1. How long do you guys prop up your legs, if you do at all?
2. When I went to pee after 20 minutes a lot of gunk came out, as usual. I was looking at it thinking "is this stuff REALLY useless? Did the sperm really get out already?" Or am I supposed to walk around trying to hold it in as long as possible? Cuz that's just a mess waiting to happen...
As usual I will prepay for your wisdom with a cute photo. Thanks in advance!
Re: TMI Question - legs in the air
That stuff that leaks out afterwards is NOT sperm, it's the fluid that carries the sperm (semen) and is not needed to be held in as long as possible. Seriously, any sperm that's worth trying to save has already started to make its way in as soon as it was deposited. Anything that might come out once you get up wasn't making it to begin with.
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The sperm that needs to be there immediately goes where it needs to be. The stuff that comes out is sperm that had no chance and just fluid sperm needs to survive.
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It's not your fault, but this shit drives me insane. People don't understand how real antibiotic resistance is and how were resorting to antibiotics with horrid side effects that used to only be a last resort. I would strongly encourage you to rethink how frequently you take that macrobid.
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It's not "bullshit crap" if it works for the majority of the population and is the first line of defense. I'm not saying abusing antibiotics won't work, because yeah it will- it's creating a hostile environment for ANY bacteria. But you cannot say for a second that it's not creating microbial resistance. Just because you were about to do it doesn't make it an ideal situation for everyone. You're speaking to someone who's also suffered from frequent UTIs- I believe we spoke about this in another thread months ago. Knowing what I know, I would never risk microbial resistance and possibly not responding to an antibiotic should I ever come down with a multi strain resistant disease. And that is what I was telling her. Maybe she didn't know. You know how many people come to this board using meds without proper background info...
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It's all good lady! I go nurse mode too hard sometimes. Mobile bumping so no gifs- I suck.
Back when I was afflicted with this, I tried all the alternatives. Handwash before bathroom, mega-dose on vitamin C until my pores oozed the smell of oranges, etc.
None worked, and every month, I was in tears every time I tried to urinate. In.Tears. It feels like passing magma. If I was super lucky, I also had the joy of pissing blood.
For a while, the only thing that made it go away (and life worth living) was constant antibiotic therapy. And I don't believe for a moment that any other human would turn up their nose at the same therapy if they experienced this. You'd be begging your doc, and flicking off anyone who judged you for not enduring pissing razorblades on the daily.
Also, if someone somehow where some super human who resisted all pain, they'd earn themselves bladder scarring, and eventual failure. Bonus points if it travels to their kidneys and destroy those too.
ETA: *hugs* to Zoeygirl for eduring this condition. I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy.
No one is talking about you, you self centered dolt. You told her not to take and are acting like it's the most idiotic thing ever. Some people have issues beyond what you have, but you have
your head so far up your ass you can't realize that.
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"Or be like janda and have issues with my bladder even when there's no infection because I can't be bothered to consider some preventative steps" that was YOU, calling me by NAME, on the condition I came down with because according to you I didn't take preventative steps. I appreciate the name calling though, as typical for you to revert to because someone provided a valid scientific argument but your ego needs an entire board of its own and you can't fucking admit that you don't know HALF as much as you think you do.
Keep slicing my arguments and piecing them together to be what fits your seriously delusional frame of mind.
And head up my ass? Pot, meet kettle.
I'm done here. You're too dense to understand that someone discussing side effects of a medication doesn't require name calling and insults.
Samantha - 4/5/2017