Taking Care of Me

While I was pregnant my Doctor noted that I was having microscopic amounts of blood in my urine and stated she wanted to look into it further after my pregnancy. When I went for my 6 week postpartum appointment she stated that there was still blood present and sent me to the lab for a full urinalysis. It came back with blood as she suspected and referred me to a urologist. She also wanted a couple moles looked at so I also went to a dermatologist as well last week and all is good.

I went to a urologist suggested by my OB/Gyn and he stated that I have Persistant Hematuria. He stated that it is usually hereditary but of course I couldn't offer up any family history due to being adopted. He stated that I needed to have a cystoscopy done and also a CT scan of my kidneys to look for bleeding, lesions, tumors or cancer. He believes everything is fine and that I just have idiopathic hematuria but wants to run the tests just to rule anything out. I've scheduled the cystoscopy for February but have yet to schedule the CT scan.