You have A…………….UTI

If you read my previous blog you know I had a really long night last night.  I didn’t get any sleep. Now by no sleep, I actually mean I got zero, zip, nadda.  I didn’t think 8:00am was ever going to get here. It finally did and  I called the Doctor’s office, they told me to come in at 8:40. I needed to shower and Liz needed to shower, plus we are about 12 minutes away.  Well, because Liz and I are so good we were both able to get a shower, get dressed and arrive at the doc office with one minute to spare. 

Once I got there they sent me straight back to give a urine sample and I got to see the doc right away. He said I was passing 1 inch clots in my urine. He knew I was feeling pretty rough.

We talked about why I might be getting so many of these, what to do about it and some preventive things I can do at home to help prevent more.  He said that it’s possible that I never got the first one from June cleared all the way. So he was sending my sample in for a culture. He said it takes 48-72 hours to get the results.  Then we would know exactly what we were dealing with and if it was resistant to the last two rounds of meds I had been on for the previous infections. The Doc said we of course can’t wait that long to treat me for this infection so he gave me a different anti-biotic then what I had been on an some pills that turn my pee orange that helps with the pain.

Once I’m done with the meds then he wants me to come back in and give another sample of my urine just to double check the infection is cleared up.

I’m really wishing they would have done it the last two times I had infections but whatever they are doing it now.

For preventive maintenance I will be taking AZO Cranberry plus urinary Health Promoting Probiotic & Vitamin C. I can take two to four tabs a day.   Cranberry Juice makes me ill so I’m lucky they have something like this out. It was about $7 bucks for 50 tabs.

I got home about 10:45am, updated my facebook and went to bed. I was able to get about 4hours sleep. I’m still exhausted though.

I could go into more detail but this blog is already long enough. So I’ll sign off here