Can the back pain move around with UTI?
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Hi,
Started with shoulder blade pain that I thought was a pulled muscle but it wouldn't go away. Then changed to lower down. and I had surgery in October to remove my gallbladder (among a few other things for tumors). From February was pain free from the surgery. So my surgeon did bloods and tested urine. He thinks no major problems from surgery(ie tumor returning). The urine was positive for UTI. I was prescribed 3 days Nitrofurantoin. My last pill will be tomorrow morning. The pain is still there and seemed to have move to both sides low down, but there is some pain higher up like at the bottom of where my shoulder blades end , if that make sense and at the front under my right rib. Im just wondering if other people have found the pain radiates from kidney area to other places? Im scared to death it could be something other than a kidney infection.
thanks
Kelly
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lzhan03 Guest
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Hi, Kelly,
Your shoulder pain should be caused by your gallbladder and lover problems. I guess it should be your left shoulder. Your UTI should have been controlled with the prescribed antibiotics. Your kidney should be fine. If the kidneys have problem, you should have other symptoms, like swollen face something. But you should be careful with the UTI that can occur when the immune system is weakened by the surgery. Hope you are getting better and better.
Guest lzhan03
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thanks for the reply, yes I wondered if the shoulder pain was from the gallbladder removal (i posed in gallbladder too). the surgeon says it cant be because I dont have one! But I have read a lots saying otherwise.
I am back at the doctors tomorrow. I dont have any symptoms of a bladder infection ( no pain weeing, no burning) though so will the antibiotics work for a kidney infection? the flank pain is still there.
thanks
Kelly
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Forgot to say, all my bloods were normal. that included FBC, the liver ones too. x
lzhan03 Guest
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According to traditional Chinese medicine, gallbladder problem is typically reflected in the right shoulder pain. Isn't it an interesting connection?
You said that you had UTI positive. It is urinary tract infection that you may have no symptoms when you get to a certain age. UTI will be really troublesome. It could recur.