
What Causes Severe Pain In The Legs Post Treatment For Kidney Infection?

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Hello XXXXXXX
Without the advantage of examining you and seeing all your test results, I can only share I do have a few thoughts:
1. Cipro and Levaquin are both fluroquinalones, and all antibiotics in this class have the potential for causing achilles tendon rupture and other musculoskeletal damage. There is a black box warning on this type of antibiotic for this reason. The doctor should check your legs for this.
2. At this point I think you need to see a real doctor (not just at the ER), rather than a nurse practitioner. You are too sick and your problems are too complicated for a nurse practitioner.
3. While I understand you may have had pyelonephritis, given the duration of your symptoms, I'd also get a chest X-ray for occult infection/pneumonia.
4. When you were diagnosed with pyelonephritis, was a complete culture and sensitivity test done by the lab? Whenever there is an infection anywhere in the urinary tract, in addition to a urinalysis, a urine specimen should be sent to the lab for culturing (which takes 2-3 days) and after the bacteria is isolated (culture), then a sensitivity test is done. The sensitivity test involves testing the bacteria against a series of different antibiotics and a ranking of sensitive, resistant, or intermediate/partially sensitive is given. It can turn out that the antibiotics they prescribed are not effective enough (partially sensitive or resistant) and you need something else.
Those are some of my thoughts and I hope they help.

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