Water infection question

[Chickadee]

I constantly want to spend a penny but have none of the passing broken glass feeling.

Is it possible to have a water infection, like cystitis, but without any pain?

Thanks all

[Sqad]

No pain...then no cystitis.

What you are describing is a degree of stress incontinence with a degree of retention with overflow probably due to a complication of childbirth e.g cystocoel.

[Meg888]

I've got the broken glass feeling - been getting it on & off since sunday - just a couple of hours at a time; but today it's really bad. I've got some cysticalm, just had one, but it's awful - are there any other quick fixes rather than going to the doc's?

[Sqad]

Meg....try Cranberry Juice tablets, and drink plenty of fluid. Give it a week if there is no improvement, then see your GP.

[Meg888]

Thanks Sqad - I've some cranberry soluble solution which I've to take 3 times daily, shall I take tablets on top or just stay as I am?

[Sqad]

Meg....I would take both tablets and the juice.

[ladyalex]

I wouldn't wait for a week.
A day maybe, but if it wasn't significantly better in 24 hours I'd go and get the antibiotics.
Cystitis is the absolute pits.

[Sqad]

ladyalex........there is nothing in the posts to suggest that it is cystitis...

[ladyalex]

CHickadee's post doesn't suggest cystitis, but Meg is peeing broken glass, which sounds pretty diagnostic to me...

[RATTER15]

Apparently drinking a glass of cranberry juice everyday may help to prevent bladder problems etc but once you have an infection it will do nothing to ease or cure it.

[Sqad]

ladyalex.......maybe. I was getting confused with the symptoms of Chickadee...........you are correct.

[ladyalex]

:-)) sqad

[pastafreak]

I used to get cystitis when I was younger,and found that drinking cranberry juice did alleviate the symptoms considerably, along with pain relief.

[RATTER15]

Pastafreak, I couldnt possibly be wrong I have just undertaken a UTI course provided by our NHS service. :)xx

[daffy654]

I can't drink Cranberry juice when I have cystitis, it dries my mouth out terribly! I usually stick to Robinson's Lemon Barley juice. If that doesn't work I buy the sachets of stuff from the chemist and i'm usually better within 24 hours, if not then antibiotics from the GP.

[237SJ]

I was plagued by cystitis as a child. If I got cold on the lower half of my body I got it. If I sat on a cold wall or a stone step for more than a couple of minutes I got it. I had all sorts of tests in hospital but they never found anything untoward. The doctor said I would grow out of it and I did. The last time I had it was because I walked from a car park to a pub in February cold weather without a coat. That was enough to give me cystitis. I feel for anyone who gets it. They say that if you keep going to the loo when your bladder isn`t full you can educate it to want to keep emptying. My mate has that problem. She goes to the loo about every 30 mins and it has become a habit. Maybe that is the situation with the OP