fever/ab and back pain/discharge

[ally1821]

well, this hapened about a year and a half ago, but my doctors never gave me an reason/diagnosis so i am looking to see if anyone else has experienced this... i had a constant fever of about 104, severe abdominal pain, severe to moderate lower back pain, and a vaginal discharge (it was almost clear, maybe a little bit yellow, watery, and odorless). i literally had the residents in the ER looking through a little disease book. there was nothing wrong with my bood tests (no kidney problems) and I am clear of std's, or at least thats what the 6 std test series i had over the course of two days said. anyone ever experience this? please help! i also want to say thank you to everyone on the forum, just through browsing i found out that the sore lump i was getting worried over was probably just a sebacious cyst... and it was just that.

[ally1821]

i have am not seeing a "regular" gyno, i see one at my family practice regularly... ive had follow ups since then and no one has told me to be worried about it. ive also had follow up tests and blood work. i think a nurse said it could have just been a bacterial infection. i havent had any reoccurence at all. i am 23 and have been with two men in my life. one we only had sex twice and its was protected both times. the second is my boyfriend of 5 years which we dont use condoms any longer. hes been tested right about when we met and we are both faithful (but never say never right:). i thought through my self diagnosis (and im a parole officer not a doctor)that it could be PID but when i proposed that the people at the er and my doctors office said no. could it just had been an infection that passed?

[graystreet]

Sometimes the residents are looking in the disease book because it's their 1st week or so out of school...or if it was an itty-bitty pocket one then that's their Cliff's Notes of Sicknesses because there are just too many for an ER doc to keep straight, girl! (though they are masters at diagnostics) They have one for drugs, too, so don't let that fool you! ;-) I have worked in an ER. ER's are wonderful for emergencies and when you feel like **** but they can't beat your regular gynie! Do you have one? If not, get one! You should still go in and follow this up, just to be on the safe side. Have you had unprotected sex at any time? Any of your partners had it? You are at risk for an STD and just because a test comes back negative that day doesn't mean the bacterial cultures that need time (like, DAYS) to grow may not have shown something. However, ER's are really good at following up that kind of thing. I am not trying to scare you, but you don't want to mess around with your sexual health when you're young, esp. if you want to have babies later. I am also only a student and my advice is purely from study and a couple of years of observing the big guys but you might want to ask your gynie if you may have or had PID or pelvic inflammatory disease--it can be contracted via an earlier STD--and it can really mess with your fertility, I believe (someone please correct me if I am mixing up my pathophys., I am just a baby) Anyway, please go get checked even though it's been a while, and good luck.