Hello all!

(Yep just recently posted a comment on  Extremely worried about bowel cancer  I'm just waiting now really on the outcome of the polyp examination).

I'm really writing here because I need to ask a question but about something else I've just noticed. After going through the process of "clearing my bowels out" with plenvu (horrible - was up all night going back and fourth to the toilet and got no sleep) and the next day having a colonoscopy I felt pretty tired as a result! So (this morning) I decided to get up just a little later than normal especially as I have some time off work. That also ment I urinated later I think it was around 9 or 10AM by that time, not sure.

However apon urinating I found that my urine had become a darker colour (either dark yellow/orange/brown) I really could not tell exactly it was hard to see. At one point I even thought I could see a red colour (blood?) in the urine but again I can't say exactly - I wish I had taken a photo with my phone but didn't. I also noticed that after urinating I had a slight unfomtable/burning sensation after doing so which seemed to peak after a few hours but then died down. It was very hard to determine if there really was any red in there or not I thought there was but can't be sure.

I've noticed this same symptom before though I forget exactly when (sometime fairly recent) btw. But since I really couldn't tell if I was actually seeing a red colour in the urine am I just - for want of a better term "seeing things" and putting 2 and 2 to try to make five or could this be a sign of some sort of cancer (blood in urine)? Trouble is if I look up the symptoms online I sort of do - sort of don't quite match - for example I do sometimes have lower back pain (not super painful btw) which is another symptom of bladder or prehaps prostate cancer. But then lower pack pain can be caused by any number of things.  

One thing I did think it might have been is a UTI (urinary tract infection) and I could I guess have picked that up in some way from the hospital toilet but surely a UTI would last for a longer time?

I feel a bit reluctant to contact anyone right now espeically as I've literally just had a colonoscopy and also have been worried about the doctor finding cancer after having the colonoscopty. Is this just a case of simple paranoia or could it be a sign of cancer?

ljones