Well that was good to know

[sweetseadragon]

Sooooo, apparently drinking unsweetened cranberry or blueberry juice WHILE you have a UTI can actually exacerbate the infection because it causes urine to become more acidic.  When you have a UTI you want to try to make your urine more alkaline.  The juices and pills are good for prevention (they make the cells that line the bladder more difficult

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[lindkeim]

You're full of all kinds of knowledge!

[sweetseadragon]

I think I will make it a memory so people can access it later if they ever want it.

[elaine_today]

That was helpful. Thanks for the FYI about the juices.

[sweetseadragon]

NP, you know how I love to do PSAs! lol.

[nerdular]

yep, i just came searching for this! i totally remembered that you'd posted about it. DAMNIT! well i take vit c every day so im upping the dosage and upping the water and praying i dont end up at the doc! i don't technically have a doc right now (my cool one up and moved =/)

[sweetseadragon]

there is one thing i did not post about and that is what i think really helped but it was a bad accident.

eventually i decided to stick a cotton ball soaked with 100% tea tree oil up my twat because it was itching and stinging so bad. i also rubbed it all over the other sensitive parts. WELL. before i knew it my vajeen was throbbing and burning from the inside and transitioned into a more burning and melting flesh type of feeling on the outside, except, for some reason i thought it was a good thing so i was like, "okay i'll go to bed now...if i can fall asleep." i DID fall asleep and woke up with a really great chemical burn that then took about 5 days to heal but once it was healed everything was resolved.

i've put tea tree oil on and in my lady parts lots of times before, just not so much. next time i would go my old standby route: 8 tsp apple cider vinegar, 8 tsp water, 4 drops tea tree oil. soak cotton balls in there and stick up twat. magical cure for a number of things especially YIs.

[nerdular]

OUCH OUCH OUCH. that sounds awful.

i started having pain sunday evening. no burning, only aching in the bladder area, which gets much worse when i pee. ugh. i hate the doc and i dont want to go!!!

[sweetseadragon]

try the baking soda thing, eat a lot of garlic, go get some saw palmetto and uva ursi pills. or go to the doctor, like now :) AZO makes strips that you can pee on that indicate whether or not you have a UTI.