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A breif urology history

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 I am a 33 year old female who lives in paisley I was born with bilateral kidney reflux but it wasn’t picked up on till I was 3 year old after many utis and kidney infections requiring many hospital stays but by the time it was fond the damage had been done to my right kidney which was severely scarred. At age 4 the infections were getting worse and worse so was the kidney reflux so age 4 I had my first bladder surgery I had my ureters Criss crossed so my left ureter went to my right kidney and my right ureter to my left kidney to try to stop the bilateral kidney reflux but it didn’t work as well as expected. I spent quiet a lot of my childhood in and out of hospital with infections often needing iv antibiotics which continued into my teens At age 19 I was having more infections and getting a lot of back pain around my right side and I was referred to a urologist and after some tests we found out my right kidney was only working at 2% and was probably the cause of the increased i...

my story so far

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In 2015 I was admitted to hospital with a kidney infection which I have suffered from since been 3 years old I was born with bilateral so kidney reflux so utis and kidney infections where a big part of my childhood and lots of time in hospital  So in 2015 I was in hospital on iv antibiotics and all of a sudden I was unable to pass any urine or just a little dribble after two days of this it got to the point where I had 2 liters in my bladder so while I was in I was taught to do intermittent self catheterisation which was extremely painful and difficult to pass the catheter after a week in hospital I was sent home doing ISC while I waited to have some tests  But after about 6 months it got to the stage where I couldn't pass the intermittent catheter at all and was in and out with infections needing iv antibiotics I then got fitted with a urethral catheter which was just 10 times worse and the pain was so bad I wasn't sleeping and yeah be night the pain was so sever ...