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robert@fm

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For the last few weeks I've had a pain in my side, which steadily got worse before flaring up on Monday so I could hardly walk. Fortunately I got an emergency GP appointment on Monday evening, provided a urine sample and he did a dipstick test on it, it turned out to contain sugar (not surprisingly as my fasting BG a few hours earlier had been 15.0) plus blood cells and protein. He sent it off to the lab and in the meantime said that it's probably a UTI (I'd suspected it was a recurrence of the appendicitis I suffered last year, so I wonder what the test results will show) and prescribed me a course of cefalexin (500mg), which according to the PIL is an antibiotic which is specific to UTIs.

Hence I haven't been on these boards very much these past few days, but the cefalexin and paracetamol between them seem to be doing the trick -- the pain is still bad but is no longer crippling.
 
I'm sorry to hear this Robert, I hope that the medication does the trick and that you are feeling much better soon 🙂
 
Glad you got help and hope the meds help. I hope you are better soon. Many people find that drinking plenty of water helps flush the urinary tract as well.
 
Still suffering unfortunately; this morning I headed towards the bus stop on my way to my annual sleep apnoea check-up at the Lane-Fox Unit of St Thomas' (carrying my Nippy 2 CPAP ventilator with me of course, since that gets serviced as part of the appointment; the thing feels like a ton of bricks, even when I don't have any pain to contend with), and about halfway there concluded that I wasn't going to make it; fortunately at that point I'd reached the minicab office, so took a cab instead.

The consultant I saw reassured me that since my temperature is normal, the problem is unlikely to be a recurrence of the abdominal abcess I suffered last year; so I'll need to get back to my GP surgery to ask if they've tested for gout, and to do so if they haven't. If it is, that would explain why even co-dydramols don't seem to be having much effect (apart from making me drowsy, as the sleep consultant pointed out). If what I suspect is correct, I really need to be on colchicine, not a generic painkiller.
 
Hope you get it sorted soon and sime relief from the pain.
 
I hope they can get to the bottom of it Robert, and you can get the right treatment to relieve the pain, get well soon! 🙂
 
Fingers crossed that they get things sorted for you Robert - nothing worse than undiagnosed pain. 🙂
 
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