I feel like I am going crazy! My bladder has been messed up for about a month now & it's starting to make me miserable, which in turn is leading me to make VERY poor food choices & is effecting my work.
It all started with a bladder infection. I couldn't get to the Drs for two weeks after symptoms began thanks to a few reasons: Christmas meant hard to come by appointments, a holiday to Center Parcs & then, of course, my worry that it would turn out to be nothing & the Drs not take me seriously (it's happened more times than I'd like to remember!)
I was given three days worth of antibiotics for the initial bladder infection but my bladder never went back to normal! I need to pee ALL THE TIME! It's driving me insane! I can't even manage a 15 minute bus journey to work without feeling like I'm going to wet myself.
On Friday it got too much so I went back to the Drs. He did a test to see if I still had a bladder infection but it turned up negative.. So he told me that everyone gets the urgent need to wee every now & then. It's normal. & next time I feel the urgent need to go, I should just sit on it & wait for a while.
He asked if I woke up in the middle of the night to go, I told him sometimes I do, sometimes I don't.. Normally I make it from midnight to about 6am before waking up. This prompted him to tell me that it obviously wasn't a bladder infection then because they don't just stop because we're asleep (also I had no pain, so that was conclusive to him). I feel exactly now as I did when I was diagnosed with a bladder infection.. I didn't have any pain or urgency during the night & yet I had an infection & needed antibiotics then!
He decided that I was obviously over-drinking then & wouldn't listen to me when I told him that I barely drink 1ltr a day! Of anything! (TMI, but my urine for the test was CLEAR! So he didn't believe that!) Then he told me to drink LESS, cut down on coffee, tea, coke & alcohol (Told him 3 times that I don't drink ANY of those due to either IBS or Slimming World)
I have to sit it out for 3 weeks before he'll consider any real tests.
OH & I have discussed it & I'm going back to the Drs on Wed to see a female Dr for a second opinion. They just don't like it when you go back & have a tendency to fob you off. You have to really fight with them for anything here.
I just feel like I am going mad! I want to cry & pull my hair out. I can't possibly keep on living this way. & it's made worse by having no one believe me :cry: I have headaches & dry mouth from not drinking enough & yet I need to wee every 5 freaking minutes.
Sorry for the rant. I really needed to get this out. I'm starting to feel really run down because of this (& really can't be arsed with work this week, I get enough stress from them, nevermind adding the stress from this as well)
It all started with a bladder infection. I couldn't get to the Drs for two weeks after symptoms began thanks to a few reasons: Christmas meant hard to come by appointments, a holiday to Center Parcs & then, of course, my worry that it would turn out to be nothing & the Drs not take me seriously (it's happened more times than I'd like to remember!)
I was given three days worth of antibiotics for the initial bladder infection but my bladder never went back to normal! I need to pee ALL THE TIME! It's driving me insane! I can't even manage a 15 minute bus journey to work without feeling like I'm going to wet myself.
On Friday it got too much so I went back to the Drs. He did a test to see if I still had a bladder infection but it turned up negative.. So he told me that everyone gets the urgent need to wee every now & then. It's normal. & next time I feel the urgent need to go, I should just sit on it & wait for a while.
He asked if I woke up in the middle of the night to go, I told him sometimes I do, sometimes I don't.. Normally I make it from midnight to about 6am before waking up. This prompted him to tell me that it obviously wasn't a bladder infection then because they don't just stop because we're asleep (also I had no pain, so that was conclusive to him). I feel exactly now as I did when I was diagnosed with a bladder infection.. I didn't have any pain or urgency during the night & yet I had an infection & needed antibiotics then!
He decided that I was obviously over-drinking then & wouldn't listen to me when I told him that I barely drink 1ltr a day! Of anything! (TMI, but my urine for the test was CLEAR! So he didn't believe that!) Then he told me to drink LESS, cut down on coffee, tea, coke & alcohol (Told him 3 times that I don't drink ANY of those due to either IBS or Slimming World)
I have to sit it out for 3 weeks before he'll consider any real tests.
OH & I have discussed it & I'm going back to the Drs on Wed to see a female Dr for a second opinion. They just don't like it when you go back & have a tendency to fob you off. You have to really fight with them for anything here.
I just feel like I am going mad! I want to cry & pull my hair out. I can't possibly keep on living this way. & it's made worse by having no one believe me :cry: I have headaches & dry mouth from not drinking enough & yet I need to wee every 5 freaking minutes.
Sorry for the rant. I really needed to get this out. I'm starting to feel really run down because of this (& really can't be arsed with work this week, I get enough stress from them, nevermind adding the stress from this as well)