Urosepsis twice in a year - no follow up?
Little bit of a rant, little bit looking for others experiences
I was just released from the hospital with my second bout of urosepsis. Hospitalized for 5 days, last time spent 9 days in hospital
It’s being caused by e.coli, UTI - and for some reason I never get UTI symptoms- at all.. so lucky me, I only find out I have an infection when it reaches my kidney
My problem is, this time around when I went into the hospital, the doctor treating me wasn’t great.
Like I mentioned, this is the second time having urosepsis in a year, this time around they found a kidney stone in my left kidney (not causing any blockages). And a possible abscess in the right kidney, this was discovered with an ultrasound
I heard from residents and another doctor while being hospitalized that the next step would be a CT to clarify if it were an abscess or not - the doctor treating me said no
I asked for a referral to urology - she said no. I pushed back, she gave it to me only after I told her to mark it in my chart that she was refusing to provide me with it.
I expressed concern since this is the second time in a year and I’m 32, I want to get to the bottom of why this keeps happening because I don’t want sepsis AGAIN and risk death - she laughs and says your young you won’t die.
She sent me home with oral antibiotics (amoxicillin) for 14 days and a follow up ultrasound
My issue is I don’t feel like this is enough?
Anyone else have anything similar?
I’m terrified that my kidneys are going to fail or something
I asked if the sepsis is being caused by the stone or the possible abscess she said no, they were caused by the infection, but I read online it’s the other way around
I’m honestly just scared it’s going to eventually kill me, I just had a baby in Jan and I can’t have anything happen to me