I’m starting to bleed a lot of real blood, some huge clots and old “dried” blood. This has caused urinary retention and a very uncomfortable hospital visit. It’s made more complicated by being on Warfarin.
My question is, do you think this has anything to do with my 45 minutes 3mph walk on the gym treadmill at varying inclines?
Obviously, I’m hoping it isn’t! Thanks.
what did your urologist sat is the cause?
It’s a good question, Darryl, but here in the UK there’s no mechanism to ask such things.
This happened to me last year but then again I just completed a trial with LuPSMA177. Had a catheter for a week. They went into my bladder and two mild cases of irritation were spotted. Maybe from LuPSMA177. I hike and row each day.
Thanks for such a positive comment. I’ll do an experiment. Treadmill same time but flat; keep resistance exercises the same. See what happens!
Last summer after a 6 mile hike in the woods, I couldn't pee. Went to Urologist that afternoon to relieve the blocked bladder. All filled with blood.
Nasty. We recently held my 80th birthday party as a family in a London restaurant. Mid-afternoon I couldn’t pee either. Fortunately there’s a terrific teaching hospital ½ mile away. 2 days flushing things out. Don’t want to repeat that at my local hospital!
I do not know what the set up is where you are in the UK but when I had query for the consultant I contacted the specialist nurses whose details I had been provided with at the outset of treatment and asked them to get him to call me. This worked ok although took a few days.
Thanks. Probably yet to get the full starting package.
You should be given a phone number and email address for the specialist nurse team at your local hospital who will pass on questions to your oncologist or urologists as appropriate and they should get in touch with you.
Have you had radiation (there's nothing in your profile)? if so, some bleeding is normal because scar tissue sloughs off. But in your case, the warfarin is preventing healing, so you continue to bleed.
Whatever the reason, you should go to the ER and report your hemorrhaging now.
thank you
If you had radiation, that is the most likely cause. See your urologist ASAP and get it cauterized and then hyperbaric therapy. I went through this and of course it happened on a Sunday and I was fully blocked. A normal sized catheter did not help, they used a monster of a hose with a spring in it And they had to constantly flush me out until they could go in the next day. Don't wait!
Thanks for replying. I was diagnosed Gleason 3+4 over 5 years ago. I considered what the oncologist told me impossible so refused any treatment. Surprisingly, since then I understand from my urologist that watch & wait is now standard. He says they will only know in 20 years’ time.
Now there are two very small metastases in L2 spine and a rib. As my wife is somewhat frail I feel I must now accept ADT.
My doctor isn’t concerned; I am. 😀
And yes, I have had the “hose” (good word) and 2 days flushing. Not funny.
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