I have a horrible health anxiety followed by OCD and other things as well. Every time I actually get sick it triggers a horrible reaction inside my head and I always spiral out of control. I had my first UTI( Urinary Tract Infection) about a week ago. Oddly, I had no symptoms of burning when I peed or weird pee color. I just woke up one day with horrible shooting leg pain I attributed to stress, then the next day had pelvic pain, and the following day severe back pain. I actually did NOT thing I had a UTI and thought I might have appendicitis. I hate antibiotics since I have GI issues and have a fear of C DIFF also. But upon research I found the safest drug in my eyes called Monurol . Read scary things about Bactrim and couldn't take Macrobid cause I can't swallow pills. NOW THAT I AM BETTER I AM CONSTANT FEAR OF BEING ONE OF THOSE GIRLS WHOSE GONNA CONSTANTLY GET UTIS EVERYTIME I HAVE SEX. Keep in mind I've been sexually active since I was 15 and I'm 21 now and in a 3 year monogamous relationship and this is my first official UTI that required antibiotics so if I was genetically doomed I would have been already by the time I first started having sex. I'm sitting here telling myself that I'm gonna end up with a UTI next time I have sex and then its just gonna get worse and worse and become reaccurent and I'm either gonna have to take a low dose antibiotic every time I have sex or my boyfriend( which I usually share a very healthy and active sex life with) is gonna leave me because I'm gonna be chronically doomed with UTIs so he can find a "normal girl" ALL OF THIS because MY FIRST UTI. My thoughts are making me google all these horror stories of girls who have chronic UTIs and its ruined there relationship and I ended up buying all these supplements for prevention. NOW I'M GOING CRAZY IN ANTICIPATION THAT THE NEXT TIME I'm gonna have a UTI again. EVEN if I pee after and before( which I usually do) take all required supplements and cleanse properly. Hypochondria is so annoying.
FEAR OF RECURRING UTIS
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Ok.. first things first. Always where protection!
Not because of possible sti or hiv risk ( althoughthose are also valid reasons )..but,also because hygiene. Most infection's are not caused by the woman's hygiene. .but...the mans.
I'm not in any way calling your partner unhygienic...but. .. what I am saying is that he has different bacteria than you do and that is 1 of the causes of uti .
If you have a cleaning regimen for yourself...so should he.
I am in no way a nurse.
I am just a girl that has been active with 1 man for over 20 years.
I speak from experience.
You both need a cleaning regimine...not just you. Doing this will prevent most uti.
Hi, I actually think condoms irritate me more also I have PCOS so its recommended that I stay on birth control. at this point I don't think I would want to resort back to condoms but as you said about hygiene yes, I think showers before and possibly better grooming on the mans side . Also we wouldn't wash our hands before applying lube so that might have contributed as well as possibly "WRONG HOLE" Situations. I don't think I'm sensitive to anything my boyfriend is carrying because we've been having sex for years and I haven't used a condom with him for a long time.