Dear Ann Landers,
or three consecutive years (1974-76) I devel-oped cystitis-a bladder infection. But not until after the third miser-able bout did I ask myself some questions. Here I was, an otherwise healthy woman in her 50s, getting this infection regularly. Why? I figured out a "possibility" and called my urologist. He was flabber-gasted that I had been wearing underpants to bed since childhood. To compound the problem came the '70s, when it was considered fash-ionable to wear pantyhose and slacks everywhere. I no longer wear underpants to bed and have had no more bladder in-fections. I believe this information could be helpful to others-especially if you could get the backing of a good urologist. Why not ask one? -Wiser with Age

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