cystitis every time we have sex....help!

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Does anyone have any answers that might help me?
For the past 5 years or so I've been getting cystitis every time my DH and I have sex. Its getting so that I really don't want to do it anymore and this is not good!
I always shower & pee before and after, drink pints of water every day but it does not seem to help.

It usually starts the next morning, I get that 'feeling' so I take cymalon or equivalent, drink lots, wee lots, have a warm bath etc etc but I always end up having to get ABs, I've had them so many times now I've lost count.
It gets so that my legs ache and I'm hot and feverish if I can't get the ABs fast enough.

Is there anything you guys can suggest that I can do to prevent this, its ruining my sex life - am I allergic to DH??

Hi i used to get bad UTIs after sex everytime without fail. I also washed after sex and showered but that didnt help. Since then i have had cystoscopy where the doctors stretched my waterpipes / uretha away from my bladder. Since then i have not had a single UTI and it has been 1.5 years. However i do still now sometimes get urine infection-like pain especially if i dont drink enough water so I keep myself topped up on water often. What I find really works to get rid of that annoying uncomfortable pain is to COLD blow dry my private area focusing on my uretha opening and/or squirting cold water on it via a sports cap bottle. Also to note for info, before i had a cystoscopy I used to be prescribed antibiotics for many years which starting making me resistant to anti-biotics, so instead after researching i began to use powdered cystitis relief cranberry sachets mixed with water (can be bought from supermarkets - tescos, sainsburys). These sachets were horrible to drink so instead I bought big empty capsules and poured the powder into the capsules to drink with water to avoid tasting the horrible metal tasting drink. I told my doctor about this and he was surprised why this worked for me. I wish you the best of luck!