If I would have known that this was posted here I would have given you some relief that there are others of us out there who have the same problems. On saturday night I woke up in the worest pain I have ever experienced and was rushed to the hospital by my fiance. When we got there it took the two hours to finally give me something for the pain. I quit talking to the staff and told them until they gave me something I was not talking to them about my condition just screaming for pain meds. They finally gave me some and discovered I was passing a kidney stone with a mild infection and prescribe a very minute pain killer. I was back in the hospital 24 hours later with even worse pain and they discovered that I had a rare infection in each of my kidneys that only 10% of kidney infections turn out to be. SO they had to switch my antibiotics and finally gave me a urologist who went in for surgery only to find out the stone had passed and sent me home with more pain meds and antibiotics. Two days later I was admitted to the hospital because one of my kidneys was so swollen my fiance could feel it on my side. They failed to put a stint in to help with drainage and when your kidney wont drain it wont work and when It doesnt work you do not take in the antibiotics that are in a pill format. I ended up staying over night at the hospital on IV painkiller, anti-inflammatories, anti-neasuea meds, and a diaretic. it was a horrible experience to go through all that because the doctor did not want to admit me to the hospital or to use aa stint becasue I had passed the stone on my own. All the research I did said whenever this surgery is done no matter if there is a stone or not they put in a stint to avoid cases like mine.
SO I really feel you on how your experience was I do know for sure I am never going back to that hospital or that doctor and I am still in pain today, Following Monday, and wishing they would give me something for it. But I am avoiding going back to the hospital.A
SO I really feel you on how your experience was I do know for sure I am never going back to that hospital or that doctor and I am still in pain today, Following Monday, and wishing they would give me something for it. But I am avoiding going back to the hospital.A
arghh i am 19 weeks pregnant with a kidney infection and all the give me was antibiotics, my back is so sore an the pain in my side is so bad i cant sleep :-(
I'm a nurse and I recently have been out of work for a week so far with a kidney infection. I thought it was the flu initially, because it got beyond the back pain. Anyway, at he ER, I was given IV antibiotics, and left with oral antibiotics, percocet, and motrin scripts. I thought I'd be feeling great within 2 days. here I am 2 days later on the internet trying to figure out if this enourmous pain I have is OK or if I should see my doc. Even percocet every 4-6 hours isn't cutting it!! Sometimes it does get worse before it gets better tho.
Not sure how helpfull this reply is but as a medical student and as someone who has just been told two 3 days ago I have a kidney infrction, I wanted to say that for some reason paracetamol is the only painkiller Doctors are advised/told to give patients with kidney infections!!!!! Completely outrageous when research acknowledges kidney infection/problems to be one the worst types of pain even compared to burns and crash accident victim injuries! I had tears in my eyes hardly able to breath thought I was going to die and I assume this is how everyone with a kidney infection feels!
Something really should be done to change analgesia for kidney infection, maybe I need to do some more work and questioning into this!
I'm guessing because the antibiotics work most of the time to clear up infections that the health system doesnt bother with making sure pain relief is adequate, and on the NHS (not sure how many of the ppl in this forum are from UK) they dont want to spend any extra money where they deem not absolutely necessary.
Also as this is so easy to diagnose I recon as dr's are so busy they forget to spend the right amount of time explaining what will happen and what to do if it doesnt get better/if the antibiotics make them throw up!
And finally in relation to goldfish, your case should bot have been followed up as it was! It seems GPs completely forget what they are taught at medical school its crazy! I can understand them getting a antibioic with wrong sensitivities the first time but considering her age they should have definitely admitted her at least the second time she came in! I thikn the problem really does come down to shortage of beds, very sad but true! Unfortunately it doesn'st sound as if your mother would have had a better prognosis either way but it is outrageous that she was not admitted and her pain controlled/so she was re-assured!
Something really should be done to change analgesia for kidney infection, maybe I need to do some more work and questioning into this!
I'm guessing because the antibiotics work most of the time to clear up infections that the health system doesnt bother with making sure pain relief is adequate, and on the NHS (not sure how many of the ppl in this forum are from UK) they dont want to spend any extra money where they deem not absolutely necessary.
