So I have had for about a year, and intermittent, infrequent, sharp jabbing pain in my left pelvic area. Periodically when I sleep on my stomache I feel like I have a jagged rock in my left side and I find it painfull to move my body. Once I move the pain subsides and goes away.
Let me stress it was infrequent, some months nothing happened at all.
I did mentioned it to my internist who said I should take it up with my gyno.
This kinda put me off, but since the pain went away I didn't think about it.
Now the pain is almost constant and in my back too. It is still intermittent, but intermittent every 6 to 8 hours, not days, not weeks, or months.
Drinking large quantities of water helps, means you gotta be close to a bathroom, but that is okay as long as I'm at work or home.
So Thursday, last week, I go to the gyno. She isn't in so I see the PA, I give the PA my urine. The PA prescribes a antibiotic, but since there is blood in my urine she has me give her more urine. She tells me to come back in a week. Tells me she doesn't really think I have a bladder infection. I am in nasty pain all weekend, I call them Tuesday for my results. They forget to give the message to the PA, I have to call back at the end of the day only to have the PA tell me, that she thinks I may have kidney stones, maybe.
I tell her, why haven't they done bloodwork, she says they'll let the specialist do that.
She gives me the names of urologists, all men.
I look on the internet, seems like 99.9% of urologists are men.
I call the urologist, since I'm not dying in pain, I get to wait a week to see someone.
I'm so aggravated I want to cry. I'm functioning, but not comfortable. Thanks for letting me vent.