Dear Vagina...

[BabyQ]

i know what you mean about just wanting to ingest so much water that it makes you pee longer..just to avoid the pain...sometimes if you find a particular position to sit/lay down it helps ...hope you can get to the doc soon

[helle]

Cranberry Juice is great. I have a glass every morning as prevention for UTI's. Apparently it makes the sides of your urethra slimey, so the icky bacteria bits can't stick to it and cause problems down there - so I read.. be damned if I can find it now to show you though
I get the ocean spray one, no added sugar all a la natural, if it's a bit strong dilute with a bit of water.
Get some & GL! xx

[Asparagus and Lemons]

Oh your poor thing! I have had a few of these, one where I had to be hospitalised because I left it too long and chunks of something were blocking my duct to get the urine out... SOOOOOO PAINFUL!!

Definantly go get some cranberry juice, I found that drinking 2 cups of this would almost instantly ease the pain. If you leave it too long it will get worse like mine did, I had to walk to the shops to get pills and 3 times I had to pee in peoples front yards.
It is the worst thing I have EVER experienced. Good Luck, hope you get better soon!

[Bengal]

Kirsty

You poor thing having to go through a UTI, I have only ever had one, and I wont tell you how I go it, it belongs in the AO Section (ps, it's nothing discusting, just a funny story)

I had to pop in and say "I love your post heading" I might write a "dear vagina" letter to my Vagina too

[kirsty_lee]

LOl well after all the water i've drunk it's helped heaps and I am peeing properly now with minimal burning! Thank god!

Poopie: I know exactly what you mean babe, I had one so bad once that I fully thought my appendix was bursting. I hadn't eaten in like 3 days and I couldn't even stand up straight was just hunched over. So I called dp home thinking I was dying, went to the doctor who was an idiot, said I had a uti, but there was nothing she could do for me but give me ural and suppositries cause i couldn't poo. So 2 more days of extreme pain, drinking Ural, sticking supposetries up my bum, and finally went to my NORMAL doctor. Who took one look at my urine in the jar and said this is one of the worst uti's i've seen here's some antibiotics, the doctor the other day should of prescribed you some. Then 2 days later i was feeling on top of the world, the first doctor calls and goes 'oh your wee results came back it was just a uti, did I prescribe you any anti biotics?" im like uh no.. and hung up on her lol. But I know what you mean about it being embarrassing with the weeing! me and dp got like 2 doors from our house and i got out of the car and peed my pants in my driveway.. 22 years old and peeing my pants

[heliana]

Just wanted to say, if anyone gets one and they don't have cranberry juice on hand, bi-carb in water is supposed to help. (I can't see how it would help the infection, but it might stop the pee stinging). My sis is on a remote island, and she got one of these so I had to try and find her a cure.

[aimz78]

I used to get these ALL the time!! The are really awful. I had chronic infections. As far as I know Cranberry juice is not good once you already have an infection, the bacteria feed off the sugar ( i think that it is meant for prevention) Cut out sugar while you have an infection. It is probably best to get some antibiotics, too. Have showers, not baths and I found using soap on the vagina bad for infections. Also, what worked for me was going off the pill (advised by naturopath). I have not had a single infection since (i would get one approx every 6-8 weeks). Hope you get better ASAP. Panadeine is good if you are in lots of pain as well as heat packs.