I‘be had UTIs before when I was little, so I know the typical symptoms. However, my symptoms are a little different this time.
I felt a little funny down there yesterday, but I brushed it off as my period coming soon. sometimes around my period I get UTI-like symptoms. However, today I’ve started to feel localized pain on my left “side” down there. I don’t know how to explain it, but it’s not like my whole urethra hurts when I use the restroom. I feel slight pain in a very specific spot that I can tell is on my left inner region.
I just went to the restroom earlier bc I’ve been drinking a lot of water to try and flush it out, and this time, there were little clumps of blood in my otherwise normal looking pee. it’s not like all my pee was red or pink. there were just little blood clumps/drops in it. And again, there’s some pain on my left side. When I wipe, there’s a little bit of blood on the toilet paper, but again, only when I specifically wipe on that spot. Everywhere else is normal. I don’t think it’s period blood because it’s not where I bleed from my period.
Any thoughts on what this might be? I know it’s hard to diagnose without seeing a doctor. I don’t have one yet bc we moved recently. My parents only want to take me to the ER when it gets really bad, but I don’t want to wait until it gets to that point before we go. I want to try and get antibiotics to treat whatever this is.
any help or advice for how to get rid of this, how to deal with the pain, etc, or what this might be are welcome! Please help idk what to do and I’m scared of being in pain, or having a kidney infection, or dying from sepsis, or all of the other horrible complications that can develop with a UTI 🥲