Also as this is so easy to diagnose I recon as dr's are so busy they forget to spend the right amount of time explaining what will happen and what to do if it doesnt get better/if the antibiotics make them throw up!
And finally in relation to goldfish, your case should bot have been followed up as it was! It seems GPs completely forget what they are taught at medical school its crazy! I can understand them getting a antibioic with wrong sensitivities the first time but considering her age they should have definitely admitted her at least the second time she came in! I thikn the problem really does come down to shortage of beds, very sad but true! Unfortunately it doesn'st sound as if your mother would have had a better prognosis either way but it is outrageous that she was not admitted and her pain controlled/so she was re-assured!
Dear Guest,
I am so very SORRY that you are being treated this way when, as others have said, Kidney pain is worse than childbirth!!! I went 7 1/2 months being told that they dont understand why I am having such awful pain. I have 4 stones in the left Kidney but they havent moved so I shouldnt be having pain. The CT scan showed the same, nothing of urgent need, therefore more tests were ordered; 1 month later than the current visit I was at!!! I however was given pain meds, only to shut me up I'm sure , and more antibiotcis of course. So I am pissed off and start to doubt my pain as Kidney; maybe muscle and I can tell them apart???
So I finally have pain meds but still have know idea what the F is happening! Can't 1 of these Urologists take a little more time with me to get to the bottom of this...well the answer was NO, so I wait for the call to schedule more x-rays?!?!?!? Now I have pain medicine, and its working. I was given a total of (95 count) Dilaudid 4mg (Hospital Grade Heroin)2 tabs every 4-6 hours and (95 count) Percodan for breakthrough pain. This is all fine and well, I am able to get through my days with minimal pain but have no idea who the hell I am anymore because I was so F-ing high. Tollerable pain with many pills to get me by until they schedule a CT scan with dye, I will be fine. HELL NO, was I ever wrong about that! It had masked my pain so well that I didnt feel what was continuing to happen to my body from these F-ing things inside of me.
Somehow an 10mm stone had worked its way through the Kidney, down the ureter to the opening of my bladder where it had been all along, and another 6mm stone stuck half way between the opening of my Kidney and Bladder, 2 more that were dangeling at the Kidneys opening ready to make its was home. And I barley knew it due to the pills. By the time they did the CT with dye, my Kidney had stopped producing urine, It couldnt get through to the bladder due to the blockage so it started backing up into the Kidney. This started the reverse effect of what it is supposed to be doing...so along comes my friend infection and sepsis. The TOXIC effects of this are really jumping on board full throddle! My legs are three times their normal size due to fluid build up and the skin is starting to open on its own because of it!!! I leave the x-ray department walking ever so gently due to the obvious, trying to get to my car so I can get home. Far away from these people who have know idea that I am hours away from dying. Dying because they all have there heads so far up their "I AM GOD THE ALMIGHTY HEALER" asses, to take the time and just look at me for christs sake!!! I do not look like a healthy person whatsoever!!! Needless to say...but they dont, and making it to my car was not an option either. My body had other things in mind for me at that moment. I dont remember anything after that until I woke up having just had surgery to place a stint, flush out my Kidney, retrieve one of the 4 stones...leaving in the 10mm for now (makes no sense, I know) and heading off to ICU. Four weeks and 6 surgerys later, all of the stomes are gone. The stint came and went along with the lazer blasting of the remaining stones (I call it a game of Astroids...I am aging myself now) and the medication overload I received, compared to your lack of any, has me wondering that this may have been over alot quicker if I wasnt given any at all. But, thats just insane at the same time! No one should have to suffer in this day and age!!!
