Still sick, a rant, and not having good "thoughts"

[dancer67]

I have had nausea since last Monday. Went to Dr's on Friday, and was DX with a UTI. This was not my regular Dr. It was the NP. My own PCP is on vacation this week. I was given Cipro and was told that having a UTI can cause an upset stomach. The culture in the office showed elevated leukocytes and blood in my urine. I have had a kidney stone 4 years ago, but I do not have any pain. Only the nausea.
Yesterday I call for my 48 hour culture results. They were negative. The nurse told me the results because my own Dr is on vacation. I asked her what to do next. She says "I dunno". Okay, reason number 1 why I have HA. What do you mean you don't know? She finally says for me to call back the NP and leave a message and ask her if I should stay on the medication, or not. In the meantime, the Dr covering for my own would call me back.
In the meantime, I was so freaked out, with having blood in my urine, I feared another kidney stone. So I emailed my Hematoligist. He sees me for my Iron Deficiency. Obviously, not his field but I was at the end of my rope here as to what to do.
I a few hours later, the NP calls me who treated me tells me I def. have UTI, it was caught in the early stages, and probably got some gastroenteritis with it. Stay on the Cipro. OkAYYYYY.................
10 minutes later, the phone rings and it the Dr. covering for mine. I have never met him, nor has he met me. He tells me a different story. He says he completely disagrees with the NP, and that I do NOT have a UTI because the urine culture was negative, and having blood in my urine means I have a kidney stone. He tells me to STOP taking the Cipro. He tells me to follow up with my own Dr next week when she returns, he will call in an ant-nausea medication for me, and to stay close to home in case my stone decides it is going to pass. Okay, now I am really on freak out mode. Another reason WHY I have HA!! Two people, two different stories, and my husband tells me to "trust your Dr's".........yea, right.

Half hour later my Hematologist calls me on the phone. He got my panicked email. He even apolgized for not getting back to me sooner. Keep in mind this is NOT his field, and he did not treat me for this. But, because all of my Dr's are in the same system, he has access to all of my records and labword. He is the Head of Hematology/Oncology.
He looks at my lab report and tells me that I DO have a UTI, and if I had a kidney stone I would be having pain. I know this myself from past experience. He tells me that I just do not have blood in my urine, but also elevated leukocytes(White blood cells), and that many times, the 48 hour culture does not produce anything. When I told him what both the other people said, the NP and the Dr., he agreed with the NP, but NOT the Dr. He said to me, without saying "Um, er, well, there could be better". Basically saying he does not trust his opinion.
My Heme Dr said that he has treated thousands of women with UTI's. And his wife gets them all the time without a positive culture. He told me to stay on the Cipro, and if my stomach was still nauseas as of tomorrow, he would call in 500mg instead of the 250mg I am on now.
First, I want to say that this man went out of his way to do this for me, and made the time to call me, and even apologize to me. And I am not even being treated for this by him. You do not find this very often with Dr's. I can email him, and he always calls me. Eveif unrelated. He understand that I have health anxiety.

Here is the issue now. I am having a hard time believing that my nausea has ANYTHING to do with my UTI. My stomach is queasy off and on. Then I get real hungry, I eat a little, and I get full real fast, and then the nausea starts in again. I do not have any issues with frequent urination, or painful urination. Never did. I went in complaining of nausea. (Not pregnant).

I try to stop my thoughts from going elsewhere, like Ovarian Cancer. I just had a full check up of everything at GYN back in December. Unless OC comes on like this very suddenly.

My husband is very mad at me. He keeps telling me I need to get a hanndle on my emotions because he is at the end of his rope.

I have such severe HA because of the above. It seems as if nobody knows what they are doing, and you get different stories. So how can I trust what the Dr's tell me?

I am SO SO SO SO SO tired of things happening to me. And then I am sent to all these Dr's for tests, and it causes more stress, and MORE HA.

