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Oct. 8th, 2009 02:41 pmLast night I believed I was on the road to recovery...until I woke up at 12.48 am in excruciating agony from pain in my lower back that never relented.
Didn't sleep a wink from that moment on and was again unable to keep still for more than half a minute, even after I'd rapidly learned that changing positions or getting up to walk about didn't help in the slightest. Pacing the living room floor between 5 and 5.30 am, I was convinced I'd be going into the QA before the day was out. I'd taken one of my antibiotics at 5 am, with a glass of milk as recommended; just after 6 I was violently sick on the milk.
Phoned for the out of hours doctor about 6.15; he returned my call just after 7. He was able to give a diagnosis straight away; where the doctor I'd seen had had to give an on-spec diagnosis, as he couldn't send my sample away for analysis in the middle of a Sunday night, the antibiotics I'd been taking hadn't worked on my UTI, which had now risen to my kidney. So I was to come off these antibiotics, take Paracetamol and Nurofen to fight the pain, and take a fresh sample down to the practice nurse when my GP's surgery opened at 8.30 so that could be sent off for analysis.
We had Paracetamol in the house so I was able to take a couple straight away, though without a significant effect on the pain. Two people arrived at the surgery before me so I had a 20 minute wait to see the nurse, a very nice lady named Sister Williams. She said she couldn't send the sample I'd brought for analysis as it wasn't sterile, though she would test it, and sent me off to the loo to provide a fresh one. When I returned she said the sample I'd brought didn't show a UTI; while an infection starting as a UTI and rising to my kidney was a possibility, there was also a chance it was renal colic, which is caused by kidney stones. She did prescribe me some new antibiotics in case it was a UTI, wrote out a programme of heavy doses of Paracetamol and Brufen for me and said to keep my scheduled appointment with my GP on Monday morning and tell her how I do between now and then. Finally she stuck a form to my sample and told me to take it straight away to the War Memorial Hospital and drop it in the bin there to be sent off for analysis.
After dropping my sample off, I crossed the road to the Co-op Pharmacy to get my prescription and stock up on the painkillers. Thanks to those I've finally been able to rest for most of today so far.
Didn't sleep a wink from that moment on and was again unable to keep still for more than half a minute, even after I'd rapidly learned that changing positions or getting up to walk about didn't help in the slightest. Pacing the living room floor between 5 and 5.30 am, I was convinced I'd be going into the QA before the day was out. I'd taken one of my antibiotics at 5 am, with a glass of milk as recommended; just after 6 I was violently sick on the milk.
Phoned for the out of hours doctor about 6.15; he returned my call just after 7. He was able to give a diagnosis straight away; where the doctor I'd seen had had to give an on-spec diagnosis, as he couldn't send my sample away for analysis in the middle of a Sunday night, the antibiotics I'd been taking hadn't worked on my UTI, which had now risen to my kidney. So I was to come off these antibiotics, take Paracetamol and Nurofen to fight the pain, and take a fresh sample down to the practice nurse when my GP's surgery opened at 8.30 so that could be sent off for analysis.
We had Paracetamol in the house so I was able to take a couple straight away, though without a significant effect on the pain. Two people arrived at the surgery before me so I had a 20 minute wait to see the nurse, a very nice lady named Sister Williams. She said she couldn't send the sample I'd brought for analysis as it wasn't sterile, though she would test it, and sent me off to the loo to provide a fresh one. When I returned she said the sample I'd brought didn't show a UTI; while an infection starting as a UTI and rising to my kidney was a possibility, there was also a chance it was renal colic, which is caused by kidney stones. She did prescribe me some new antibiotics in case it was a UTI, wrote out a programme of heavy doses of Paracetamol and Brufen for me and said to keep my scheduled appointment with my GP on Monday morning and tell her how I do between now and then. Finally she stuck a form to my sample and told me to take it straight away to the War Memorial Hospital and drop it in the bin there to be sent off for analysis.
After dropping my sample off, I crossed the road to the Co-op Pharmacy to get my prescription and stock up on the painkillers. Thanks to those I've finally been able to rest for most of today so far.
