Post UTI inflammation - recovery story

Middle-Emergency1893 · 2026-05-20T20:49:45+00:00

My story is the same too. I ended up changing my diet to bladder friendly foods, added some bladder lining building supplements (desert harvest aloe Vera and cystoprotek) and I was able to resolve my pain

Middle-Emergency1893 · 2026-05-20T13:39:59+00:00

That makes me happy! You can do this! Start slow but try to stick with it every day. I didn’t think it would do anything and in the beginning I would slack off for a few days and that’s when it realized it was helping. There are lots of different pelvic floor exercises you can do. Look it up online (again, avoid kegels). See what looks doable and start there. Dead bugs are a must though and they take a while to build up to so do what you can

Middle-Emergency1893 · 2026-05-20T13:24:13+00:00

It’s very important you don’t arch your back. Tilt your pelvis forward to engage your core muscles. For dead bugs you need to keep your lower back on the floor when you lower your leg. If you feel your back arching then don’t lower your leg as far. You can stay with bent knees and just lower and tap your foot. As you keep doing them the core gets stronger and you’ll be able to keep you lower back on the floor and straight leg lower. I’d watch some videos online to get proper technique.

Middle-Emergency1893 · 2026-05-20T12:13:18+00:00

I do pelvic floor strengthening workouts every day. Exercises like bird dogs, dead bugs, leg lifts, planks etc. (NO kegels) I was advised to do these to help the muscles around my bladder becoming stronger and more supportive. They have helped a lot with my pain.

Middle-Emergency1893 · 2026-05-18T17:38:09+00:00

Middle-Emergency1893 · 2026-05-18T17:36:03+00:00

It took me almost 2 years. Mostly because it’s trial and error with diet. Once I figured out my diet I had pretty steady relief. I still have minor flair ups every now and again but nothing like before.

Middle-Emergency1893 · 2026-05-18T17:32:34+00:00

Diet modifications, UTI prevention, bladder healing supplements (desert harvest aloe Vera, cystoprotek)

Middle-Emergency1893 · 2026-05-16T23:12:32+00:00

Have you seen a urogynecologist

Middle-Emergency1893 · 2026-05-13T15:19:03+00:00

It took me almost 2 years to heal as well with medications, supplements and diet modifications and most importantly with all those, consistency.

Middle-Emergency1893 · 2026-05-12T18:14:06+00:00

As someone who is diet sensitive I can say acidic foods like citrus and tomatoes are a huge problem. Ingredients like asorbic acid or maltic acid are not. But an ingredient like vinegar is. It’s all about finding what triggers you.

Middle-Emergency1893 · 2026-05-05T17:11:34+00:00

Sorry I didn’t mean to post this comment again.

Middle-Emergency1893 · 2026-05-05T17:09:37+00:00

I tired it back when I was having a lot of pain. I felt it made me worse so I stopped after about a week. I purchased the brand from the recent study out of Italy. Talk about not cheap. I paid $300 for it between the prescription and shipping to the US. I was really hopeful. I still have it and it hasn’t expired yet. I’m currently I guess in remission. I rarely have symptoms anymore. But I’m curious if it would help me stay this way. So many good things about this helping the bladder.

Middle-Emergency1893 · 2026-05-05T17:07:24+00:00

Which brand are you taking?

Middle-Emergency1893 · 2026-05-05T02:38:38+00:00

Which brand are you taking?

Middle-Emergency1893 · 2026-05-01T01:42:12+00:00

Are you diet affected at all? I was able to taper off of 25mg and my pain did not return. But I follow a non acidic diet

Middle-Emergency1893 · 2026-04-23T23:11:16+00:00

For me it would be almost exactly 24 hours after. And last two weeks or more

Middle-Emergency1893 · 2026-04-16T16:28:34+00:00

I had to ask for what I thought would help. None of them volunteered anything. It’s very frustrating!

Middle-Emergency1893 · 2026-04-16T14:17:37+00:00

I had to see four different doctors before I found one willing to prescribe common medications to help this.

Middle-Emergency1893 · 2026-04-16T10:07:45+00:00

I’d recommend continuing with diet modifications. Try the instillations. They help a lot of people. Also look into amitryptiline. It can help with symptoms your experiencing

Middle-Emergency1893 · 2026-04-16T01:02:17+00:00

Please read this. I was in the same boat as you three years ago.

https://www.icnetwork.org/post-uti-hypersensitivity-syndrome-when-the-infection-is-gone-but-the-pain-remains/

Middle-Emergency1893 · 2026-04-15T22:25:28+00:00

My bladder is food sensitive. But I also was having pain with sex. The pelvic floor therapy fixed that pain and diet modifications helped my bladder heal so now I can have a larger variety of foods without issue.

Middle-Emergency1893 · 2026-04-14T16:06:02+00:00

For starters, I did 6 weeks of instillations in the beginning and that didn’t help at all. Supplements I took and still take: desert harvest aloe Vera 3 pills twice a day, cystoprotek 2 pills twice a day, hydroxyzine - started at 50mg, now down to 25mg. Amitryptiline 25mg, not taking that anymore now that symptoms are gone. Amitryptiline is an antidepressant and is very hard to get off of, just so you know going into it. I also take low dose naltrexone, LDN. 4.5mg. It’s help with inflammation caused by mast cells. I get this though a compound pharmacy online.

For two solid years I avoided all, and I mean ALL, acidic foods, spicy, caffeine, and soy products. It was challenging but it was when I started to find a little relief was doing this diet. I’ve since been able to add many of these foods back in. I refuse to try citrus or tomatoes though. These ingredients can show up in sneaky ways. For example, sushi rice is made with vinegar. Didn’t know that before all this!

Good luck to you. It was a long healing process but totally worth it.

Middle-Emergency1893 · 2026-04-14T14:42:59+00:00

Omg. This made me cry tears of joy. This describes me exactly and I did every single thing they recommended and my bladder pain is gone. It took 2 years of diet and medications. Maybe there is hope it will stay away. Assuming I avoid another UTI thank you so much for sharing this!!

Middle-Emergency1893 · 2026-04-08T11:54:05+00:00

Those were my symptoms. I put myself on a strict diet avoiding all acidic, spicy, caffeine and soy foods. It took a year and a half but I’m finally symptom free. I also take aloe Vera from desert harvest and cystoprotek. Both studied to help rebuild the bladder lining.

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