u/Jaketheguy1234

About a year and a half ago I started getting lower right flank pain. I thought I had pulled a muscle. A few weeks later I noticed my urine getting darker and cloudy then one day I peed cola color urine. I went to urgent care and they found blood in my urine test and said it was likely a kidney stone and to stay hydrated. Fast forward 6 months I never passed it and the pain had been on and off. Sometimes at night it was a lot worse but it was never severe or debilitating. I peed cola colored blood again so I went back to Urgent Care. They took an Xray and said they “believed” they saw stones in both my kidneys and to see a Urologist. I know it’s stupid but I don’t have insurance and that as long as it wasn’t debilitating I could deal with it and not spend money on a Urologist, well a year after that last visit to urgent care (just last week) I peed the darkest blood I had ever peed and had blood clots in the urine. I freaked out, went back to urgent care and they told me the same thing about that it’s stone and to see a Urologist. Early this week I got in with one. He said he was worried since I’d peed blood a few times and that it was painless that it might be bladder cancer. He said I need to do a CT Urogram and a Cystoscopy. I got the Urogram done Thursday but still haven’t gotten results and am supposed to do the Cystoscopy in a couple weeks. Anyways, my question is could this still be kidney stones? It seems almost everyone has debilitating pain with them and that it isn’t just mild for an extended period of time. It’s crazy to say I’m actually hoping I have them instead of something else.

I have had blood in my urine and back pain for almost 2 years. I don’t have insurance so I just went to Urgent Care after the first time I peed blood and they did a urine test and found traces of blood and since I said I had lower right back pain as well so they said it was probably kidney stones. 6 months later it’d been hurting mildly off and on, I never passed a stone and I peed blood again. I go back to urgent care and this time they do a regular x ray where they “believe” they see Kidney Stones. Fast forward to about 2 weeks ago and I pee the most blood I’ve ever peed and have blood clots in urine. I go to urgent care again and they once again do nothing but tell me to go to a urologist and I finally scheduled one last week. He told me painlessly peeing blood that many times is very concerning and requires further evaluation for Bladder Cancer with a Urogram and Cystoscopy. He said to do the Urogram and then we’d do the Cystoscopy in 4 weeks. I did the Urogram yesterday and still haven’t received the results. I haven’t been able to even live life since, I feel frozen and terrified. I have a gut feeling I have it and the way he acted he seemed to believe it was almost likely that’s what it is. If I knew it might be early I wouldn’t be freaking out as much but if I do have it I’ve delayed it for 2 years and I’ve had symptoms for that long meaning it had already progressed a long time ago. I feel like an idiot for not doing more earlier and not being on top of it because I don’t have insurance. I know I’m kind of all of the place but I just needed to vent. Everyone I talk about in real life tells me “not to worry” but they don’t realize how serious this really could be and everything I’ve read completely lines up with me having it. I’m mentally preparing myself but I don’t think anything can actually mentally prepare you for hearing those words, especially if it’s too late.