs that caused 3 episodes of sepsis were stopped by a drug called Methenamine Hippurate, first discovered in 1895! Taken twice daily with Vitamin C. It passes through the body unchanged, but it reacts with acidic urine (hence the need for Vitamin C) in the bladder to produce a weak formaldehyde solution. It was a last chance experiment suggested, along with drinking cranberry juice and taking d-Mannose tablets, as they were running out of antibiotics.