if it is UTI, symptoms can be relieved by numbing the bladder with over the counter med called AZO Standard. Cheap and available at any pharmacy.
It will turn the color of your urine orange, but it doesn’t prevent a culture in any way, just makes it harder to detect a UTI using a strip (which won’t be accurate due to the discoloration of urine on azo.
Oh, for sure! Those pills have been in my purse 24/7 for a decade. There’s a corner of Hell called, “UTI Department”.