More prone to UTI/kidney infection when on your period?!
Question: I almost always get what feels like a UTI when I'm on my period.. then it goes away when my period does.
Does this happen to anyone else?
Maybe it's not really a UTI it just feels like one?
The urge to urinate when you go about two drops and the weird burning feeling?
Answers: I almost always get what feels like a UTI when I'm on my period.. then it goes away when my period does.
Does this happen to anyone else?
Maybe it's not really a UTI it just feels like one?
The urge to urinate when you go about two drops and the weird burning feeling?
Here is a excerpt from(http://www.goaskalice.columbia.edu/2416....
regarding this issue:
"If your diagnosis {of a UTI} is being made solely on the basis of your symptoms, then what you have is likely not caused by a urinary tract infection. Irritation to spermicide and/or condoms is one possibility. Others include a vaginal infection that is irritating to the urethra, or an anatomical predisposition that causes the urethra to get compressed during intercourse. A pelvic exam, rarely done when diagnosing a UTI, can identify the presence of these two possible causes.
Since you wrote that you get a UTI on a monthly basis, perhaps your symptoms are cyclical and related to your period. Intercourse during menstruation often precipitates a UTI because blood is a medium where bacteria thrive.
Your health care provider can help you to find out if your UTIs are recurrent infections, meaning infections with the same organism that are inadequately treated, or re-infections after adequate treatment and a cure. One reason why otherwise healthy women get repeated infections is because previous infections can damage the internal lining of the bladder, called the mucosa, which may necessitate longer courses of antibiotic treatment. The mucosa is an essential barrier to the bacteria that normally enter the bladder. Treatment in this manner allows healing so that simpler measures will work more effectively the next time there's an infection.
Hope this helps!
Periods most likely are not the cause. If you are sexually active that can cause it. However it's unusual for it to come and go. Start drinking cranberry juice until your doctor can check you. Drinking cranberry juice won't hurt, and it might help. If you are using this uti, all I have read, and all I know about it is not good. I've heard a lot of horror stories. Ranging from losing the string to remove it, to losing the ability to have kids. I have another idea for pregnancy protection I'd like to share with you. It's called a diaphragm. It works without the hormones so you don't end up with hormonal craziness, or worse. It's like a female condom, you can't feel or see it and neither can he. You put a little spermicide on the rim, which seals it and kills any trouble makers. If you follow directions as to how to use it exactly, it's as effective as the pill. The doctor will fit it to get the right size and to show you how to put it in. It's easier than to remember to take a pill everyday, you only have to remember it when you will have sex. Or it won't work at all, of course. If periods are an issue regarding sex, it won't be anymore. The diaphragm holds the blood over night. It was my favorite bc method. However like the pill, it doesn't protect against std's, or the possibility of getting a disease that will kill you.
Peace