Gentleman, this will be girly TMI. Consider yourself warned.
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You know what is worse than being awake at 2:30 in the morning for no damn reason?
Being awake at 2:30 in the morning because you have to pee every 15 minutes thanks to your lovely new UTI.
You know what is worse than being awake at 2:30 in the morning with a UTI?
Being awake at 2:30 in the morning with a UTI while you are on your period.
You know what is worse than being awake at 2:30 in the morning with a UTI while you are on your period?
Being awake at 2:30 in the morning with a UTI while you are on your period and starting a course of antibiotics 3 days after you have gone back on the pill.
You know what is worse than being awake at 2:30 in the morning with a UTI while you are on your period and starting antibiotics 3 days after you’ve gone back on the pill?
Being mauled by a tiger.
Just trying to keep things in perspective. Still, short of tiger mauling I am hard pressed to think of a less fun way to spend an evening.
I have also just learned that if you drink 32 oz of a 50/50 cranberry juice/water mix in an hour to flush the bacteria and grossness out of your system it gives you explosive diarrhea.
To avoid UTIs in the future, go pee immediately after having sex. Apparently sex causes the nasty germs to go where they really shouldn’t (don’t ask me how; I don’t know. It’s just what my dr told me). So if you go pee after (I mean, don’t be rude; give him a minute to catch his breath), you will flush the nasties away. I learned this trick many, many, and yes, many years ago and have not had a UTI since.
I can’t claim to be an expert, but the way this was explained to me was a little bit different: during sex, the er… activity… in the adjacent orifice can cause the walls of the urethra to rub against each other, causing some level of abrasions. If there are any bacteria sitting around, they will colonize the abrasions, so flushing them out is useful. This theory makes more sense to me, since I have noticed a definite correlation between the (ahem!) size of my partner and the frequency of UTIs.
Seriously, Uristat. I’ll never forget the day I woke up with this awful UTI… the day after I first worked with a physical trainer. I could hardly MOVE, and Himself was out of town, and I had to shuffle down to Walgreens to get some Uristat, and I was so miserable I accidentally left the car door open in the parking lot the whole time. In the rain.
It is already getting better. The antibiotics are doing their thing and the cranberry juice is helping now that I am moderating my intake. It still hurts to pee, but I am able to go a couple hours without having that immediate need to pee that goes along with a UTI so I am well on my way to being cured here in a couple of days.
Now my biggest problem is that since I basically didn’t sleep last night I am having trouble staying awake at work!
Flanderchick and I had mild UTI’s a few months ago. Cranberry and abstinence and it was totally gone in a few days. That being said, we both pee after sex because we don’t want to have to go through that shit again! Hope you feel better.
No, no Uristat. Seriously. Cystex. It has the pain relieving ingredient, an anti-bacterial ingredient to help actually hold the infection in check, and it doesn’t make you pee orange. I live for Cystex. And in my case, even though I pee after sex everysingletime I still get 'em if we do anything…unusual…position-wise. :o
(Oh, and CVS how has a generic version of Cystex that’s way cheaper.)
It’s a wonder that this fact isn’t leveraged by modestly-hung guys, somehow. What a nice fact to slip in your Match.com ads: No worries about UTIs, ladies, I’m hung like a gerbil.
Ah, see, I never pee after sex (I know, I know, I should, ever since my sophomore biology teacher said so…er, not just to me, to the whole class!) but I rarely get them after sex…I thought I was getting one after I had sex for the first time in a while but the cranberry juice got rid of it.
