I have written about urinary tract infection (cystitis) here . This time I will tell you in detail about my first experience with recurrent urinary tract infections. I suffered month after month for two years without knowing why or how I got rid of it. I explained my situation years later when I came into contact with German medicine. Urinary tract infections were the nightmare of my student life.
Shortly after I moved 150 km from home to attend college, I met a boy, my first real friend, after years in which my parents only allowed me to stay at home and study. The move from home and the new boyfriend were a shock for them. They were very scared and started insisting that I meet other boys, try other relationships. I refused. When you find a good man, you don't kick him out just because your parents, who don't know him, think that at 19 you're not yet capable of deciding whether a man is right for you or not.
In parallel with their insistence (now transformed into threats, arguments and almost daily scandals, both over the phone and in person when I would pluck up the courage to go home because I needed money or to do my laundry), the episodes of urinary infection began. 2 ugly years of my life.
The disease manifested itself with terrible burning when urinating and the need to urinate non-stop. I would go to the toilet in the dormitory, located at the end of the hall, every 10 minutes to take 2 drops. I avoided drinking liquids precisely for fear of those burning sensations.
Initially, I went to the doctor on campus and, after a brief discussion, received the diagnosis of cystitis, plus a hastily written prescription. I took it and was fine in a few days. After 2 weeks the stinging disappeared. The long series of urine cultures and antibiotic tests began. Two words that gave me chills - urine culture and antibiotic test. At least once a month I would wake up from sleep with the desire to urinate, I would go to the bathroom and notice that the stinging had reappeared. I would get cold chills because I knew that the next day I would have to go to the urine culture again and then ask for an antibiotic test to see this time what bacteria I had and what antibiotic to take.
At first it was klebsiella, then escherichia coli. And again and again. Antibiotics, the situation was resolved, after 2-3 weeks again and again. Urine culture, antibiotic test, antibiotic...
At some point, after a few months, it occurred to me to look for natural solutions. Pharmacists had also started to recommend medicines to strengthen the liver after so many antibiotics. I discovered cranberries. I bought an expensive medicine, Urinal, some red pills. Expensive, but it seemed to help me. I had enough of it in my bag. When the burning sensation appeared, I would take Urinal and it would go away for a while. Then I discovered cranberry tincture. Cheaper and just as effective. I wouldn't leave home without it because I didn't know when it would hit me again. I was terrified of these episodes. I wouldn't sleep at night sometimes because of the burning sensation. I would sit in the shower for an hour because there I could urinate the few drops in peace and I would feel better.
At first, the doctors blamed it on the fact that I had been sitting on something cold. I started to avoid sitting down, including on park benches. I would only sit if I had a longer coat. Then on the toilets in the student dormitory, then in the showers. Maybe I got some bacteria from there, maybe they weren't washed well. They insisted that women are more prone because of their anatomy. I was fed up with doctors, explanations, tests...and everything.
After about two years I started taking spirulina and after about 2 treatments, everything stopped. I was in ninth heaven. I recommended spirulina to everyone...now I know the explanation and I'll tell you too. It wasn't spirulina but my family situation...after two years in which my parents made my life a torment with their insistence on giving up my boyfriend, after swearing, arguing, they finally agreed to meet him. Yes, they didn't even know him, but they were convinced that he wasn't good for me because he wasn't a student and because he didn't have any money. In case you were curious, he made the poor guy and the college get away from their mouths, we also have money...and we've been together for 20 years already :)
After my parents agreed to meet him, accepted him and the scandals stopped, my urinary infections immediately stopped. And I haven't had any problems since then.
Now the explanation - in nature animals mark their territory by urinating, whether it's a new one or an old one on which they want to show their authority and supremacy. Humans, although beings with a different level of consciousness, at a biological level act identically. Urinary tract infections or cystitis, because in general it's about the same thing, show the desire to mark our territory. Be it a new territory or one in which we feel that our authority is being violated. My parents' insistence and scandals were for me a violation of my territory, of the decisions I made, of my authority and the periodic appearance of the symptoms showed that the conflict was still active.
What to do if you have a urinary tract infection:
1. Drink as many fluids as possible, not like me. I avoided fluids because I was afraid to urinate. Drink teas - horsetail, corn silk, cherry stems. Drink cranberry tincture. It helps a lot with the stinging. At the same time, you can make sure that you have enough minerals and vitamins (because too much fluid eliminates more of these). Eat healthy and rich.
2. At the same time, analyze the sources of your conflict. What will violate the territory in a real or imaginary way. In real terms, it is possible that there is someone new in your house (maybe your mother or mother-in-law moved in with you and they are making too much of your rules, which you don't like, maybe you live with your parents and your mother is rummaging through your room too often, maybe you have new colleagues at work and they don't respect you or take away your responsibilities, maybe a neighbor has entered your property, I'll give you some examples of territorial violations, you know what applies to you). In imaginary terms, it is possible that someone is violating your authority, maybe your husband won't take your decisions into account, maybe others are imposing their opinion on you by force (my case with my parents who insisted that I break up with my boyfriend).
3. After you identify the cause, solve it. Remove the intruders from your territory and the symptoms will disappear shortly.
And one last detail, about the bacteria found in my antibiogram. Just as firefighters are not the ones who started a fire but are there to put it out, so NMG explains that it is not the bacteria that triggered a disease but that they are there to balance the tissue. E.coli did not cause my infection but it was there because it is its normal living environment and the imbalance caused by my conflict attracted it there in greater numbers or helped it to multiply.
Ah...why are women more prone? Not because of anatomy but because of their way of being. They are more easily affected than men by territorial violations, scandals, arguments, bad words, authoritarian people who impose themselves by force...and therefore they more easily engage in territorial violation conflicts.
And regarding the phases of the conflict - in the active phase it does not hurt or sting. The tissue thins to allow as much urine as possible to pass through to effectively mark the territory. In the healing phase when the tissue is rebuilt, that's when the pain appears. So I first went through conflict, then healing, then conflict again when I talked to my family, then healing again when I left home. And so on....
Good health to everyone. I hope the situation is now clear about urinary infections or cystitis.
Geo
