Bladder and urinary tract infections can make a person very sick in different ways. It can actually have an effect on someone mentally too... it can make you feel anxious and disorientated. UTI's can come back if not properly treated. (and even when they are, they can still return quite quickly, many people I care for at work suffer in this way)
A simple urine test should be able to rule out an infection. Ask to be seen sooner if you're still experiencing pain or other symptoms.
Drink cranberry juice if you can get your hands on some Cori, it's great for bladder, kidneys and UTI's.
I hope nothing keeps you from the CBT though, because I think you might benefit from their help.
You don't need to tell me about urinary tract infections! Mom had one in January and I've never seen her more messed up in my
life--
totally weirded out and didn't know who the hell I was!
If I didn't mention it here, after long experiencing digestive problems, the condition grew so much worse in the time leading up to my niece's wedding that I had a colonoscopy on October 20, which indicated diverticulosis, so we know
that part, at least, is real, and not nerves over the wedding, and it has grown no better since. So far the only change has been my pain medication to a prescription less rough on the digestion. I am continually off color and needing to be not too far between restrooms. I did take Skipper to the vet Monday, who said the new food has stabilized his kidney condition. I asked if anything he had could have been transmitted to me and the vet doesn't think so.
At CBT this past Monday I said I was
sure I was
seriously ill with something
absolutely awful which won't be caught in time to effect a cure (if curable). I had a sinus infection and half-believed it was a brain tumor. Doctor sister has grown tired of hearing my symptoms and accused me of texting too often and crying wolf. Two guys there said it
can't be a kidney stone--they've had them and the symptoms are
much worse. The therapist took me into another room during break at which I said I was actually kind of
trying to be pessimistic as I have a bad feeling about the outcome of
everything--personally, nationally, and internationally--and I refuse to get my hopes up just to have them crushed because the higher you go the further you have to fall. Doctor sister says I am too hooked on positive feedback, which isn't adult life, and I should give up on it. It's true I have had several horrible experiences with it backfiring, but when it
does work it is very effective!
On Tuesday there was a special choir practice for Christmas. I wrote the director saying I was not sick, but am not well enough to come, but will listen to recordings of the songs and see if I can participate at least on Christmas Eve. (I don't believe I have
ever missed a Christmas Eve service.) I also wrote the pastor a lengthy email saying I have to use most of my energy on the effort of trying to live much longer and figuring out, even should it prove worthwhile, how that is supposed to happen, and although I am not against the church in particular or Christmas in general, I can't be using my energy now on things like Christmas, so I'm not. I'm going to feel as bad or worse a load of crap whether I went all out on Christmas or not, so why do it? If I can't be guilted into it it's not worth doing. I did it last year with the conviction that the situation nationally was so dire it couldn't
possibly be allowed to last a year so I wasn't going to let the turkeys get me down. How wrong I was. I am walking around with a big target painted on me and had better lay low! I used to feel upset because I believed there
were answers and was angry because people wouldn't tell them to me in any way that made sense! I now believe maybe there
aren't any and we are all pretty well doomed.
I did
insist the doctor see me on December 20, and not leave me hanging around suffering until January 8, but I am
still not feeling like this, and doing Christmas, both! If things improve then maybe. Does anyone know anything about organic juice cleanses or anything? I think someone in town sells something like this and am about on the point of trying it! Thanks!