Phone call first thing from Surgery.
Please could you drop in a fresh urine sample.
OK yes no problem, take it to GP surgery and nurse says, "will test now"
Hm yes still very small traces of blood and also small evidence of Leuokocytes, could be due to UTI.
Just check with GP, she says,
GP now prescribed 100mg. nitrofurantoin twice daily for next 3 days, with likely follow up of 50mg ongoing.
So my question is then "why wasn't it prescribed first time around from previous blood tests."
Clearly the sample needed closer analysis for the UTI.
YES I definitely have symptoms of cystitis and YES that can be caused from use of prednisone.
AND so can even a mild UTI cause traces of blood in urine, it would appear so ??
I still think it rests the case with regard to how much GP's really know or seem to know about the use of steroids and side effects.
This to name but one of very many, as we long term users will all know.