Excessive Blood in Urine

Hello Everyone,

A week ago, I noticed excessive amounts of blood in my urine. I mean large amounts almost like it was pure blood with lots and lots of what looks like large blood clots in it. No pain or burning.

My urologist is concerned, and believes it is 'radiation stenosis', which he said some patients experience after a round of radiation treatements and that the bleeding can come immediately, a year, or five years after the radiation treatments, normally lasts a week, and then goes away. He said there is no treatment for it other than to drink lots and lots of water to try to reduce clotting and potential plugging.

To help rule out other things since I'm high risk, he has ordered a CT this week and scheduled a proceedure involving going up into my bladder with a camera to look for tumors.

A close friend of our's, who's husband died of prostate cancer said that her husband had excessive blood in his urine immediately before he took a turn for the worse.

Naturally, my wife is very concerned upon hearing this.

The good news is that after six days, the bleeding has suddenly stopped completely.

If any of you have encountered severe urinary tract bleeding some time after radiation treatment, could you post a reply and tell me your experiences and whether you agree with the urologist on what it could be.

Ignore the last sentence of my post, I went back and found your stats in a previous post....



6/2/15 PSA 37.5
7/15 Biopsy, 12 of 12 cancer, G8&9
7/15 CT Bone clean
9/15 prostatectomy
Pathology: G9, 95%,
Extraprostatic ext. - Present
Perineural Inv.: Extensive
Seminal Vesicle In. - Present bilateral
Margins multifocal, apical, bladder neck, posterior
Lymph - vascular inv.
Metastasis in 2 lymph glands
3/16 Radiation Complete
3/16 24 mths Lupron
6/16 PSA .02
PSA test to date: all .01
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Thanks for mentioning my post not including my signature. I have edited it and now it's there. The history really helps everyone respond. Thanks again for mentioning this Pratoman!

The CT is next week and the bladder 'camera' inspection (I'm not sure what the medical term for this procedure is) will be later. What is weird is that the bleeding started so suddenly and ended so suddenly with an amazing amount of blood and large clots that I passed during the six days. One would think that the bleeding would start slowly and end slowly, but it did not. If we never find the cause, that's OK with me if it does not return.

Bob