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Grex Femme Item 112: Cystitis.
Entered by jiffer on Fri Oct 20 01:31:58 UTC 2000:

So, I think I thought/ still have a bladder infection.  I am sure a lot you
out there have experienced this.  Tell us your hints, agonies and whatever.

6 responses total.

#1 of 6 by birdy on Fri Oct 20 05:32:50 2000:

Alternate glasses of cranberry juice and water all day.  The cranberry juice
has an acid in it that helps kill the bacteria, and water flushes it out. 
Yes, you'll have to go to the bathroom more than you already do, but the pain
will be over quicker.

#2 of 6 by jiffer on Fri Oct 20 13:08:42 2000:

Okay, since I suspect that I had a bladder infection for the first time in
my adult life, I just want to say it sucked.  I went to one day of fever
aches, thought it was the flu and took nyquil.  Apparently this took care of
the fever and other feelings but I couldn't get rid of the pain.  I always
thought it would be more of a sharp pain than a muscle cramping pain.  But
I have no idea what muscle cramps in the stomach area feel like when they get
to the point of painful, so this was a new experience for me.  

I did the usual water and cranberry juice till I realised I was also starting
to show symptoms that I over-did the liquids so I cut back.  The pain is still
here this morning but it has reduced on the pain scale.  I don't want to ever
go through this again.

#3 of 6 by birdy on Fri Oct 20 19:17:43 2000:

It's not fun.  =(

#4 of 6 by beeswing on Sat Oct 21 02:34:10 2000:

I had them constantly as a kid. The standard of feeling like you have 
to pee right away, then maybe 2 drops comes out. All day. For days on 
end. And the lovely stinging pain!

For me, the solution was urethral dilation surgery, and I had it when I 
was four. My bladder opening was too narrow, thus trapping bacteria and 
such. A cousin of mine had it also, so maybe it's hereditary. Nowadays 
I only get them if I don't drink enough water. 

Some other preventative measures: Cotton (breatheable) underwear, not 
the nylon stuff. When you, go #2, wipe front to back.

#5 of 6 by jiffer on Sat Oct 21 06:33:40 2000:

I feel like i am in sex ed class again! hehhe.

That was the one thing that boggled me.... I didn't have that urge to pee and
have barely anything... I never did have that problem..

#6 of 6 by birdy on Sat Oct 21 08:03:22 2000:

I stopped getting them when we moved out of Alpena.  My mom thinks it may have
been constant swimming in Lake Huron and the branches of it that ran through
town.  I remember stinging pain but not much else.  I used to drink water and
cranberry juice until I could hear it sloshing in my stomach if I moved
quickly.  Ugh.

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