Anyone Else With Blood In Urine??

I had some blood in my semen about 6 months ago and my uro gave me antibiotics for 5 days and it stopped....only did it once but that seemed to work.

 this sounds so much like my situation! 42 treatments IMRT, 2.5 years ago, five months ago all the problems started, burning and blood in urine, bladder spasems, they thought kidney stones which it was not, on a cystiscope the found tumors and a badly damaged bladder and everything tied to it. After surgery and months of pain they have me in hyperbaric chamber for 80 hours, 2 hours per day. My thought is careless tecs giving the radiation as with the new systems they are suposed to hit the mark withing millimeters. Again I would never chose that route. Stats were G7 stage 2. One hyberbaric chamber treatment left tomarrow and they will doanother cystiscope to see how it has healed. Had ED but Viagra worked well, now after hyperbaric no ED or burning when unrinating or ejaculating. Only side effect now is must usinate every 1/2 hour and am on Vesicare which pretty much takes care of it. They will do a cystascope on you and see what he inside of your bladder is like and take a sample to see if cancer, mine ws not cancer in the tumor they removed. The systascope sounds worse than it is not bad at all. Hang in there we will pray for you!

Thanks guys...It's just a shock when you look down and see a pink streak on the white bowl...Another 'scope job! Something to look forward to!

When I see the blood I usually also see an increase in leakage. Today was a 4 pad, up from a normal 2.

Yeah Mel..I'm a year and a half out and I don't notice any pain or anything but my stools are about as inconsistent as it gets.....Ive had them black one day, yellow the next and green the day after....every now and then I get some slime that almost looks like intestines come out...Im thinking this is dying flesh from the prostate but only once in awhile that happens....but I feel absolutely fine. Think I may mention this to my Uro in 2 weeks. I don't think its diet related because I haven't changed drastically.

also not sure of the risks of IMRT vs. SRT.

hey guys radiation cystitis is considered minor (usually) and they don't even treat it unless they have to.  from what i was told RC seldom needs treatment these days.  but back in the old days when the machines were less precise it was far more common.

My father-in-law was peeing blood about a week ago - solid red. No pain, no discomfort. He has not been diagnosed with PCa and has never had radiation of any kind. Ended up being a UTI - doc put him on antibiotics and it cleared up in no time.

I'm 4 years post RP and 3 1/2 out from Rad with occaisional burning and a bit of blood. Both urologist and Rad Doc says the rad will fry some blood vessels which then may leak a bit of blood. So, it has to be somewhere in the urethra or bladder. Been scoped once with nothing found. I'm thinking mine is at the new bladder/urethra junction but that's just a guess. Usually shows up a day or two after sex (pump or trimix).

Just dandy.

Are there any kind of published statistics describing how often these problems occur years down the line?  I know that most people experience short-term symptoms soon after completing RT, but my understanding is that these typically resolve themselves. 

How often do problems occur years after RT?

I had SRT theraphy in 2004...it subsequently failed. In the last 6 years I've had 3 separate incidents of passing blood...about every 18-30 months....actually I pass a lot of blood...it is very scary.I've had 3 cytoscopies...radiation damage !!