I HAVE ANOTHER URINE/KIDNEY INFECTION WITH A HIGH PH LEVEL, SO AM BACK ON ANTI BIOTICS AGAIN .NO HUMIRA AGAIN. DOES ANYONE ELSE SUFFER WITH URINE INFECTIONS ? DIDNT KNOW IF IT WAS DUE TO RA.
Those UTIs are miserable. I haven't had one since early in the year, when I started drinking cranberry juice daily.
I don't know whether the cranberry juice is helping that much or if I've just been lucky, but I keep up the juice. I top off a glass of water with low-cal cranberry juice several times a day, so I'm getting flavored water that keeps me off of soft drinks, which I feel aren't good for the UTIs, and I'm getting the cranberry plus plenty of water which is also important for keeping the bacteria flushed out of the system. I've read that the thing is to get cranberry juice that's 27% or more cranberry. Some brands or fruit drink mixes don't have that much cranberry.
Don't know if this would help you or not, but it might be worth a shot. It sure won't cure a UTI by itself, but once you get rid of it with drugs it might help your system rebalance itself.
Shudder. I feel like I'm risking kook status by talking about home remedies here, since we're already littered with the proselytizing spammers!
RKgal; that's not kookie at all; that's good advise.
FOr a while there I had them a lot! Several bladder infections too which are horrible. I haven't had one in a while (Knock on wood) and I'm not sure what I've been doing different except drinking a lot of water. I really do think that helps too.
Hope you're feeling better soon.
Am I crazy to think that since I started on Plaquenil, I'm getting more viruses, and getting sicker with them?
I had a "cold" that knocked me off my feet this month. I've never had anything like it before. It wasn't the flu--just a monster of a cold, with big, hairy knuckles, carrying an enormous club. It knocked me across the head, and I was down for 3 days.
Cranberry juice daily is awesome advice. You are not a kook at all lol.
Blue Heron, I think you just had a monster cold. Plaquenil is not a immune suppressor. At least according to what I could find on it. You do have to be careful with your eyes and see an ompthamologist regularly.
That's the best advice there is. Hehe There IS a drug out there that is supposed to help clear up EARLY UTI's - I have used it, and it does work, BUT you have to catch it early EARLY. But it's nice to have and use if you get them a lot. I can't remember the name of it, but I get it at walmart.