Doper ladies: UTIs, a poll (obviously, TMI)

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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.