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Having Treatment For Cystitis / Uti? Will You Tell Your Partner? |
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Scott Schofield |
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Having Treatment For Cystitis / Uti? Will You Tell Your Partner?
Scott Schofield
This piece exposes a dilemma I frequently meet while talking to patients who are seeking treatment for cystitis or bladder infections, (also commonly called a UTI or urinary tract infection). It should help other victims to understand that they are not on their own, and that others are worried too
Is regular sex important to your life and in your relationships? (For the majority of us it is, even if we have trouble in admitting it -even to ourselves). The difficulty is that even if sex is not particularly significant to you personally, and you can actually say that you would be content if your relationship had no sex within it -would your partner say the same?
Tricky question eh? A true and loving partner will put up with a lot - your weight gain, your bad temper, even depression and tiredness - especially if they know that you are ill and had no control over your situation. But no sex??? For many people that would be a very real test of relationship!
You have caught and need to treat UTI. You also have a devoted long-term partner. What will you do? Do you really know him or her that well? Will they really be sympathetic and supportive? After all, a UTI or bladder infection is not like putting on a few pounds, or being cranky, or having a broken arm. Those conditions might make things tricky in bed (especially that broken arm), but at least your partner can't catch a broken arm or depression from you after a vigorous hour or so -unless they fell out of bed anyway!
But a UTI, especially a repeated UTI infection is very different! In spite of the fact that a large proportion of the population have had a UTI at some time; in spite of the fact that Cystitis Pain is very rarely life-threatening; and in spite of the fact that cystitis or UTI is not regarded as a sexual disease; - for most people it is still an embarrassing illness. No-one talks about bladder infections in mixed company!
And if you do talk about it? Well, you'll certainly separate your true friends from the rest. They'll all feel sorry for you and commiserate with you, but only your true friends will always be there to support you when you really need them. And your sexual partner? Well that's a whole new ball-game. Unlike a bad temper, UTI's and Cystitis CAN be transferred to a partner during sex.
So do you tell them? A partner who really loves you will probably understand - at first anyway - and be willing (for their sake as well as yours), to abstain from relations until treatment can be effective. The trouble is, treating cystitis with antibiotics isn't always immediate, or effective, or lasting, especially using doctor-prescribed antibiotics.
Antibiotics don't permanently get rid of the UTI's or cystitis bugs in the urinary tract that are causing the condition, and now that most doctors are prescribing ever shorter treatments with antibiotics in the interests of preventing them becoming less effective, repeated UTI's and bladder infections are much more common than they were.
In situations like this a devoted lover could steadily become less understanding, less patient and less loving. It's the way our brains are wired - if we're used to sex several times a week, and then it is withdrawn, we get tetchy, irritable and - eventually - irrational. Although we know perfectly well that having a cystitis infection isn't our partner's fault, we start to blame them and start looking for alternatives.
So one solution for the repeated UTI sufferer is not to tell their partner, but that won't work if you feel so ill because of the infection that you just don't want sex anyway. You can go to your doctor, get another prescription for antibiotics, take a massive initial dose in the hope of quickly knocking out the infection, (and risk the nasty side-effects that can result from killing off all your good bacteria in your digestive system too). Or you could look at modern alternative remedies. There is a fantastic natural cure for UTI, cystitis and persistent Bladder Infections.
It is called Mannose,or D-Mannose or even Waterfall D Mannose (no, I don't know why either). It's an extremely unusual remedy and very effective just because it works so differently from any other cystitis remedy. It passes through your urinary system, and as it goes, it sucks up all those nasty e-coli bugs clinging to your bladder walls, and holds them in suspension until you next urinate and expel them Simple eh?
In the majority of UTIs and cystitis infections, Mannose starts working in less than an hour. For most sufferers, a regular daily dose will hold Cystitis, Bladder Infections and UTI's at bay almost indefinitely. Chronic cystitis sufferers who have already had several earlier attacks will probably need to take more doses and for a longer time, but almost all sufferers will recover more quickly and more permanently than sufferers relying entirely on antibiotics. Best of all: Waterfall D-Mannose is not expensive, and needs no doctor's prescription.
There is a steadily increasing amount of interesting material about D Mannose - it is a genuine natural cure for UTI in every sense. I have a comprehensive and steadily growing Mannose Information Library on my health site, where the answers to most common questions by cystitis-sufferers are freely available. There you can learn how mannose works to treat cystitis, and also learn a lot about Cystitis, Bladder Infections and UTIs in general.
Scott Schofield, is a well known nutritional therapist. His knowledge of http://uti.healthneo.com/ natural cures for uti and http://uti.healthneo.com/cystitis_uti_an_introduction/) what causes cystitis are helping many. Visit his site for more uti / cystitis info, and to learn where you can obtain Mannose too. This article is available as a http://www.uberarticles.com/?id=16846&b=79 unique content article with free reprint rights.
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