Dont let any doctor do to you what they did to me! You keep asing to see someone new until you find one that cares about his patients. Not a doctor who is worried that you my become slightly dependant for a short period of time. Quality of life while you're going through this horrible ordeal is much more important!!! When this all started mine weren't very excited about placing me on such heavy narcotics. The fact that I ate them like candy, due to the pain I sufferred waiting for them to actually help me, was ridiculious and cruel. When I actually reached out (simulating while talking, that I was going to grab his testicules in one hand and squeeze them until he cried) did he really-truley look at me (possibly in fear a little) and get what I was trying to say. In other words, "HEY DOCTOR, WHO TOOK THE HYPOCRATIC OATH TO DUE NO HARM, I AM IN f*****g PAIN HERE!" "I HAVE BEEN PUTTING UP WITH YOUR LACK OF PROPER DIAGNOSIS FOR ONE MONTH, YOU ALMOST KILLED ME IN THE MEAN TIME. NOW TAKE CARE OF ME SO THAT I CAN GET WELL WITH THE LEAST AMOUNT OF PAIN AS POSSIBLE!!!" I suggest you do the same. You are the only one who knows how you feel, and now is the time to help them catch on as well. If they dont hear you...get loud! If they still dont hear you...get louder!!! You will be seen as a hysterical female, so what. Keep it up until.....If you were a man you would be acting assertive. We dont have that luxury yet. Actually, in these circumstances its better to be seen as hysterical, then thay just want you to shut up!!!
DO NOT GIVE UP...GO THROUGH THE WHOLE UROLOGY STAFF IF YOU HAVE TO! DO IT UNTIL YOU GET THE RESULTS YOU NEED!!!!!
i WISH YOU ALL THE BEST,
MICHELE
I am so very SORRY that you are being treated this way when, as others have said, Kidney pain is worse than childbirth!!! I went 7 1/2 months being told that they dont understand why I am having such awful pain. I have 4 stones in the left Kidney but they havent moved so I shouldnt be having pain. The CT scan showed the same, nothing of urgent need, therefore more tests were ordered; 1 month later than the current visit I was at!!! I however was given pain meds, only to shut me up I'm sure , and more antibiotcis of course. So I am pissed off and start to doubt my pain as Kidney; maybe muscle and I can tell them apart???
So I finally have pain meds but still have know idea what the F is happening! Can't 1 of these Urologists take a little more time with me to get to the bottom of this...well the answer was NO, so I wait for the call to schedule more x-rays?!?!?!? Now I have pain medicine, and its working. I was given a total of (95 count) Dilaudid 4mg (Hospital Grade Heroin)2 tabs every 4-6 hours and (95 count) Percodan for breakthrough pain. This is all fine and well, I am able to get through my days with minimal pain but have no idea who the hell I am anymore because I was so F-ing high. Tollerable pain with many pills to get me by until they schedule a CT scan with dye, I will be fine. HELL NO, was I ever wrong about that! It had masked my pain so well that I didnt feel what was continuing to happen to my body from these F-ing things inside of me.
Somehow an 10mm stone had worked its way through the Kidney, down the ureter to the opening of my bladder where it had been all along, and another 6mm stone stuck half way between the opening of my Kidney and Bladder, 2 more that were dangeling at the Kidneys opening ready to make its was home. And I barley knew it due to the pills. By the time they did the CT with dye, my Kidney had stopped producing urine, It couldnt get through to the bladder due to the blockage so it started backing up into the Kidney. This started the reverse effect of what it is supposed to be doing...so along comes my friend infection and sepsis. The TOXIC effects of this are really jumping on board full throddle! My legs are three times their normal size due to fluid build up and the skin is starting to open on its own because of it!!! I leave the x-ray department walking ever so gently due to the obvious, trying to get to my car so I can get home. Far away from these people who have know idea that I am hours away from dying. Dying because they all have there heads so far up their "I AM GOD THE ALMIGHTY HEALER" asses, to take the time and just look at me for christs sake!!! I do not look like a healthy person whatsoever!!! Needless to say...but they dont, and making it to my car was not an option either. My body had other things in mind for me at that moment. I dont remember anything after that until I woke up having just had surgery to place a stint, flush out my Kidney, retrieve one of the 4 stones...leaving in the 10mm for now (makes no sense, I know) and heading off to ICU. Four weeks and 6 surgerys later, all of the stomes are gone. The stint came and went along with the lazer blasting of the remaining stones (I call it a game of Astroids...I am aging myself now) and the medication overload I received, compared to your lack of any, has me wondering that this may have been over alot quicker if I wasnt given any at all. But, thats just insane at the same time! No one should have to suffer in this day and age!!!
