# A Rant For The Ladies **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 23, 2008, 6:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-rant-for-the-ladies/457463 "2008-07-23T06:41:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![mlerose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/43a26b/32.png) [@mlerose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mlerose)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2008, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-rant-for-the-ladies/457463/21 "2008-07-23T17:23:09Z")
I take cranberry extract (in pill form) whenever I feel a UTI coming on - it does the same thing as the juice, only with no sugar and far, far fewer calories. Just drink a ton of water along with. ---
**Author:** ![Mrs.Cake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/2acd7d/32.png) [@Mrs.Cake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mrs.Cake)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2008, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-rant-for-the-ladies/457463/22 "2008-07-23T17:39:34Z")
I used to get frequent UTI’s and nothing worked like cranberry juice. But what really got rid of them was going off the pill after Mr. Cake got the snip. I lost both the UTIs and ovarian cysts that had been plaguing me. 15 years now with no recurrence. For me, at least, there was a serious connection with screwy hormones caused by BC pills. ---
**Author:** ![Syntropy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/65b543/32.png) [@Syntropy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Syntropy)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2008, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-rant-for-the-ladies/457463/23 "2008-07-23T17:47:50Z")
Let me get this straight. You got antibiotics, but skipped the pyridium? Why, WHY would you do such a thing to yourself? Pyridium is every woman’s best friend in times like these. Pick up the phone straight away and tell your doctor you want a prescription THIS SECOND. The hurt will go away. Thank me later. ---
**Author:** ![mischievous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c2a13f/32.png) [@mischievous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mischievous)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2008, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-rant-for-the-ladies/457463/24 "2008-07-23T18:11:51Z")
[QUOTE=Maureen] Let me get this straight. You got antibiotics, but skipped the pyridium? Why, WHY would you do such a thing to yourself? Pyridium is every woman’s best friend in times like these. Pick up the phone straight away and tell your doctor you want a prescription THIS SECOND. The hurt will go away. Thank me later. [/QUOTE] Pyridium is over the counter in most states - brand name “Azo”. It doesn’t work particularly well for me. ---
**Author:** ![pbbth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f9ae1b/32.png) [@pbbth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pbbth)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2008, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-rant-for-the-ladies/457463/25 "2008-07-23T18:26:43Z")
I have Azo. It does nothing but make me pee orange. Thanks though! ---
**Author:** ![Kolga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e56c9b/32.png) [@Kolga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolga)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2008, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-rant-for-the-ladies/457463/26 "2008-07-23T19:04:40Z")
I third the Uristat recommendation. I haven’t heard of the Cystex, though. I keep Uristat on hand, and the second I feel an infection possibly coming on, I pop the dose and start chugging cranberry juice. Works like a charm (for me). ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2008, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-rant-for-the-ladies/457463/27 "2008-07-23T19:50:09Z")
[QUOTE=mlerose] I take cranberry extract (in pill form) whenever I feel a UTI coming on - it does the same thing as the juice, only with no sugar and far, far fewer calories. Just drink a ton of water along with. [/QUOTE] Azo Cranberry? Makes sense. I’ve used that before. I definitely drink lots of water…more than I could ever need. I’ve had a couple of weird experiences with them this year, though. I’m pretty sure I had one this year and my dad (a doctor) just gave me a scrip for Cipro…then a couple weeks later I thought I had another, so I drank a lot of water/cranberry juice, took vitamin C. By the time I had my doctor’s appointment, I was still peeing a lot but feeling a bit better…and then the urine sample ended up coming back as negative. I guess I managed to get rid of it? I also thought I was getting one when I started having sex, but it seems I headed that one off at the pass by boning up on my water/cran juice consumption. These days, at the merest hint of something not quite right, I start in with the cranberry juice. ---
**Author:** ![bufftabby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/77aa72/32.png) [@bufftabby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bufftabby)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2008, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-rant-for-the-ladies/457463/28 "2008-07-23T20:55:49Z")
[QUOTE=Mrs. Cake] I used to get frequent UTI’s and nothing worked like cranberry juice. But what really got rid of them was going off the pill after Mr. Cake got the snip. I lost both the UTIs and ovarian cysts that had been plaguing me. 15 years now with no recurrence. For me, at least, there was a serious connection with screwy hormones caused by BC pills. [/QUOTE] Weird. I take BC to _prevent_ those damned ovarian cysts. I don’t understand how you could even get one if the pills were working properly, i.e. preventing ovulation. That’s not to say I’m doubting you. I’m sure you know your girly parts better than I do. I just fail to comprehend… ---
