agingwuss
03-02-09, 15:12
This posting is more in the nature of an announcement than a question - which sounds horribly arrogant! It's just I feel I can "talk" to you guys bettr than to my OH whose patience is begining to wear thin, my dear mother who is 86 & panics more than I do or my friends who are great but can't understand like you!:hugs:
In the last 12 months I have had three little bits of blood in my wee which I thought nothing of at the time as they were isolated incidents - I reckoned they were period "spottings", I'm coming up to the menopause & my periods are going haywire! [I don't think it was related to a infection as I had no pain.] However, I went to the doctor in Nov 08 [panicing about something quite unrelated], mentioned this & he immediately said he must do a urine test for cancer. Immediate collapse of me! He did a blood test on my wee there & then and could get no reaction from any occult blood but still sent the sample to the hospital - results came back normal. Great celebration.
BUT! I went to see him about another different thing last week & he said he wanted to do another test as he still wasn't happy [HE wasn't happy!?] So I sent another sample off and am currently waiting for more results.
I'm afraid I google'd "Bladder Cancer Tests Accuracy" & found these test aren't terrible accurate so I've decided when I see him to get my results to ask for a cystoscopy no matter what the urine test results say. I just want to know one way or another!
Does anyone know how long you generally have to wait to see a urologist? If it's a long time, I've got a sort of second divison private health plan which can get me an initial consultation privately, I think.
I feel better already having rambled on & got my thoughts down. Any comment etc would be most appreciated!
In the last 12 months I have had three little bits of blood in my wee which I thought nothing of at the time as they were isolated incidents - I reckoned they were period "spottings", I'm coming up to the menopause & my periods are going haywire! [I don't think it was related to a infection as I had no pain.] However, I went to the doctor in Nov 08 [panicing about something quite unrelated], mentioned this & he immediately said he must do a urine test for cancer. Immediate collapse of me! He did a blood test on my wee there & then and could get no reaction from any occult blood but still sent the sample to the hospital - results came back normal. Great celebration.
BUT! I went to see him about another different thing last week & he said he wanted to do another test as he still wasn't happy [HE wasn't happy!?] So I sent another sample off and am currently waiting for more results.
I'm afraid I google'd "Bladder Cancer Tests Accuracy" & found these test aren't terrible accurate so I've decided when I see him to get my results to ask for a cystoscopy no matter what the urine test results say. I just want to know one way or another!
Does anyone know how long you generally have to wait to see a urologist? If it's a long time, I've got a sort of second divison private health plan which can get me an initial consultation privately, I think.
I feel better already having rambled on & got my thoughts down. Any comment etc would be most appreciated!