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I am currently seeing a Lyme Literate doctor and am currently taking Biaxin, Rifampin, and Bicillin LA shots. We'll last week I felt the urgency to urinate out of the blue so I called my Lyme Doc and asked what I should do. Well she told me since she is some what far away that I needed to go to my regular PCP and get a basic urine test to make sure I didn't have an bladder infection, but that it may just be either a reaction to the Rifampin (which i just started) or a yeast infection...but she just wanted to rule out UTI.
So I went to my PCP who when she heard how I was treating my Lyme basically flipped out and insisted that I need to go on a drug holiday, and that i needed to she her infectious disease doctor because my lyme doctor sounds "suspicious" and she was gonna have to "put in a call" to my lyme doctor. She did ordered a urine test and said that she would call me if anything was abnormal. The urgancy to urinate only lasted one day and was gone the next.
Well I never called her doctor and she never called my lyme doctor. Instead she requested a release of records from my lyme doctor and then now her office has called twice saying that I need to call this other doctor because my test was abnormal. So now I'm basically a little concerned about my abnormal test I hope everything is ok and I'm doing the right thing.
I called my PCP office to request the lab results so I can take it to my lyme doc. but of course they have not called me back all day. I see my lyme doc on Thursday. It just really sucks that doctors disagree how to treat this makes it so much more complicated having this disease.
Any advice or input would be greatly appreciated.
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Call and say you will pick up the lab result from your PCP office in an hour. You can sign the release/request when you are there.
You absolutely need to know what this 'abnormal" test is before you do anything.
I am assuming you have seen the LLMD w/out your PCP giving you a referral or even knowing about it. Parents need to know that a situation like this can bring child protective services into your life.
I would get the test result and talk with your LLMD. You and your LLMD together can decide what to do about the PCP, but it sounds like you need a new one.
The PCP's infectious disease doctor would be someone to stay away from.
All of that said, consider that antibiotics may, in fact, cause some side effects, even some that affect the kidneys. Herxes seem to affect the bladder (anyone else have this), and of course there is always yeast.
SO think also about your protocol in light of the test result, and talk to your LLMD about backing off a little if there really is a problem. And take probiotics if you aren't already!
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Shosty, can you please elaborate "Parents need to know that a situation like this can bring child protective services into your life." my lyme doctor also see's my son. He was never referred by his doctor but his doctor does know that he is seeing my lyme doctor for erlichia. my son's regular PCP never said anything about not being referred and seems to be ok with how he's being treated...my son just started seeing my lyme doctor after we tested him for lyme.
thanks for all your advice.
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