UTI help!! please!!

[ani]

Hi All,

gosh, I need a bit of encouragement. I got a urinary tract infection last week...well, going on two weeks ago this friday. I've only had one before about 10 years ago and I took antibiotics for it and (a one-time dose) and it completely went away. This time, though, it got really bad really fast (like my last one) so I took the antibiotics but they don't seem to be working. It's tamed, but I was on them for 8 days, I just finished the prescription and I still feel "full" most of the time.

I was having a little melt down last night.

feeling like I'm really eating well (I've been cleansing since it came on), I've read about good really alkalizing foods, I have been drinking pasturized (i'm assuming, from a jar) cranberry juice (pure) which i'm not sure is helpful or not and taking what fresh herbs I have around that are helpful, but still feeling like it's not going away...

Just hoping there are some stories about beating this thing naturally. I really don't want to go on more antibiotics but I have to work and I can't be going pee every 45 minutes (or more frequently again if it gets bad again)...

I am having a very stressful time in my life right now and I'm trying to keep calm, but having this is not helping. Feeling sort of like things are falling apart. Is there some cleanse (maybe more intense) that I can do that will still nourish me enough to keep working/being quite active?? I thought about the master cleanse, but have heard you shouldn't work too much with that.

I have also been feeling really sensitive and open and confused about why I would get something like this. I have been cat-sitting my aunts cat that had kidney issues - - and maybe this is totally out there -- but last night while I was trying to lay still and let go and feel gratitude for life while my bladder pulsed, it came to me that maybe I am picking up on his struggles? could some of his issues/stress be manifesting in me? I find that I tend to pick up on people's energies and feel their emotions. I am not sure what to do about that either, and it's sort of been an issue needing dealing with for a while.

Any advice about anything would be soooooooooooooooooooooooo greatly appreciated....

Please and thank you, beautiful, wise, striving folk....
big love

[Erawtica]

A few things ~ is the cranberry juice organic and unfiltered or something like Ocean Spray which really has no juice and contains sugar?

If you're doing ANY sugar at all, stop!

GSE ~ Grapefruit Seed extract ~ three drops in EVERYthing you drink.

Get into doing some EFT, journaling, etc. Maybe your world as you know is "falling apart"... let go. Struggling with it is most likely not going to change things. Well, changes are going to happen no matter what... so, let go.

Cat? O.k., are you cleaning the litter box? Did this start when you began caring for cat or before? If you're cleaning the box, wear a mask. You could be inhaling bacteria.

~ E ~

[HerbalEranah]

Here is my cure all remedy and it is great for UTI, which I "used to" get regularly ;-)

In 32 oz of pure water
add:
juice of 1 lemon
1 TBS. Fenugreek powder
a clove of garlic chopped

bring to a low simmer, don't boil. Strain. Drink 16 oz. in the a.m. then 16 oz. in the p.m. Do this everyday until symptoms cease. Something about this combination is a sure winner for just about any acute ailment cold, fever etc.

Also big glasses of parley tea helps too, if you have burning with urination.

HTH!

[ani]

oof.- thank you both. great advice. i have been completely off sugar and low low amounts of honey (although some i feel is helpful in my lemon stuff) but i am feeling a lot better. my friend suggested dosing with acidophilus and cranberry extract and that has worked wonders. i'm eating some kidney cleansing foods too, which i hope is helping. i just got a wicked cold on top of everything - i think from my immune being a bit low, but overall feeling much better

my bladder and kidneys feel tender and i think they'll need some loving over the next bit, but i am trying to stay positive.

great letting go advice. and about the cat. we actually recently moved his litter box to the main floor - which we really didn't want to do, but had to to stop him peeing everywhere on the floor (which is worse??!) but I havn't been cleaning it myself - but it's around. we've switched him to a pine litter - don't know if that makes a difference....!!??

change...sigh

surrender...yes, i need to practice this. maybe soon i'll be joining you all from a cabin in the woods. it's good - but intense!!

big heart
thanks

[marykays1]

Ani,

HMMMM, I posted a reply to you yesterday, but don't see it....

Pls google: d-mannose urinary tract bladder

d-mannose is a glyconutrient that the cooties in your urinary tract LOOOVE---a very simple sugar. Since they love it so much, when it enters your body, they flock to it, and are eliminated when it leaves your body.

I have read of a girl who was on antibiotics for much of her life, that was instantly cured with d-mannose. Never tried it myself/don't have any UT probs....just know about it from reading.

HTH,

Mary Kay

[yumyum]

none of those methods are that effective and take too long if they are. i found out Uva Ursi capsules are the best (from one of my favorite websites) and sure enough it was gone in 1 day. no wasting time. no wasting money. no numerous products. just one very inexpensive supplement. its like a few dollars.