Frequent UTI's

Hi
Txmom4ever

I have never had repeated problems with cystic ovaries that I know of, so can't comment on that. You don't say how old you are. Is peri/menopause a possible factor.

I am 55, 3 vaginal deliveries, 3 significant prolapses. I have had repeated UTI's in the past, and have found that I have had very few in the last three years or so. I used to get a lot of thrush and/or other vulval and vaginal irritation as well. Since I have been using WW posture it has basically resolved. When I thought about it, it was probably all to do with my vulva being in constant contact with my knickers.

I use several techniques now, automatically, to reduce this contact, prevent other chafing and heal it up.

WW posture 16/7 where possible (not when sleeping)
Change knickers during the day if any faecal staining or significant discharge.
Always use cotton knickers.
Don't wear knickers at all sometimes.
Wear skirts instead of trousers, no rubbing and good ventilation.
Lowering amount of fast-digesting carbohydrates in diet, so blood is not saturated in sugar to feed bugs eg very sweet foods, refined flours and grains.
Lubricant to stop rubbing when I am feeling dry during the day (WW balms)
Plenty of foreplay before sexual penetration and extra lubricant if necessary to prevent chafing (DH is seriously circumcised)
Choose sex positions carefully to prevent local damage and use WW posture during sex for better vaginal firmness, the tight drum effect (see Christine's book).
Vitamin E cream twice daily to heal any chafing that happens.

You don't say that you currently have a UTI? Do you get them cultured so the doctor knows what he is treating? Some other irritations and nerve irritations mimic UTI's. I have found that antibiotics are the only thing that will clear a UTI, then it is a matter of stopping them from happening again with the above techniques. Also, make sure you use an oral probiotic for a month or so when you have finished the antibiotics, to get the good bacteria re-established all over your body after the antibiotics have done their carnage. This will surely have a spillover for recovering your immune system as well. I think the immune system just packs it in after working so hard on all the bugs, and coping with your body being run down. Also, don't expect improvements immediately. Sometimes the body takes a while to adjust to posture, and I am sure that metabolic adjustments take a while to work too, at least several weeks. None of this stuff I have suggested can do you any harm at all (as long as you are judicious with the use of products that are new to your body, and follow the label instructions.)

Re your bladder, it (and other pelvic organs) is held up not by muscles, but by a one piece, 3 dimensional network of fascia, which is kind of like a dense spiders web with compartments for each organ. All the organs in the body have a fascial framework around them. It is kind of like the endoskeleton inside a crab's body, except that it is floppy and soft in a human. It is damage to the fascia which causes the bladder and other organs to collapse into the vagina, nothing to do with muscles at all. Fascia cannot be repaired and it does not seem to heal itself to any great degree. It is a little like pantihose, once damaged it is never the same again. Bladder suspension is sort of like putting one end of a piece of string around your toe and tying the other end around your waist to stop your foot from waving around. Your leg waves around instead and you have to hop on the other foot, cos the tied up foot can't move properly any more. Eventually you will wish you could cut the string, or the string breaks and you are back where you started, going back to the doctor for another resuspension (except with a heap of scar tissue to contend with as well)!

Read Christine's book, Saving the Whole Woman , 2nd edition, for a better explanation of the different things you have in your pelvic cavity, and their functions. You might also like to visit the homepage, www.wholewoman.com, and check out the FAQ's for a simplified introduction to the sort of things you will find in the book. It all makes sense when you read the book.

*Just remember that WW posture is at the heart of lifting your pelvic organs out of the danger zone.* If you don't address your posture, little else will change. Come back with more questions later.

Cheers

Louise

by getting on hands and knees to pee. every single time. That might help.

Apparently drinking cranberry juice can tave off UTIs. My mother used to have it alot.

To make sure you empty your bladder is a must as if you don't then some urine is kept and bacterias and toxins are kept and that's not good.

I find that many things help.

No1 - Posture, this gives your bladder a lift off the urethra all the time, and this can help to empty bladder I find.

No2 - I don't know why or how this helped but one day i was sitting on toilet and just pushed self back a little on the seat, and lo and behold - bladder emptied, it might be as it changed the angle of the urethra or something. Usually with a bad Cystocele you have a urethrocele and that squishes it and makes life hard.

I - Like you have a grade 3 cystocele and a bowel and uterine prolapse. I do not think I have the cyst though.

No3 - I don't wear tight clothes around the belly, I used to specially wear clothes bought for purpose but have lost so muvh weight can wear my now too big clothes at the moment until they start to fall off. lol But I know that tight clothes (waistbands) DO make things worse as I bought a pair of trousers to make me feel good about myself as they were so much smaller tha previous pairs - But my Cystocele felt TERRIBLE within the hour - So they got dumped... So looser clothing really does help also.

I hope that helps a little :-)

Sue

Sometimes you are holding someone else's heart whithin your hands. You can drop that heart & bruise it. You can squash that heart & hurt it. Or you can stomp on it & totally annihalate it. You stomp on that heart or bruise it. It can forever be changed.

i wear yoga pants for comfort.
They are stretchy and made of cotton...they "give" when sitting etc.
i'm small, but buy size medium and just roll up the pant legs.
The kind i buy are draw string pants so the waist is adjustable
or you can roll it down.
i look for "long" tops to cover up my pants and bottom!
Yoga pants can be pricey but i buy mine for $10 when they go on sale
at www.gaiam.com, or i find them at Target stores.
Gaiam.com has them in different colors besides black.