Gettin chuggy with the cranberry

[stainedcyrano]

My back started hurting before I left Maryland on Sunday. I thought this was due to the over-enthusiastic weekend I'd had. Now the pain seems less caused by muscle strain and more by a possible kidney infection. Does anyone have any experience with dealing with this?

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[obleighvious]

Yeah. I've had both UTIs and bladder infections--I used to get them quite a bit before I started drinking cranberry juice every day. I'd do like you said in your post and drink lots of cranberry juice to help with the symptoms, but really the only thing that makes them go away entirely is antibiotics, according to my doc. I once got yelled at (by a doctor who is usually pretty cool) for not going in quickly enough for a kidney infection 'cause I guess it can do some permanent damage if left to rampage unchecked.

The good news is that the antibiotics usually work immediatly, stopping the pain quick, and you only have to be on them like a week (or less, depending on the severity) so it's not quite as expensive as otherwise.