Health Care - Ugh!

This may be TMI for some!

Tuesday a.m. I get up during the night and go to the bathroom. I get back in bed and still feel like I have to pee, but I'm too tired and fall back asleep. Alarm goes off, get up, go to bathroom notice something funny looking about my pee but am too tired to care, feed dogs, think I still have to pee, got to bathroom again...nothing, but seems kinda reddish when I wipe...okay, shower, still have to go - try again...no success...finish getting ready, still have to go, try again...nada...drive to work, feel like I'm going to pee my pants, throw all my stuff at my desk, go to bathroom...zilch, zero, zippo! WTF. By this time, I'm thinking UTI/bladder infection.

I call Dr. and make appt for 9:30. Go in, do the pee test...blood and protein in my urine. Wonderful... They give me a Rx for Bactrim and Rx for ultrasounds and blood work and more urine tests...

I pick up and take Bactrim...hour and a half later I'm dizzy, can't think and a half hour after that, my body feels like it is shaking... Not good! I call the Dr. tell them I can't take that med and they call in Cipro. I pick up Cipro after work and throw it on the counter...collapse on the chair because I feel out of it and exhausted. Guessing it was from the med. I take the Cipro before I go to bed and I'm in bed by 10 pm which is very out of the norm and early for me.

An hour and a half or so later...I'm up and think that I'm within the 12 hr eating window (gotta fast for my blood work and ultrasound) and got up to make myself a quick soy protein shake. Big mistake. I had to sit down when I got to the kitchen - about 20 ft.! I was so dizzy I thought I was going to fall over! I make my shake anyway, drink it and get back to bed for a horrible nights sleep.

This a.m. I get into work and pull out the med so I could take it. I look at the bottle and see a huge "May cause DIZZINESS" label on it...which stupid me didn't even notice last night because I was so freaking tired. I get extremely upset. I call the Dr. yesterday because the med the initially gave me made me dizzy and they give me a med which is KNOWN to cause dizziness! So, the RN tells me that I need to come into the office because something else may be wrong with me. Ummm...NO!!!! It's the med. I read the RN the riot act and tell her I am not coming in. WTF? Apparently the health care industry if fucked up completely!!!!!

I get off the phone after being told that someone would get back with me. Okay. Whatever. I research both meds they Rx'd for me. I am an avid researcher and all of the reputable sites and more stated that both meds cause dizziness. The longer I research the more pissed off I get...stupid Drs/RNs!!!!

I go for my ultrasound with my 32 oz. of water. I make a few phone calls while waiting. My Dr. calls me in between and she Rx's me amoxicillin which she said was less effective but won't cause dizziness...confirmed this with the pharmacist when I picked the med up and before I paid! Three Rx's...hope this one works!

I haven't taken any antibiotics in probably 10 yrs... This is just ridiculous.

So I got my ultrasound. Gave blood. Gave more urine. And picked up Rx #3 this evening.

I originally thought that the Wog's and my trip to the hot tubs could be the cause...but the more I think about it the more I think this has been going on for a while. Dribbling (sorry, TMI) is one of the signs of bladder/UTI...and while I was working out a couple weeks ago, I noticed something... I just thought that I had to pee really bad and the bouncing made it come out. Could be this issue has been around for a while. I can also recall something (dribbling) like that happening this summer when someone gave me a hug. I was completely embarrassed, but no one but me notice.

All I can say is that after today, I'm mentally exhausted. I just hope that nothing seriously is wrong with me. The ultrasound tech gave me the size of my kidneys and the one that she was having trouble scanning was 1.5 cm smaller than it was two years ago. This has me worried...I surely hope that I do not have kidney disease. It doesn't run in my family and after reading about it I don't know of anything that I do that would cause it...

I just hope all my tests come back normal...because at this point after the last few days and everything else I've experienced with the health care industry...I've just lost all faith.