Cystitis.

Snap! I’ve had it for almost 2 weeks and feel awful. I’m now on Macrobid.

When I was young I used to get it and bleed with it. It’s the most awful complaint and I despair when I feel it coming on. I’ll definitely look up dMannose.

And take cranberry tablets too!

I had cystitis on and off for the whole of my sexually active life it is the most debilitating problem and I once remember sleeping on the bathroom floor

Shelflife

Cystitis is very unpleasant. I had a few infections , and always wanted wanted to wee! Each step I took felt like something bouncing on a full bladder. Really difficult during the night , regardless of bed time or how much fluid I took I was up on the dot every two hours to visit the bathroom, exhausting! As for car journeys it was a nightmare constantly needing a service station . Eventually my GP prescribed vagifem , a vaginal tablet now used twice a week. What an amazing change , I now have what I describe as a normal bladder. If on a long journey and I need the loo I can manage in a normal way ie , I need to go but it's not so urgent!! It has transformed my life !!

I was like that with the atrophy. Was always needing the loo and car journeys were a nightmare. I think, because it got worse over time it became normalised.

I was given Macrobid for a supposedly uti , they were too strong for me caused so many problems , pains in stomach nausea headache, four days later results came back from lab I didn’t have a infection after all, was all clear, I’m still experiencing problems concerning the tabs

Cystitis is very unpleasant. I had a few infections , and always wanted wanted to wee! Each step I took felt like something bouncing on a full bladder. Really difficult during the night , regardless of bed time or how much fluid I took I was up on the dot every two hours to visit the bathroom, exhausting! As for car journeys it was a nightmare constantly needing a service station . Eventually my GP prescribed vagifem , a vaginal tablet now used twice a week. What an amazing change , I now have what I describe as a normal bladder. If on a long journey and I need the loo I can manage in a normal way ie , I need to go but it's not so urgent!! It has transformed my life !!

The pain has gone, thank you, but I am very weak and wobbly and I sleep a lot

You poor thing - it is so miserable. Do you still have symptoms or is it settling?

Trimethoprim works best for me.

GP gave me MacroBID which did the trick quickly. But this morning I could not even wash my hair. It is so debilitating. But Thank you MayBee I might get some of that in case

Can I recommend dMannose that I get from a company called sweet cures. A few years ago I kept getting cystitis and it really helped. It turned out that it was being caused by vaginal atrophy which I’d been suffering from for ages without realising it. I always keep some dMannose to hand these days although, thankfully I don’t get cystitis now. Someone’s else I know says dMannose has been a life changer for her. Cystitis is horrible, isn’t it.