Anyone here get frequent UTI's?

[Anonymous]

I've been getting urinary tract Infections once a month lately. It's painful, it burns, it's a hassle and it's expensive because I don't have insurance. Anyone else have this problem? I don't know why it keeps happening and it's really stressing me out. pleasee help

[oneforthetruth]

You could try drinking cranberry juice. I know it might sound like an old wives tale, but I had a slight infection which was only at the beginning stage, and the nurse I saw told me cranberry juice works wonders with your fluid system because it helps to flush out all the nasty things. Drink it daily, have it with your breakfast. It helped me. If it doesn't seem to make a difference with in two weeks, or a week. Then you need to go back to your doctor and get them to have a look. You could simply just have a bad infection, that just needs clearing up, but it could be something else. But try the cranberry juice, it worked for me.

[peace-love-couture]

No, not currently, although as a young child it happened quite frequently. The advice I was given that helped stop them:

- Limit your liquid sugar intake such as cokes, soda, pop and fruit juices. That was the biggest factor for me. The sugar can affect the bacteria balance down below causing s UTI

- Be sure to drink at least 8 glasses if water a day and keep hydrate throughout the day

- Limit your sugar intake overall

- Perhaps take a cranberry pill or drink real cranberry juice once a day

- Pee after sex

- Never hold in your pee. I also did that, now I don't

[Asker]

I've been drinking lots of water ever since I first started getting UTI's just to flush out my system, I pee after sex, I no longer eat too much sweets cause I'm paranoid all the time that I'm gonna get another UTI :/

[Butterfly_kisses09]

I used to get them all the time after I would have sex. I think a lot of things can cause them but my doctor told me mine were caused because when I would have sex, the penis pushes bacteria into the vagina so you're supposed to pee after sex to "clean" it out. So I started doing that and havnt gotten a UTI since then. I don't know if you're sexually active but if you are that could be the reason. Ask your doctor about other causes and figure out why you're getting them so often.

[Asker]

I've started to pee after sex just to avoid any possibilities for another uti but I still keep getting them and it occurs so often that my doctor said the antibiotics will stop taking effect as I'm becoming immune to them. I'm meeting with my gynecologist but I don't know what she could tell me other than the things I've already heard from my doctor...

[Butterfly_kisses09]

Hmm that's wierd, maybe try some things Evangelina suggested and see if any of that works.

[madmisskelly]

Always remember to wipe front to back.

Also, if you can afford it, get the cranberry chews from the store. Its a supplement and its similar to consuming a glass of cranberry juice. Or, you can drink I bit of cranberry juice per day to minimize your risk of a UTI.

[Asker]

I've neverrrr wiped back to front; and I've never heard of cranberry chews. Do you happen to know the name of the product?

[madmisskelly]

I forgot what they were called, but you can find them in your dietary supplement aisle.

[buttercup5]

Never had this problem, but I know from experience that stress can make crazy things happen with your body. I'm not saying that caused it, but stressing will only make it worse.

[Asker]

you are extremely lucky...they're terrible

[Anonymous]

No, is this usually caused by sexual contact, like an STD? Or is it bad hygiene that causes UTIs?

[Asker]

it happens when another persons body chemistry doesn't match yours often times when you change sex partners, it's quite common. It can happen after sex if it pushes germs into the urethra

[Anonymous]

I've had one 4 over a year now and no antiboiotics home remedies have helped its gotten annoying