UTI symptoms, something worse, or bad luck? (See edit)

[washable.livejournal.com]

Hello again, I realize it's almost 3:30 in the morning...but you will understand why I am up if you read my plight.

I posted about an ovarian cyst about two weekends ago. It was first diagonsised as a bladder infection (my first). I was put on Cipro and developed the burning while urinating and frequent need to urinate. I went to urgent care on Thursday because of these symptons and the same dull, achey pain I had from the week before. I still had the UTI and was given another antibiotic (Nitrofurantoin) to get rid of the infection. I also had an ultrasound that confirmed I had an ovarian cyst that ruptured.

While the pain and burning is gone, I feel have to pee every two seconds...even if I have nothing in me. I am starting to get some pain in my lower back. I haven't slept at all this evening and needless to say, I am very frustrated. I plan on calling my doctor in the morning in hopes I can see them ASAP, but do you think it's a side effect of the medication or does this infection really want to hang out a while longer?

EDIT: I have a yeast infection on top of the UTI. Also, I just got a root canal. FML. SRSLY. /end pity party

Comments

Probably TMI, sorry!

[archangelbeth]

Basically, that's what pre-eclampsia (aka toxemia, aka Pregnancy Induced Hypertension (PIH)) does -- it's not that well understood, but basically the placenta isn't getting enough oxygen/nutrients (or doesn't think it is), and sends chemicals to the body that raise blood pressure, the better to squeeze oxy and nutrients past the placental barrier. When the blood pressure gets high enough, the teeny blood vessels in the kidneys don't work right anymore -- and the kidneys shut down.

Left to itself, serious pre-eclampsia turns into eclampsia, presumably from a combination of blood pressure skyrocketing and toxin-buildup in the body: eclampsia is, basically, seizures, unconsciousness, hopefully premature delivery, and/or death. Kidney damage is a definite possibility. Permanent high blood pressure that requires drugs is not out of the question, either, from what I heard of someone else who was at the hospital too. The only cure for it is delivery -- in my case, a quasi-emergency c-section. (During the hospital ride to the place with the level III nursery, the nurse told me (afterwards) that my blood pressure was so high that she was terrified I was going to go into seizures at any moment...)

For minor cases, extreme bed rest might be tried, and for slightly less-minor ones, bed rest with IVs of Mag Sulfate (a muscle relaxant) is, I believe, a possibility... In my case, they shot me with a steroid to help develop the kid's lungs, and stuck me on fluids -- when I eventually stood up, all the fluids went to my hips, so I have lightning-strike stretchmark streaks down them! None on my tummy.

I was pretty lucky -- while my blood pressure mostly ignored the medication (till it decided to drop heavily and they just took me off that stuff entirely), it eventually went back to normal, and I don't seem to have any kidney impairment that I know of. The kid, though decanted 2 months early (thus, requiring the level III nursery) and 2 pounds, fifteen ounces, seems to have no health effects from that, either. Heck, right after being "ripped untimely from her mother's womb" (Heya, MacDuff!), she was doing better than I was! *grin*

Anyway, thanks for the good-wishes! And now you know why I'm so very fanatic about people taking care of their kidneys. I hope that you recover quickly, too!