Pongoandperdi15
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Well this one seems a similar story for me I've lost track of how many Ive had this year it must be somewhere near the 20s and I'm not even exaggerating, some have made me feel awful some have just appeared and been in the background. This one appeared last Wednesday after a migraine on Tuesday I can only assume the dehydration from throwing up caused it but can't be sure your never sure where or how you acquire them. Doctors appear to be taking a different approach this time they are sending off the urine sample and awaiting the results before medicating which I can't decide what I think about that on the one hand I agree, I've been on so many antibiotics this year I don't want another course for no reason but on the other hand I just want this infection out of my body and to be honest Id really like them to stop.
So tomorrow morning I've got to send off a sample and then I've got a long 72 hour wait to see what the results say I'm just hoping things don't get worse for me so far I feel perfectly normal, slight discomfort when inserting catheter, obviously urine smells bag and is full of gunk and I've a slight ache from my back but in my self feel perfectly fine.
Any one got any advice when I do my catheter I wash hands for 25 seconds, wash all the downstairs area, part the hole and insert the cath in a smooth steady movement and if I feel any resistance at all I stop and come back and start the process again with a clean cath in a few minutes, Can't be more sterile than that. I drink as much as I can though the day to keep things going, the only thing I do know that I'm potentially getting wrong is timing usually I pull out 500/700ml of urine 4 times a day but i know your supposed to pull out no more than 400ml a time so realistically I should be doing it every 3 hours but with work that's just not practical, I'd have to kit out my works vehicle with a sink to be able to do that.
So tomorrow morning I've got to send off a sample and then I've got a long 72 hour wait to see what the results say I'm just hoping things don't get worse for me so far I feel perfectly normal, slight discomfort when inserting catheter, obviously urine smells bag and is full of gunk and I've a slight ache from my back but in my self feel perfectly fine.
Any one got any advice when I do my catheter I wash hands for 25 seconds, wash all the downstairs area, part the hole and insert the cath in a smooth steady movement and if I feel any resistance at all I stop and come back and start the process again with a clean cath in a few minutes, Can't be more sterile than that. I drink as much as I can though the day to keep things going, the only thing I do know that I'm potentially getting wrong is timing usually I pull out 500/700ml of urine 4 times a day but i know your supposed to pull out no more than 400ml a time so realistically I should be doing it every 3 hours but with work that's just not practical, I'd have to kit out my works vehicle with a sink to be able to do that.
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