Believe it or not, for the past 4 years I've been having terrible pain whenever I urinate. I've just dealt with it, thinking that it's normal and took care off family, who needs me more. Well then around a month ago the pain increased to the point of intolerable, so I decided to call my doctor and schedule an appointment. It felt worse than labor and delivery & I felt like I was peeing razor blades!!
Originally the doc thought it might be a stricture, but she wasn't sure. At the appointment she had me take a pee test, to rule out a UTI (which would have been the longest UTI ever, but they have to do these things).
A few days later her nurse calls me saying that there's blood in my urine and they want me to get a CT of the abdomen.
I went to The Imaging Center on W. Jefferson and got that done. I was awaiting results...which I was told kidney stones and that I needed to go see a urologist named Dr. Rudolph.
I went to this appointment by myself and let me tell you about it...mind blowing!! First of all, I went into the appointment and met his nurse, who asked me where I got my images taken. I told her at the Imaging Center. She then tells me that she needs to go check on them and leaves the room. She then comes back and says that "we have to do a procedure." So I'm freaking out thinking that they are going to have to zap my kidney stones right then and there. She comes back and says, "Sorry, we had to do a last min procedure on another patient!" WHEW!!
Then I met the Dr. and he is a character. He has a sense of humor but when you are by yourself and nervous you don't know how to take him. He checked me out in there and decided to have me try an estrogen cream for 2 weeks to see if that might give me any relief. He also made sure to tell me not to have sex with my husband with it in, "or else he might get boobs, but he might like that sort of thing, bc I'm a guy and if I had boobs, I would love to sit around and play with my boobs all day." Uhm...I guess if your job is a urologist, you have to get past the day with some sense of humor???
So I tried the estrogen cream for 6 days and it did nothing but make my breasts even bigger (oh my)! Dan made me call the urologist and update them on the non-relief. The nurse called me back and said that the doc wanted to get me in for a Cytoscopy under sedation at the hospital. They wanted to take a look and see what was going on in there.
The surgery center scheduled me for 10/2. Then the nerves shot in. I haven't had surgery since my ear tubes and tonsils surgery when I was young. I don't even remember that far back. I checked on Parkview's MyChart, which is to be a great way to communicate with the office, to see if any additional info regarding my procedure had been added. Nothing...up until they stated that I was having a completely different procedure done, which freaked me out. I called them and they said that it was an error and assured me that I was having a Cytoscopy and NOT a retroperitoneal abdominal lymph node dissection, as stated in MyChart.
I went into surgery on 10/2 and I'm so glad they sedated me because the dr. said that he couldn't even get his scope in me. He had to dialare with a wire guiding tool to get his scope in there. Ouch!
Apparently I had a bunch of scar tissue somehow and my urethra was almost all closed off; therefore he removed the tissue and biopsied it. He didn't think it looked like cancer, so that's good. The lab results have been sent to pathology and won't get results for a few business days. I'm grateful that he removed the scar tissue though! The pictures truly show what he is talking about, but I'll spare you the details on those pics.
After surgery, Dan spent the entire day taking care of me. He is incredible and even helped me with my catheter that I had to have for 24 hours. Nasty!
I felt nauseous most of the day and threw up/dry heaved several times from the anesthia. Luckily, the dr got me some good pain meds for relief down there.
Then today, I also took off of work because I was still in pain and needed another day to recover. I'm so glad I did because I spent most of the day feeling run down and needed to rest.
The good news is that now that the catheter is out, I can actually pee like a normal person (the real normal without pain)! It only hurts afterwards from where the dr. took out the scar tissue.
So here's to getting some relief and answers! Don't do what I did and neglect your health!!
Peace~
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