Kevin Garcia12 said:Did they do a urethral swab?
Nope. Just spent all this time waiting on a urine culture thinking it'd actually catch something so I could finally get some antibiotics... then they tell me everything looks fine. 🙄
Dealing with some issues when I pee—not constant, but enough... thought maybe it triggered my joints too, like reactive arthritis. But the urine tests and cultures come back clean.
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My throat started acting up too. Started hurting a few days after that throat swab. It was brutal... barely able to swallow. No cough, no sniffles, just pain.
Had a fever over 100 and the chills right before.
My doctor didn't even care because the throat swab from five days prior supposedly came back clear. 🤷
Now that the throat thing cleared up on its own after about a week, the swelling in my ankles is finally going down day by day.
Is it possible I had strep even if the lab report said Group A beta-hemolytic strep wasn't isolated?
Or maybe when they took the swab it was just starting and they couldn't pick it up yet? The pain kicked in 2 or 3 days later.
And get this—the lab results had my name on them, but the wrong birth year.
They just brushed it off, saying it's definitely mine but those kinds of mistakes happen "all the time."
Honestly makes me wonder if it was even my report to begin with. 🙂
Ran every test under the sun hoping to figure out what's wrong, ended up with zero answers, and now everything is just fading away on its own... 🤷