So after the past two days of thinking that pressure was from my baby dropping, it turns out I have an upper urinary tract infection. THAT was causing all the bladder pressure.

I went to the ER last night because I thought the terrible pains in my side were appendicitis… Hey, according to WebMD, I had every single symptom. So after 26 hours of the worst pain ever, they tell me it’s a UTI. And I guess I’ve had one before. Yeah, then this morning they called me and said they messed up my urine culture & had to send it out again!!

I have micro benign recurrent hematuria (the lining of my kidneys is like tissue paper, micro amount of blood is in my pee), so many medications, including Tylenol, make them really sore after I take them.

I have a prescription for Bactrim to take twice a day for 7 days; woo hoo. I go to the doctor tomorrow for a regular appointment & follow up from last night. I’ve had the WORST migraine I have to tell my midwife about, because that can be a serious side effect.

OH, this isn’t even the bad news! Monday night, at like 2 a.m., I called the answering service about my pains, I was almost crying they were SO bad. I got put through to the on-call doctor, she returned my call and said, “All that pain is normal. Drink water and rest.” Seriously doctor? I do EVERYTHING I can before I call you dumbasses. I WAS chugging water, I was ‘taking it easy’.  So, thank you doctor for NOT seeing me, even to check me out AT ALL that night & making me suffer through 24 hours of MORE pain. THAT could have been prevented by a quick pee test. They weren’t, I knew in my head they weren’t.