**Author:** ![Hockey\_Monkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a183cd/32.png) [@Hockey\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hockey_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2008, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-rant-for-the-ladies/457463/29 "2008-07-24T01:36:33Z")
Aww man, and you just got your groove back too. Speedy recovery to you! ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2008, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-rant-for-the-ladies/457463/30 "2008-07-24T02:32:56Z")
Watersports – the fun way to avoid UTIs. ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2008, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-rant-for-the-ladies/457463/31 "2008-07-24T02:49:54Z")
[QUOTE=Freudian Slit] I usually find that taking a buttload of Vitamin C/cranberry juice will flush out a UTI before it fully develops, though… [/QUOTE] Well you learn something new every day. I thought you _drank_ the cranberry juice. No wonder this happens: [QUOTE=pbbth] 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. [/QUOTE] emphasis added ---
**Author:** ![pbbth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f9ae1b/32.png) [@pbbth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pbbth)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2008, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-rant-for-the-ladies/457463/32 "2008-07-24T13:05:43Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally Posted by **Hockey Monkey** > > Aww man, and you just got your groove back too. Speedy recovery to you! I know, right? Luckily we are going out tonight on a sex free date and this weekend he is going to CT to visit his mom, so by the time he gets back everything will be all clear. I am going to make sure that my house is never without cranberry juice from now on and make sure to go to the bathroom ASAP after sex so that this never happens again! ---
**Author:** ![freekalette](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/50afbb/32.png) [@freekalette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/freekalette)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2008, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-rant-for-the-ladies/457463/33 "2008-07-24T13:15:48Z")
[QUOTE=Muffin] Watersports – the fun way to avoid UTIs. [/QUOTE] You owe me a keyboard! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2008, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-rant-for-the-ladies/457463/34 "2008-07-24T14:11:38Z")
[QUOTE=freekalette] You owe me a keyboard! 😉 [/QUOTE] Actually, peeing on keyboards wasn’t exactly what I had in mind. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![freekalette](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/50afbb/32.png) [@freekalette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/freekalette)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2008, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-rant-for-the-ladies/457463/35 "2008-07-24T14:58:00Z")
_shakes fist menacingly at **Muffin** _ ---
**Author:** ![TroubleAgain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e480ec/32.png) [@TroubleAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroubleAgain)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2008, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-rant-for-the-ladies/457463/36 "2008-07-24T15:54:06Z")
[QUOTE=pbbth] I know, right? Luckily we are going out tonight on a sex free date and this weekend he is going to CT to visit his mom, so by the time he gets back everything will be all clear. I am going to make sure that my house is never without cranberry juice from now on and make sure to go to the bathroom ASAP after sex so that this never happens again! [/QUOTE] I was reading the cystex website I linked to, and they recommend having the cranberry juice and the cystex BEFORE sex, as a preventative. Interesting… ---
**Author:** ![Enola\_Gay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/3ab097/32.png) [@Enola\_Gay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enola_Gay)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2008, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-rant-for-the-ladies/457463/37 "2008-07-24T17:40:15Z")
[QUOTE=mischievous] 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\*\*. [/QUOTE] Size does matter. I once had to break up with a college boyfriend because of his excessive girth. Just couldn’t make a long term commitment to UTIs. I was hooked on Uristat for the duration of the relationship. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2008, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-rant-for-the-ladies/457463/38 "2008-07-24T18:03:56Z")
[QUOTE=Enola Gay] Size does matter. I once had to break up with a college boyfriend because of his excessive girth. Just couldn’t make a long term commitment to UTIs. I was hooked on Uristat for the duration of the relationship. [/QUOTE] I’m telling my husband this-- (me of the very frequent UTIs). It’s going to be his bday gift. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Moment\_Slayer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Moment\_Slayer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moment_Slayer)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2008, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-rant-for-the-ladies/457463/39 "2008-07-24T18:13:07Z")
[QUOTE=IvoryTowerDenizen] I’m telling my husband this-- (me of the very frequent UTIs). It’s going to be his bday gift. 😃 [/QUOTE] **Ivoryhusband** jumps into room and shouts " Wahoo" and jumps back out. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2008, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-rant-for-the-ladies/457463/40 "2008-07-24T18:15:54Z")
[QUOTE=Dig it out of the ground] **Ivoryhusband** jumps into room and shouts " Wahoo" and jumps back out. 😃 [/QUOTE] Hi honey! I see you got my email! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-rant-for-the-ladies/457463.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-rant-for-the-ladies/457463.md?page=3)