Blood in pee, a diabetes night mare and a long rant.

[zodiacstar]

I know this is going to sound like I am very stupid, but part of me wishes I had not gone to the doc when I found blood in my pee! I still do not know the results of any of the tests the last one a ultrasound was taken just yesterday. I keep getting badgered by those who love me to find out, I just tell them that no news is good news and if anything was found the doc would contact me! This is how I have also been with my smears, mammograms, cancer scares, heart problems etc. I avoid going to the doc at all costs living with whatever hails me until I do not have a choice, most things seem to sort themselves out without a visit and I move on.
When ever I have had involvement, they always want it seems to me to open me up. When that happens I seem to gather extra problems. I refused for them to operate on my heart, they told me I would not last 5 years, my GP angry at them as no one can predict, and 20 years on I am still alive and kicking, it was probably a scare tactic. All I know about my heart is that my valves do not function correctly, the mitral valve in particular and my upper chambers are enlarged, my heart beats faster, tachycardia and the walls are thickened on one side, this is what the surgeon told me, I did not look up what all of that might meant. After my refusal to let them operate, it went very quiet, I weaned myself off the drugs and I carried on, I knew from watching my brother die of heart failure, that I might spend some time before death in bed, bed bound, All I did was make sure wills funeral lists etc. were in place and up to date, my heart just ticks and one day it will stop as it will with all of us! With this diabetes diagnoses, doctor told me to read up about it and adjust my lifestyle, food, weight, exercise, etc, threatened me with dire outcomes, talked about monitoring, etc, all before he would indulge me in getting to the problem of blood in my pee, and then we nearly left his office without any action from him about blood in my pee, I did bleed with what seemed like a pint, followed by blood clots for a few days, then normal looking until the next big bleed as before blood clots etc 4 times when it now appears normal I am happy to adjust my lifestyle where I can, but do not really want to know about diabetes, and I do not want to be monitored by the medical profession either. It is all getting a bit too much. It seems so far from what I have read maybe other conditions that I have had in the past have lead me to diabetes, like pre-eclampsia when I was pregnant two times with my sons 43 +45 years ago, my heart from the age of 3, lung problems also as a small child, high blood pressure as a teen, kidney problems as a teen, weight gain from my 20's obesity from my 30's, gallbladder from my 50's. cataracts 5 years ago several times jaundiced, white stools etc. which I think maybe due to either liver or pancreas leading to diabetes, also family history lots of those ancestors may have had diabetes since most had heart, lung and high blood pressure, all of my siblings vying one has had diabetes and my mother had 7!, she also had diabetes my mother had alzheimer's the last 5-10 years of her life from 60 which I now find out was probably due to diabetes. I just want to be in ignorant bliss. I will concentrate on my food choices testing my blood, can not do a lot about exercise, and hope it will all settle down and I am left alone by the doctor to get on with it. All because I found blood in my pee!

 

[trophywench]

Sorry, why do we need to know this? And why are you here if you wish to be left alone and be ignorant about medical matters?

 

[zodiacstar]

The doctor told me to read up on diabetes and he was going on about amputations, blindness, etc, I think he thought that I did not realise the ramifications of not sorting it out, I do know that if I do not get it under control terrible things could happen I dread going the way of my mother and I am frightened of alzheimer's or blindness as it is I look through clouds with my cataracts which is worsening, that is my nightmare, and will try my best, by eating as much green veg low carb food as I can with a little protein and a little fat, but doctor wants me to cut out eggs, bacon, any red meat, and have me on a 600-800 calorie diet I have tried many times in the past and instead of constant loss of weight I plateaued out and eventually gained it all back and gained more. You misunderstood, I am quite happy to receive advice when I ask for it has I have been doing here on this site. all advice is welcomed you are all diabetics you can give me the best advice in the world. I want the doctor and my family to leave me alone I also know enough I think about diabetes, without needing to know exactly how my body works and about the different organs involved. The doctor seemed to be fixated on diabetes and not what I went to see him about, I also thought it bad because he is obese himself!

 

[trophywench]

Why don't you get your cataracts done? takes 20 minutes under a local, and you go back home after a couple of hours. It's a weird feeling, but no pain whatsoever. You've got so many drops in that eye by the time you walk into the theatre, you can't possibly actually see anything and the opthalmologist sits behind your head making soothing comments as he does his stuff - you can't see anything through your good eye either because theres a green drape above it - never actually touches you, theres a frame that it's draped over and they waft air under there constantly, it's lovely. They want you to keep both eyes open, cos close the good eye and you'll automatically close the one they're operating on. Surgeon had to remind me both times, LOL

They slap an eye pad on overnight and you need drops in for about a week - but OMG the sight in that eye is brill !

