# Doper ladies: UTIs, a poll (obviously, TMI) **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [February 22, 2012, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-ladies-utis-a-poll-obviously-tmi/613645 "2012-02-22T17:58:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![obbn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/d6d6ee/32.png) [@obbn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/obbn)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2012, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-ladies-utis-a-poll-obviously-tmi/613645/61 "2012-02-26T04:59:10Z")
> [@raspberry\_hunter](#): > > I’ve never had one. My sister gets them all the time (well, used to be several times a year, now is at least once a year, but that seems like a lot to me). I think there’s something sex-related that regularly sets it off for her, though I can’t remember what it is – I’ve always been the sex-clueless one, so she gave me the laundry list of things to do/not to do re: sex and UTIs, and I can’t remember which one is her nemesis – peeing after sex, perhaps. Which I do religiously (although geez, I think it totally kills the mood. “Sorry, can’t cuddle, gotta go pee now so I don’t get an UTI!”) but I’m not sure how much it helps me – I suspect I’ve just been lucky. > > I’ve heard though that once you get one, you are much more likely to get one again. IANAD and I don’t know why that is. Interesting about peeing after sex to ward off a UTI. While as a guy, UTI’s are not really concerning me your ritual reminds me of a guy I used to work with. When he was single having sex with whomever he could, he would tell me one of the things he did was drink a large amount of something prior to sex so that he would have to urinate right after. Seems he was told to do that by someone in the Army as a way to lessen the chance of catching an STD (no aids then). Something about flushing the urethra right away. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-ladies-utis-a-poll-obviously-tmi/613645.md?page=3)