Hi All,
Iam new here (& New to the whole pregnancy game - 15 weeks gone) I've been browsing these boards for a while now and was in need of a little rant and some friendly advice really.
I'll try and make it quick...
Basically in my first booking in apointment with my mw I gave a urine sample (as you do) this was May 5th, I then had my notes back - all was grand, went for my 12 week scan - grand again, everything running pretty smoothly until 26th of May I got a scrappy handwritten note through the post, which wasnt dated or anything just telling me my urine showed an infection and to see my GP asap.
Is 3 weeks normal to wait for these results? Anyways I called my MW straight away and she said that the note had been sent a while ago so (her words completely) 'Who knows the infection might have cleared itself up' - she advised me to go back to the hospital with another sample.
So off I pop the very next day with my sample (btw I have had no real symptoms, passing urine has not been painful or anything out of the ordinary)
I asked her if she could give me a call if anything came up so I could start anti-biotics straight away, she said this would be fine.
So on friday I received through the post another scrappy handwritten bit of paper saying that the infection is still present and theres a prescription at my GPs waiting for me to pick up.
So Iam already a bit narked off that I've had an infection for well over 4 weeks now and that it just doesnt seem urgent to inform me these results.
I picked up my penicillin based antibiotics yesterday, and it was only when I was reading the inside leaflet (as you do) that it occured to me that my babys father is severely allergic to penicillin, and although it sounds silly - could this affect my unborn baby? Say if he/she was to inherit the allergy off Dad. I have no idea about allergys and genetics (I myself have not one allergy). So eager to start these blooooomin antibiotics I quickly called nhs direct (why?!) who called me back 2 hours later saying they didnt know and to call my local pharmacist.
Called the pharmacist, she said she couldnt be 100% certain but she was 'pretty certain' it would do no harm.
Am I right to not want to risk a 'pretty certain' answer?
Arghhh, so confused and annoyed and now worrying about how long I've had this infection and what harm it could be causing to my baba.
Sorry for the long rant! Any suggestions or good advice will be forever grateful! :)
xox
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BumpinBlue · 04/06/2011 20:53
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