Haha, that would totally be my mom's reaction if I told her I had a UTI. "From too much SEX?!"

Too....much?

She looks confused at the word congenital, too. Like, "What? Genitals? What does that mean?"

Is she pregnant?
Or is it her slouch? I am sooo confused here.

17-year-old girl moves in with 15-year-old boyfriend. Yep, we got us some real winners here.

Hahahahaha Case of the UTI...Better get Encyclopedia Brown on the case!

I got a UTI from losing my virginity. No one told me you have to pee afterwards! THAT would be comprehensive sex ed.

i get them a lot too. :(

@KathrynwithaY loves Joan Collins: I was thinking Perry Mason, myself.

The 15-year-old son's name is COLBY.

I even have to laugh at that and look at my damn avatar. HAHAHA.

Judy was in rare form for this one, seriously.
Teen: "I had a mumbl-trac-nfectn..."
Judy: "YOU HAD A WHAT?"
Teen: "URINARY. TRACT. INFECTION."

Damn, Judy! Bringin' the harsh, as per the us. She is so adorable.
I had a male co-worker who'd get UTIs "from his motorcycle" and my boss would say, "If that's what you want to call sex with your girlfriend, then go right ahead."

Ummm- who goes to the emergency room for a UTI? I get them too and it is not like one has ever snuck up on me after the first time. They are pretty distinctive.

where do they get these people? love when JJ gets up in their bidness like that. please provide the post-court follow-up video, pretty please?

@NefariousNewt: Not Matlock or Matt Houston?

@NefariousNewt: Matlock, or Matt Houston?

Judge Judge, again, shuts 'em down.

Dude, I get UTI's that bad. I take Cipro for them. (Yes, the same crud they give those infected by Anthrax) However, proper hygiene before & after sex usually keeps them at bay.

Sometimes I forget, while refracting & just fall asleep. BAD NEWS!

@tscheese: sigh. My name is joke. I know.
-wink-

If I suffered from chronic UTI's, I would never leave home without uristat.<----Common sense

@Incognegro - Connectedness made me drool, and not in a good...: Matt Houston would at least bring the mustachioed sexy.

Ugh. I hate UTIs. I get terrrrrible ones, which is why I stock AZO and take it at the first possibility of maybe having one. That and drink shit tons of water. Which is why I'm currently on my 4th nalgene bottle of the day.

@lolacat: um, me. after getting one that had me completely doubled over in pain 1200 miles away the day i was supposed to fly home. on labor day. when everything was closed.

it. sucks.

@lolacat: I had a friend that had to go to the ER after hers turned into a kidney infection, but that's an extreme case.

She said her stomach hurt, though...is that a normal symptom from a UTI? I've never had one, thankfully, so I don't know.

@lolacat: People who likely don't have health insurance.

When I was a child I was hospitalized twice for kidney infections. Turns out I am a mutant. So FWIW, it's not always sex. Just 99.99999% of the time.

People should know that cranberry juice doesn't *cure* a UTI but it might be helpful in *preventing* certain types of UTIs. Specifically those caused from getting fecal matter in your urinary tract. Cranberry juice somehow prevents the infectious particles from adhering. Drinking lots of water based fluids, incl. juice would help flush you out and prevent the pee from stinging when you have a UTI, as long as it's 100% juice and not sugar, but it's not cure.

PSA, ladies.

My commentz, you eated them?

@lolacat:
Me, last month after I couldn't get in to see my PCP quickly enough and it turned into a nasty kidney infection. We went to the ER when my fever spiked up to 103 and I was completely delirious. I don't know if I've ever been that sick. It was unreal.

@lolacat: apparently this girl's mother had told her to wait and that she would take her to the doctor, but it apparently got to the point where it was unbearable and the bf's mom wasn't gonna watch the kid suffer with it.

yes, i watched the whole epi. and i was hoping SM would post it. it was totally awesome.

@SkipToMyLou: it has natural antibiotic properties. so do blueberries.

@MissCricket:

I've had a really similar experience...it's insane how delirious a kidney infection can make you. Here's the best part of my story though, as I had a 105 degree fever and I'm totally out of it, they take all these x-rays and the "doctor" at the clinic i went to comes out and tells me i have a rare condition where all my insides are flipped...everything on the opposite side. yikes! I'm crying and freaking out....

Turns out he was reading the x-ray backwards...thank you low-income health care in America!

"From too much SSSSSSSSSSSSSEX?!"

@tscheese: A high-school friend named his kid Colby Jack. And his last name is Sharp.

Ah, one of my fave topics. I'm squirming just thinking about it.

My bestie had to visit the ER a few times, b/c her UTIs would come like a freight train and included blood in her urine. NOT. FUN.

