Blood in Urine
Emmersonne
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Hi guys, spoiler tagged below for anyone who misclicked and is eating their lunched,
Does this sound like cystitis to you? When I "recovered" I went and stocked up on Cymalon in case of relapse and took a dose this morning (yick) but the sudden increase in blood has scared me. It's definitely not my time of the month.
How much blood is "normal" in cystitis?
On Boxing day I had what felt like terrible cystitis, awful cramps and pain when peeing, peeing several times an hour and a bit of blood in urine. With the bank holidays (and not wanting to be parted from the bathroom) I drank stacks of water rather than venturing out to get Cymalon and it went away.
Today it is painfully back with a vengeance and what is worrying me is the amount of blood in the toilet bowl after I pee. It has all sunk straight to the bottom (clotted blood?) and there seems to be a substantial amount.
Today it is painfully back with a vengeance and what is worrying me is the amount of blood in the toilet bowl after I pee. It has all sunk straight to the bottom (clotted blood?) and there seems to be a substantial amount.
Does this sound like cystitis to you? When I "recovered" I went and stocked up on Cymalon in case of relapse and took a dose this morning (yick) but the sudden increase in blood has scared me. It's definitely not my time of the month.
How much blood is "normal" in cystitis?
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Bleeding when you pee is never a good sign so get it checked out asap.
Alternatively get down to A&E - they will do tests. Don't risk damaging your kidneys.
Hopefully it is only an infection or cystitis but better to be safe than sorry imo.
I would ring NHS Direct for advice OP.
Forgive my total ignorance, but is Cystitis a UTI or is it something different?
And yes, bearhug sounds familiar.
Have you been drinking a lot of alcohol during the christmas period?
Get down the doctors anyway.
If you are at the stage of bleeding (it happened to me) you may now have a kidney infection because the previous UTI did not clear as you thought.
You need to contact NHS direct or go to a drop in centre if you have one near you. Don't leave it any longer, it can become a serious condition if not treated with a long course of anti biotics.
Best wishes, hope you feel better soon.
On it
Perhaps too much, I've been to the loo three times since starting this thread
Does sound like a UTI, but it could be either and the amount of blood in urine can look quite incredible. You need to see a dr asap.
With the bank holiday, GP not open until 4th January and NHS direct waiting list is 4 hours. 4th Jan seems a while to wait
Talk about Teutonic directness befitting your 'name'! I think you will find that the consensus was "get to a doctor" by posters here. I do not see what relevance the reference to "inexperienced members" has. The lady wanted advice or thoughts from others and she got it/them. I am guessing if you asked her she would have found the contributions helpful.
If I am allowed to give advice (see my posting just now!) is going straight to the hospital not the worst suggestion here. I suspect you are in agony or close to it. Hopefully, someone can drive you.
I did, thanks.
im really sorry you are having this problem.
I get it a lot and its very worrying,its worth pointing out because its coming out with the wee it will appear to be a large amount.
you did the wise thing getting in touch with someone via NHS direct i suspect they will be sending you to see someone else *maybe out of hours GP etc.
Cranberry juice is really good (just dont drink too much of the stuff its great at getting rid of the nasty bugs in the bladder that can cause infections,in my case MRSA went into my bladder and from time to time quite a lot of blood will come out.
theres a whole host of issues that could be causing this problem chances are they will ask you to wee into a pot and they will do a strip test on the sample it will give them a rough idea whats going on.later on they will do another test that will be sent to the lab (MSU) a midstream urine test.
they might also do a scan of the kidneys and bladder if the sample doesnt really give them some ideas whats going on.
Its always scary seeing blood in the loo somehow it seems better if you can see where the bleeding is coming from,please take care and hope you feel better soon
That's very reassuring, thankyou, I expect the blood IS a lot less than it looks.