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I have xanax for panic attacks and I grabbed the wrong bottle during my nighttime routine. Put the xanax up my vagina instead of the valium I'm supposed to use for my pelvic floor pain and dysfunction. I had my spouse go fishing in my vagina and he felt the pill but lost it and it was causing me terrible pain so we stopped. How worried do I need to be that I used an expired xanax instead of my current valium prescription? 😣

I have xanax for panic attacks and I grabbed the wrong bottle during my nighttime routine. Put the xanax up my vagina instead of the valium I'm supposed to use for my pelvic floor pain and dysfunction. I had my spouse go fishing in my vagina and he felt the pill but lost it and it was causing me terrible pain so we stopped. How worried do I need to be that I used an expired xanax instead of my current valium prescription? 😣

My husband got me a concrete porch goose from a local place and it's 25" tall. He said he did research and most clothes should fit but nothing I've found has been able to get over my goose's head. Any recommendations for how to modify the clothes to make them fit, or a source on clothes for a larger goose? Thanks in advance!

My dog Tilda, an 8.2 lbs toy fox terrier/chihuahua/??? Humane Society mix just turned 12 in March. She had seven teeth extracted after her yearly checkup, which was a shock to us all. We already brush her teeth so the vet recommended using healthy mouth water additive. This may be unrelated since she got picky around the time we started using it, but since we stopped using it the picky behavior continues.

We noticed she'd lost some weight, going from 8.6 to 8.2 in the last year. Asked the vet if she was concerned, she said she felt it was probably age related but we re-evaluated how much we were feeding her. Bumped up from 1/4c of food 2x a day to 1/3c 2x a day.

Since trying to feed her a little more, even slowly, her schedule is messed up. She won't eat breakfast. It's a miracle if she eats anything at all before 5pm. Then, maybe, she'll eat a little more around 8. Usually if we can get her to eat, it's around 11:30 at night. It's been a struggle to get 2/3c in her per day.

Kidneys checked, they were borderline a few months ago but low borderline and still holding steady. Just did a GI ultrasound and some GI bloodwork, everything looks great. No major red flags for why she's not eating.

We thought maybe kibble is bothering her gums where they took out teeth, adding healthy toppers like cooked carrot and soaking the kibble does sometimes help her eat a full meal but we still can't entice her to eat before 5pm even with those bonuses.

I'm offering her a change in kibble but she's always been very, very, very picky. She refuses new treats for days. She's turning her nose up at the new kibble but I did get her to at least put a piece in her mouth today so maybe I'll make more progress if I keep treating it like treats and a game, because she's still motivated by those. She's always hated wet food but we're going to give that a try too.

There's nothing physically wrong so just... Why isn't she eating breakfast and why won't she eat as much as she should? Any advice is greatly appreciated. I'm really, really worried and I think it's driving my husband, my friends, and probably even my vet a little nuts that I keep pushing this.

**Tldr: 12 year old small dog, recent tooth extraction, picky about kibble and food timing. Won't eat at normal times, won't eat what the vet says is enough, won't try new foods. Nothing physically coming up wrong. Any thoughts, suggestions, or reassurances would help me out big time.**

My dog Tilda, an 8.2 lbs toy fox terrier/chihuahua/??? Humane Society mix just turned 12 in March. She had seven teeth extracted after her yearly checkup, which was a shock to us all. We already brush her teeth so the vet recommended using healthy mouth water additive. This may be unrelated since she got picky around the time we started using it, but since we stopped using it the picky behavior continues.

We noticed she'd lost some weight, going from 8.6 to 8.2 in the last year. Asked the vet if she was concerned, she said she felt it was probably age related but we re-evaluated how much we were feeding her. Bumped up from 1/4c of food 2x a day to 1/3c 2x a day.

Since trying to feed her a little more, even slowly, her schedule is messed up. She won't eat breakfast. It's a miracle if she eats anything at all before 5pm. Then, maybe, she'll eat a little more around 8. Usually if we can get her to eat, it's around 11:30 at night. It's been a struggle to get 2/3c in her per day.

Kidneys checked, they were borderline a few months ago but low borderline and still holding steady. Just did a GI ultrasound and some GI bloodwork, everything looks great. No major red flags for why she's not eating.

We thought maybe kibble is bothering her gums where they took out teeth, adding healthy toppers like cooked carrot and soaking the kibble does sometimes help her eat a full meal but we still can't entice her to eat before 5pm even with those bonuses.

I'm offering her a change in kibble but she's always been very, very, very picky. She refuses new treats for days. She's turning her nose up at the new kibble but I did get her to at least put a piece in her mouth today so maybe I'll make more progress if I keep treating it like treats and a game, because she's still motivated by those. She's always hated wet food but we're going to give that a try too.

There's nothing physically wrong so just... Why isn't she eating breakfast and why won't she eat as much as she should? Any advice is greatly appreciated. I'm really, really worried and I think it's driving my husband, my friends, and probably even my vet a little nuts that I keep pushing this.

Tldr: 12 year old small dog, recent tooth extraction, picky about kibble and food timing. Won't eat at normal times, won't eat what the vet says is enough, won't try new foods. Nothing physically coming up wrong. Any thoughts, suggestions, or reassurances would help me out big time.

I finally got my hands on some Uribel after insurance shenanigans and I've been taking it for about four days but I'm just curious when you guys start to get some relief from this medication?

