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Posted 4/11/2011 3:41 AM (GMT 0)
sorry, I hope this isn't tmi for anyone. I had one baby carrot today during dinner, and 15 min later it was coming out the other end. I'd never seen anything move through me that quickly. Kind of took me by surprise.

Ladies, how often do you get UTIs? I seem to get them every couple of months no matter what I do to try and prevent them.
Posted 4/11/2011 4:26 AM (GMT 0)
I have never had one in my life until two weeks ago. Ended up on antibiotics - I'm blaming it on the remicade?!
Posted 4/11/2011 5:14 AM (GMT 0)
I had only 1 UTI so far in my life. It was err the week of my honeymoon back in 05 when I got home...probably tmi there too but have never had 1 before or since
Posted 4/11/2011 1:48 PM (GMT 0)
I had a period of time after my 2nd daughter was born that I got them every month after I got off my period and this lasted for months. Never knew what caused them, but that was a miserable time for me. Hugs!
Posted 4/11/2011 1:51 PM (GMT 0)
Sgirl, is it possible you have a small fistula into the bladder? Or, here we go again with the TMI - if you're having a lot of D, you may need to wash your bottom really well, front to back, every day. Most UTIs result from intestinal bacteria getting into the urethra somehow.

I have a friend who has a congenital defect in her urethra that has resulted in frequent UTIs for her whole life. She takes cranberry capsules daily and that seems to keep things healthy.
Posted 4/11/2011 6:37 PM (GMT 0)
I have had a two UTI that I can think of in the last 20 years and as for the carrot thing, I have an ileostomy and certain foods go through very quickly as they are not digested fully and so can see them in the output when I empty the bag. At worst if I go for a meal I can be emptying the starter out of the bag when I go to bathroom just after eating the main course. So yes it can happen with some foods.
Posted 4/12/2011 1:41 AM (GMT 0)
May be TMI here too, but check out when you get the UTI's and when you have sex (if you do....) I get one practically everytime I do. The doctor says that some people are just like that. Which I can tell you, really make me want to have relations.....NOT.
Posted 4/12/2011 2:58 AM (GMT 0)
Thank you for your responses. I've been having uti's since I was pregnant with my daugher. With her I'd get them every other week and so they had to put me on antibiotics the rest of my pregnancy. Then after she was born it's every couple months. I drink a lot of cranberry juice, take baths occasionally, and I will pee after sex. I talked to my GI about it today when I saw him, and he said if there's no air/feces while I'm peeing then it's not a fistula. So, idk, I'd only had one uti prior to my daughter. Maybe I'm just going to be prone to them the rest of my life.
Posted 4/12/2011 4:39 AM (GMT 0)
Can't even remember the last time I had one & stopped menstruating too thanks to years of Malnourishment
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