Kidney Infection

Yes, I was feeling almost better.  Almost Ok, and then one debacle after another.  The end of the story: I had a kidney infection.  I just finished the last of my course of antibiotics (and I took my probiotics too, those are important!) and I go to my own doctor next week so I will get tested to make sure the infection is gone.  Plus, since I had a kidney stone, and endometriosis around the area of my left kidney, I will also ask her what I can do to encourage kidney health.  So far, I've just been continuing to drink some cranberry juice (well cranberry juice and other juices mixed because straight cranberry juice is not something I enjoy at all, but for the purists out there, I did manage to finish a bottle of the organic straight cranberry juice and it was certainly... Tangy).  

The Adventures of Living With Endometriosis and the Absolutely Pointless Visit to the ER

Gee... I have no idea why people with endometriosis get so frustrated...

I visited the ER on Tuesday when I woke up in the night with very intense pain that either was stemming from, or radiating toward, my lower back so that my back was very painful.  I had already taken the maximum of my pain meds and all of the other night-time medications and it was very intense and apparently not helped by the medications.  When I awoke, I felt a bit better, but in the afternoon/evening I felt the back pain returning, this time higher up in my back and on the right side (in the early morning I would have said pain in the middle of lower back and some  a little higher to the left).  I was also having trouble urinating... Straining just for a trickle when it felt like my bladder was full.  It was not as awful as when I had a kidney stone but the symptoms were new and not getting better so I figured I should get it looked at.  My visit was pointless.  I want to say it was beyond pointless, but I know that literally that doesn't make much sense.  But it was how I felt when I was done.