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Q: Urinating blood
asked by: star69 on March 8th, 2009
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I am very concerned about my father. He is 75 years of age and in normally very healthy condition for his age. Over 13 weeks ago, he started passing blood in his urine. This has been going on constantly now for this period of time. And is getting progressively worse. He has been to his gp and has had both urine and blood tests and both came back with a "satisfactory" result. He has no lower back pain but is constantly having the urge to urinate and this is making him feel very tired and he is afraid to travel any distance because of this. He has now been referred for a CT urogram for further exploration. This bleeding has to be coming from somewhere, and at first, I assumed he had some sort of kidney problem, as I myself have had kidney disease and stones, but then there is severe pain and urinal bleeding associated with that? He seems to be in no pain, but he and I are both now extremely worried. Can you shed any light on what this may be?
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replied on March 8th, 2009
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You don't say how much blood he is urinating. I have been urinating blood for a while now but it was microscopic (not visible) and I didn't know about it until I had some blood work done. I was checked out with X-rays and saw a urologist to rule out anything major. Turns out that I have a thin membrane in my kidney that allows blood to pass through. Not really anything that can be done about it except to routinely check my bloodwork.
Now, if you can see the blood in his urine, he's passing a significant amount and should see a urologist ASAP. It could mean that there is a kidney stone or tumor anywhere from his kidneys to his prostate.
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replied on March 9th, 2009
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Hi,
Thanks for this. However, he is urinating a serious amount of blood and it has always been very visible in his urine. When he first took the sample to the GP, he didnt even need to test it. he automatically said there was a heck of a lot of blood in it. He is still urinating blood and it is still visible. As I said he has a CT Urogram on Frid 13th (of all days) and the result will then go to to the Urologist.
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