more blood in urine and pain

Hi.  Lately I've had a whole bunch of new things popping up and just wondered if anyone else has experienced this type of pain or problem-and what I should be doing about it.

 

First of all, I literally get scalp pain from laying my head on my pillow all night.  My pillow is soft, and it's not like I've just layed there and slept for 12+ hours.  I normally get about 8 hours of sleep, but I will wake up with pain on the surface of my scalp.  Really weird.  Anyone else?

 

I've also had pain in some of my vertebrae going down my back.  They feel like they are warmer to the touch than normal and painful.  When I've had these types of pains, my legs somehow hurt worse too.  I'm not sure if that's because of the inflammation in general or if my back has something to do with the extra pain in my legs. 

 

Also, my most recent urine tests showed an increase of rbc per high powered field.  I used to only have 10-25 and that number has increased to 50-100.  I've made an appointment with the nephrologist again as my rhuemy requested, but I'm wondering if anyone else has had their numbers increase, and what they may do about it.  I go to the neph dr. on the 15th of April. 

 

So, just a bunch of questions/symptoms for anyone who might be on the same page with me.  Thanks!

Thanks for responding. I am spilling some protein, but about half of the amount that I was about a month ago. It's still not great. I was kind of wondering if it were possible to switch classes for nephritis. That's definetely been in my head as of late. I will find out on the 15th I guess what they are wanting to do to me. I had a biopsy about 3 years ago, and it went well, so I'm not going to stress over that as much as I will my health. I'm too new to all of this to know what comes next.

Thank you!

aimsgirl im currently on cellcept and i have been for 3 months and i dont really see a difference with my kidneys... how long did it take you.. cellcept didnt work for you did it?

the only thing i have noticed is my proteins are going down..but while on cellcept i keep getting sick even though im on bactrim..

Oh Tammy, that's wonderful about wanting to have a family. I know it might take a little different route then most but babies are babies and we love them no matter what.
Anyway about the back pain and the legs. I notice the bottom of my back starts bothering me and there must be something there that has to do with the legs because if one hurts either the other hurts do or goes so numb I start beating on my legs trying to get some feeling in them. I have never had a problem with protein and urine. At least nothing the doctor ever thought meant anything. The only thing the doc ever said to me about protein was I need to have a high protein diet my anemia is getting worse no matter what I do. Now this lousey not being able to chew meat threw me a curve. Oh well it's always somthing ain't it? You said you were to new to understand all this stuff. Girlfriend let me tell ya I don't know nothin about it. Everytime I think I do I here somthing i never heard of before so you are right there with most of us. I hope the doc can figure out something to make you more comfortable.
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carol