Urethral Irritation--good info!

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This info was helpful to me--thanks!

 

Sierra

 

, " Deborah Pageau "

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> Hi Jessie;

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> Do you drink LOTS of plain water daily? (seriously, at least 8 full

cups!) ... and void your bladder AFTER intercourse?

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> " Honey moon " UTI is called that because it is a common complaint

when women are first sexually active, but can affect sexually active

women at any time in their lives. I had frequent UTI until I started

taking those precautions. Apparently, intercourse commonly forces

pathogens up a woman's urinary tract, which voiding the bladder

flushes out. That's why you want to do it soon AFTER sex, within the

first couple of hours after. Waiting until the next morning is WAY

too long. That has given the pathogens time to set up shop in the

urinary tract.

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> I also find that avoiding salt helps me urinary tract work better.

I have no idea why this seems to be so, but it does.

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> Good luck!

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> Deborah

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> I'm also cutting down the fat to lose weight as I have polycystic

ovaries and would like to improve my fertility and have a child.

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> Urethral irritation. That's the latest joy. No UTI according to

the Dr but it feels as though I have one and it's horrible and re-

occurring. My diet has reduced substantially in acidity so that may

be part of it, also I've been drinking apple juice a lot. When I was

reluctantly taking medication for this condition I noticed that

certain drugs reliably caused this painful urethral irritation and

others did not. I am now off the meds for a number of reasons and

started drinking apple juice because I'd read that apple helps reduce

acidity in the stomach... I'm not sure that it does in fact do this

but did notice that the urethral irritation has returned. Maybe it's

related to the apple juice?

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> Here's my question. Does anyone else have any experience with

this? I met a girl who had UTIs and was hospitalised by them after

becoming vegan, I'm worried, is my veganism causing this? Is it apple

juice? Is it just the fact that I've given up chocolate and that's

spun my body into an alkaline state and it needs to rebalance? I

never had UTIs or this pain before being vegan. I've been vegan for

1.3 years now. I also met a girl who was vegan who said she could no

longer be so because of calcification in the urethra (quite rare).

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> Obviously drinking cranberry juice or anything to increase the

acidity of my body is NOT an option because increasing the acidity

will aggravate the reflux and that's totally undesirable. I feel a

bit trapped! Damned if you do, damned if you don't kinda thing.

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> Cheers and hi! I'm new here!

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> Jessie from NZ

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