Lsura, hope you’re starting to feel better. Just another piece of information - make sure you have some Canesten cream at the ready, because quite often the antibiotics the GP gives you for the UTI end up giving you a yeast infection too! I can say from experience that having a UTI and a yeast infection at the same time is no fun at all.
Hope you get well soon.
Lsura, my wife has had these from time to time, and they can be nasty. Sometimes her antibiotics didn’t work fully, so that more treatment was needed for a full cure. Whatever you do, don’t ignore it. Women have died from untreated urinary tract infections.
Worth remembering, that is. I only wish it snowed a little more around here.
Yeah SHUDDER having a bladder and yeast infection at the same time is no fun at all.
Eat live, active culture yogurt after finishing your anti-biotics. It will reculture the beneficial bacteria in your stomach and help you fight off a yeast infection. (If you’re like me, and gag on the taste of yogurt, they also make live, active culture frozen yogurt that’s sugar free. Yum.)
Sorry I didn’t mention that tidbit from my physician sooner. Yeast infections are more likely to happen after you finish treating a UTI because the beneficial bacteria in your system have been killed by the antibiotic too.
Just make sure it says both live, and active culture. Hope that wards off any nasty lurking yeast infection waiting to pounce on your system.
This is a good idea after you finish any anti-biotics. Ever get really gassy from foods more easily after finishing a course of anti-biotics? It’s because the helpful cultures in your stomach have been killed. I mentioned this to my childhood physician after a followup check. He told me why.
For those who follow a vegetarian diet, I also heard that the cultures are sold in capsule form in health food stores, so you can just take it orally. Don’t remember what they call it though.
Urk! UTI. shudder
I get these from time to time. Mine is always due to not peeing after sex. I always think I’ll be okay until morning, but nope- by nightfall the burning starts. I suppose this would be fulfilling the definition of insanity. I know if I don’t pee, I will get one, but I go to sleep anyway.
Anyway, my OB/GYN finally got tired of my desperate calls for prescritions and just gave me a Macrobid prescrip with five refills on it.
My husband blames his penis. I think my doctor suspects we are having all sorts of wild animal sex.
FaerieBeth
Just curious, am I the only guy who ever had a UTI? When I was teenager, I noticed pain after urinating. It was at the point where I stopped, and “shut the valve” so to speak, that I started feeling pain. Saw the doc, he gave me a drug that I turned out to be pretty allergic to. The inside of my teeth itched (!) and my face puffed up. I looked just like Carl Weathers, the guy who played Apollo Creed in the Rocky flicks.
I sometimes have a burning sensation when I pee. It is usually accompanied by blisters on my weiner.
Buuuurrrrrrnnnnnsssssss.
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The thread he meant to post in.
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Get to the doctor and get checked for std’s, and genital warts NOW!
I pray that you haven’t had sex without using a condom since those symptoms started…
Just chiming in to echo everything here - I had many many UTIs for many years, always treated with cranberry juice and antibiotics. Ditto on the Uristat and the highly alarming urine color - there’s a prescription version of Uristat too, but I can’t remember the name. It is a urinary antiseptic. Cranberry pills saved my life, although I had so many UTIs that I actually started to LIKE cranberry juice.
But the best advice I got, and the one thing I’ve done consistently: pee after sex. Don’t ever skip that. Drink a big glass of water before bed if you even think you might get lucky. Since I’ve been religious about that, I have not had a single UTI, and it’s been well over five years now. And you may find this interesting: there’s some studies that concluded that regular sex can reduce your risk of UTI because your body becomes used to the bacteria that your partner introduces into your body and learns to kill it off on its own. If you’re not having sex “often enough” your body stops recognizing your partner’s particular bacterial blend. (Note#1, I have no cites, I think I read it in Woman’s Day, and note #2, by “regular” sex I mean “frequent” and not “boring”.)
Also, just in case no one ever mentioned it, (TMI warning) always wipe from front to back after pottying.