Dont let any doctor do to you what they did to me! You keep asing to see someone new until you find one that cares about his patients. Not a doctor who is worried that you my become slightly dependant for a short period of time. Quality of life while you're going through this horrible ordeal is much more important!!! When this all started mine weren't very excited about placing me on such heavy narcotics. The fact that I ate them like candy, due to the pain I sufferred waiting for them to actually help me, was ridiculious and cruel. When I actually reached out (simulating while talking, that I was going to grab his testicules in one hand and squeeze them until he cried) did he really-truley look at me (possibly in fear a little) and get what I was trying to say. In other words, "HEY DOCTOR, WHO TOOK THE HYPOCRATIC OATH TO DUE NO HARM, I AM IN f*****g PAIN HERE!" "I HAVE BEEN PUTTING UP WITH YOUR LACK OF PROPER DIAGNOSIS FOR ONE MONTH, YOU ALMOST KILLED ME IN THE MEAN TIME. NOW TAKE CARE OF ME SO THAT I CAN GET WELL WITH THE LEAST AMOUNT OF PAIN AS POSSIBLE!!!" I suggest you do the same. You are the only one who knows how you feel, and now is the time to help them catch on as well. If they dont hear you...get loud! If they still dont hear you...get louder!!! You will be seen as a hysterical female, so what. Keep it up until.....If you were a man you would be acting assertive. We dont have that luxury yet. Actually, in these circumstances its better to be seen as hysterical, then thay just want you to shut up!!!
DO NOT GIVE UP...GO THROUGH THE WHOLE UROLOGY STAFF IF YOU HAVE TO! DO IT UNTIL YOU GET THE RESULTS YOU NEED!!!!!
i WISH YOU ALL THE BEST,
MICHELE
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I'd say about 4 months ago, i woke up one morning with a feeling like i'd stretched my back muscles so i through nothing of it - but by the end of the day before going to bed i went to pick something up off of my bedroom floor by this time my back pain had become worse.
Still i through nothing off it, since i've experienced stretched muscle pains before so i through there's no point me worrying but as the days went on i found it harder and harder to ignore my back pains. They got worse, also they started at the middle of my back and shot up but only my left side was acting up by the time a week went by and i found it extremely uncomfortable walking and just to get too college i have to take a bus, two trains and then walk for 20 minutes; in the end i couldn't take it anymore and asked my mother to book me an appointment with my doctor, i went and saw my doctor and she didn't even seem remotely intrested all she told me was " you've got back pains - make antibiotic's three times a day".
Of course i didn't believe her but i did what she told me i didn't take antibiotic's 3 times a day i took about 2 a most - but still my pain was only taken off a bit but by this time my right side of my back started up ; in the end i couldn't properly laugh with friends without being inpain, i can't drink Fizzy pop because it becomes to painful.
Though the pain did disappear for about 3 weeks then they started up again and now 2 months after the second time the pains started again they have NOT gone away.
Do i try too see my doctor again and get the same answer?
Or not bother. :-(
Still i through nothing off it, since i've experienced stretched muscle pains before so i through there's no point me worrying but as the days went on i found it harder and harder to ignore my back pains. They got worse, also they started at the middle of my back and shot up but only my left side was acting up by the time a week went by and i found it extremely uncomfortable walking and just to get too college i have to take a bus, two trains and then walk for 20 minutes; in the end i couldn't take it anymore and asked my mother to book me an appointment with my doctor, i went and saw my doctor and she didn't even seem remotely intrested all she told me was " you've got back pains - make antibiotic's three times a day".
Of course i didn't believe her but i did what she told me i didn't take antibiotic's 3 times a day i took about 2 a most - but still my pain was only taken off a bit but by this time my right side of my back started up ; in the end i couldn't properly laugh with friends without being inpain, i can't drink Fizzy pop because it becomes to painful.
Though the pain did disappear for about 3 weeks then they started up again and now 2 months after the second time the pains started again they have NOT gone away.
Do i try too see my doctor again and get the same answer?
