UTI (Urinary tract infection) thread - It burns when i pee

[Magicicada_septendecula]

I've had a few of them and usually they go away on their own. Drinking a ton of water and fruit juice, particularly cranberry helps. Amoxicillin works almost immediately for some really bad cases. You can still buy fish amoxicillin capsules online and in some stores and it's the same stuff they use for human infections. A lot of it is sold in stores popular with preppers, so I think some of them are aware that you are buying the fish stuff for human use.

 

[Testacles Maximus]

Whoever had our cat before we adopted him neutered him too young, so now if we don't feed him a specialized diet, he gets UTIs.

 

[Insuficiencia renal]

No i never had any problems with my bladder or my pee

 

[Blue Flying Leaf]

This. I had a UTI without knowing it, and my first symptom was feeling like I was constantly about to cum. As in that nano second right before. Like for a fucking day. I remember standing and walking around for a solid fucking 4 hours like that. Desperately staring at empty bathroom stalls wondering if I lacked the dignity to finish off.

Get your gonads checked. UTI may just have rendered you sterile

 

[TheOtherSideofMakeBelieve]

That's horrible. Did he start forgetting things at an alarming rate?

Mostly agitation, confusion, and incoherency. I assume he would have struggled with recall but he was too far gone to even try and figure that out. He's pretty old and like I mentioned it runs in the family and no one mentioned to the doctors they took him to that he'd been catheterized because it seemed so unrelated, but one of my aunts managed to put the pieces together and get him on an intense UTI treatment plan and he bounced back

After experiencing that I totally get why Medicare has such a heavy emphasis on UTI prevention, it comes on so quick and once it does they can't tell you what's wrong anymore, it's easily confused for something else, and there's so many potential complications it can lead to as a result of not just the UTI itself, but the lack of treatment of other problems, falls, etc

 

[I Love Beef]

I know this sounds stupid, but eat more salt. No seriously, at least to near the daily level of consumption. This is why salt is important. All of this low sodium stuff is nice... until you get a tract infection. I haven't ever gotten one myself, but having learned that, it makes sense why there are people selling urinary tract cleaning products and don't do shit like walk and exercise.

And yes, drink more water and cranberry juice.

 

[Joe Swanson]

 

[Aunt Carol]

He's pretty old and like I mentioned it runs in the family and no one mentioned to the doctors they took him to that he'd been catheterized because it seemed so unrelated, but one of my aunts managed to put the pieces together and get him on an intense UTI treatment plan and he bounced back

You can get UTI test strips OTC (sometimes the 7-test urine strips are paradoxically cheaper).

Elderly care facilities will often have a big bottle and dip the pee on anyone who starts acting unusual, because the quicker you can catch it, the quicker you can treat it. Older people have less of a functional margin when it comes to illness, so the UTI that has you feeling crappy will have a great-grandparent nonverbal or punching people.

Older people also lose the ability to localize the urinary pain/discomfort, so that's why we don't get easy clues like a confused person who can still say "ow, my pee hurts." The change in urine smell and continence can sometimes help, though.

D-Mannose

100%.

Cranberry juice tastes great but the sugar outweighs the biofilm busting.

Everyone prone to UTIs needs urine test strips, though. You don't know when you're going to get a "silent" UTI that's just malaise for a week before your pee finally hurts, and you need to be able to check to make sure a D-mannose or fish-mox self-treatment really took it down.

Even if you're going to call in to your doc's service for antibiotics, being able to say "yeah I have test strips and they said I have leukocytes ++ and nitrites ++" makes you sound way more credible to whoever's answering the phone and makes it more likely they'll call in the script without making you jump through hoops.


I just realized: does the average young man know about phenazopyridine? OTC med, brand name Pyridium, but I'm realizing it's always in the lady problems section of the store, not the drug section. It treats the pain/irritation of UTI (and it's fast and amazingly effective at it) but it's symptomatic management only, not antibiotic.

Phenazopyridine is a azo dye so if you're going to be peeing in a cup/on a strip, don't take the pills until after you've done that, because your pee is going to be a beautiful orange.

 

[WeWuzFinns]

You need more CBT to kick out the microbes from your dick

 

[BradeRunna]

Men shouldn't get UTI at least not that often. There is usually something else going on. If you are an older male, then an enlarged prostate could cause issues. But since you are posting here on KF I am going to assume you are not that old. You need to go see a doctor. He will check your prostate and then do other stuff. The first thing he will do is request urine sample and then give you anti-biotics. If it comes back, he will probably send you off to a urologist. That would mean it's recuring and that's not good.

Most of the time they are going to look for things that restrict your urine flow. That's usually what causes UTI in men. You aren't emptying your bladder enough to get rid of all the bacteria.

 

[teriyakiburns]

My uncle got one after being catheterized and ended up with dementia-like symptoms until it was resolved. Thank goodness it was only temporary, but legit terrifying since dementia runs in our family

The wife of a friend had something similar. Over about a week she went from relatively normal to wandering outside in her underwear and getting confused in even simple conversations. The reversal, when she was finally diagnosed and put on antibiotics, was almost miraculous.

UTI's are not real. The symptoms of so-called UTI's are, in fact, merely the body's physical reaction to the lack of critical nutrients found only in fermented horse semen, which doctors recommend consuming at least 12oz of per day.

I'm sorry you lost your vice-presidential bid, Mr Walz.

 

[Blue Flying Leaf]

The wife of a friend had something similar. Over about a week she went from relatively normal to wandering outside in her underwear and getting confused in even simple conversations. The reversal, when she was finally diagnosed and put on antibiotics, was almost miraculous.

How is that possible ? UTI shouldn't do this ?

 

[0life]

How is that possible ? UTI shouldn't do this ?

UTIs shouldn't do this in healthy young people but they can be absolutely devastating and even deadly in the elderly. Once you hit a certain age your body just can't fight off the infection effectively anymore.

I had an elderly family member die from a UTI a few years back. It was absolutely heartbreaking to watch though she was very unhealthy anyway. At least there was some solice in that it gave family time to say goodbye and get her affairs in order.

 

[teriyakiburns]

How is that possible ? UTI shouldn't do this ?

The infection dumps toxins into the blood stream (on top of the usual immune response fallout), which can cause delirium, confusion, memory problems, and behavioural changes that mimic dementia, depending on the severity of the infection and how weak the person's immune system is. A severe enough infection can cause permanent brain damage.

 

[Shoresy]

UTIs are no fucking joke, let me tell you. My grandmother had one once and I guess it has a tendency to affect your brain because she started seeing things. Like, people that weren't there. She complained one morning that there were 13 people in her room the night before, and they were "masturbating, licking each others buttholes, molesting children and having sex with cats". We had to get medication for her to clear it up and once it did get cleared up, she stopped seeing things that weren't there.

 

[Aunt Carol]

UTIs are no fucking joke, let me tell you. My grandmother had one once and I guess it has a tendency to affect your brain because she started seeing things.

I do sometimes wonder how many frail and older people died of UTIs before antibiotics.

The same way that pneumonia used to be the "old man's friend," I wonder if a lot of the people who were thought to have died of strokes or especially senility were really UTIs, and that's why they declined more rapidly than demented people are observed to decline in the modern era.

Just speculation, though.