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Message: HTML is not enabled. UBB Code™ is enabled. UBB Code™ Images not permitted.	[QUOTE]Originally posted by OliveKitten: [QB] Hi Scarleteen, Just for a little background, I'm a sexually active 22 year old woman. I've recently been a worried about my reproductive health. I've been getting frequent UTI's for the past year (about 3 times or so). Because they're so frequent, I'm wondering if perhaps they never go away to begin with, but are temporarily controlled by the antibiotics I've been prescribed. Also, my urine always looks a little cloudy. Is there a "normal" level of cloudiness? I got tested last spring by a doctor at my university and she said my urine looked clear, when I thought it looked bad. However, she was a notoriously bad doctor, so I'm not sure that I buy it. My most recent UTI was this October, and I saw a doctor who told me to get a follow-up done, which I didn't, because I just got health insurance this week. The whole visit and antibiotics, without insurance, were about $175, so I decided to wait until my insurance kicked in. I've also been experiencing a lot of back pain. This isn't out of the ordinary for me, because, I think, I'm not a very active person (although I'm not overweight), and I've had back pain for as long as I can remember. However, it's gotten worse lately, and I can't tell if it's due to the inactivity or something else (since it's all in my lower back). It usually gets worse as the day progresses, and by the evening my whole lower back and down part of my legs hurt. Another reason I'm not sure it's a sexual health related thing is stretching usually relieves it for a while, so I could just be tense, I guess. Also, about two days ago, I had intercourse and my discharge was light yellow. Since then, I've been getting light yellow/brown spots in my underwear (although about half the time it's a normal white color). It's not a larger amount than usual, and it doesn't have any smell, or any weird texture. It's just weird because I'm about halfway between periods, so I shouldn't be bleeding (if that's even what it is). In addition, I've been getting random cramps around my uterus area. Also, sometimes I feel an unpleasant, almost burning sensation around the front of my hip joints. I'd describe this pain as mild and usually ignorable. Not that it SHOULD be ignored, but it's not sending me into the fetal position. So, I finally have my first gynecology appointment scheduled for December 5th. My main question is, should I just wait a couple more weeks until I see the gynecologist?, or is this something I should try to get looked at sooner (if that's even possible)? I'm a bit of a hypochondriac so I think the stress and worrying is worse than the other symptoms I'm experiencing. I really should have gotten it two years ago (when I first started having sex) but I was still relying on my parents (since I was in school), and since my mom is super Catholic and against sex before marriage, it was a tough subject to broach. [/QB][/QUOTE]

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