Or not bother. :-(
I'm very, very sorry for your loss Heather. I'm sorry to say that sounds like malpractice. The kidney infection should have been diagnosed based on a urine sample, and they should have done a quick ultrasound on her kidney to make sure there were no stones. Here at UPenn Hospital, they went as far as giving me a Catscan on the area to ensure that it was a simple UTI kidney infection before sending me home with 10 days of Bactrim and a few days of Percocet. If they did the proper precautions at your hospital, your mom's real condition may have been found sooner, but there's no way to know whether the tumors would have been operable then either. Every hospital's care is different; major cities/ university hospitals tend to have the best care in terms of diagnosis and quality of doctors. A lot of people end up going to non-traditional cancer care centers when they cannot get the help desired from traditional hospitals. I'm sure you've seen commercials for them. Second opinions are always warranted if you are weary of a diagnosis; never be afraid of going to a different hospital for a second opinion.
Sorry again.
Sorry again.
no this is not right ive been diagnosed with a sever kidney infection which is leading to a liver infection and i kidney shut down and they discharged me out of A&E i agree with you this isnot right and something should be done about it .
hey guys iv been in the hospital for a uti and they told me i had a small kidney infection gave me pain killers and anitbiotics and sent me home the fever and vomiting stopeed but the pain never went away i still have a little pain in my lower back at times but the lower front is killing me very sharp pains all day! also would it be ok to wear tampons?
I am sitting here reading these awefull stories with lower back pain,cloudy urine, elevated white count and I do not want to go to the hospital because I also know how they treat you. I had a hysterectomy last year and had a huge unfection inside the cuff and not to mention and infection between the muscle and the incision but all because i dont get a fever with infection I was ignored over and over again. I would get a shot in the but and kicked back out. I went back and forth 3 differant times and this is what they kept doing to me. I called my work as I am a cna (certified nurses assistant) and asked my boss who is a dean of nurses why I am getting treated like this and is there something else they can do because I was in so much pain. She flipped out told me to go to the hospital and told me that if they tried to do the same thing they were doing to me then call her before leaving the hospital. So I went and they gave me another shot in the butt and some pain meds and tried to send me home so I called my boss and she came to the hospital and told them that I needed iv antibiotics and a drainage tube and that they should be ashamed of themselves. Needless to say I got the care that I desperatly needed thanks to my boss. But I am no longer working there because I tore my bicep tendon and am having surgery within the next week. I am quit sure that I have a bladder infection but I dont want to go because I know that I will be just another case to them rm # blah blah blah.. And yes this is coming from someone that works in the medical field..... I remember being told many years ago while I was training in a nursing home that I didnt have time to bull sh*t this a patient that had dementia and was showing me the something she had in her hand and wasnt really there. I got so mad and yelled at that lady and told her that she was the reason that we had a job and that she was buying my time and that it wasnt bull sh*t to her. I see it all the time I report it when I see it. I am sorry that you have all been through bad expierances but there are some of us that do care and we try to make a differance. Its just that sometimes the bad ones out number the good ones and I am truely sorry for that.. xoxoxoxoxoxoxo
Guest wrote:
Your mother was not being melodramatic, she was the victim of ignorant, inconsiderate nursing staff.I get them very frequently and the last time I got it, it was so bad that I actually got a bacterial infection in my blood. At first the pain was just gnawing back pain, but then within an evening it persisted into full blown stomach and back cramping to the point where I thought my back was going to break in half. Then it's like you get a full body flu, but multiply that normal flu by about 15 and that's what it feels like. You get hot and cold chills, almost EVERY BONE IN YOUR BODY ACHES, INCLUDING YOUR TEETH, YOUR FINGERNAILS AND EVEN YOUR HAIR ACHES! I was literally in so much pain that I actually got a migraine as a secondary result from the infection---to the point that I couldn't even lift my head.
No, Goldfish. That is not right AT ALL!
I suffered silently but cried in pain for almost 5 hours waiting for a doctor in the hospital--they thought I was being a suck. Then, when I finally saw the doctor she was amazed at how well I was taking it considering that I was at the point where I could have died. She instantly put me on very strong painkillers the moment she found out I had a bacteerial infection in my blood. AFter antibiotics and many painkillers the one nurse came and appologized to me. Shortly after I had that same nurse take off my IV and I left the hospital even after advice not to do so.
