Nov!!!! talk about leaving you hanging on! I've also found different doctors have different opinions. I've been seeing 2 docs and a Urologist, both doctors say that some bacteria can hide in body...
Forgot to mention in my previous post I'm now 40yrs old so I've had problems for over 30yrs with no diagnosis, only that apparantly it's usually found in people with a type of diabetes....
Hi - I have a history from the age of about 8yrs old of UTI's I've also been hospitalised on numerous occaisions with pyelonephritis and hydronephrosis. No cause has ever been found, I've had...
Hi Nasalady! Just read your thread, I have Psoriasis that causes my hands to crack and bleed it is extremely painful, really deep welts in the skin rather than cuts. The advice my doc gave me if the...
Hi Gbuck Feel so sorry for your daughter I have also suffered with kidney/uti problems since I was about 7yrs old. I was put on a course of long term (1yrs worth) of anti biotics, unfortunately after...
Hi As far as I could decipher (not medically minded at all!) it seems that it is pretty hard to get rid of, and usually has to be treated with several strong antibiotics, I know when I was infected...
Hi - MikeWH - I've had to go to docs this week with gross heamaturia! when does it all stop. I haven't had kidney/urinary problems for about 10yrs and now there's something else going on. My only...
Researched loads!!! It's really interesting, the bacteria seems to be hospital contracted and not very commonly found in the outside community and passed within the hospital obviously on hands (yuk)...
Hi - This is quite scary! I was told when I first went to docs with this that I also have a curved spine albeit slight but bones look healthy, this is what he put pain down to so I went to Osteapath...
Hi! The reason I'm asking is that I've recently found some medical records of mine from when I had some serious kidney infections and the hospital notes say that over a period of a cpl months I had...
Thanks!!! It's really difficult when they're firing questions at you! He asked if it hurt all the time and I said "yes", it was only afterwards that I thought hang on I took it to mean, does it hurt...
Strange question - but - has anyone heard of a connected between the Klebsiella bacteria and Ankylosing Spondylitis and if so, it's role in the disease....
Thanks Mikewh I have had a cry!!! It's just really difficult when people say 'I have a stiff leg or a stiff back etc when I wake up in the morning" and I'm like this isn't just a bit of stiffness, my...
Hi Just got back from my 10min rheumatologist appointment and feel like crying!. He said to keep taking Napraxon and referred me for physio and go back to him on 09/09, if symptoms still there he...
Hi, Thanks for all the advice, I did look at the Psoriasis Foundation forum and there is lots of info there too. I see the Rheumatologist 10/06, I'm getting worried incase he tells me it's all in my...
Thanks for your replies. My finernails just look scratched and bumpy but my toenails have deep lines, ridges, some have lots of deep white lines on, as if they're really scratched and 2 nails are...
In my post I forgot to mention that I also have numbness in my toes and sometimes fingers and tiredness so bad sometimes that I don't honestly think I can take another step! even when I haven't had a...
:smile: Hi, I'm new to this site and wondered if anyone with AS or PSa could give some clues! I've had lower back pain (sacrum) for approx 3 yrs, for the past year it has got significantly worse that...