Around three years ago, I got my first UTI, back pain and all. It was horrible. I went to the doctor and got antibiotics and she said if I drank some cranberry juice it should help a little. It was gone incredibly fast. I'm 19 by the way.

Since then, I had only had another one come maybe once a year and after drinking a LARGE cup of juice, it usually went away.

Well, since my fiance is in the army, I only have sex maybe every three months when I go visit him. The last time I went, we had sex, and the next day I kept getting the HORRIBLE urge to pee and the stinging sensation when I did pee those three drops or so. I bought a juice from the gas station and it went away within an hour or so. I believe it was because of the sex because the same thing happened the next two days and it would be gone an hour after each juice and when I went home, I was fine.

Is this normal? I usually don't drink cranberry juice (even though I do like the taste) and I do tend to drink lots of Coke, but is it normal for this to happen? And for a juice like that to make it go away in an hour? When I told someone it went away after an hour they didn't believe me. I really had no more burning or urge to pee after the juice. Will the pills work that fast as well? I'm planning to go visit him and I think having to stop for some juice is not very.. appealing? So I would like to take some just in case, would they work as fast? Please help.