[nicole1234]

hi, well recently ive had a a few uti's which have came back and ive just got the over the counter remedy, drank lots of water and they have went away. But this morning i woke up at 6am feeling burning and like i was desperate to go to the toilet, is it normal to feel burning and discomfort with a uti when your not going to the toilet? i know it normally burns and feels horrible when you go to the toilet but ive never felt uncomfortable or sore when i have just been sitting doing something.

please help!

xx

[WildChild]

Drink lots of cranberry juice, not the sweetened kind ,get the 100% juice - it won't be all cranberry but somehow the sweetenings counteract the astringent properties of the juice. Wear loose in the crotch clothing, no panty hose, stick with cotton or real silk undies or go without. No thongs - they act as a wick and carry fecal bateria to the vaginal and UT areas. Lots of water too -NO soda.

Get in to your doc and get checked, if this is a reoccurant problem then see a urologist. There may be structural problems.

[emjay]

Definitely normal for a UTI. I've been taking this supplement called D-Mannose (it's a sugar) for several months and it has worked for me. Before that I got a UTI almost every time I had sex, which really really sucked.

The only problem with D-Mannose (for me, anyway) which I just read about is that it may make it harder to get pregnant (not that it is really birth control, but supposedly it can keep sperm from sticking around) and I actually want to get pregnant relatively soon. Maybe this is worth another post (?) but I am interested in alternative methods that will not make it harder to get pregnant that people have found to be really effective when all the classic preventitive measures won't work (drinking lots of water, cotton underwear, urinating often, changing diet, etc.).