Featured kidney infection patient discussions on symptoms experienced

"When I had kidney infection about a month ago I had every one of the symptoms described, nausea, tiredness, ridiculously painful back pain, etc. I was prescribed Cipro and was told to take it twice a day till every pill was gone. It took a long time till the pain was gone. But once I broke my fever by drinking hot green tea with lemon and laying in a blanket for twenty-four hours most of the pain was gone. I felt fully better about two days before all of the pills were gone. I wasn't prescribed any pain pills so I just took Tylenol and used thermacare heat wraps."

"At first, I thought I had strained my lower back but, after three days of resting, it only worsened. The pain was mostly on my left side. However, I felt it all the way across my lower flank. It worsened upon sitting or bending. It wasn't until the doctor took a urine sample that I found out it was a kidney infection."

"It was a week after a laparoscopic procure. I started to experience severe back pain (low back pain) and vagina bleeding. At first I thought it was related to the procedure, but 4 days later the pain was still there. On the 5th day I went to urgent care, after a urinalysis they said I had a kidney infection. These symptoms were different for a UTI from previous ones. I still think the bacteria might have been introduced to my bladder during catheterization for my laparoscopic procedure."