V-worried About Trouble Passing Urine And Hospital Visit. Posted: 08-01-06 06:56am
This is a rather long story so i'll be
very thankfull to those who listen.
Around about three years ago now, just
before I turned 15, I had sex for the
first time and used a condom with a
spermicidal lubricant. Unfortunatly from
that I developed a fairly painfull uti.
Not that i'm afraid of doctors or anything
of the sort but I was terrified that if I
headed around to the doctor with my mother
they'd find out somehow that i'd had sex
recently.. Ect... Ect. I'm well aware
now that probably wouldn't have been the
case at all but my mother and I have never
had a very close relationship and
unfortunatly her attitude to health
problems has always been "ignore it and it
will go away". So for both of the above
reasons I never got seen to by a doctor
and instead spent the following months
drinking lots of water and cranberry juice
and just prayed it would go away on it's
own.
Six or seven months on I eventually
gathered together the courage and the
money to head around to the family gp by
myself. He didn't ask many questions or
even take a urine sample, I was just given
a three day course of antibiotics and sent
on my way.
The antibiotics cleared up every symptom I
had suffered from (odd smelling uring,
needing to pee frequently and passing very
little urine despite ugency) except the
stinging pain. Despite the fact it still
stung quite badly after going to the
bathroom, I decided I could live with
it(mainly becuase of the cost, a €40 fee
for seeing my gp was a lot of money for me
to spend) and through trial and error,
discovered things like coffee and acidy
drinks made it worse.
The following year I ended up in hospital
to get my appendix taken out. I gave a
urine sample there which interestingly
enough, showed up negative, something
which I took to mean, that whatever reason
I was in pain for, it wasn't an infection.
The pain got a lot less after a left
hospital, now it only ever stung when I
passed water in the mornings, or without
drinking a lot.
Anyway, rewind to around four weeks ago
and the pain came back, exept this time as
more of a sharp pain rather than a
stinging one. Since this time around I
was older, had more common sense and money
at my disposal I took myself around to a
different gp to get myself seen to. I
told him the whole story and complained
that not only had the pain I was
experiancing changed but recently it felt
like my bladder wasn't emptying itself
properly either, and I was still going to
the bathroom very frequently. He took a
urine sample, told me I had an infection
and I was given a five day course of
ciproxin. He also decided to set me up
with an appointment in a hospital, just
because i've had this problem for such a
long time.
Now that the course of ciproxin is
finished i'm back to the way I was
beforehand, occasional stinging pain,
trouble empyting my bladder and frequent
urination but the stabbing pain had
cleared up as has the cloudy urine. I'm
going back to my gp on friday to give him
an update but while I was on the internet
earlier on this week, by accident I
stumbled across something called a
"urinary stricture", which seems to match
the symptoms I have, it even mentioned
spraying urine or urine in two streams,
which I wasn't even aware that was a
problem, but something that also happens
to me. I don't want to jump to any
conclusions just yet but I will mention my
worries to my gp this week.
After saying all that (thank you for
reading first of all)i have a bundle of
questions, such as what could I expect
when I visit the hosital? Also, if I am
suffering from a ureathral stricture, what
treatment is available, and what is the
recovery time like? Which leads me onto
my last problem which is more of a
personal issue, my mother unfortunatly
still doesn't know about any of this, it's
a story for another day as to why I wont
tell her but at this stage i've dug too
deep a hole to come clean and admit i've
been going to doctors and making hospital
appointments without her consent. If i'm
going to need a full scale operation that
would require a few days recovery time,
i'm in big big trouble. Despite that,
i'll be 18 in a few months, and living
away from home a few months after, would
it be possible to hold back any operation
untill then?
