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Post by staceys on Oct 12, 2009 19:00:46 GMT -5
I did a bit of research aftery surgery, as I was having a little difficulty too. From what I read, not being able to void at all is an emergency and retention with being able to void, even if it's a little, needs to be treated by a MD, but is not an emergency. At least you will see someone tomorrow to figure out what is going on, or at minimum get you pointed in the right direction. Good luck at your appt.
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Post by JC on Oct 12, 2009 19:01:15 GMT -5
So, through all this, have they done ANYTHING at all for you??
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Post by omaklackey on Oct 12, 2009 20:16:37 GMT -5
NOPE, but at least I've got an apt. tommorow. It hurts to be sitting up so my bladder should be throughly pissed off by the time I get to wenatchee tommorow. ARGH...
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Post by omaklackey on Oct 13, 2009 21:29:03 GMT -5
Ok, so I'm home, tired, had a good day though with just me and the hubby. (sans kids) We even ignored the fact we are broke, went out for a nice lunch and did some shopping. Hit my favorite music store and got my students some new piano music, and me some new piano music. *snicker* Then we headed to the doctors office and got in right away which was a wonder because he was slipping me in between a bunch of others. He did some 'pokin' and 'prodin' which three weeks hyster was NOT FUN! He pretty much figured it was a UTI after poking around in there and making me yelp! So i had to pee in a cup and wait, wait, wait, we were there about an hour and he finally called down to the lab and they go 'oh we didn't know you were waiting'... sigh! five min. later we have the results... YUP it was a UTI which is simple, easy to fix, shouldn't have required a freakin' trip to wenatchee... oh well. I'm just so happy that its FIXABLE!
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Post by Karen on Oct 13, 2009 21:56:39 GMT -5
Didn't they check for a UTI a the ER?? Or is that what the fuss about the catheter was about?
Here's hoping you get some relief soon!
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Post by omaklackey on Oct 13, 2009 23:12:11 GMT -5
they did check for a UTI as soon as I got there. I had a fever painful and frequent urination, its a UTI? For some reason it came up negative. Today's however was very clear. I had blood in the urine, white blood cells, and bacteria, everything together makes for a rager of a UTI. My clinic is going to be getting a note or something and we will be probaably looking for somewhere else to do our 'doctoring'. My kidneys were at risk here and the freakin' blew me off!!
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Post by sunshine78 on Oct 13, 2009 23:23:26 GMT -5
Those people are morons, and forgive me for saying it, but a**holes, too.
You know what happens when I first come down with UTI symptoms, and the test is negative? My doctor gives me meds, anyway, because I know my body, and have all the classic symptoms, and they don't want it to get worse.
I'm sorry you had to deal with such mental rejects. And personally, I don't give a sh*t who says otherwise, UTIs ARE an emergency, as they go from 0-60 in about 4.5 seconds, and before you know it, you go septic.
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Post by ouchy on Oct 13, 2009 23:37:59 GMT -5
I remember you saying that you'd had too many antibiotics after your surgery to have a UTI. I had an antibiotic drip for more than 24 hours during my labor, and I still wound up w/ an hospital-only-acquired infection (UTI)! See! It's possible. And totally sucks! I hope your antibiotic works! What did it culture out to be? Hopefully nothing hospital-only! Mine was only treatable w/ 5 antibiotics!
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Post by JC on Oct 14, 2009 4:32:15 GMT -5
Those hospital acquired ones are horrible. Here's what I don't get. When you told me they did multiple attempts at your catheter my mind imediately thought, "It's impossible to keep a catheter sterile when you've had multiple attempts!" I had a feeling you were going to get infection before you even got it. Here's the typical procedure: if they try once and fail, YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO GET A NEW CATHETER!!. Once it's touched something, it's no longer sterile. The nurse wears sterile gloves, the box it comes in is sterile. So if it touches something other than that ( the bed, the outside of your body, or a failed attempt where it accidentally goes into the vagina) then it's NO LONGER STERILE. So if they were trying over and over again with the same catheter then they most definitely contaminated it. That's the overall, across the board procedure for placing a catheter. And from the story you told me, I'm almost willing to bet that they never changed the catheter for attempt #2,3,4..... That's extremely dangerous because, obviously, it puts the patient at risk for infection!
Karla, if you can distinctly remember them using the same one for every attempt then that's really grounds for mal practice because you got an infection from dirty nurse technique. It's totally against procedure to use the same one over and over.
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Post by omaklackey on Oct 14, 2009 12:06:26 GMT -5
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Post by JC on Oct 14, 2009 17:54:22 GMT -5
Who said that? That's awful! By the way, you said in your first sentence that "they tried a couple of times with one." That's enough to contaminate it!!! And although I agree with your bro-in-law that catheters are easy, some people do really have some difficult anatomy. Either the uretra is extremely small to see or sometimes it's actually inside the vagina. I think I said it somewhere else but I remember one woman where we had to insert a specula to open her vagina just to see her urethra inside. Some people are very difficult and it sound like you're one of the very few "lucky" ones.  |
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Post by omaklackey on Oct 14, 2009 21:56:02 GMT -5
"lucky me" My hubby stood up for me and won't let them try it again. I'm waiting to hear if the lab 'grew' the bacteria and to see what it was. I had rotten day today and spent the whole day sleeping. I was up all night 'going' and I was just exhausted. They gave me some perscription strength pyridium which I was hoping would help. I think it must have kicked in today because I did finally get some sleep. Now to see if I can wake up tommorow and start feeling human again.
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Post by staceys on Oct 14, 2009 22:01:44 GMT -5
drinks tons and tons of water to help flush it out... now that you know it's a UTI, I'd even cut the water with some cranberry juice. Hope you feel better soon and enjoy peeing orange  |
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Post by omaklackey on Oct 14, 2009 22:23:43 GMT -5
yes I was doing the cranberry anyways and cranberry tablets. I always drink tons of water so I don't get UTI"s very often. I have had some though. OUCH! Usually I didn't worry about it but when we were in Selah I got one so bad I was getting loopy and since then I take them pretty serious. my daughter got one last year and got delerious before we caught it. She had an extreme rare bacteria that our lab had never seen before and it was only treatable by a few antiboitics. We actually had to do follow up on that to make sure we 'got it' cleared up. So that also makes me leary. I'm still stumped about the lab not seeing the uti at the ER. Tony was joking that the drunk guy in the next room is proablaby being treated for a UTI. Its a small enough ER that it shouldn't have happened!
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Post by omaklackey on Oct 14, 2009 23:56:03 GMT -5
ARGH! The antibiotics are making me sick, sick, sick! YIKES... I take them and had to take promethezine and the mecc. to keep from throwing them right back up. I'm sure hoping they start working their magic soon and i can feel better. The cure is making me sicker and the UTI is still burning. *sigh*
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