Blood in urine quick question or 2. Possibly for a Urologist on the forum

Thanks lester. I'm more curious to find out if sex is causing the blood. So I'd like to be able to check my urine periodically to see if there is blood in it.

Thanks derek. I'm not looking for infection info. Uro never said I had an infection when I went last week. I trust my uro with that since antibiotics are bacteria specific.

I'm trying to find a way to check for blood in my urine since I cant run to doctor every time I want to check for it.   

Thanks jimjames

The blood doesn't phase me one bit. When my prostate problems started Nov 2015 I literally peed blood. Not red urine, literally blood. Very large clots, also. It lasted 7 days. The urgent care I went to said they had never seen any one pee blood like that. My GP said the same thing. When I made my appointment for the uro they hooked me up with the oncologist because they seemed sure I had cancer. I had no pain and minor difficulty peeing due to BPH prior to the bleeding episode. 

I did receive one dose of antibiotics when I had my cystoscopy. As mentioned before the pain in the prostate started after the cystoscopy and lasted for months. Uros made no effort to get to the bottom of the pain. I guess they figured the size of my prostate was the cause of the pain.

I will buy some of the Siemens Multistix 10SG dip sticks. Still gonna try and figure out how the urine sample is prepared for microscopic inspection

Jim

Also diet can play a factor in bladder stones (Potassium citrate is a urinary alkalinizing medication. It makes urine less acidic. Potassium citrate works by crystallizing stone-forming salts such as calcium oxalate, calcium phosphate, and uric acid within the urinary bladder by increasing the urinary pH and urine citrate levels.)

Anything on this list that you recognize, that might have made your 10 bladder stones / enlarged prostate condition worse??

?"Nuts and molasses are high in potassium, peanut butter has a moderate amount of potassium and butter has trace amounts of this essential mineral.

As an Additive

?Processed foods often contain potassium citrate as an additive. Beverages, in particular, tend to contain this additive, including hot beverages, dairy-based drinks, infant formulas, alcoholic beverages and water-based beverages, such as sports drinks and energy drinks. Fish products, sugars and syrups, salt substitutes, pasteurized dairy products, cheese, sherbet, processed vegetables, breakfast cereals, candies, pastas, processed rice products, soybean products, bakery products, processed meats, condiments and seasonings, soups and prepared foods may all contain potassium citrate as well."

I am now on a plant based diet as in the book "Eat to Live"  I have only been on the diet for about two weeks but have already lost a fair amount of weight.  Can't say exactly how much because I decided not to weigh but to go by how my clothes fit.  I am now able to get into clothes that were previously too tight to wear.  I am also sleeping better at night with fewer times getting up during the night to urinate.  The last two nights, I have not gotten up at all.  Previously I was getting up two to three times a night.

All due to diet change ? No medications or procedures ? It's great !!! Hank

Just the connection ?

if you have an enlarged prostate, you may be unable to empty your bladder completely, in which you are prone to bladder stones.

Diet high in Potassium citrate may make you a higher risk for bladder stones. That's why I was asking Vigneron about his diet.

? Vigneron were you aware of difficulty in emptying your bladder before the diagnosis of bladder stones, and for how long prior? What about now after they have been removed?

Your problem doesn't get reported often, so you may be able to help many others in your situation.

Yes, it is basically a vegetarian diet with the emphasis on nutrient dense foods.  Not all vegetarians are thin or possibly even in good health.  Yes, you can eat beans and nuts although nuts are limited to about 2 ounces per day.  The concept is that when the ratio of nutrients to calories in the food is high, you lose weight and the more nutrient dense food you eat, the less you crave fat, sweets and high calorie foods  This concept has worked for me.  I highly recommend getting the book "Eat to Live" by Joel Fuhrman, M.D.  You can get it at Amazon.  The cookbook has some great ideas also.  I can see now that the foods I was eating (and I thought I was eating good) were actually creating a craving for more food.  I no longer have that craving and feeling hungry a lot of the time.  I am actually eating more than I was and loosing weight even though I am eating more.

Orange juice seems to be the best defense in developing stones, other than supplemnets:

"Some patients produce too acidic a urine which raises risk of uric acid stones, and they need supplemental alkali to make their urine less acidic. The use of potassium citrate to make urine less acidic will prevent uric acid stones in most patients who form them."

Thanks Vig, I don't know how you do it. The last time I tried a veg diet I was hunggry all the time, until I eat nuts or meat. Hank

The thing that works for me is to eat a super big salad for lunch with some beans on top and fruit between meals.  At dinner time, I am not very hungry at all.  I recommend the book "Eat to Live" by Joel Fuhrman, M.D.  I am in no way connected with him or make anything promoting his book but If you have an interest in science and nutrition, it makes a good read regardless if you try the eating plan or not.  For breakfast I have either the old fashion oatmeal with a few walnuts and blueberries and about half a banana or shredded wheat - not the kind coated with all kinds of crap but just the regular old fashion kind along with the walnuts, blueberries and banana, Neither the oatmeal nor the shredded wheat have any salt at all which is a big plus and is about the only cereals that do not have any.  I use flax milk on them.  I eat baked and broiled salmon in the evenings a couuple times a week along with greens and vegetables.  There are a lot of non meat things you can fix for dinner and the cookbook has some good ideas.

Thanks Vig. I read Eat To Live and tried the diet. Still hungry all the time. Your comparison between broccoli and beef though mathematically correct, is not realistic. In order to get the same calories a steak has, one would have to eat 4 bunches of broccoli (bunches, not stalks). I would be hungry right after I finish the broccoli.

Just came across some new articles just released today, 18 years and 130,000 people study, indicated that low fat diets cut lives short. Fat, even saturated fat, makes people live longer. Just Google 'low fat diet could kill you'. I think i need more fat in my diet.

Hank

Just look up the numbers on paleo or Atkins diet. Cholesterol numbers drop significantly. Not saying those are good diets but they definitely aren't low fat.

Dr. Joel Fuhrman considers the Atkins diet and the South Beach diets as "prototypes of dietary misinformation".  While it is true that some vitamins are only soluble in fats there are fats that are vastly superior to animal fats.  I get all the fats I need from food such as avocados, limited amounts of olive oil, nuts, seeds and about two servings of fish such as salmon per week. Even green vegetables and beans contain beneficial fats.  You don't need to eat moooo cows or pigs or lamb etc.