I was so disgusted at how they treated people in pain. So called healers.
So, does that answer your question my friend?
I would complain if I were you. She could have died without proper medication!!!!!!!!!!!This is whats happening to me right now. I have had frequent UTI'S. This last one, was worse than any other one, so Iwent in, they told me it was only a uti, (Even though I showed all of the signs of a kidney infection) and they sent me home. A day later I started peeing blood, and had horrible back pain, so I went back in, and they sent me to the ER, telling me I ahd kidney stones, or my kidneys were rejecting the antibiotics. The ER staff told me I have a kidney infection, that has not been treated. THe doctors never tested for it, even though for months I've been showing signs.
The nurse at the ER told me that it's far enough into my kidneys that I could get blood poisoning.
In the past 5 days, I have not gotten better, I've been getting worse. I'm on percaset, antibiotics, urinary pain meds, anti- nausea, ibuprofen.
I have developed flu like symptoms. The pain seems to be getting worse. Can somebody just get it right?
Goldfish, I am VERY sorry to hear about your mom, thats horrible! I can only imagine how you're feeling. I am very upset with my primary care doctors at this point. THey have misdiagnosed me several times and caused many ER bills.
I understand how frusterating it is. If I didn't know my body well enough-- I'd be dead right now, because the doctors cant get it straight.
I was only a few lines in and I thought about my boss. He was having horrible back pain and went to the Dr. and they treated him for back, disk trouble. His Dr. did this for over a year.. after more than a year of the Dr.'s efforts to treat his back pain my boss Mark finally begged his Dr to do a MRI and he says when the Dr walked by him his face was white and that he could not even look at him.. it was a day later before they gave him the news that he had tumors all up and down his spine. He has bone cancer and has been fighting it for 8 years now. Dr.'s are human.. and we have to push when we don't think they are on the right track and trust our gut and don't take no for an answer.. they are only human like the rest of us.. I am thankful they found the real problem when they did at least for your mom. Bless you both
Goldfish, I totally agree with you about the healthcare system! It amazes me that they really only care about the bottom line, their profit. Most hospitals were started by loving caring people whose goal was to help and heal the sick...but not any more. I went to the hospital in tremendous pain, high fever, chills, and I could barely move when I was 38 weeks pregnant. They did a urine test and found out that I had a UTI and said, "Oh, you just have an infection, go home and drink water and cranberry juice." They gave me no antibiotics to treat the Kidney infection and they put my baby in danger! The doctor never even showed up to the hospital!!! The next day as I was almost dying in my bed with sweats and still a very high fever I had to call and beg over the phone for an antibiotic. I was induced the next day to have my baby and she ended up with blood poisoning due to the kidney infection. The hospital still denies doing anything wrong and refuses to admit that my baby almost died because of their lack of care! She was hospitalized for 9 days! We now have bills of almost $20,000 and the hospital will not reduce them or do anything to help us. I must also mention that the kidney infection was probably also caused by the hospital when they checked me for my pregnancy with non-sterile gloves (the day after I lost my mucus plug). They did not have any hospital grade sterile gloves that I was not allergic to even though I preregistered a month and a half in advance! They honestly don't care about the people! I'm so very sorry for your loss and I'm forever grateful that God healed my baby. Please if you can somehow become an advocate for better care and treatment for the memory of your mother!
OK i just was released from the hospital with a kidney infection and it is NO joke.. i have a very high thresh hold for pain and i was SCREAMING .. like thought i was dying and begging for someone to get me to the hospital. i went to loma linda and they were very understanding of my pain they sent me home with percocet which is the strongest medication i have ever been prescribed even after broken bones and child birth. So she should go see some one else. Keep taking the anti biotics as they will help kill the infection and slowly start curing the pain.. and as for the nurse who told her that .. excuse my language but F*&% HER! THat is pain if i have ever felt it. I am a nurse and i KNOW that this woman should have been written up for doing that ... i would write a letter to the DON of the ER for that hospital, because that in unacceptable. Patients deserve better than that.