I've posted about this before and thought things had resolved themselves but they haven't. It started last November when I thought I had cystitis and the dipstick showed a trace of blood in urine. Then I was fine for a few months.
Beginning of July this year cystitis symptoms came back and I go to GP, nothing on dipstick other than red blood cells. Given more antibiotics.
Antibiotics helped but symptoms remained so I have been back four times now. All the dipsticks have showed blood. Three cultures have been sent to the lab, first of which showed no blood but mixed bacteria growth, second showed blood but no growth, third showed blood but no growth. Incidentally the third dipstick showed nothing, not even blood but only blood showed on the laboratory culture result.
Have a very good female GP now who is trying to get to the bottom of it. I've recently had vaginal swabs to rule out any infection or STI (been married for ten years but I suppose they have to rule it out don't they). These have all come back clear apart from a tiny amount of white cells which she's not worried about.
She's now said that she wants me to do another urine sample to check for blood and if there is blood in it she is going to refer me to an urologist. This has been nearly three months now of to-ing and fro-ing and I expect another few weeks to get results of urine test and GP appointment to discuss results, then a referral of god knows how many weeks.
She's told me I do not qualify for the two week pathway for an urgent referral.
I suffer from extreme anxiety so I have taken it upon myself to book a private consultation at the local Spire hospital with an urologist for next Tuesday because I just can't wait any longer to find out why I have this blood in my urine.
I know I will probably be referred for a cystoscopy or scans and i'm shitting a brick about the results....have been consulting Dr Google and it could be a number of things, some of which are pretty significant so my anxiety is through the roof.
Has anybody else been through this or is anybody got any words of wisdom?
My symptoms for urine infection have now completely disappeared by the way so this blood is the only thing lingering.
I just want the worry to go away (i'm on citalopram for anxiety).
Thanks for listening :)