#utis

/sarcastic

They come from dehydration, not peeing when you gotta, eating to much sugar, and not chamging your underwear enough.

They can cause burning when you pee, fever, hallucinations and even death.

At one point, I was going to urgent care with UTI symptoms every four to seven weeks. I didn’t have a primary-care doctor, so I saw a rotating cast of urgent-care physicians. I was always given a prescription for antibiotics. Because I was embarrassed to return to the same place too many times, I sometimes switched up which urgent care I visited — the one 10 minutes away, 15 minutes away, or 20 minutes away — although I was honest about how often I was unwell. Even when I didn’t have a UTI, the antibiotics I took invariably gave me a yeast infection, and my body felt like it had been thrown into a semi-permanent state of sickness that medication wasn’t able to reach. It’s not just me. For more and more patients, getting a single UTI leads to a recurrent cycle of infections that can last for years.

UTIs are one of the most common infections among women; at least 30 million prescriptions are written for them every year. These drugs, however, are becoming less effective. One study found that more than 92 percent of bacteria that cause UTIs are resistant to at least one antibiotic already, and almost 80 percent are resistant to at least two.

Rising rates of antibiotic resistance means UTIs are becoming an increasingly difficult infection to treat. Between 1990 and 2019, the number of cases worldwide increased by 60 percent. Hospitalization rates have also risen dramatically: Now, the infection lands over 600,000 people in the hospital in the U.S. every year. Though usually regarded as a nuisance, albeit a painful one, UTIs are turning into a complicated illness for a growing number of the population. It turns out the way we treat them may be part of the problem.

Urinary tract infections are thought to occur when bacteria, usually E. coli, gets into the urethra, the bladder, or some other portion of the urinary system and colonizes it. People with vaginas are more prone to UTIs because their urethras are shorter, which makes it easier for bacteria to move up the urinary tract. While not strictly considered sexually transmitted, sex creates ample opportunity for bacteria to enter the urethra and can be a contributing factor to infection. Up to 8 percent of UTI cases every year in the U.S., or approximately half a million infections, result from E. coli from farmed turkey, chicken, and pork. In these cases, bacteria that may already be drug-resistant is transferred directly into the gut microbiome of human consumers.

UTIs can be barely noticeable for some people and excruciating for others. Most are accompanied by stomach- and backaches, pain while urinating, and insistent pressure to use the bathroom, even when there’s nothing left to expel. If the infection worsens, fever, vomiting, or even kidney infection can follow. After a single UTI, between 30 and 44 percent of women will experience a second infection; for women who have already had two UTIs within six months, half will go on to develop a third.

Certain prevention advice is common, and I heard plenty of it while I cycled in and out of urgent care: Urinate immediately after sex, don’t sit in a wet swimsuit, wipe properly when using the bathroom. Even all of these practical measures won’t prevent a UTI, however. Researchers now think that one of the best predictors for getting a UTI is simply having had one before.

“Here’s the thing that frustrates me,” says Dr. Scott Hultgren, a professor of molecular microbiology and the director of the Center for Women’s Infectious Disease Research at Washington University. “The advice from the doctor for women getting UTIs over and over and over is ‘you’re wiping wrong.’ That’s not what’s happening! It’s nothing to do with wiping or hygiene. It’s the nature of the disease.” Hultgren gets emails every week from women desperate for answers. So does Dr. Kalpana Gupta, an infectious-disease specialist and professor of medicine at Boston University who has spent more than two decades researching how to improve the treatment and prevention of UTIs. Some of these women ask her if showering before and after sex will help. “Especially in otherwise healthy adult women, when they have recurrent episodes of UTI, I think the most important thing is for them to understand that it’s not their fault; it’s not something that they’re doing,” Gupta says. “We really need to do our best to help people realize that it does not mean that they’re dirty or there’s something wrong with them.” The bacteria that causes UTI is present at the microbial level. “It’s not as simple as just washing this away,” Gupta adds.

I think I've figured out the solution to my frequent UTIs, besides hyper-cleanliness. I need to stuff my pussy with a plug every day to get it used to stretching around a cock.

So far I haven't gotten any UTIs from this kind of penetration (they are glass plugs).

Also they are the perfect size to fit my pussy but not irritate my urethral sponge area, which is quite big i think in comparison to others.

Still haven't had sex yet, so only time will tell.

Also I'm on Hiprex (Prescription strength methenamine) which I think is doing a very goos job at keeping infections at bay.