| Re: Well, the resuts are in. |
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| Fred E Brown (fredebrown@nowhere.com) |
2012/04/14 10:34 |
"Frank McCoy" <mccoyf@millcomm.com> wrote in message
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> "Fred E Brown" <fredebrown@nowhere.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>"Frank McCoy" <mccoyf@millcomm.com> wrote in message
>>news:v3vdo7dk8dsblb1iuvg79iuq7tm2gon9ls@4ax.com...
>>> Went to see a urologist yesterday.
>>> He put this scope up my dick and ....
>>> OW!
>>>
>>> I guess he was expecting to see a really FULL bladder, that I wasn't
>>> able to drain. Instead he found almost nothing up there, in spite of
>>> my incredible need to pee.
>>>
>>> However, he DID say that I had a raging prostate infection.
>>> Made a lot of sense to ME; matching my symptoms perfectly.
>>> So, he put me on this course of antibiotics that I have to take for
>>> six weeks.
>>> I asked, "How long before I start feeling the effects of the
>>> medicine?" After all, if it's a six-weeks course ....
>>> "Oh ... About five days."
>>>
>>> So ... at least another three or four days of misery.
>>> ;-{
>>>
>>> They all kept asking me if it was painful urinating, or if I had blood
>>> in the urine. Well, I *didn't* until he shoved that tube up me!
>>>
>>> Ah well.
>>
>>I'm glad to hear they found the source of the problem. Hope the
>>meds work quickly.
>>
>>Makes sense, if the prostate is infected it swells and pinches the
>>urinary tube from the bladder. Difficulty urinating is the first sign
>>of prostate problems.
>
> Actually, difficulty urinating is NOT the problem I have.
> It's that any time there's more than about an ounce of urine in my
> bladder, my prostate yells at me, "You've got to go PEEEEE!!!"
>
> So, I get up, drain my bladder, and am fine ... for about five to
> fifteen minutes until my kidneys produce another ounce or two.
>
> Gaaaaahhhh!
>
> The doctor was surprised: When he looked around up there with that
> cytoscope, he expected a full bladder that wasn't being drained;
> especially as I was about screaming with a need to go pee. Instead,
> only about an ounce of liquid was up there.
> Even when he drained THAT, I still had to go pee again about five
> minutes later.
>
> The pressure, even if very minor, on the prostate triggers the need to
> urinate ... and urinate ... and urinate ... and ....
>
> Just while sitting here typing this, I had to get up and go pee twice.
> And ... now my butt is getting bloody. ;-{
>
> I just called the health-line-nurse for the local clinic; and they'll
> get back to me.
>
>>While I never had that problem my family doctor said I had an
>>elevated PSA and sent me to a urologist. After blood and urine samples
>>were analyzed the urologist said I probably had cancer but at my
>>age and with my other ailments one of them would probably kill me
>>before the cancer. Nice guy, Any way, I asked what could be done
>>and he said that first they had to do a biopsy to see how bad it was.
>>Well that was an adventure, Bubba shoving his Johnson up there would
>>have been nothing compared the telephone pole the doctor used.
>
> My sympathies.
> The scope my urologist used looked about as big around as my little
> finger. ALL THAT was going up my ....
> Yeah, they coated it with novocain; so you didn't feel it ... too much
> ... right then. About two hours later however ....
>
>>A few weeks later I go back for the results and guess what? No cancer.
>>He did put me on Avodart which costs and arm and a leg and refuses
>>to prescribe the generic which my pharmacist recommended.
>>I wonder if he gets a kickback from the drug company,
>>
> Does make you wonder sometimes, doesn't it?
Sometimes? All the time.
Didya know that depending on which side the doctor signs the prescription
determines if a generic can be prescribed?
Around here a number of doctors are skipping the written prescription and
e-mailing them direct to the patient's Pharmacy.
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