Mine were comparatively mild, but I've had them since I was 5. Spending a week camping at an amusement park w/ your fam, when you can't pee without crying out in pain? Also not fun.

I was hoping Judge Judy would say "Um is not an answer!"

@catastrophe: your bestie and i are in the same boat. it SUCKS. i stock AZO and at the slightest sign that maybe I might potentially get one, I kick it before it starts. because once i get one? My life is over for the next few days.

This is why cranberry vodkas are the best drink ever. They get you drunk AND prevent UTI. Multipurpose!

I'd had severe UTIs all my life until I went to a homeopath and just talked about my intense raging anger. Haven't had one since. Seriously. Try it.

I get chronic UTIs that are totally asymptomatic until I'm balled up in the fetal position, vomiting. And I've gotten them since before I became sexually active. So I feel for Miss Hess, even if she doesn't seem terribly bright.

@Philthyist is annoyed: Kids today don't get the whole posture thing.

@Isi: Nice snap judgment, Isi. UTIs don't pay attention to doctors' hours.

Your punishment: you guessed it, a UTI commencing the first day of a 4-day weekend.

Knock yerself out.

I've been to the ER once for a bad UTI. I used to get them all the time in high school - I wasn't even having sex! The funny thing is after that really awful one I've never got one again!

@bernat: "I used to have seeeeeeeeeeex! What's wrong with hearing your elderly father say seeeeeeeeeex?"

what would judge judy do?

she would insinuate you're a slut and call you and your entire genealogical tree stupid.

remember this for next weeks' installment of WWJJD. because it's true. it's what she does. calls you a stupid slut.

My daughter and I get them all the time, too. It's also important to stay hydrated or you get crystalline formations that suck, front to back (of course), DON'T hold it, always pee immediately after sex. The little red cranberry pills that turn your pee bright orange are a godsend. A more advanced UTI can cause cramping...did I mention, it sux!

UTIs from too much sex? What a stupid thing to say, Judy. Who are you calling an idiot?

I remember my first UTI. I took the Uristat, continued drinking water...

...peed...

...then went upstairs to my mom, and said "Either that Uristat stuff screws with the color of your pee, or I just pissed a whole toilet full of Tang."

It took her a few minutes to regain her composure before she explained the side effects.

Having known people, back in high school, who were in informal fostering situations because their parents were too fucked up to deal and another relative, family friend, or friend's family needed to step in, I'm not sure who is the assbag here. Judge Judy, for yelling at people for something so stupid when there are obviously much larger issues here? The impromptu foster mother, who shouldn't have offered to pay a bill she had no intention of paying? The biological mother, who is clearly a total fuckup?

But my primary question is this. With all these adults who made a shitload of mistakes with this girl, why is it the kid getting yelled at? What did she do wrong? Get sick? Wow, yelling at a teenager because she got really sick and was too young to know what to do? New low...

@Kellimanjaro: Huh? No, you misunderstand. Or I wasn't clear. Or both.

I fully realize that UTIs can come on so strong that a scheduled trip to the PCP isn't going to work. Been there.

I also realize that many people end up in the ER because without health insurance that's frequently of your only option for lots of stuff when no PCP will take you as a client without it. Been there, unfortunately, too.

I absolutely wasn't making any sort of snark or judgement on the people in the clip, just responding with another possibility to the other poster who made a "Who the hell goes to the ER for a UTI" comment.

@kierabs: oh yeah. some DEFINITE confusion over "congenital". but, like, no one talks back to JJ.

i had a UTI turn into a kidney infection as well. not pretty. as it turns out, guys with particularly large members seem to frequently be the culprit. i mean, i'm not BRAGGING or anything, it's just that my bf's enormous penis makes me sick!

I hate to allow my anal retentiveness to spill over into the magnificence that is Judge Judy, but 'congenital' really only implies something is present form birth, not that it runs in the family.
Sorry I'm so lame!

@Notes from the underwhelmed: oh, werd. you're so on my level of thinking. plus, i need new ways to justify my drinkin.

First of all, that Cuban hottie on People's Court is so much funnier and more interesting. Judge Judy is so predictable. And a million times more intelligent. Judy just decides which side she will be on, and the law be damned. Why would a grandmother call a lovely 17 year old girl an ignorant slut on television? You would never hear Marilyn Millian (sp?) saying such a thing. She may laugh at the litigants' predicaments, and question their judgment, but never insult a teenage girl on national television. Does anyone remember what it feels like to be a teenage girl? I would have felt the humiliation bubble through my brain and wouldn't have been able to leave my house for months. Judge Judy is a heartless bitch and a one trick pony whose show should have been canceled years ago. And not only that, but I believe she is entirely wrong about who is responsible for the medical bills. Her legal acumen is as lac