What Do Frequent Urination And Chills Without Fever Indicate?

Posted on Wed, 29 Apr 2015

Question: For the last 2 weeks Ive been having frequent urination, chills with no fever and my blood pressure has gone up and I am having a jittery feeling alot. I normally have had normal blood pressure. I had a urinalysis that one Dr said had slight blood but that it was normal for menopause to have that. A nurse practicioner said I had low levels of bacteria so they put me on Macrobid. Ive been on it for 2 days and things dont feel any better. Do you have other ideas what could be going on? All of my bloodwork was normal.

Answered by Dr. Rakesh Madhyastha (5 hours later)

Brief Answer:
Urinary tract infection

Detailed Answer:
Hello

Thanks for the query

Frequent micturation with chills and presence of RBC in urine points towards a urinary tract infection.
Here is what you should do

1. Continue to take Macrobid for 7 days
2. I strongly recommend you to get a urine culture done
3. Syp Di Sodium Hydrogen Citrate will prevent the burning and the frequent micturation
4. Repeat your urine routine after 7 days
5. High blood pressure could be related to menopause and not the urinary tract infection, if the blood pressure reading is above 140/90 on three separate settings then I recommend you to start an antihypertensive. Jittery feeling is also part of menopause and not the infection

I hope I was of help, if you have any further queries please get back to me

Regards

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Above answer was peer-reviewed by : Dr. Chakravarthy Mazumdar