Please help. Unbearable cystitis/ UTI

[Leabee1234]

All night I've been awake on the toilet as I have a constant urge to pee and it's just trickling out and burning. I sat in a warm bath for an hour and it hasn't helped. I've drank almost 3 litres of water and I still feel awful - the constant urge to pee and it burning is breaking me! Please help or provide an advice. I need to get up soon with my toddler and get him ready for nursery and I feel like i cant move off the toilet !

I really feel your pain. I have only have this couple of times but it’s unbearable. You can now get treatment over the counter at pharmacies and do not have to see GP. The cost is same as prescription. Good luck.

I had a UTI for the first time a few weeks ago & I was shocked by how painful it was. Nothing helped me except antibiotics, I'm afraid. I got mine via the out of hours doctor - describing the symptoms over the phone was enough for them to email a prescription to my chemist of choice!

Medical advice now op.
Hope you feel better soon.

You poor thing, I can empathise it’s absolute agony, get to chemist for antibiotics, drinking Lemon Barley water can help a little in the meantime, but do not drink Cranberry Juice, that will make it worse. I hope you feel better soon.

Urgh, it's awful isn't it. I'm quite prone to it for some reason and have had it loads. It's gross but if you can drink a couple of pints of water with half a teaspoon of bicarb in each, that should bring down the acidity of your wee and make it a bit less sore to wee.

I'd get antibiotics sorted though if I were you. If you leave it too long it'll turn into a kidney infection and trust me, you really do not want that.

I get them a lot and it’s so painful.

Try two paracetamol and two ibuprofen together (eat something with the ibuprofen) it helps me manage to move around with less pain.

A hot water bottle between my legs works wonders with the painkillers if I can lie down, as you can’t then this is a bit random but I put a self heating pad (like you get for period or back pain that’s adhesive and you stick on your back and warms up) wear trousers and put it between your trousers and underwear. I sometimes wear a pantyliner in my underwear as they can get quite hot and it blocks some of the heat.

You can get sachets to help clear it up at the chemist and have them with cranberry juice.

You have my sympathy and I hope you feel better soon.

Edited to add after seeing a pp, I forgot to mention getting antibiotics! I agree to make sure you do. I’ve had kidney infections before for leaving it untreated.

I feel your pain as a chronic sufferer! Some things that may help whilst you wait for antibiotics are a hot water bottle and some paracetamol to take the edge off. You can also get cystitis sachets that also helps take the edge off when you wee, just be careful as they aren’t suitable for everyone. In England there’s a new pharmacy service called pharmacy first, it’s designed so more pharmacists can offer more services to free up GP appointments. One of those is prescribing antibiotics for uncomplicated UTIS. It may be worth phoning your local pharmacy and see if they offer this service. It may be a quicker option. Boots also offer a same day collection of antibiotics, you just complete a form online and then you go into store to collect. I hope you start to feel better soon because they are hell!

The pharmacist at your local chemist can prescribe antibiotics for this, please go there as soon as they open.
UTIs are so painful, huge sympathies and hugs to you

I feel your pain! It’s terrible! Get Googling for the first pharmacy that’s open. You ought to be feeling a lot better within a few hours. Take painkillers for now.

This is a really fantastic change, by the way, and ought to be celebrated. Until recently it could be days to get a doctor’s appointment for antibiotics, and for me (very prone to UTIs after a pregnancy related urethral prolapse) this led twice to kidney infections.

Always have these in the house, when I’d feel it coming on, I’d take one and usually mangage to escape a full blow episode of it : www.superdrug.com/health/womens-intimate-health-care/cystitis-treatment/canesoasis-cystitis-relief-cranberry-flavour-6-sachets/p/302722?gclsrc=aw.ds&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=18158841731&gbraid=0AAAAADp4mz9ObrQX77_aYCMJJgHYK6tUz&gclid=Cj0KCQjwuvrBBhDcARIsAKRrkjdaM8HxQWQ-kOqJFsE2m6LfHh3i297qejNTD4zAWLMQn62c2Erj6kcaAgXGEALw_wcB

Try Cantharis homeopathic remedy; it works for me when I’ve had cystitis. It’s

if you have no chronic health problems eg heart or kidneys, take half a teaspoon of soda bicarbonate (from baking cupboard) in a small glass of water. It will reduce urine acidity and give you relief whilst you sort out some antibiotics via pharmacy or GP xx

It sounds ridiculous, but try a hot water bottle on the soles of your feet. I can’t remember where I read about it, but it honestly works to reduce the ‘urgent’ feeling.

Longer term, get d-mannose tablets and take them before and after sex, or at the very first sign of cystitis. I call them ‘magic tablets’.

I used to sit on the toilet for hours too. Then realised that for me the pain is worse when my bladder is empty. So if I get uti now I try to keep my bladder partially full until I can get antibiotics inside me.

I think pharmacies can prescribe for uti now. Either way antibiotics asap is probably the only thing that will help.

Hope you feel better soon

Antibiotics & lots of cranberry juice.

Hope you feel better soon x

Definitely pharmacy for antibiotics and lots of fluids. If you get them chronically d-mannose is a great supplement and worked to basically cure my chronic cystitis.

If it definitely is a UTI pop into a chemist and ask for a course of antibiotics, it'll probably only be a 3 day course so I'd equally do a urine sample and take it to your Dr's and ask for it to be sent off for testing.

I know that cranberry juice gets mixed views but I've personally found the Biona cranberry juice really effective for getting rid of cystitis without antibiotics. Supermarket Cranberry won't do. It needs to be completely free of added sugar, just pure cranberry. It's about £10 a bottle though!! I buy two. You need to drink a certain quantity for it to be effective.

Drink water with bicarbonate soda. Drink lots.

No warm water anywhere. Do not give the bacteria a comfy bed. Cool showers with water always flowing front to back.

When on the toilet, pour water from front to back as you urinate while you lean back a little. If it’s difficult to do this sitting on a toilet, sit in a bath or shower.

Painkillers.

When you are well, go to the toilet after sex, urinate and pour cool water over. Use lots of lube for sex to keep everything smooth and gentle.

Thanks so much everyone. I went to chemist at 9am and got some antibiotics nitrofurantoin I think they're called. Which have helped within a few hours ! However they've made me feel quite drowsy and unwell but I'd rather feel drowsy than the UTI. It has calmed down. It was hell! X

Nitrofurantoin is the business, in my opinion - you can buy it online and keep it in stock for emergencies. Really glad you're feeling a bit better OP.

@Leabee1234 so pleased you got treatment, keep drinking too. Hope your better soon.

Anyone on the UK you know you can now use the Boots website for thrush etc and get antibiotics really quickly outside the GP process.

UTIs are horrible!! I second the use of D mannose for long term prevention if you start to suffer regularly. I find that the more I go to the toilet the more I seem to feel the urge and the more it burns when I do. I used to note the time when I went and then not let myself go again for another hour. Hope the antibiotics kick in fast