Help for a UTI?

PLEASE take the antibiotics as recommended and abstain from sex until your next cycle. I had a UTI turn into a kidney infection last year. Worst experience of my life. HORRIBLE doesn't even begin to describe the pain and misery of a full blown kidney infection. The only reason it got that bad was because I was thinking I could just ride it out. I ended up in the hospital emergency room on morphine for the pain and IV antibiotics. Just take the pills as prescribed and get rid of it early!

Secondly, if the nurse really called you "a *kitten*," you should file a complaint. It's not he place to say something that rude or insensitive to you. I had a UTI last year (see above), and I'm happily married and faithful.

The nurse was unprofessional.

Bactrim should be compatible with your antibiotic, I believe the antibiotic they prescribe is Flagyl. Should be good to go. In case you still want to be active, use protection.

You're doing the right thing by drinking water and cranberry juice, that can help flush it. However, I'd go with taking the antibiotics as they are prescribed.

Also, always urinate after sexual activity, it can help with avoiding a UTI after sexual contact.

First off, I agree with taking your antibiotics if your culture was positive.

Another option to help keep urinary tract healthy is below. THIS IS NOT A CURE - This is from a naturopath my mother uses - and she used to have chronic UTI before she started the cranberry supplements, and adds this in every once and a while. If you don't grow your own parsley, then the fresh from the grocery or farmers market works too:

"Treatments that Assist Healing UTI

Parsley tea is a helpful treatment which has been a used traditionally to treat urinary tract infection, kidney stones, and liver, bladder and prostrate problems. The Cherokee Indians, who learned of its medicinal value from the settlers, drank parsley tea for kidney and bladder pain, and dropsy (edema, or water retention).

It is best to use fresh parsley, including the stems, to make a tea. But if you can get the roots as well it will make the treatment even more potent and helpful. Drink 2 cups per day for 7 days to help the pain of a urinary tract infection. Your symptoms will greatly decrease after 3 days, but continue for 4 more days.

If you are pregnant, parsley oil, juice, and seeds should be avoided because they are uterine stimulants, but the tea recommended below is quite safe to drink.

Do not continue drinking 2 cups of tea for long periods of time, past 7 days, since it is diuretic, meaning it makes your body lose water along with important minerals.

Ensure your drinking water and water used for cooking is from a natural source like "true" Spring water or regular tap water filtered by a charcoal filter like Brita or PUR brands, that filter out chlorine and other contaminants but not all of the natural minerals from Nature.

How to make Parsley Tea

Boil 4 cups of non-chlorinated water.
Remove the water from the heat.
Mince (cut up finely) 4 heaping teaspoons of fresh parsley (including stems, & roots if you can get them).
Steep 20 minutes and then strain it.
Drink hot or cold, and it may be reheated without harming it. It will keep in the refrigerator for about 5 days.
Drink 2 cups throughout the course of one day, for 7 days only."

take the bactrim, you can symptom-less and next thing you know its in your kidneys and you have to be hospitalized. Just use a condom or abstain for 5 days and you should be good as new.