Hospitals treating me for PID but i keep getting sicker.

**Betsyrocker** · 10-07-2010 09:07 AM

I'm 20. 5'7ft 140lbs. The past 6 months I have been experiencing a strong odor every time I urinate. A month ago I needed to get a pap smear to continue my birth control. I do not have an OB-GYN yet so I had my regular doctor do the pap. While getting the test i told him about the strong odor. He told me to bring in a sample if I could. A week later he told me the pap smear came up normal. I never got a chance to take a urine sample.

Two weeks ago I got a lump on my right breast. It started off being itchy then it turned bright red and i can actually feel a lump in my breast. I felt sick with body aches for a few days. Then one day I woke up, made a bowl movement and filled the toilet with bright red blood. I went to school that day but the body aches got so bad I left early. While on my way home I got extremely confused and didn't know anything about myself. I went to the hospital.

The hospital did a rectal exam, pevic exam, urine sample and blood test. The said it was PID (Pelvic Inflammatory Disease) and put me on Clindamycin 150MG three time daily for 7 days, Levaquin 500MG once daily for 14 days, and Metronidazol 500MG twice daily for 14 days.

I have been on the medications for 1 week today and the past 3 days have been . I cant go to class, I just need sleep, I get about 4 hours of energy for every 16 hours of sleep, EXTREME body aches, ringing in ears, stomach pains, confusion, headache, diarrhea, chills, sweats, metallic taste in mouth (i was warned about the taste from doctor), nausea but no vomit, just all around PAIN EVERYWHERE and at times theres nothing I can do but cry.

They told me they took cultures from my cervix and the culture will check for the cause of the infection. I was told the cause could only be from a STD. But i have yet to get a call with the test results.

My question is: How could I get normal test results a month before? Has anyone has anything similar to this? I'm lost and I HURT! Do they have me on too many antibiotics? What can I do make it all go away??

**ItsASecret** · 10-07-2010 09:38 AM

How could I get normal test results a month before? Has anyone has anything similar to this? I'm lost and I HURT! Do they have me on too many antibiotics? What can I do make it all go away??

The tests can be normal before because bacterial cultures come and go, sometimes a swab can miss bacterial cells because there are not enough to find in the first place.

They are also not using too many antibiotics. The doctors are using these broad spectrum antibiotics to try and prevent any further growth of whatever is in you even though they have not yet fully identified what is causing the problem. So stopping it in its tracks type thing. But you MUST finish each prescription fully no matter what (even if you feel better in a day or two), unless otherwise told by your doctor. Stopping these meds will cause the leftover bacteria in you to become resistant to the effects of the antibiotics making it much much harder to get them out of your body. As for the pain, you can ask your doctor if they can give you something for the pain. Many meds will work quite well without needing a 'hardcore addictive' pain killers.