It doesn't help that I have felt like crap for almost two weeks. I cannot see my PCP until next Tuesday. Maybe with a higher dose of cipro I will feel better I don't know.

But I was really in a down mood yesterday, and today to. I am having suic*** thoughts, and wondering if my life would just be so much easier if I was not here.

When I do not feel well like this, I feel like I am going to feel like this forever. And I am REALLY scared of having tests done.  I would just like to go in and they tell me what it is, give me something and send me home.

But it is never that easy for me. Just like I do not believe that this nausea is being caused by a UTI. And I have been on Cipro now for 4 days. Nothing has changed.

I don't know what to do, or who to turn to. And that is what scares me the most.   
     

[sixpack]

My opinion-- continue taking the cipro.  You may not feel better until it is all gone.

I've had two UTIs in life--took cipro and did just fine. 

your nausea is probably caused by two things--the UTI and your worry.

[crazygirl1]

I'v ehad UTI's. Last time I had one it happened like this: I was at work and started feeling like I had to pee even though I just did. Then it turned to burning. By the end of the day my back was aching slightly adn I was feverish. Next morning it was full on. I went to the dr. don't remember exactly what test said but I did have a uti adn by this time i was sick-fever and all as it was spreading up my u tract into my kidneys. All this ebcause I coudlnt get an appt the day i started feeling sick adn knew what it was...drank cranberry juice too...thinking it was a bladder infection. I never did have nauseau but I hear ppl do. the cipro will knock it out fast

[sugarcookie]

I have a history of kidney stones too.  The first one I had started with pain, but no visible blood.  The second go around(18 yrs later)I had an upset stomach and some mild cramping all day and thought I had a virus.  By that afternoon, I was peeing pure blood.  No pain.  I called my mother and husband crying because it just had to be bladder or kidney cancer right?  I went to the er and was told probably another kidney stone passing.  I followed up with an urologist and went through all the tests.  Turns out I had 3 stones trying to pass.  I think it was well over a week if not 2 before the excruciating pain started.  I was put on an antibiotic both times.  If you are passing a stone you should be on an antibiotic anyway.  So yes, at least in my case I had kidney stones causing blood in my urine for awhile before the pain hit.  Definitely stay on the Cipro.  I listen to an urologist on the radio here in Houston.  He gets a lot of calls about blood being found in the urine.  He says sometimes a cause is never found and it can come and go.  Maybe the upset stomach is from your nerves.  I know when I have too much on my mind I can't hardly eat and seem to fill up quickly.  I also have to make a lot of bathroom runs. 

[marc]

I have had nausea off and on for many years. According to my GI physician, in many cases an organic cause of nausea
is never found. I am very sorry to her about your disturbed thoughts. When my HA was at its worst, I thought I would never
recover and was about to give up. I climbed out of my HA pit and began to function again. If I can do it, so can you. You must
never give up as when things appear at their worst, this is when you must not quit.

[dancer67]

OMG, I hope and pray this is not a kidney stone again. I KNOW what that was like the last time. I would never, ever wish that pain on anyone.
The hematologist feels I would be having pain. I have had this nausea for a week now. It comes and goes.  I want to believe it is attributed to the UTI and/or nerves. It is just that I have never, ever had nausea like this unless I was pregnant. I can eat anything I want and nothing bothers my stomach. Now, I try and eat two pieces of toast when I feel hungry, and I feel full then I get nauseas all over again.
It is terrible thinking those "thoughts". Because sometimes I lie in bed wondering and thinking about it.
I do not like pain or being sick. And I can deal with it if I know for sure what it is and I know that it is going to pass. I don't like this feeling of not knowing exactly what is causing this.
And three Dr's giving three opinions. Unreal. This is why my HA flares. I feel like there are to many hands in the pot, and nobody knows what the hell they are doing.

[marc]

I don't blame you at all for being upset with three different opinions. It is enough to make
your HA go into high gear. If it was me, I would err on the side of caution and take the antibiotic,
but what do I know anyway? I know Cipro can cause nausea, however.