The UTI Won't Stop Coming Back. Here's Why

Another UTI. Another round of antibiotics. Another one right behind it a few weeks later.If that cycle sounds familiar, you've probably been told it's bad luck, bad hygiene, or just something that happens as you get older.Dr. Tamara Beckford sees this pattern constantly in her practice, women getting treated over and over for infections that keep returning, while nobody ever asks the one question that actually matters.In this episode, she breaks down Genitourinary Syndrome of Menopause, the estrogen-driven shift that changes the vaginal and bladder environment and makes recurrent UTIs, dryness, and urinary frequency so much more likely after 40.She also shares what can happen when this gets missed for years, and why in older women, an untreated infection can turn into a medical emergency.If you or someone you love keeps getting UTIs and nobody has connected it to hormones, this conversation could change how you handle it going forward.