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Microscopic Blood in Urine - 36 and freaking out.

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gary79138
gary79138

I have severe health anxiety, taking Escitalopram, doing medidation the works to try and calm it down as its impacting my life and marriage. Over the last 2 years I have gotten into best shape of my life and lived a positive proactive and healthy lifestyle.

Over the last 2 months, its come crashing down on me and recently I went to see a Urologist to rule out any issues with my testicles. As a result, he did an Ultrasound of those and Bladder and to his words, everything is smooth, looks good and no signs of anything.

Then we did the Urine analysis and there were Microscopic traces of blood in the urine. my immediate anxiety kicked in and started to worry.

The doctor himself stated if I was high risk, over 50-60 years old, likely we would investigate further, however, I am young, I dont smoke, I am in good shape, likely going to be nothing, but lets do the test again in 2 months. I am now overly focused on this and concerned about bladder/kidney cancers. Although its extremely unlikely, even the dreaded Dr.Google states the Overwhelming cases of microscopic blood in urine is nothing, and only 1-2% come back as something and those are found in older, smokers etc who would be classed high risk, I cannot get my mind off it.

Has anyone gone though this? I have 2-3 months to wait before going to do the urine analysis again, any advice. I know being 36, healthy, non smoker, no history of bladder or kidney cancer in family that this is likely just an unfortunate incident ( given the Ultrasound also showed no signs of concern in kidneys or bladder, including kidney bloods being good) most likely I am over reacting due to my health anxiety but any words of advice would be amazing and helpful.

Thanks and apologies for the rant. I know we all go through it, and we battle daily with anxiety and intrusive horrible thoughts, but I need support and someone to talk to. I know this is a good platform for this.

Thanks

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  • jan34534
    jan34534 gary79138

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    yes it sounds like you are way over thinking this. It is actually normal for microscopic blood in urine to be present. it can also indicate a urinary track infection, or irritation which is easily treatable.

    it can also indicate that nothing at all is wrong. I have had microscopic blood in the urine and nothing ever else came of it. And that was 20 years ago. One of my kids also had that as well as my sister. Everything was fine.

    i I know how healthy anxiety creates negative and fearful thinking. But when you are aware of that, you can take steps to relax your mind and know that those thoughts are not based on fact or reality but only on emotion which is fear. It’s the what if thinking that puts that fear in our minds. The worst thing you can do is Google this because it’s a waste of time and it does not pertain to your individual situation. Google always gives the worst case of everything when actually more often than not, most conditions are not serious.

    So, keep busy, get some exercise, laugh with family and friends and enjoy everything.

    You’re going to be OK! ❤

    • gary79138
      gary79138 jan34534

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      Thanks Jan,

      I really appreciate your message. Deep down I know that its common and anything more is extremely unlikely and not logical....so I know it is just something that happened that most likely will not have a cause for me, like so many other scares in my history of Health Anxiety.

      I will keep trying! I exercise daily, and will try to do some things, make some plans etc that will help me take my mind of it, eventually, I will find out that its likely nothing and move on, however I really appreciate you taking time to respond.

      Brightens up my day knowing others out there can relate and can understand

      Thanks again

      Gary

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