This isn't a medical thread as I have seen a physician.
Late Sunday night I went to the toilet as usual and found that I was urinating blood...this went on for a few hours pretty much every few minutes or so. I phoned 111 (which wasn't too much help tbh) who told me to just see my GP within 24 hours. Anyway this went on, getting worse with pain when I urinated so my wife called 111 again. This time (5am) they referred me to the out of hours Dr at our local A&E, who done some dip urine tests, which were inconclusive, so she sent it off to the lab.
Anyway she gave me antibiotics, said it was probably a urinary tract infection and it will clear up in a few days.
So here we are a few days later, and sure enough, the bleeding stopped shortly after beginning the antibiotics, the pain is almost gone as well. All well and good....
Or so I thought.
I call the doctor this afternoon for the results to the urine test, the receptionist said the results showed my urine tested normal and no further action was necessary...I though this was strange because if it was normal, why was I bleeding?
A call to the actual doctor and he tells me that because there was no infection I will have to go for a series of tests, cytoscopy, CT and so on on my bladder and kidneys. These should be arranged within the next fortnight.
So here we are, I am pretty worried tbh...doctor said not to be, as it could be just a kidney stone (I have no other symptoms) or a burst blood vessel, due to my age it unlikely to be bladder cancer...hopefully it's nothing serious but as one of my closest friends is dying from bladder cancer I'm sure you can imagine, only the worst is going through my head right now.
As I said, I'm not after medical advice, just a place to vent really.
Late Sunday night I went to the toilet as usual and found that I was urinating blood...this went on for a few hours pretty much every few minutes or so. I phoned 111 (which wasn't too much help tbh) who told me to just see my GP within 24 hours. Anyway this went on, getting worse with pain when I urinated so my wife called 111 again. This time (5am) they referred me to the out of hours Dr at our local A&E, who done some dip urine tests, which were inconclusive, so she sent it off to the lab.
Anyway she gave me antibiotics, said it was probably a urinary tract infection and it will clear up in a few days.
So here we are a few days later, and sure enough, the bleeding stopped shortly after beginning the antibiotics, the pain is almost gone as well. All well and good....
Or so I thought.
I call the doctor this afternoon for the results to the urine test, the receptionist said the results showed my urine tested normal and no further action was necessary...I though this was strange because if it was normal, why was I bleeding?
A call to the actual doctor and he tells me that because there was no infection I will have to go for a series of tests, cytoscopy, CT and so on on my bladder and kidneys. These should be arranged within the next fortnight.
So here we are, I am pretty worried tbh...doctor said not to be, as it could be just a kidney stone (I have no other symptoms) or a burst blood vessel, due to my age it unlikely to be bladder cancer...hopefully it's nothing serious but as one of my closest friends is dying from bladder cancer I'm sure you can imagine, only the worst is going through my head right now.
As I said, I'm not after medical advice, just a place to vent really.
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