Help! I'm about at the point where I no longer want my husband to touch me...
I don't have bladder problems on a regular basis, but it seems that any time we have "active" sex -- longer, more involved, vigorous, using different positions, whatever -- I end up a couple days later with another UTI. He travels frequently for work, so we aren't together all that often and it's easy to see the causal relationship between the two. I regularly empty my bladder before and after, and we both clean ourselves before now, too. (Makes for great spontaneity! )
I've had 5-6 UTI's now in the past year. My PCP is not interested in simply prescribing a prophylactic antibiotic, and has suggested that I see a urologist to find out if I'm not emptying my bladder completely. If I truly thought that was the answer, I would go in a heartbeat, but I can't understand why, if that's the issue, I don't get infections at other times. I can directly trace *every* UTI I've gotten in the last couple of years to a love-making session.
I know I should talk to my neuro (who's more familiar with MS issues) but he's an older man and a new-to-me doctor. I'm simply uncomfortable bringing this up to him so far.
Can anyone else relate? Would you go to the urologist? I don't know what to do, but I know I don't want to continue like this!
I don't have bladder problems on a regular basis, but it seems that any time we have "active" sex -- longer, more involved, vigorous, using different positions, whatever -- I end up a couple days later with another UTI. He travels frequently for work, so we aren't together all that often and it's easy to see the causal relationship between the two. I regularly empty my bladder before and after, and we both clean ourselves before now, too. (Makes for great spontaneity! )
I've had 5-6 UTI's now in the past year. My PCP is not interested in simply prescribing a prophylactic antibiotic, and has suggested that I see a urologist to find out if I'm not emptying my bladder completely. If I truly thought that was the answer, I would go in a heartbeat, but I can't understand why, if that's the issue, I don't get infections at other times. I can directly trace *every* UTI I've gotten in the last couple of years to a love-making session.
I know I should talk to my neuro (who's more familiar with MS issues) but he's an older man and a new-to-me doctor. I'm simply uncomfortable bringing this up to him so far.
Can anyone else relate? Would you go to the urologist? I don't know what to do, but I know I don't want to continue like this!
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