Long story short (I'm fine now) Didn't know I was sick, until my temperature SUDDENLY spiked to 105.3 last night and I was chivering convulsively out of control. Spent the night in the ER. They got my fever down, pumped me full of antibiotics. It turned out to be a UTI.

Okay, I had felt no burning....should I have felt burning? I'm afraid my body is becoming so numb that I'm not feeling things I should be. Somehow I'm going to have to learn how to keep better tabs on my body. I'm sure I must have had this for quite some time for it to have gotten so out of hand.

Anyway, I guess I gave my dh quite a scare. But I was so out of it all I could feel was my body convulsing. I thought I was in our old farmhouse. i was just out of it. I don't wish to repeat this!

Any input or suggestions would be welcomed.

ALSO: During the time of my high fever I lost the use of my left leg. This is the side that I was temporarily paralyzed on a couple years ago with an MS attack. But by the time the fever came down and I got back home.....leg is just fine...or at least as fine as it was prior to the fever. That was kinda scary.

F2U,

Just last night, my neuro had a lecture and discussed when your bladder is numb, you won't know that you have a UTI...he said what usually happens is we get an exaserbation of leg spasms/numbness. So the next time you have trouble with your legs, it might be trying to tell you something.

Hope you're better real soon!!

Thank you so much for that valuable bit of information. Wow... my legs have been SO weak the last 'few' weeks. I am so glad to know this.

AND....maybe my legs will get some strength back!

I'm sure I am on the mend now!

...that everyone else in the world probably already knows... Was that everytime I took antibiotics I would end up with a yeast infection.... So now I have learned to ask for a Diflucan pill to take with the antibiotics to avoid this. No need having anything else to cause discomfort if avoidable!

((((HUGS)))) Sorry to hear about this.

Drink plenty of water with the antibiotic. I've found that can help.

I have AZO test strips at home - I find them at CVS. A little pricey, but much cheaper than copays from the docs. I test myself every couple of months to be sure nothing is going on since its hard for me to feel stuff sometimes.

I also drink real cranberry juice every month or so as well in hopes of staving them off. Knock on wood - I haven't had one for a few years.

Feel better soon!!!!!

Sorry to hear you've been so sick. I'm glad it was something "fixable" and you're doing better now.

Wow...a few years...that is great! I honestly have never heard of such a thing as the AZO test strips. I have already put them, as well as the C juice, on my Want List.

I drink quite a bit of water. But I will definitely make sure to drink a lot this week.

Thank you so much for the good advice and the well wishes.

I am glad you are better. I had a mild UTI recently and I am pretty numb so your post is so timely for me.

The info on cranberry pills is great. Since I am also "juicing" and LOVING it, I will also add cranberries to some of my concoctions.

But most important, I am glad your fever did not get out of hand and that you are better.

Wow I am glad you are OK. That had to be scary. One thing to note that my urologist warned me of. He recommends Azo pills to help with the symptoms of a UTI but warns that they do nothing to actually clear up the infection, and sometimes mask the infection. But they do work great for the symptoms.

Wow, I'm so glad you're okay!

I just got done yesterday with my antibiotics for my UTI. Mine started Sunday morning, I drank a TON of water and almost two quarts of cranberry juice just that day. Woke up the next morning and it was a lot worse. Nothing quite like peeing razors.

I ended up going to urgent care to get antibiotics, and the practitioner treated me like a criminal for having a UTI. They gave me a Sulfa and after two doses we discovered I'm allergic to them. So a round of Cypro got me over it.

Some signs are dark urine, strong smelling urine, and for me, feeling dehydrated even with drinking a ton of water.

I'm going to have to find me some cranberry pills, that sounds great and I can't stand cranberry juice.

I hope you don't have to go through this again. Oh and something my pulmonologist told me, about sulfa drugs anyway, was that the reason you are supposed to drink a lot of water with them is that they are very hard on the kidneys. I was drinking more than 13 cups of water a day for three days after stopping them and still so dehydrated that when you push on my finger the skin wouldn't spring back for at least a minute.

Hopefully this thing is gone for good, good luck!

Kristie