Question: For a year and I have I have been experiencing strange urinary symptoms. Initially it started with frequent urination and tiredness, but not specific for an acute UTI. The disease was susceptable to Ciprofloxacin. Then returned, and stopped being susceptable to it anymore. Doctors suspected interstitial cystitis, but diagnosed first nervous bladder, then pervic headache, but none has explained to me the strange urine odor that has been pervasive from day one of the symptoms. Urine cultures always returned negative. After physical therapy to treat the headache in the pelvis, the urgency symptoms disappeared, but not the odor. The only thing that treats the odor temporarily is the herb Uva Ursi. But when I stop it, symptoms usually return. Doctors claim that the reason is not bacterial, but I somehow don't believe them. They cannot explain why Uva Ursi, a known anticeptic, helps, even if temporarily. I am considering sending a sample for broth culture to a clinic in XXXXXXX which is among the few that performs this test. I wish someone would explain to me what is really going on. This condition takes a lot of my physical strength and psychological wellbeing. Thank you in advance.