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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 369151" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>Be careful doing anything that will mask symptoms; I'd be calling the doctor and asking if you can be seen as a matter of urgency, in case (despite all appearances) there is an infection component to this.</p><p></p><p>The nurse's response to the blood in the urine - I agree, very wrong. But it happens. I remember an incident years ago, about a year after I'd had surgery on my kidney to fix a congenital problem which was complicating recovery from infection - I was getting so many recurring UTIs that from onset of an attack to passing blood and pieces of skin (shed from the bladder wall and urethra lining) was 15 minutes. I finally got to the doctor where they did an on-site mid-stream urine specimen, and I was very careful - I washed the area, I made sue I took a mid-stream specimen, the whole thing - and the pathology people tossed it out because it as contaminated with blood and skin; was I having a period? Idiots - it was the "contamination" that we wanted analysed! Then they came after me to pay the bill. I was a kid then, I didn't know how to fight them. I should have.</p><p></p><p>Was the nurse who discarded the sample, merely someone in the doctor's office doing a dip stick test on it? Or did the specimen get properly analysed?</p><p></p><p>Call the surgery, explain that this could be an infection but it's behaving oddly, and you don't want to take risks with possible renal problems. Ask them if there is someone else they could send you to for an urgent quick assessment, who would then liaise with your regular doctor. That might hurry them up to fit you in.</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 369151, member: 1991"] Be careful doing anything that will mask symptoms; I'd be calling the doctor and asking if you can be seen as a matter of urgency, in case (despite all appearances) there is an infection component to this. The nurse's response to the blood in the urine - I agree, very wrong. But it happens. I remember an incident years ago, about a year after I'd had surgery on my kidney to fix a congenital problem which was complicating recovery from infection - I was getting so many recurring UTIs that from onset of an attack to passing blood and pieces of skin (shed from the bladder wall and urethra lining) was 15 minutes. I finally got to the doctor where they did an on-site mid-stream urine specimen, and I was very careful - I washed the area, I made sue I took a mid-stream specimen, the whole thing - and the pathology people tossed it out because it as contaminated with blood and skin; was I having a period? Idiots - it was the "contamination" that we wanted analysed! Then they came after me to pay the bill. I was a kid then, I didn't know how to fight them. I should have. Was the nurse who discarded the sample, merely someone in the doctor's office doing a dip stick test on it? Or did the specimen get properly analysed? Call the surgery, explain that this could be an infection but it's behaving oddly, and you don't want to take risks with possible renal problems. Ask them if there is someone else they could send you to for an urgent quick assessment, who would then liaise with your regular doctor. That might hurry them up to fit you in. Marg [/QUOTE]
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