Will peeing after sex decrease my chances of getting pregnant?

[wonderstruck]

I usually pee afterwards because otherwise I end up with a UTI but it seems counterproductive when TTC because I feel like everything just drips out then?

 

[Hopeful1479]

Hi there, not sure how much help I will be I don't know the medical truth behind your question but its funny you ask that as I still remember when I was 17 and my bf mom told me to make sure I pee directly after sex if we have it unprotected and it will help kill and empty out the sperm. Now like I said I have no clue it that is true or has any truth behind it, its just something I remember.... Have you asked your OBGYN?

 

[claireybell]

I always pee after sex everytime & fell pg with my son just fine..

 

[LoraLoo]

Some will come out but not all.
It's definitely worth waiting an hour or so afterwards if you can.

 

[linz85]

I've always pee'd after sex otherwise I get a uti and I've conceived fine this time and previous two times, so much so this time I have no idea when I fell pregnant

 

[WantsALittle1]

I too have an issue with recurrent UTIs. I peed immediately after BD every single time while trying for both DS and DD and they were both conceived first cycle.

 

[wonderstruck]

Thanks everyone, good to know I don't need to risk UTI while TTC (currently on antibiotics for one because I was trying not to get up right after) so I will continue my routine of peeing and taking cranberry pills after and hoping I will still fall pregnant because man, this sucks.

 

[WantsALittle1]

How awful! Hopefully you're almost done with the antibiotics--which one did they put you on? I remember getting awful stomach aches from cephalexin and amoxicillin, and if I recall correctly even getting yeast infections from some of the UTI antibiotics I was given My UTI problem was so bad in my early twenties that I had to pee AND take a nitrofurantoin immediately afterward, every single time I had sex for a one-year period.

My personal procedure now, while TTC, is to BD, pee, and then immediately lay back down for 20 minutes. And yep some is always lost when I get up to pee, but laying back down afterward still helps keep a lot of it in.

 

[wonderstruck]

That's what I think I'll do from now on. They put me on one I've never had before called macrobid. Little black and yellow capsules. I checked with her that it was okay for pregnant women, juuust in case and she said that it was fine in the early stages of pregnancy but not late.

 

[WantsALittle1]

That's the one I took for a year! (Macrobid is the brand name for nitrofurantoin.) If I remember correctly that one isn't so bad with respect to side effects. Never took it while PG, I think they gave me keflex when I got a UTI during pregnancy (4 pills a day, yick), but I do think macrobid covers a pretty broad range of bacteria. Hopefully you are feeling better and don't have to be on it for much longer!

 

[wonderstruck]

Thanks, me too! Good to know that it doesn't carry too many side effects, I'm on it for a week. Recurrent UTI's are the worst.

 

[AshleyButters]

After sex I try to lay down for AT LEAST 10-15 mins. I figure whoever has "made" it is the winning sperms and the rest that will fall out when I pee are just the ones who would have never made it. HAHA