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Terrified young man

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Hi all,

Sorry if this is a silly post but looking for some words of inspiration and encouragement. I'm a 39 year old male, fairly healthy, and went to the GP this week for a checkup unrelated to this, and got a call back to say they found traces of blood in my urine. I've got no symptoms of anything at all, and the GP booked me in for a range of blood tests including PSA which I did yesterday. Annoyingly I have to go back in tomorrow for a repeat PSA as according to my results there was insufficient sample for analysis. The rest of the results came back all clear, though my 2nd urine sample hasn't shown up results yet online. Anyway, I am utterly terrified as when I have read about all the various potential causes for this blood, none seem to fit with the exception of something related to my prostate. I also saw on the doctors notes that I will need an urgent referral to urology if my PSA levels are raised or still show signs of blood in the urine. I am just panicking and don't know what to do! Sorry for the ramble.

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  • Absolutely agree with everything LCR says, there are so many reasons for blood in urine, usually a urinary tract infection which antibiotics will deal with.  Your doctor is being extra cautious.  When you have your results he will most likely be waving you out the door.  I know the waiting is hard, am doing that myself at the moment.  Keep busy.

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  • Absolutely agree with everything LCR says, there are so many reasons for blood in urine, usually a urinary tract infection which antibiotics will deal with.  Your doctor is being extra cautious.  When you have your results he will most likely be waving you out the door.  I know the waiting is hard, am doing that myself at the moment.  Keep busy.

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  • Offline in reply to Nettietoo

    Thank you. My concern is that a couple of years ago I had a urine test done and traces of blood were found then, the doctor then never followed up so I just forgot all about it. Nothing has really changed symptom wise in that time though?

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    Some people do have traces of blood in their urine with no cause . The testing kits are so advanced these days that they pick up the smallest amount . 
    To put this in perspective , years ago a pregnancy test was not done until after 3 months as it would not show up. Nowadays you can do a test the day your cycle is due , so they have advanced so much . Please speak to your Gp again tomorrow., maybe he can give you some reassurance . 

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