Bladder to Kidney to NO relief

Kidney and urinary tract
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I have suffered for about 5-6 years now with UTIs. During this time it was discovered that I am very allergic to Sulfa medication. Not fun. 

Anyhow, my current concern has me scared. Two weeks ago on a Wednesday my husband had to drive me to the walk-in clinic because of a bladder infection. It got bad fast, with blood and clots in my urine. They testing my sample and gave me Macrobid twice a day for 5 days. By that Saturday morning, I couldn’t see blood anymore but still passed a clot now and then. But my back/side started hurting. So I when back to the same clinic. He showed me the print off that stated I had an E. Coli infection and tested against antibiotics I was on the right medication. So to continue taking it and make an appointment with my primary doctor at some point during the week. The on Monday morning (last Monday) I took my last pill. Still continuing to drink as much fluids as I could handle, still not sleeping very much at all. Still had the crazy urgency... not every 20-40 secs but once I felt I had to go, within seconds it became a crazy issue were it felt I might not make it to the bathroom. Fast forward to Wednesday morning at 4 am, I woke up with extrem pain, soak with sweat and had to run to the bathroom. BAM bright red blood and the clots were so large I think I may have torn myself. I could leave the bathroom longer then 5 minutes without panicking to get back. This continued till about 6:15 when everyone else in my house started waking up. My back/right side was hurting so badly I couldn’t sit. The pain to pee was so bad. I dropped to my knees a few times. 

My husband called my mom to come get me and rush me to ER, and told me he would meet me there once the kids left fo school. ER was crazy, they got me in fast, gave pain meds and started IV for Cipro 7 days. Gave me CT to check for kidney stones, I didn’t. They found I have multiple infections from my kidneys down. Sent a referral from the hospital for a urologist given my history and these past two weeks. 

I just finished the last pill last night. The urgency is still unreal the second I calmly feel I should go, seconds later it’s panic. My lower back is still so sore and my middle back to right side is bad. And the pain is starting to slowly get worse and worse since I haven’t had any meds today and the urgency is also getting a bit worse. 

I’m starting to get scared. I e never had an infection this powerful before. And overall just feel unwell, even have a sinus infection and a croup sounding cough and my wrists and knee hurt badly too. 

My body feels like it is shutting down on me. I’m only 33

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Please. 

I know my post is long, but I wanted to give as much information as I could. I need help, answers, direction

I’m scared

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Hi Unsmama,

I’m so sorry to hear that you are suffering so much. 

Firstly, be careful which drugs they give you. Ciprofloxicin is highly dangerous and has rendered me disabled. Obviously, it’s better to be disabled than dead, but they really need to culture your urine and do another ultrasound scan to ensure that nothing else is going on. They may have to put you on something like gentamicin. When they couldn’t get rid of my infection, they gave me iv gentamicin. Let us know how you get on. Take care, don’t neglect things and all the very best to you. xx

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Thanks for you reply. 

I had no idea what medication they were giving me. I was in a state of fog, swaying back and forth, I could sit and was in the bathroom every few minutes. They took a sample and started pain meds. About and hour and a bit later is when they brought the IV meds, so I’m assuming they ran the sample to see. 

The first time I went to the doctor two weeks ago with the bladder infection they ran the sample and it showed that Macrobid was the right medication. However, it didn’t work. 

I’m nervous about the side effect of Cipro. 

I’ve been off all meds now for 1.5 days now, and by right side and lower back ar hurting more and more. And the urgency is becoming slightly more unbearable. 

Im sorry to hear about what Cipro did to you. That’s just horrible!! How long were you on it for?

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Be persistent & if necessary put every thing down in writing. You and all others will refer to the writings if necessary.   We all hope that our doctors are fully aware of the need to resolve any problems we have whatever the cause of those problems are. These days surely any bacterial infection can be isolated to 

resolve what the offending microbes are and therefor eliminate them.

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Not trying to scare you, but have they checked for cervical cancer?

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I agree with Tristan.  I'd go to and obgyn and get checked out.  You may have two things going on.   My friend just got diagnosed with Ovarian canter.  Her symptoms were heaviness and pain in low abdomen and she was unable to hold her urine and wetting herself.  The tumor was pressing on her bladder.