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Around 2am, I woke up with the same pain I had two weeks ago. All the normal symptoms of the urinary tract infection were there. A few hours later, the same thing happened. By 9am, I wasn't feeling any better.

I started to drink as much water as I could tolerate and took my usual round of vitamins. Since it's been a mere two weeks since I was at the doctor for the same symptoms, I'm 100% certain that it's another UTI (despite my blood sugars being in near perfect range recently).

I called the doctor to leave a message. All I wanted was a prescription. I was willing to give a urine specimen, but didn't want to wait for his next available appointment. I'm supposed to be heading out of town today, so waiting for his appointment would set me back almost 2 hours on my mini-vacation (mini because it's actually for a job interview).

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I posted last week about feeling out of the ordinary and just plain sick. It was off and on all week with some days feeling great and others feeling terrible. I waited it out through the weekend, trying to take it easy as much as possible and eat as best as I could.

I thought I'd made it through without needing anything other than my immune system. But Tuesday night, I was feeling the worst I'd felt so far. I had suspected a urinary tract infection before, but now I was almost positive. The urgency, the pain, all those telling symptoms were all much worse. To top it off, my blood sugars were lingering in the 200's despite boluses.

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Remember when I wrote recently about having bacteria in my urine? For the third time this year. Remember when I wrote about the first two times earlier this year -- when I had this problem twice within about two months? Remember that Dr. C didn't think it was such a big deal? Remember that I off-handedly blamed it on my water bottles, but didn't really have any "evidence"?

Well, now I do! In a recent Diabetes Health article, plastic packaging is linked to diabetes and other health problems: Higher urinary levels of the commonly used chemical, BPA, are linked with cardiovascular disease and diabetes.

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I took Boo to Boston today, for testing.  Everything was fine.  Her fasting blood sugar was 71 and her 2 hour post-prandial was 84, so things are looking good right now.  Big relief.

They are running antibody tests and a celiac panel, just to be on the safe side.  I should have those results in a couple of weeks.  In the meantime, I'm supposed to keep an eye on her and get some Diastix.  If she starts showing symptoms again, I'll check her urine for glucose.  

I'm relieved, of course.  I just wish I knew what was making her pee so much and giving her stomach aches all the time.   I'm going to follow up with the pediatrician tomorrow, to see if she has any other suggestions on that one.  She doens't have a kidney or bladder infection, nor does she have a UTI, so I don't know.  We'll see, I guess. 

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