Kidney infection help
Hi, needing help trying to figure out if this is serious or not. I started feeling a burning sensation when I peed about 2 weeks ago now. That was really the only symptom I was having for the majority of 2 weeks. Keep in mind, I’ve never had a UTI before, so I thought maybe I was irritated from just getting off my period and using tampons for a week. I was putting coconut oil on and it was helping to alleviate the pain some, so I ignored it. About 3 or 4 days ago, I started feeling pain in my right lower abdomen, that hurt more when I took deep breaths or moved weird. Then when I woke up the next day, the pain had moved from my abdomen to my side and lower back and also random pains down my right leg too. During the day I had went to the bathroom and when I wiped there was a tiny bit of blood on the toilet paper, nothing scary, but still blood. So I went to urgent care and they did a UA dipstick w/o micro, said I had blood in my urine and had a uti. Gave me Macrobid for it, I still haven’t taken it yet because I’m waiting for it to be filled. The only thing I’m really concerned about is all the pain I’m having in my lower back/side. I haven’t vomited, or had a fever, but I’m worried since I took so long to go to the dr that it’s turned/is turning into a kidney infection. The antibiotics she gave me is for a lower UTI and not upper so if I’m having problems with my kidney, it’s not going to help with that. She said if the pain doesn’t get better I need to go to the er. I just don’t know much about UTI’s or kidney infections and don’t think I’ve ever felt this kind of pain before. I do usually have back pain because of my job, but it’s more painful when moving and breathing than just everyday back pain. I wouldn’t say I’m hunched over in pain or anything but it definitely hurts. I do have a high pain tolerance, so usually when I say I’m in pain, I’m in pain. TIA!
These were my results from the dipstick for reference:
•Bilirubin in urine by test strip with automated read, qualitative: Negative
•Blood in urine by test strip with automated read, qualitative: Positive 1+ 25 Ery/uL (Abnormal)
•Glucose in urine by test strip with automated read, qualitative: Negative
•Ketone bodies in urine by test strip with automated read, qualitative: Negative
•Leukocyte esterase in urine by test strip with automated read: Negative
•Nitrite in urine by test strip with automated read: Negative
•pH of urine by test strip with automated read: Negative 6.0
•Protein in urine by test strip with automated read, qualitative: Negative
•Specific gravity of urine by test strip with automated read: Negative 1.015
•Urobilinogen in urine by test strip with automated read, qualitative: Negative 0.2 mg/dL
•Pale Yellow and Turbid