Emergency rooms, or when is it time to head to one

[sus7.livejournal.com]

This is part searching for answers, searching for opinions and searching for assurances, like so many of the posts in this community. I posted last week about abnormally heavy discharge during my 2-periods-a-month on bc, and how my doctor doesn't believe me about it. When I was in her office last week for various illness (two infections, woo) she told me I was presenting bacterial kidney infection symptoms and gave me an antibiotics shot to help combat it, but nothing else. I also had a virile infection. Well the virile infection got better and the bacterial infection seems to be worse, and following my doctor's orders, I called back in to get another appointment for this week with my new and worse symptoms. I can't get in to see her until late Friday. I have an off-and-on fever, and I am a mass of pain from the neck down! My kidneys hurt (I've had baaaadddd infections before and know the feeling), my back hurts, all my major joints hurt more or less, standing is so painful I can hardly do it by sitting and laying down hurt as well, and my lower regions are in some serious ouch, including torrential bloody discharge like nothing I've seen before (and if it's a period, it's three weeks early for a normal monthly period, or three months early if you're me and only have four a year). I want to hit the ER but I aleady have this doctor appointment. Would you wait? Is it right to burden ER staff with something I could *probably* wait two more painful days to have addressed by a physician? I've always thought of ERs as strictly last-resort options. Thoughts?

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[rockstarbob.livejournal.com]

Perhaps this link (http://community.livejournal.com/vaginapagina/tag/should-i-go-to-the-emergency-room%3F) from our sidebar will help.

Good luck!

[sus7.livejournal.com]

Ah thank you, I was just going through vulvapedia links and such to see if there was something about ER posts. :p