so, I went to the doctor....

[rm]

Right, so just went to the 24-hour clinic, because I have a UTI and that was too unpleasant not to get drugs for RIGHT NOW.

As per usual, there are a billion questions, including things about sexual orientation and how I know I have a UTI. These things are related, as women often get UTIs after penetrative sex, so the whole thing sort of came up in a context of "I've had these before, but not in ages because it happened more often when I was having it on with boys, but trust me, I know what this is and exactly how I got it" and also because the paperwork asked.

I was wearing, for the record, a white t-shirt, black pants and a black jacket. And a push-up bra ( really only have tow type sof bras -- push-up bras and bras I use for binding. There is no neutral). Sure I have short hair, and when I'm at the doctor's office and not freaked out I'm pretty calm and in control and authoratative and when I don't feel well, my voice tends to pitch lower, but seriously folks, if you've met me, and while it's easy for me to read as masculine, it doesn't really happen without effort. At all.

So imagine my "WTF?" when the doctor, very deliberated maked an x on the little line dividing the male and female boxes on my perscription form. Was it a 60+-year-old doctor trying to be cool about bisexuality and not quite getting it right? Was it bad hand-writing? (althugh his handwriting mostly didn't suck? Was it someone having a gender clue? Or was it more of the variety of the poeple at Citibank who call me "sir" even when I'm wearing lipstick and high heels.

The world may never know.

But now I'm home. And I have Cipro.

Comments

[realtsunamigirl.livejournal.com]

You can also get them from seemingly innocuous things like holding off on peeing too long or even just not drinking enough water to properly flush your system.

Ooh and some advice from my Doc that I found really helped out after I went through years of recurring UTIs of some form or another: cranberry juice is great for helping *prevent* UTIs, but once you already have one cease and desist immediately. Also, stop taking in any other acidic food or drink, especially citrus or tomatoes. Once the damage has been done you'll just be aggravating matters if you keep up with the cranberry.

Here endeth the pontification;-D

[nicoli-dominn.livejournal.com]

Both of those are excellent points...I forgot about the first, and I think that one's happened to me, too. ::sigh::

I didn't know about the cranberry/acidic substances during the UTI, though. I guess I've made that mistake more than once, and my doctor wasn't even smart enough to mention it. Thanks for the pointer.

[realtsunamigirl.livejournal.com]

You're welcome.

Don't be too hard on your doctor, this seems to be a widespread information gap. It's totally logical once you think about it: pushing acidic fluid past a horribly aggravated and raw surface? Ouch!

I've heard a bit of debate on the other side, but man, did it ever help me when I needed it.

[nicoli-dominn.livejournal.com]

Oh, and...excellent "Sinfest" icon. :-D

[realtsunamigirl.livejournal.com]

Thank you:-)

'Nique is my trademark (she said pretentiously.) I use her for virtually all of my icons.