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June 2011 Moms
CarlaAndJames
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Drink your water ladies!! (Scary UTI!)
CarlaAndJames
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The other night I got a little nauseous and got up to try to use the bathroom. Within 5 minutes I went from completely fine to writhing on the floor with EXTREME pain. Like on the level of my worst contractions from having the baby. I couldn't breathe through the pain, my blood pressure dropped, and my lips turned blue! DH rushed me to the ER and it turned out I just had a really bad UTI.
So LO got her first experience with a babysitter, first bottle (Thank goodness I had stored breastmilk at the house already!), all in one night!
Just a warning to all of you. Make sure you're drinking PLENTY of water (I was probably drinking 40 oz a day and I'm trying to double that now), and make sure you're being super extra careful with keeping things clean "down there" (which is easier said than done post partum! I had to laugh when the nurse told me to try to keep everything completely clean and dry down there - I'm still bleeding!) I always thought a UTI was just an annoying urge to have to pee all the time, but this was horrible, horrible stomach and back pain. Not fun!
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Re: Drink your water ladies!! (Scary UTI!)
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I got one of these. Mine showed up about 2 1/2 weeks pp and my doctor thinks I got it from delivery. I had the worst kidney pain, I couldn't stand up. I had this all while taking care of the baby. I had some pain medication from the hospital, it didn't even help. I went to the doctor and was given antibiotics, but it never cleared up. Well they cultured my urine and come to find out the stain of bacteria I had was resistant to Macrobid. I had to be given something else. I am all better now but I know how you felt. It was horrible. Glad you are on the road to recovery. Those things aren't anything to play with.
Glad you are ok.
The week before I had LO, MW and I, and everyone around us, thought I was having labor that wouldn't progress for the longest time because I had such awful contraction like pain. Turns out it was a severe UTI that sent me to the ER a couple times before they figured it out.
Ugh! I feel your pain. Due to a minor birth defect I get chronic bladder and kidney infections and I have to say with a couple of the worst ones the flank pain did rival contractions in severity. It's really horrible.
I echo the PP suggestion of the cranberry pills, they have done wonders for me. Cranberries help ward off infections but you need to consume so much you'd be drinking 20 glasses of cranberry juice a day- thus the pills work much better and are much easier.