General Medical issues thread

[DejaBrew]

Sending many positive vibes your way @mrsterryn for both you and your husband.

 

[Quickstatus]

It would appear that 14 days of Trimethoprim has cleared up wife's UTI.

on the advice of Urology

Run with that @JohnK.

 

[JohnK]

Run with that @JohnK.

Actually you won't believe me if I told you that I mentioned to Urology that a cystoscope could prove useful and Trimethoprim is the first antibiotic to help wife's UTI so we should have on hand to self medicate if symptoms return. They agreed.

Urology actually wanted CT scan with contrast but since wife had severe panic attack and paralysis last time we used contrast we declined.

We have further challenges as wife now has high Creatinin and low eGFR. Urology mentioned they do not treat this so we need to go back to GP after next blood test in a few weeks.

 

[Quickstatus]

We have further challenges as wife now has high Creatinin and low eGFR

That's no good.
Is this new or old?
Ordinarily something like this will need a kidney ultrasound or a Ct + contrast. The urologist can only deal with the bit below the kidney - the ureters/bladder. They do deal with kidney issues that are operable - like a tumour but that usually does not cause high creatinine. In your wife's case she needs some way to get images of the ureters if CT+ contrast unavailable. But in any case the high creatinine - see GP in the first instance.

Actually you won't believe me if I told you

Great- the thing to note is that treatments always involve a 2way discussion in order to get to a workable consensus. Finding your own way without the backup of some expert opinion is fraught with problems. Hence even Drs should never self diagnose or self treat.