Should I go to the emergency room or wait 4 my appt next week?!


Question:

Should I go to the emergency room or wait 4 my appt next week?

Okay, im always getting UTI's its to the point where I cant drink any sodas because im to scared that I may get a UTI. I do everything that they tell me to do like pee after sex and all of that stuff but I still get them. Well I just got one and along with the stinging when Im about to finishing peeing this time im having pains in the lower part of my stomach, im very nausated and I just feel sick and that doesnt happen when I get UTI's. Im starting to think that my infection is getting worse because I feel sick. Do you think its safe for me to wait until next thursday to go to the Doctor or wait in the emergency room for 6 hours to get seen. Please give me your honest opinion with no smart remarks...Thanks so much

Additional Details

2 weeks ago
I drink cranberry juice and take the pills and I still get them..Plus I dont drink any soda's!!!

2 weeks ago
A week from now was the earliest appt and I told them that its an emergency than they moved it to the 16th it was on the 23rd at first


Answers:

I was the same as you in my 20's. After several trips to the ER they finally did an IV pyelogram and discovered I had horseshoe kidney (kidneys joined together at the bottom in the shape of a horseshoe). This was the cause of the chronic infections. It is especially telling that you have pains in the lower part of your stomach. Mine felt like someone was trying to turn me inside out by the belly button. That threw everyone off because kidney pain is usually in the back/side of the torso. But it was because the extra piece of kidney was the infected part and it was located between the two other kidneys that the pain was where it was.

Whether you go to the emergency room or not (don't you have emer clinics not attached to the hospital where service would be faster and cheaper??) you need to ask for the pyelogram (or newer diagnostic test if they have one) to take a look at your kidneys.




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