I had my 4th hydrodistension on May 23rd, this time with an added pudendal nerve block. I felt pretty good for a week or so afterward, then developed my first culture positive urinary tract infection since 2012. I went on antibiotics for a week, felt better for about 6 days after that, then symptoms started again. Urgent care found "no significant growth" but told me to stay on antibiotics if they made me feel better. Finished those antibiotics, about 7 days after that symptoms started again. Urogyn took a catheter culture, came back with a mild amount of the same type of bacteria from the first positive culture, did five days Augmentin. Felt great for nine days after finishing augmenting, now pain is back. Culture showed zero growth.

These symptoms are nothing like anything I had before my procedure and subsequent UTI. I can't find a reason for them. Nothing in my diet has changed, nothing in my habits, nothing in my meds. My doctor keeps adding more and more medications - gemtesa, hyoscyamine, making me stop nortriptyline so I can take uribel, required me to try azo for three days which did absolutely nothing for the pain, told me to start alternating big doses of ibuprofen and tylenol, prescribed oxy which just made me nauseated. She's referred me to urology instead of urogynecology but I have to wait for them to call me which hasn't happened yet.

She ordered a PCR which hasn't yielded results yet but I'm convinced it will show nothing. Why is this happening to me? Why is my pain, which used to sit around a 3 and peak at 6 a couple times a month, now sitting around a 5 and peaking at 8 every other day? What did I do wrong? Why do none of my old rescue techniques help?

I've had 3 UTIs (or one recurrent UTI) since my last hydrodistension at the end of March. My doctor decided to put me on Gemtesa because my UTI gives me frequency, urgency, and spasms, all of which are symptoms I don't have with my normal IC flares. I'm not particularly happy about being on the medication but my doctor insists my UTI is a contaminated catheter sample. Oh well.

I have had a pretty severe headache on and off since starting the medication. For those of you who've also had that side effect, how long does it last? Is this something worth reporting to my doctor or should I just wait it out?

I have IC. I had my 4th hydrodistension on March 23 and developed a staphylococcus epidermidis UTI on April 6th. The symptoms I had were wildly different than my IC symptoms ever are, and responded well to antibiotics. The same symptoms returned on April 26th, culture showed "no significant growth," but the urgent care doc told me to finish my antibiotics if they were helping, which they were.

Now, as of May 8th, I'm having another round of the same symptoms. I went to my urogyn to discuss this big change. She dismissed it as "just an IC flare" but it feels very, very different to me. She took a catheterized sample for a urine culture, which came back with a mild amount of gram positive cocci, which I feel could correspond to my staph epi infection a month prior.

She said she thinks the bacteria that came up in culture is "probably just contamination" (even though she cleaned me with betadine and used a sterile catheter to get the sample?) but was willing to prescribe me antibiotics "because I was uncomfortable."

I have a history - admittedly from a long time ago - of recurrent UTIs requiring a longer course of antibiotics than normal when I was a child. My IC and vulvodynia symptoms do not share the same symptoms I'm having now with these infections, however low-grade they are.

How can I best advocate for myself in this situation?

This is NOT an embedded infection type situation so I'm not looking for any information about that theory. But I had a hydrodistension on March 23, developed a staphylococcus epidermidis UTI on April 6th. The symptoms were wildly different than my IC symptoms ever are, and responded well to antibiotics. The same symptoms returned on April 26th, culture showed "no significant growth," but the urgent care doc told me to finish my antibiotics if they were helping, which they were.

Now, as of May 8th, I'm having another round of the same symptoms. I went to my urogyn to discuss this big change. She dismissed it as "just an IC flare" but it feels very, very different to me. She took a catheterized sample for a urine culture, which came back with a mild amount of gram positive cocci, which I feel could correspond to my staph epi infection a month prior.

She said she thinks the bacteria that came up in culture is "probably just contamination" (even though she cleaned me with betadine and used a sterile catheter to get the sample?) but was willing to prescribe me antibiotics "because I was uncomfortable."

I have a history - admittedly from a long time ago - of recurrent UTIs requiring a longer course of antibiotics than normal when I was a child. My IC and vulvodynia symptoms do not share the same symptoms I'm having now with these infections, however low-grade they are.

How can I best advocate for myself in this situation?

I had a hydrodistension and nerve block on March 23, followed by my first real UTI in over a decade. Since then, my IC has been in overdrive, with unbelievable pain, urgency, burning, full body spasms, and low urine output. I never had these symptoms before the procedure and infection. Doctor doesn't seem interested in why this is happening, said it's "just an IC flare."

I am already taking 50mg of nortriptyline and my doctor prescribed me gemtesa and uribel yesterday. She said to take uribel 3x a day until symptoms improve, then drop to 2x a day. I've read online it can interact with nortriptyline so I'm concerned, but she doesn't seem to be.

Does anyone have any experience with combining these medications?

Been dealing with daily pain since December 2023. I've had multiple hydrodistentions. We decided to try out a nerve block during my last one in March. About a week and a half after the procedure, I developed my first real cultured positive UTI in about 13 years. I only went to urgent care because the symptoms were very abnormal for my IC - severe urgency, whole body bladder spasms, very little urine output, severe severe burning.

Finished the antibiotics, felt pretty good. Had sex, two days later those symptoms returned. Went back to urgent care. This time the culture was "no significant growth" but the urgent care doc told me to finish my antibiotics anyway.

Now, about a week after finishing those antibiotics, those same symptoms are back. Didn't have sex this time, focused on hydration, didn't eat or do anything aggravating.

I'm trying to decide if this could be a side effect of the pudendal nerve block, since that's the only thing that's different. I don't want to go back to urgent care because I know the culture will be negative and I don't think it's responsible to just keep taking antibiotics. I know it will be a while before I can see my urogyn for this. I just don't know what to do.