things that suck

Let me share with you all the horror and annoyance of the last week or so in the world of Bluemoon. Be warned, this post speaks of lady health to some degree.

Got symptoms of my first UTI last week.  Went to my Dr., got prescribed Cipro.  Took Cipro for 3 days as instructed, didn't get better.  Got worse once RX was gone.  Went back into Dr. Monday morning.  Saw useless stand in for my own Dr. b/c mine was booked.  Left having been told "I don't know" basically, as the urine culture ended up coming up as negative for UTI.  Gave me a referral for a urogynecologist.  Called.  Couldn't get in, as they were booking for MARCH.

Asked last urogyn. office what I was supposed to do since by this point I COULD NOT PEE.  They recommended the ER.  Went to ER.  Bloodwork to check on organ function, urine culture again, and CT scan to check for kidney stones and other undesirables.  Other things happened I don't want to specifically identify, but you can guess based on the fact that I couldn't pee and they needed a sample. Got fluids via IV, all bloodwork checked out, CT scan checked out.  Came up as positive for UTI in their tests and ER doc said theirs are more reliable, anyway. Bottom line conclusion was that I had a special UTI that was resistant to the Cipro, so they gave me another antibiotic, Macrobid.

Started on that Monday afternoon.  As the week progressed, noticed I was feeling some weird tingly sensations and odd numbness in my feet and lower body.  Attributed it to my body just being tired and depleted.  Got worse yesterday, and finally today looked at the RX warnings for this antibiotic. No bueno.  Called pharmacy and Dr., have to stop this antibiotic because of my reaction to it, which apparently happens a fair amount and requires cessation of the drug.

Currently waiting on Drs. office to call back with decision about if I'm going to get pulled from antibiotics in general or get a short course of a third antibiotic to round out what would have been the full course of the second one.

The bitch of it all?  FINALLY started seeing real improvement with the UTI today.  On the verge of being pissed if they tell me no on third antibiotic b/c I don't want to lose the progress I've made.  I dream of peeing with wild abandon like all the other girls do.  No, I do not WANT to be on antibiotics, but if I need to do 4-5 more days to kick this out for good, I will.  I'm taking my acidophilus, my vitamins, drinking a ton of water, blah blah blah.  And I've been told to go ahead and fill the precautionary Diflucan RX and take it at the end of the antibiotics course just b/c I will have been on them so long and I don't want to wait for a problem to happen.

Seriously, though.  Is it so much to want to pee while NOT having intermittent numbness and tingling in your legs while you're doing it?

This is just all compounded by the fact that I had the flu in December and STILL have a residual periodic cough from it.  My body needs to get its shit together!  :-)

Cheers!