Diagnoses
The night of May 23rd my BPH problem became worse, with some burning when urinating. I called my GP and got an appointment late the afternoon of the 24th.
I went to my noon AA meeting, but left when a Doc at the meeting wanted to drive me home. I thought I was ok so I drove home myself. After being home for about an hour I knew I should not drive. So I got other transportation to the GP. I was not examined nor listened to. They did take a urine sample, but my insurance did not pay enough so they sent it to another lab. I was given a perception for ciprofloxacin for 20 days. I filled perception, took that day as prescribed. I came home and laid down, I went home laid down after I had taken my meds. My temp soared up to 101° later 103°.
I rested on the 25th hoping the meds would take effect. On 26th my wife called the GP and announced my condition. The Doc changed the infection med and also changed the BPH med that I had been taking for 5 years. 16 hours later my prostate had closed all flow of urine from my bladder. My temp had gone back to normal after the change in meds. I had to go to Immediate Care unit to be catheterized. They told me to double the BPH med. the only empties my bladder they did not have catheter bag. I spent a wonderful night on the commode. The next day I began to feel better. I went to my GP and was reamed out for going to Immediate Care unit not ER. I told them I wanted to see an urologist. They got me an appointment Tuesday June 1st.
The urologist visit was very uneventful. When examined my postdate, he noticed blood and told me to get it checked quickly. He also told me to take the antibiotic another 10 days after the one expired that that the GP the asked to take. The he said I should have blood drawn for PSA test, which I did when I got home.
The GP examined for blood in stool and found none and me to fast and come back the next day to do blood work for general health conditions. During the night I had much red blood in my stool which I told the nurse the day. Then the GP thought I should see a GI Doc.
After much ranging we found one that we could find near the fellowship cud I attend frequently. We went to a GI doc on the 7th of June. He suggested a Lower & Upper GI, because my general health test showed I was anemic. Since I was in the middle of the BPH problem and vacation scheduled to start July 4th. This was set up for July 20th.
I took the last antibiotic on June 13th. Went and had blood taken for PSA test on 14th. The urologist called late on the 16th and I could not get phone out of my pocket. I call him on the 17th and he said my PSA level was 10, “very high”. He said I should come in that day. I did. I still had the infection and he ordered up another antibiotic. I took the first one the evening and 10 minutes later I was getting a shortness of breath symptoms, sometime later I was becoming horse. Those systems lasted 5 hours.
I call the urologist the next morning and they suggested another antibiotic for 28 days. After that I was to take another PSA test.
We were off for vacation the 4th of July to the Southeast USA and stayed in that area until 14th of July.
I took the last antibiotic on the morning of the 16th of July. I went on the morning of the 19th to have blood drawn for PSA, later I started the preparation for the GI test the next day. 12:30 PM on the 20th I took the GI test the GI Doc did do the upper GI because he found the cause of the anemia which was a mass of neoplasm about the size of an apple, 20 centimeters from my rectum.
Author: harold