Um.. I wet the bloody bed

What's happening with your gallstones? I have just had my gallbladder out and for the last few months before I have had constant UTIs linked to gallstone attacks . I never used to have UTIs at all, despite not really drinking enough.

This. Find the time to wee through the day. You risk doing yourself serious damage. I hope you feel better. Take care.

I wouldn’t drink a pint every 20 mins
maybe 200ml of water an hour?

As your own employer, you have to talk to yourself about things large employers rightly have policies for.

Your location does not sound ideal at all not only from a toilet provision perspective, but also a lone working perspective, as you say the other businesses are shut when you are open. It sounds very isolated.

I would look into other premises as a minimum, but this may be a wake-up call to review your working practices more generally.

Are you one of the roadside chip butties/bacon sandwich/ cup of tea type places?

I’m trying to work out what the business is that would get enough trade yet is an hour from any kind of area built up enough to have a pharmacy.

You have an awful employer !! 😂

I'm going to go against the grain here and say not a UTI but probably urethral irritation due to concentrated urine which has burned inside your urethra. It happens as you get older the the tissue down there gets more sensitive.
Same treatment though, stay hydrated. Try vagisil cream if it stings, or any barrier cream will help, even Vaseline.
I get this all the time 😞

Everyone’s given lots of good advice already (and pointed out not to have a pint every 20 mins as that can bloody harm you)

Something my midwife told me that might help rather than having to wee in the bath.

Couple of drops of tea tree oil in a jug of warm water, pour it on you as you go for a wee, pat dry. Can really help with any discomfort. Less effort than a bath. Would imagine it would also help with a UTI.

If you’re going to drink more regularly op then yes to the pharmacy and the cranberry juice, but also see if you can get an hydration sachets or tablets too as if you’re drinking more regularly this will have lots of electrolytes etc so you’re not just flushing your system with water and flushing the good stuff with it

Geez, yes people should drink plenty of liquids, but can I please reiterate that you DO NOT drink a pint every 20 mins. People have died doing this! It's rare, but google "water intoxication".

This. Do not wait for a GP, by the time you get an appointment, it could travel to your kidneys. And for all those 'oh, no, don't take antibiotics, it will promote antibiotic resistance', tell them that apparently, dermatologists prescribe them, long-term, at a drop of a hat, for zits!

Definitely sounds like a urinary tract infection or kidney infection. Get to the GP

Please don't be me. I've always been shocking at "not weeing" because I hated going when anyone else could hear!
As a result, I've suffered from UTIs all my life.
It's only now, in my twilight years, that I have stopped suffering because I no longer care what anyone thinks and I have bigger things to worry about! I also now know, a lack of fluids can damage your kidneys.

@Josette77 yes, I know that, but if she's being paid to work in the same place three days a week as a chef, they still will have other staff who need to use the toilet.

I very much doubt she's cooking, serving customers, taking orders and doing front of house all on her own - so where do the other staff go?

Push for some decent lighting to get to the toilet.
Or a large brught torch.
Surely someone cabt hold the fort while you go for a quick pee.
I have Kidney damage from childhood its badly scarred, it is a unpleasant poking sensation you do nit want.
No job however important can wait while a human is more important to complete daily functions.

Hehe I came onto give the standard UTI /drink more response

but the many people saying what job could possibly mean that, amused me as a dr .... v much our job. When I'm on my 13h oncall days I'll drink my cup of tea at 6am, often my next drink is 8pm when we finish shift. Not really practical to walk off mid anaesthetic and most commonly the next one has arrived before dropped the previous patient to recovery. They did a comical attempt for the Christmas edition of bmj a few yrs back comparing drop in kidney function for drs working on icu vs icu pts during a shift, and in nearly all cases ours was worse

She's her employer.

Also wondering about customer toilet. Could you get a posh portaloo?

OP - just have in the back of your mind an awareness of the symptoms of Cauda Equina too. Fingers crossed it gets sorted by healthier hydration and more sensible loo breaks but if it carries on you should get medical advice.

Now you’ve given yourself a thorough telling off and vowed to do better in future, you need to make haste to that chemist and get yourself sorted. Moron indeed.

Where do your customers go to the toilet? Surely there should be some provision for them?