Is This Normal During First Trimester?

Sounds as if your course of antibiotics did not get rid of your infection. Sounds as if you need another UA. Go in and get another round or have them maybe get you a new antibiotic. Untreated UTI's lead to bladder infections which lead to preterm contractions and also leads to kidney infections. Sounds as if you are an asysmtomatic UTI host anyway, so just go and and get another UA. Cranberry juice is a good thing to drink during and after the infection, but will not take care of the infection; especially since it sounds like you have some resistant little buggers there. Sounds like you probably never got rid of it. Many times a course of antibiotics make the infection better but does not clear it up and therefore you may not get symtoms until it has grown and grown. Yes, we get fetal heartbeats at 6 weeks gestation which means now you will for sure have a strong fetal heartbeat on any correctly implanted, growing fetus, but does not mean that the infection is not there. By the time an infection disturbs the baby's heartbeat, it is too late. A positive regular fetal heart rate is not an indicator you do not have an infection. So just pop in to your OB/Gyn in the AM and have them run an UA. (Call first of course) but it is pretty routine.

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I would go back to the doctor and have it checked out. The antibiotic might not be doing anything for you. I've been prescribed amoxicillin so many times for ear infections and sinus infections that it did nothing for me when I ended up with one during my pregnancy.

Also, its been a while since I've had one, so I really couldn't tell you if a yeast infection would cause this but its an idea and I've heard its common with pregnant women taking antibiotics. The doctor will be able to help you with that though, its your best bet.
Just a tip though, load up on the cranberry juice for uti's (try to get one with minimal sugar) and yogurt! Yogurt will give you an edge on fighting yeast infections. I've heard that greek yogurt is excellent for pregnant women so that might be a great one for you to try.

Later on though you will experience what so many friends nostalgically referred to as "ECP" or "evil crotch pain" because when your uterus begins to grow you will get light shooting pains down there. I think I experienced it around 16 or so weeks. It was never severe though.

Happy and healthy rest of your 9 months to you!

Call your doctor right away. It sounds like you are currently experiencing what's called asymptomatic UTI. Often once being diagnosed with a UTI, pregnant women will get recurring UTIs with no symptoms. Left untreated this can be very serious. It can cause kidney complications that result in rupture and miscarriage.

Something you mentioned raised a red flag in my mind:
You said that while taking antibiotics, you experienced severe nausea and pain in your vaginal area. I know you thought it was more about pregnancy symptoms, but you should be aware that sometimes this is an indicator that the bacteria causing your infection is resistent to the antibiotic you were prescribed. Other signs that may indicate you are dealing with a drug resistent bug are:

Fever higher than 100.5°, chills, pain in your lower stomach, nausea, vomiting, or pain in your sides.

When you follow-up with your doctor, be sure to tell him about your severe reaction to the antibiotics. He may have to prescribe you a different antibiotic if you indeed still have an infection.

If by chance, the last time you were treated, you didn't finish your course of antibiotics because it made you sick, be sure to tell your doctor. Not finishing antibiotics makes you more predisposed to a drug resistent bacterial infection. This might also play a role in whether or not he needs to prescribe something different.

Also, about the time you finished your last course of antibiotics, your doctor should have done a follow-up test to confirm the infection was successfully treated. If he did not do this, you should make sure he does a follow-up test next time, if it turns out you do indeed have a new infection or are still battling the one for which you were initially treated.

In the future, you definitely should call your doctor if you have any of the earlier symptoms mentioned or any contractions, or if you have been taking medicine antibiotics for three days, yet you still have a burning feeling when you urinate. Here are some links with more details on UTI, asymptomatic UTI, and UTI's and risks:

http://adam.about.com/reports/Urinary-tract-infection.htm

http://www.aafp.org/afp/20040101/157ph.html

http://www.americanpregnancy.org/pregnancycomplications/u...

http://www.aafp.org/afp/20000201/713.html

http://adam.about.com/reports/000036_7.htm

I would get checked out for a UTI again just to be sure.. it certainly could be it.. I have a friend that when she is pregnant she gets varicose veins in her groin/vaginal area. It is fairly common in pregnancies and it could also cause you discomfort. You could also ask about that as well.. I hope you can figure it out.

Drink cranberry juice! It really does help if you have a UTI and even if you don't its still good for you. If you don't do well on the antibiotics ask the doctor if you can try just cranberry juice for a week and see if it clears up on its own.