Back from the urgent primary care unit at the hospital. As suspected I have a nice water infection. Never had one before that I can remember. So I’ve been walking around with this thing since at least last Sunday. There was some blood in my urine then but I was monitoring it for the day and it vanished, so I thought it would clear up on its own. The last week has been up and down but yesterday it came back with such a vengeance. The pain in my abdomen was really unpleasant. It felt rather like the contractions I experienced delivering Lumi in November, just in a slightly different location, with surges of pain right across the abdomen and on the right side particularly. Not sure where the pain went to this morning but glad it has gone. I just have that unbearable desperate urge for the loo constantly whether I need it or not and the inevitable burning when I do. Add to that tiredness with no sleep last night.
I was going to ask...since I know stress etc affects levels...is it possible that being poorly can increase levels? I woke up high today. My post breakfast reading was 8.9 and it’s pushed my seven day average up to 7.6 again after being 7.3 for the last fortnight. Not happy.