UTIs....fml

[niguana]

had a UTI that was so painful i had to leave work. Thankfully i did 3 dogs before i left.....but UGH! been trying remedies. Drink beer, cranberry juice, water, distilled water, take vitamin c, take excedrin, and taking it easy

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[littlegraytiger]

I've had more UTIs than I can count as well as two bouts of kidney infections. Go. Buy. Uristat. The generic name is phenazopyridine, but it's a medication in the form of a soothing dye. Your urine will be turned bright screaming napalm orange(put on your dark undies!), but it soothes the walls of the bladder and urethra which helps relieve that horrible pissing-razors and I-just-went-why-do-I-feel-the-need-to-pee feelings. UTIs are one of those few things I find really unbearable health-wise. If you go more than a week with it though, I would try to get antibiotics from somewhere. :/ You don't want that infection staying and it can travel to your kidneys. I also found cranberry pills helped me better than cranberry juice, something I guess about the missing sugar helped.

That said, I'm glad you got the job you did and that other things are going well. :3

[niguana]

thankfully some antibiotics, like Ciproflaxin, is free at the Publix pharmacy here in town. I have that on hand just in case, but it turns out it might be Interstitial Cystitis since there is a high blood and white blood cell count in the culture's but low or no bacteria. But the medication is over $300 for 3 months. I'm taking it right now and it's been helping so far, but the side effects are annoying since it's an anticoagulant...so ya.
been taking both the juice and the pills along with some distilled water to help flush it out of my system.

thanks for the advice and also thank you :3 im glad things are going well as well....hitting a little rough patch right now, but i'll explain it in the next journal.