Crap. That makes sense too. Can you direct me to a cite, so I can self-educate?
[thinks] Hey, if it wasn’t the seltzer water, that means it WAS the Power of the Pit after all, doesn’t it?
:smack: Good point, and it occurs to me that even more likely to promote resistance would be taking just the leftover few when you do have the later infection.
I finally started taking “post-coital antibiotics” (how romantic… “oh honey that was wonderful… not bring me my antibiotics dear…”)
After a few months on the meds I could finally have sex without taking the meds and be ok.
Oi, I can’t relate to the OP, but my cat can relate to that! A pill every 12 hours for the next FOUR WEEKS. It’s only been a couple of days, and she already hates me! (UTI, but it also spread to her kidneys, involved a 3-day-very-expensive vet visit… urrgh)
I hope I never get one of these!
I sympathize. As a young woman, I got these constantly. In my case, I stopped getting them after I stopped using a diaphragm and started using the pill.
I assume that women have historically been prone to UTIs. What did they do in the days before antibiotics?
Not really, because as Antigen andother MTs and CLTs on the board can attest to, about the only time we get calls from nurses are doctors is for 1) lab results because they can’t be bothered to wait or look them up, 2) ask for a phlebotomist, 3) bitch about their STAT order being late (oh, you mean the STAT tube in the rack with 30 other STAT tubes to be run? Or the one that you haven’t actually ordered yet and I’m supposed to read your mind?)
Sorry, I was on a roll there, and it’s been 7 years since I last turned out a clinical result. Anyway, nurses and doctors don’t know much about lab testing because that’s not their speciality. That belongs to us who actually work in the labs. That’s why we try to educate them over the phone. That’s why I responded to this post: it’s part of my duties as an MT.
Vlad/Igor
Aha. Thanks. So if this particular NP had been *not *a useless cunt, she could have told me “I don’t know, but I’ll ask the lab techs – call me back in three or four hours,” or “I don’t know, but *you *can call the lab to find out.” Even relaying a message of “I don’t know” would have been better than what she did do, which was ignore her messages and pages until the receptionist hunted her down for me. WTF is the call-an-NP service for if not crap like this?
Oh well. I’m better now anyway, and it’s my urinary tract in the Pit, not the useless NP. I’m still holding with the theory that the unholy BBQ flames are what slaughtered the guilty bacteria.
May I suggest purchasing a bidet? I had frequent UTIs and have not had a single one in the 6 years since I started using one. You can use your existing toilet and purchase a contraption that hooks directly into the toilet tank inlet. Costs about $90 and you can find them online. Try juscuzz.com.
I’ve mentioned them to others who have UTIs and for some reason they get all “tee-hee” “gross” and look at me like I’ve grown a 3rd eye. Like there is something wrong with having a clean bum?
Once you get one, you’re hooked. And no, they’re not “queer”.
I have wondered that too. I’ve wondered if maybe their systems were somewhat tougher owing to the conditions at the time. And people didn’t eat so much sugar back then, so maybe it wasn’t quite so easy to get one?
I’m sure people did get them, and probably suffered through them, used home remedies, and so on. But I know that sometimes they got infections, and it traveled all the way up to the kidneys, and they just died.
Are we not drinking cranberry juice anymore? Not the sugar laden cocktail stuff, but the astringent, pucker up your mouth straight juice?
Hmmn. You know, I just might look into that… but I have to admit I’m a little leery of a hygienic equipment company that has “scuzz” in its address.
They can be if they’re born that way 
“We” fell in love with pomegranate molasses this year and have been favoring it over cranberry, but if the club is voting me out otherwise I can switch back.
I think it’s Jus Cuzz (Just Because.)
I switched to cranberry pills over unsweetened juice, because I can ingest a lot more of them. It’s hard to drink unsweetened juice, so I don’t get as much down, but I can pop 4 pills full of goodness before breakfast. I imagine little cranberry bombs going off in my system, kapow! 
They work great; I haven’t had a UTI in several years except once when I wasn’t careful and forgot to take some of my usual regimen. And I was getting them once a month for a while there, just every time we did anything–I was in this horrible cycle of UTIs and yeast infections. I am eternally grateful to the nurse who told me about the pills!
Sugar shouldn’t have anything to do with it - a normal, healthy individual does not have sugar in the urine. If there’s sugar in your urine, you’re either diabetic or have some sort of kidney problems.
Three engineers were discussing theology.
The mechanical engineer said, “God must be a mechanical engineer, because his greatest creation is the human body, which is essentially a cunningly designed machine.”
The electrical engineer said, “Yes, but what sets humanity apart from the animals is the human brain and nervous system, which is essentially an electro-chemical system; therefore God must be an electrical engineer.”
The civil engineer said, “You’re both wrong. God must be a civil engineer, because who else but a civil engineer would run a wastewater treatment line directly through a recreational area?!”