Well, here's my warning ladies:
I had a UTI early on, and wasn't tested until my midwife noticed the test missing from my file when I was about 4 months. She sent me for a test (I had no symptoms) and it came back positive. I got the meds I was prescribed, and took the whole course.
I was retested, and it came back clear. However, by that time, the infection had already travelled up my urethra and into my kidneys. I had a VERY serious kidney infection which then became a life threatening case of sepsis (blood poisoning)!
So, because I spent my nights sleeping on my left side, the doctor said that the infection got trapped in my kidneys, and it basically just got worse and worse, until I became so sick that my OH insisted we go to the hospital!
I seriously only thought I had some cold/flu symptoms, as I had chills and then major hot flashes, fever, etc. The way that I tried to deal, was just alot of hot baths whenever I was feeling cold. OH wanted me to go to the hospital, but I insisted that I was fine and that it was just the flu. One day, I was so cold that my teeth were chattering, and my skin had turned bluish/purple, so I decided to draw myself a bath. It was HOT water, and when I got in, I didn't even notice the temperature. I just sat there, shivering and shaking. OH panicked and ordered me to the hospital. Once I got there, the doctors didn't even know what was wrong with me which scared me the most! But, after meeting with a doctor from the Centre of Disease Control (they thought originally that I had West Nile Virus), she ran some tests and told me that if I had have waited much longer to get treatment, that surely myself and/or my baby would have died.
I spent 4 days in the hospital recovering at 7 months pregnant. My entire pregnancy I had VERY violent vomiting, and I just thought that it was bad m/s. It never even occurred to me that my body was slowly poisoning itself. So, all the times I was bent over the toilet, I dismissed as m/s when in fact, I was a very sick lady!
Hopefully this won't happen to anyone here, because it was one of the most horrible experiences of my life. It was terrifying to hear a doctor tell me that I was close to death, and so was my son.