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I have a 9 year old female cat that for the past year a a half (started in aug 2015) has had chronic bloody urine. Brought her to the vet initially because she was vomiting and not eating but that was fixed and then this started and hasn't improved no matter what we've tried. I was checking her urine almost every 2 weeks and trying every kind of antibiotic/Chinese herbal remedy that could help her and only ever got slight improvements. The doctor started her on steroids (prednisolone) and we stopped the antibiotics because they weren't working, and we kept her on the pred and checked her glucose levels frequently and she was good on that so we gave her 3-4 months to see how she was doing then would check her again. So I checked her in September and now she has bacteria (cocci) in her urine. We put her on amoxicillin and for the first time in a year, we got yellow urine but she still had bacteria so we sent out a culture but it came back negative. So we left her on the amoxi for another 2 weeks till we could run another urine and she still had bacteria and the doctor was frustrated because she could see the bacteria on the slide when it was stained and it didn't make sense as to why nothing was growing, so we sent out another one which came back negative. We stopped the amoxi and just kept her on the pred for a month and then re checked her urine, and the same thing happened again- so we sent out another culture and still came back negative. I'm wondering- what can cause this type of bacteria in her urine and why are the cultures always negative? The dr isn't really sure, and shes just as frustrated as I am. She's has presumed interstitial cystitis and the bacteria thing is new so it's just stressful. She's a very anxious cat and gets stressed by my other cat, but i have 6 litter boxes for 2 cats and numerous food/water dishes, i've tried every kind of feliway/spirit essence/ laser therapy/ reiki/ rescue remedy- basically anything to reduce her stress and nothing helps I just want her to be healthy.