[QUOTE=Antigen]
It’s not “acid” urine that makes it painful, it’s the inflammation of the bladder and urethra, caused by the infection and your body’s response to it, that makes it painful. As a matter of fact, if you give bacteria a chance to do their thing, they’ll eventually raise the pH of the urine with their metabolic products (breaking down urea to make ammonia), making it more alkaline.
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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?
[QUOTE=Antigen]
Don’t do this if it means you stop taking the pills when you feel better and stash the last few away for next time. Antibiotics are prescribed as a 4-day course, or 7-day, or whatever, for a reason: that’s how long it takes, on average, with that drug, to kill all the bacteria. Stopping before you’ve taken them all is a recipe for antibiotic resistance, and I definitely recommend following your doctor’s instructions and taking all the medication.
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: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.
[QUOTE=emilyforce]
Anyone who advocates for “Intelligent Design” CLEARLY has never had a sex-induced UTI. (Or a casually mangled ulnar nerve, or a ruptured appendix, but I digress.)
Okay, Urinary Tract, here’s the deal: mremilyforce had to go abroad for important stuff for nine frickin’ months, starting Sunday. This meant (among other things) Hot Goodbye Sex on Saturday. Yes, it’s true; we’ve moved here recently and aren’t quite sure where all the bathroom and medicine cabinet stuff got packed… yes, it’s true; we should have foreseen the need for lube supplies. But dammit, we thought the hotness of Hot Goodbye Sex would, you know, cover it. We admit it: we were wrong. My hoo-ha’s abilities to grease itself have never quite been the same since chemo lo these ten years ago. We do own lube! Good stuff, too! We just don’t know where it is right now.
Why, O why, is it necessary to retroactively herald that incidental lack of lube by bringin’ on a UTI? Couldn’t I have just had some road rash or something? maybe a hickey?
We are MARRIED.mremilyforce has no bacteria that are fundamentally foreign to me and/or my tender bits. His funky bacteria are, yunnow, my funky bacteria. Gettin’ it on in a more-than-perhaps-entirely-averagely-enthusiastic way should NOT necessarily be grounds for BURNING HORRIFIC PAIN.
If a UTI is indeed cosmically necessary, could you AT LEAST arrange for the insurance-sponsored NP I call to know whether or not the test they’re gonna make me show up for in person WILL OR WILL NOT be compromised by the analgesics I’m taking? Is or is not AZO Standard a test-fucker-upper? If the NP in question never had to know before now, is it really SO MUCH TO ASK that she look it up in the six hours between when I call and leave a polite message and when I call and demand to speak to someone, anyone, please god HELP ME NOW?
(pant pant)
Thank you.
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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.
[QUOTE=interface2x]
My cat feels your pain right now and she didn’t even get laid!
If you want, I suppose I can hold you down and shoot a pill down your throat like I do for my cat. She hates it, though.
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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 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?
[QUOTE=emilyforce]
Granted, maybe it’s an obscure detail she didn’t know off the top of her head, but isn’t that the sort of thing that an NP would know how to find out? Isn’t that exactly the sort of question you want an NP to be able to answer over the phone, thus preventing a useless trip to the doctor? [remembers this is the Pit] Useless cunt.
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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.
[QUOTE=Vlad/Igor]
… 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.
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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”.
[QUOTE=teela brown]
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?
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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.
[QUOTE=Middlea]
May I suggest purchasing a bidet?.. Try juscuzz.com.
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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.
[QUOTE=Middlea]
And no, they’re not “queer”.
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They can be if they’re born that way
[QUOTE=ivylass]
Are we not drinking cranberry juice anymore? Not the sugar laden cocktail stuff, but the astringent, pucker up your mouth straight juice?
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“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 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!
[QUOTE=dangermom]
And people didn’t eat so much sugar back then, so maybe it wasn’t quite so easy to get one?
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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.
[QUOTE=emilyforce]
Anyone who advocates for “Intelligent Design” CLEARLY has never had a sex-induced UTI.
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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?!”
