Call the Department of health in your county. Ask if there are any free clinics. Ask at a urgent care center if you can pay installment payments. Maybe you can get on medicare.

Yes, county health department is one place. Three things to do: drink more water, yes, and pee more. Cranberry juice helps. Wash the area gently, keep it cleaned. Apply heat to relieve pain as well.

Hi mideyebrow, I'm Nanette, from the widow site, and happened to read your message today. I sure know about UTI. I seem to always get them in August and September because of the hot weather here in Arizona, and also because my acid pH balance is off, too much acid intake, like coffee, soda, tomatoes, red wine vinegar. I just went to the Natural Foods Store and there is a traditional medicinal women's teas brand called, Yogi. This brand is called "Back on Tract" which promotes urinary tract health with hibiscus cranberry, so I am drinking that every day, and I also take cranberry pills, but the cranberry juice does not work, because too much sugar will bring on a UTI also. But everytime I feel that pinch or urgency to pee, I keep on hand from the pharmacy pills called, "Azo", buy it over the counter. It is for urinary pain relief, relieves pain, burning and urgency within 2-3 hours. Please be sure to go to an urgent care center, or the ER of a hospital, they have to accept your admission. They will do a urinary test to track your leucocites, but it is very important because if you do not get it treated it affects your kidneys and causes a bit of blood in the urine. Take care, honey. I hope this helps you, you do not need to suffer with this UTI. It is so easy to get a bacterial infection from unprotected sex. Just keep of box of condoms in your bedroom to protect your health. Take care and hope you are feeling better soon with this treatment.
Hugs, Nanette

if you let it go untreated with antibiotics (which is most likely all you need is one doc visit) it can just get worse and land you in the hospital and even worse-bacteria in your bloodstream (septic). One clinic visit vs a hospital stay is worth it. They can't refuse to treat. its illegal.

Drink lots of cranberry juice!!!

Hi Tammy,

I can feel for you, the not knowing can be so scary!
It sounds like you are having some real symptoms that need attention. As others have mentioned, a free health clinic might be a good choice for you. They can pin point for sure what is going on so you won’t have all the anxiety of not knowing AND they can get you the relief from pain that you’re in need of right now. I’m praying for you!

Miss Polly

Go to some random doctor like after hours where you can pay cash. There is no cure for cystitis other than sulfur based antibiotics and failure to fix can cause your kidneys to be damaged.

Cranberry will mask the symptoms by changing the pH of your bladder. This means no burning, or urgency, but the bacteria is still eating your bladder. You have to get antibiotics. There must be some free clinic or sexual health centre or somewhere you can go, or else as I say, some kind of after hours doctor where you just pay cash on the spot.

Going forward, make sure you drink adequate amounts of liquids and if having intercourse ensure you ALWAYS pee afterwards whether you're using a condom or not. You have to flush the urethra out of any bacteria that have worked their way up in there.

For right now, you can drink cranberry juice to help, or you can go to the chemist and get "ural" or "citravescent" urine alkalinisers that you make up as a fizzy drink with water and drink to change the pH of your bladder. Again: they are not fixing the problem. They are simply making it so that you aren't in total misery.

Hi Emerald15, I wasn't big fan of Azo as I have taken it in the past and really didn't see the difference that I needed. I needed quick relief and Azo didn't do that for me. I actually ended up going with the Cystex Urinary Pain relief tablets and the burning was gone right away with the UTI after sex problem of mine being gone in a day or two. I liked the product so much that I looked into their liquid cranberry complex and that stuff is the real deal. I have only taken it once and went back to my normal sex routine with my partner and I have had no complains or issues. I was really worried too because he got a UTI as well and was just getting over his. I really didn't want to relapse, so I took the complex liquid and no issues. Thanks for the advice everyone and listening to me, but I'm much better now. I just needed someone to talk too! Thank you!! :)