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More gruesome medical details.
I went to a concert at the Barbican on Friday night, Before the concert I went for a pee and peed blood. This has occasionally happened over the last few weeks as old clots come lose. However, I was still peeing blood after the concert and when I got home. And Saturday morning it was pretty gross. Of course, my doctor's surgery is closed on Saturdays so I phoned NHS Direct who recommended I contacted the out of hours doctor service in my area, Thamesdocs. This is the same group I ended up contacting back in June when my medical problems started.
They asked me to come in. Their local base is in the Royal Surrey County Hospital, a building I've got to know over the last six months. So I turned up there just after ten o'clock and was seen fairly quickly.
The doctor reckoned it was an infection and prescribed antibiotics. I had guessed he might do this and pointed out that back in June I had been at first diagnosed with an infection when my prostate had closed up and I still had the packet of antibiotics I had been prescribed the, only one dose used. I even had written down the name of the drug. He advised me to check the Use By date (which was Dec. 2013) and if OK, use them rather than get a new prescription.
I've had a cold the last few days and I did wonder if this had done something to my immune system that caused this infection to flare up. He agreed it could be so.
He said that the bleeding should clear up in a couple of days (and if not see a doctor again) and indeed it seemed to start clearing up even before I started taking the antibiotics. However, later that day another clot came lose, a large one this time. More drops of blood and then suddenly I couldn't pee again. Then, the pressure built up and the clot shot out at an angle into the corner of the bathroom. It was about a centimetre in diameter. Since, then, clear.
Here's hoping that's the end of it.
I went to a concert at the Barbican on Friday night, Before the concert I went for a pee and peed blood. This has occasionally happened over the last few weeks as old clots come lose. However, I was still peeing blood after the concert and when I got home. And Saturday morning it was pretty gross. Of course, my doctor's surgery is closed on Saturdays so I phoned NHS Direct who recommended I contacted the out of hours doctor service in my area, Thamesdocs. This is the same group I ended up contacting back in June when my medical problems started.
They asked me to come in. Their local base is in the Royal Surrey County Hospital, a building I've got to know over the last six months. So I turned up there just after ten o'clock and was seen fairly quickly.
The doctor reckoned it was an infection and prescribed antibiotics. I had guessed he might do this and pointed out that back in June I had been at first diagnosed with an infection when my prostate had closed up and I still had the packet of antibiotics I had been prescribed the, only one dose used. I even had written down the name of the drug. He advised me to check the Use By date (which was Dec. 2013) and if OK, use them rather than get a new prescription.
I've had a cold the last few days and I did wonder if this had done something to my immune system that caused this infection to flare up. He agreed it could be so.
He said that the bleeding should clear up in a couple of days (and if not see a doctor again) and indeed it seemed to start clearing up even before I started taking the antibiotics. However, later that day another clot came lose, a large one this time. More drops of blood and then suddenly I couldn't pee again. Then, the pressure built up and the clot shot out at an angle into the corner of the bathroom. It was about a centimetre in diameter. Since, then, clear.
Here's hoping that's the end of it.
