Don't know what to tell you, bonny. Sorry.

Feel better soon, Calli.

I am having A Day. Nothing is going right and I feel incompetent and Angry Girl started crying over the teeniest thing and I accidentally let all the hydraulic fluid out of one jack and and and...

Pills are better than juice - less sugar.

I have. I spent a couple of days trying everything that has worked in the past before going to the clinic. Cranberry, propolis, Alkaseltzer. (no lie--it creates a 'base' state rather than the highly acidic one promoted by cranberry. As I get older, I think my ph has changed such that the high acid just seems to make me feel worse)

I did eat some sugar yesterday and didn't drink a TON of water, though I conscientiously downed many cups of Cinnamon Apple Spice tea.

Harvey is in my arms right now, purring his best for bonny and smonster.

{{{bonny}}} I have no advice, only hugs.

Thanks everybody.

I'm now trying to research if I can take 'Cystex' which is supposed to do the same thing as the Uricalm but uses a different active ingredient. Can't find anything yet on negative interactions.

Do you think the 'don't take this for more than 3 days' is because masking the symptoms is bad, or because these products could cause kidney damage or somesuch?

Lord knows, there are things I could be spending my time on this morning beside researching this stuff.

Feel better, bonny.

Thanks Fred.

I couldn't find any negative interaction info between the two uti pain relievers...and I'm feeling a bit desperate...so I just took a dose of the Cystex. Please, please let it work and have the antibiotic kick in nowish.

Having taken so many anti-bs in September, now I'm afraid that my body just won't fight on its own anymore.

I wish I could cancel that thought but it's definitely there.

On a totally different note, when I woke up feeling bad last night, I pulled an old novel out...The Wolf's Hour is one of my all time favorites.

Spies. Heroism. Werewolves. Oh my!

The only problem was, I didn't want to stop reading when I really ought to have been putting more effort into sleep.

I pulled an old novel out... one of my all time favorites... I didn't want to stop reading when I really ought to have been putting more effort into sleep.

I've done that before.

In Birthday news... I did have to get out of bed briefly but now I am back with my traditional bday breakfast: toasty croissants with blackberry jam (seedless! thank-you Knott's Berry Farm)... I couldn't find Ethiopian coffee yesterday but I have an african blend that is so very delicious with a splash of half & half. Oh yes.