vaginapagina | Cranberry Supplements/UTI woes, L-Lysine (Reply)

Hola!
After getting 2 UTIs in as many months, I decided to try taking cranberry supplement pills. This is my 2nd day taking them, and the bottle says to take 4 × 475mg pills a day, so that's what I've done. However, I have noticed that I get a mother of a headache shortly after taking them, and get slightly dizzy. I don't know if it's just coincidence, or if I'm having a bad reaction to them. Is this a side-effect of cranberry pills? Should I stop taking them if this continues?

Also, (this is just me complaining) I started getting UTI symptoms AGAIN this afternoon. I just finished my antibiotics for mythe last one on Wednesday, so I'm super non-excited and took an extra 2 or 3 cranberry pills and have been downing tons of water. My symptoms have gone away though, but I don't know if they're completely gone or what.

And, on a completely different note, I also picked up some L-Lysine at the drug store and started taking that, too. I've read that it helps with preventing cold sores. I don't get cold sores very often (1-3 times a year), so it might take a while to find out if it works or not, but I was just wondering if any one else has had a good experience with it?!