I second @Trish's post – some women just get UTIs every now and again, it's not at all unusual.![]()
Another useful option would be to specify one's gender, as we have rather significant differences down there! (I think that this would be ideal in all studies on ME, and probably most other diseases too.)
Mine wasn't caused by an infection though, but from using bath salts in my bath water.
You could start again with half the questions labelled male and half female with 7 options for each group, but honestly I don't think it's worth doing that.
Our members polls are not in any way scientific - more an opportunity to open a discussion and sharing experiences. On that basis, adding extra complications to the poll feature of the forum, even if it were possible, is not in my view justified.
I guess theoretically it would be OK and up to you, but what would be the point?However, I could create GDPR-compliant surveys on an external tool and reference them in a post. Would this be endorsed by the forum rules?
If you just want to get a bit of an idea whether other patients have experienced similar symptoms to yourself, a forum poll is a way to invite people to join the discussion. Inevitably those who have experienced urinary infections are more likely to participate in a poll about them than those who haven't, so it tells us nothing about prevalence.
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