It started a couple days ago -- I think Thursday or Friday. And like a dumbshit I didn't call the doctor before the holiday weekend.

I had the classic symptoms of a urinary tract infection: pain, urgency, discomfort. I didn't want to foot the bill for a trip to urgent care, especially since I already knew what I had. But I also knew the pain was getting worse and no amount of water was making it any better.

UTIs are common for people with diabetes (no I can't find a single source to back that up, but I did find mentions of it in several places when I Googled). And with my history of kidney stones I'm guessing I'm at a slightly higher risk for it.

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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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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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