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CLKD

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Re: Feel ill a lot!
« Reply #30 on: July 10, 2024, 12:05:55 PM »
Your GP needs a  :kick: or several  >:(

What is found in your dip stick test is usual.  She should be sending a sample to a Lab for testing as well as considering ongoing VA treatment.   As for mentioning bladder cancer  >:( did she discuss why she considers this might be a risk? If so why is she waiting, I would expect to be put onto a list immediately, 1 can always cancel the appt when it arrives if symptoms improve etc.

I sometimes despair.  How long will you have to wait 4 the appt.? 
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Re: Feel ill a lot!
« Reply #31 on: July 10, 2024, 12:08:24 PM »
Also the blood in the urine may be due to the start of VA if the vaginal skin is thinning . 
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Mummytron

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Re: Feel ill a lot!
« Reply #32 on: July 10, 2024, 01:14:58 PM »
I was a bit shocked but I think she meant she would refer if the urine hadn't cleared after the antibiotics.
I've always had a trace of blood and protein so that not unusual.
Hopefully the antibiotics will do their magic.
I hadn't realised it could be VA so I'll bear that in mind when I go back.
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Re: Feel ill a lot!
« Reply #33 on: July 10, 2024, 02:40:41 PM »
Your GP however should consider the repeated 'infection' symptoms as VA.  MayB buy a copy of 'me and my menopausal vagina' written by a Member of our Forum several years ago.  Hand to your GP surgery ;-)
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Mummytron

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Re: Feel ill a lot!
« Reply #34 on: July 10, 2024, 04:06:18 PM »
Thing is, I have health anxiety so none of this has done me any good!
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Re: Feel ill a lot!
« Reply #35 on: July 10, 2024, 04:48:59 PM »
Quote from: Mummytron on July 10, 2024, 04:06:18 PM
Thing is, I have health anxiety so none of this has done me any good!

I had exactly the same situation, contacted because blood had shown up without infection and was referred for cystoscopy in case of cancer. I was panic stricken. Everything was fine, the test was fine too. The worry will be making your stomach worse.
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Mummytron

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Re: Feel ill a lot!
« Reply #36 on: July 10, 2024, 04:50:15 PM »
Thank you. I'm sure its nothing but best to get checked.
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Mummytron

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Re: Feel ill a lot!
« Reply #37 on: July 12, 2024, 02:29:05 PM »
Having a really bad day today.
Feeling achy, knackered, just struggling. On a day out with the family and my poor old hubby has been looking after me.
Then I got it onto my head I have bladder cancer, thanks to the gp.
Such a roller coaster, just want to feel OK for long enough to enjoy something and not feel like a burden.
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Re: Feel ill a lot!
« Reply #38 on: July 12, 2024, 03:27:51 PM »
Quote from: Mummytron on July 12, 2024, 02:29:05 PM
Having a really bad day today.
Feeling achy, knackered, just struggling. On a day out with the family and my poor old hubby has been looking after me.
Then I got it onto my head I have bladder cancer, thanks to the gp.
Such a roller coaster, just want to feel OK for long enough to enjoy something and not feel like a burden.

Believe me I was just the same. Mine phoned me at work. I was panicking.  GPs  are guided by red flag symptoms when referring.  It just means you should get checked quicker. I was told afterwards to mention I have invisible blood in my urine if I have anymore urine tests. Nothing sinister was found. My mum had a lump in her neck and was told the same thing. She had a check with a camera and was told everything was pristine. It was just an infected gland. Try to put it to one side in your mind.
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Re: Feel ill a lot!
« Reply #39 on: July 12, 2024, 03:42:11 PM »
Isn't that what husbands are for?  Stop feeling guilty.  Little steps  :foryou:
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Mummytron

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Re: Feel ill a lot!
« Reply #40 on: July 12, 2024, 05:17:33 PM »
My hubby is lovely.
I'm so fed up with this. There's no need to think it's anything bad but there we are.
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Re: Feel ill a lot!
« Reply #41 on: July 12, 2024, 05:25:32 PM »
But we do worry don't we!  B kind to yourself.  As we age we may well be more concerned about our health, especially if juggling work/kids/elderly ....
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Mummytron

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Re: Feel ill a lot!
« Reply #42 on: July 13, 2024, 08:53:14 AM »
Another day, another moan.
Turns out I'm not tolerating thr trimethoprim. I feel weak, shaky, muscle fatigue and the anxiety was off the scale yesterday, near on panic attacks. Then I found a message where I'd talked to my friend about the last time I was on it and I was the same so they took me off. I'm so annoyed I didn't remember as we're away this weekend 😒
I'm going talk to the gp on Monday but I'm really not myself today, physically or mentally and I'm having to be ok for my daughter.
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Re: Feel ill a lot!
« Reply #43 on: July 13, 2024, 11:19:38 AM »
Is that an anti-biotic, I've rarely completed a course.  Ever.

And moan away, it really does help! 
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Mummytron

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Re: Feel ill a lot!
« Reply #44 on: July 13, 2024, 11:45:41 AM »
Yes, I've stopped taking it for now.
Glad you've replied, wanted to ask you a question. Would VA show leukocytes in my urine? I gave no symptoms of an infection.
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