u/Springisinbloom

Hello. I am a college student, 20 F, white, 5’4, 111 pounds, non-smoker, only medication I take regularly is Apri, a combination birth control pill.

So basically, this all started last Wednesday. I thought that I had a UTI, because for several days it hurt when I went to the bathroom, and one day I found blood in my urine. The next day I go to urgent care, and they don’t find anything in the dip test, but they do find a lot of blood in my urine. They end up prescribing me Bactrim. They then tell me, if I experience any kidney pain to go straight to the ER.

The next day, I start experiencing kidney pain and I go to the ER. My blood work was normal, and they didn’t find anything in my urine culture. They just told me to keep taking the Bactrim, and if my symptoms return to go to my campus medical facility to get more antibiotics. However, the day I get back from the ER I start experiencing the most excruciating stomach pain I’ve ever felt. It felt like it was burning and sharp, and it came in waves. The antibiotics largely eliminated any symptom of the UTI that I was worried about, but now the stomach pain was so debilitating I couldn’t go to class.

I end up paying a visit to my campus Medical Center and tell them about what was going on, and they tell me that I should stop taking the antibiotics before I complete my course, and prescribe me an antispasmodic because they think that I’m having a intestine spasm. I listened to them, and stop taking the antibiotic and start taking the antispasmodic. It doesn’t help with the pain.

Then, a day later, the stomach pain gets so bad that it’s the worst pain that I have ever felt, and the kidney pain makes a reappearance too. So I go back to the ER, and they perform a CT scan on me. They don’t find anything. They also don’t find anything in my blood work. They gave me medicine for the pain, as well as a muscle relaxant. I don’t know what’s going on my kidneys still ache, and my stomach pain still comes in waves, and I have the chills.

Does anybody know what could be going on or what I should do? I have no previous medical history that would indicate anything going on with my stomach or kidneys, so I’m very concerned.

Hello. I am a college student, 20 F, 5’4, 111 pounds, non-smoker, only medication I take regularly is Apri, a combination birth control pill.

So basically, this all started last Wednesday. I thought that I had a UTI, because for several days it hurt when I went to the bathroom, and one day I found blood in my urine. The next day I go to urgent care, and they don’t find anything in the dip test, but they do find a lot of blood in my urine. They end up prescribing me Bactrim. They then tell me, if I experience any kidney pain to go straight to the ER.

The next day, I start experiencing kidney pain and I go to the ER. My blood work was normal, and they didn’t find anything in my urine culture. They just told me to keep taking the Bactrim, and if my symptoms return to go to my campus medical facility to get more antibiotics. However, the day I get back from the ER I start experiencing the most excruciating stomach pain I’ve ever felt. It felt like it was burning and sharp, and it came in waves. The antibiotics largely eliminated any symptom of the UTI that I was worried about, but now the stomach pain was so debilitating I couldn’t go to class.

I end up paying a visit to my campus Medical Center and tell them about what was going on, and they tell me that I should stop taking the antibiotics before I complete my course, and prescribe me an antispasmodic because they think that I’m having a intestine spasm. I listened to them, and stop taking the antibiotic and start taking the antispasmodic. It doesn’t help with the pain.

Then, a day later, the stomach pain gets so bad that it’s the worst pain that I have ever felt, and the kidney pain makes a reappearance too. So I go back to the ER, and they perform a CT scan on me. They don’t find anything. They also don’t find anything in my blood work. They gave me medicine for the pain, as well as a muscle relaxant. I don’t know what’s going on my kidneys still ache, and my stomach pain still comes in waves, and I have the chills.

Does anybody know what could be going on or what I should do? I have no previous medical history that would indicate anything going on with my stomach or kidneys, so I’m very concerned.