Just another cranberry juice suggestion…
If you can’t stand the taste of cranberry juice, a lot of brands make a “white cranberry” version, which is much less tart than the regular kind, and goes down a lot easier, IMO. Ocean Spray and Northland both make it, IIRC.
Don’t have any personal experience with UTI’s, so that’s the best I can offer. Hope you feel better soon!
I can always count on the Straight Dope to make me thankful for having a penis. It helps to read these kinds of threads so I can better understand what women are going through. For me though it just comes down to:
Thank you penis.
So now I have to worry about a yeast infection after this is done? Great…that’s another thing I’ve never had. I’ve been on pretty strong antibiotics before for longer periods of time and not had a problem, so hopefully I’ll be ok. I’ll pick up some yogurt at the store this weekend though.
I’ve been drinking water constantly with this, and the one thing I’ve noticed is that I feel bloated as hell, like I’m not peeing out what I take in. This will go away, right? I’m on my third day of antibiotics and peeing is no longer painful, so I’m hoping that this other aspect will be gone too.
Oh, and they’ve already got me set up with an appointment to come in and pee in a cup a couple of days after I finish the antibiotics - to make sure the infection’s completely gone and if it’s not, to extend the prescription (I assume).
Lsura, this brings back horrid memories of past UTIs I’ve suffered through.
Being a tight-arse and a doctor-hater, I put off going to the doc for a UTI until I was in so much pain I was doubled over, couldn’t sit down and stopped drinking so I wouldn’t have to pee.
STOOPID!
I went to the doc, the evil harpy made me drink lots of water so I could pee into a little cup for her, then she gave me a script for antibiotics, and told me about Ural, a product I came to call Heaven In A Sachet.
I suspect it’s like the Uristat product others have mentioned… dump the contents of a sachet into a glass of water and swallow it down… it helped the pain so much while the antibiotics were kicking in. I’ve never tried the cranberry method since Ural works so effectively. NB It’s for symptomatic relief only.
In my case, it is always from sex. Last time I had a UTI I went to the doc for antibiotics. He asked me if it was related to sex, I told him yes. I gave him a urine sample and, remarkably, he claimed there was no evidence of infection there. I told him I know my body and give me the script - he did and the UTI was sorted out in a day or two (don’t stop taking the antibiotics until the course is finished! You don’t want a “rebound” effect).
He told me an interesting titbit of information. He reckoned that the bacteria take about 20 minutes to double. So if I go to sleep after sex without peeing first… that’s (assuming 8 hours sleep) 16,777,216 cells from the original one! EEEEEEEEK!
Of course, after hearing that piece of information I am paranoid. I pee STRAIGHT AWAY after sex, and I shower directly after peeing. No damn bacteria is gonna enter my urethra and multiply at some unholy rate!!!
Max 
In case you missed my previous post, merely having a penis does NOT protect you from getting a UTI. I have a penis, a quite nice one I’ve been told, and yet I had a UTI.
I’m on my fourth day of sulfamethoxazole (? - a freakishly HUGE pill). I scampered off to the doctor when I realized what was happening. The last time I took too long to get to the doctors, the pain was bad enough to make me sit down and cry in the middle of the canned fruit aisle at the A&P. Ugh, blood.
On the upside, I did find a reduced calorie cranberry juice (but the taste is a little too sweet to me). Glad you’re feeling better, Lsura.
Apparently we can get breast cancer too, it is a matter of odds though.
I’m not fond of cranberry juice myself, but you can improve it. Mix equal parts cranberry juice and orange juice with a small amount of soda water (I never measured anything, so just try different combinations until it tastes good). They used to call it “Ski Instructor Juice,” where I used to work. Tasty stuff.
True. Richard Roundtree, the original ‘Shaft’, has or had it.
Breast cancer, not cranberry juice. I guess Roundtree might have cranberry juice too, as far as I know…