 

[mikeyB]

Worry less about the diabetes, the blood in the urine is your biggest problem that needs sorting. The diabetes is controllable. Blood, particularly frank blood, indicates a problem that cannot be ignored. Concentrate on getting that sorted. Ignore it, and you won’t live long enough to get diabetic complications or Alzheimer’s. Your choice.

The diabetes and cataracts are the least of your problems.

 

[zodiacstar]

Why don't you get your cataracts done? takes 20 minutes under a local, and you go back home after a couple of hours. It's a weird feeling, but no pain whatsoever. You've got so many drops in that eye by the time you walk into the theatre, you can't possibly actually see anything and the opthalmologist sits behind your head making soothing comments as he does his stuff - you can't see anything through your good eye either because theres a green drape above it - never actually touches you, theres a frame that it's draped over and they waft air under there constantly, it's lovely. They want you to keep both eyes open, cos close the good eye and you'll automatically close the one they're operating on. Surgeon had to remind me both times, LOL

They slap an eye pad on overnight and you need drops in for about a week - but OMG the sight in that eye is brill !

I would gladly have it done, but it has not been offered to me, about 5 years ago at specsavers they told me I had cataracts, I said then could they send me, I also had a hearing test and was declared borderline deaf, they said in both cases that it wasn't bad enough, after that they have come out to me and checked me at home, each time I mention it, I do not get any response, some of my friends have been diagnosed after me and have had it done, I have also been to the hospital when I kept getting flashing light to the side of my vision in the pitch dark when there should not be any light at all. can not remember what they said about the flashing light but I mentioned the cataracts while there, he confirmed cataracts but told me to go back to the optician, I also kept losing my sight when having a coughing fit so went to my doctor, he also confirmed cataracts but didn't suggest sending me but he thought the loss of sight was due to a lack of oxygen and oxygen not getting to the optic nerve. that made sense as sometimes I pass out when I am coughing, therefore lack of oxygen to the brain.

 

[zodiacstar]

Worry less about the diabetes, the blood in the urine is your biggest problem that needs sorting. The diabetes is controllable. Blood, particularly frank blood, indicates a problem that cannot be ignored. Concentrate on getting that sorted. Ignore it, and you won’t live long enough to get diabetic complications or Alzheimer’s. Your choice.

The diabetes and cataracts are the least of your problems.

One of the reasons I was annoyed with the doctor once he tested my urine and found sugar, he went on and on about the diabetes and my being obese, even though he is obese himself, he ignoring the reason I had gone to him, and then when he tried to dismiss me my time up, I got a touch angry, I wanted all the tests done, I have or did have a cancer marker in my blood, a couple of years ago I was checked for bowel cancer because I had very black blood being passed, which means digested blood, doctor send me to have camera in bowel and also intestines but the hospital only checked my bowel in the end I was told they could not find any cancer the only thing they found in my bowels was a hole which they sealed up and those pockets that form in the wall of a bowel, where there was inflammation the camera finished at my appendix. a few months later I bled from my womb for about 6 weeks while I was bleeding they could not exam me but because of the marker in my blood they said it was a reason to be concerned, all they found was thickened womb walls, a large fibroid a couple of pounds in weight, and some polyps. still they said if I saw any signs I should get back in touch with the doc. I got an infected gallbladder, turned yellow kept being violently sick shooting up green bile, told my liver and pancreas were upset a gallstone they said had blocked the bile duct, again with all the tests they mentioned the cancer marker in my blood but was certain it was the stone that was causing upset to the organs involved. so when I had blood in my pee I made the appointment with the doc straight away, while waiting for the appointments I bled bright red blood not once but 4 times, but I think if they had found cancer, in my first 2 tests I would have known by now, Yesterday I had my bladder and kidneys ultrasound the technician waved her wand, over my bladder took just a few seconds so I assume did not see anything equally waved her wand over my left kidney, took a few seconds, but with my right kidney she waved that wand on the front of it to the side of it and got me laying on my tummy and kept taking pictures and spent a time on that right kidney, she obviously wasn't going to tell me anything, but I think it's clear things are not right with that kidney.it maybe just a stone? we shall wait and see, this doctor hasn't told me the results of my many blood tests or what each of them were for, my old doctor would have informed me, this all before sending me to have these different scans.