second opinion in Southern Oregon needed

I guess one relies way too much on the Docs to make the decisions.

Luckily our insurance allows referrals to specialists, or even visits to any other docs without any referral.

One just needs to make use of it.

So the moral of the story is to tell your daughters and granddaughters and nieces to INSIST on a referral to a urologist if multiple UTIs in a year or ANY blood in the urine. Better safe than sorry.

Mike

If its any comfort and i know its not...we're all pretty much ignored at first...usually females as if we get blood in the urine they think its coming from a female organ and if its microscopic they just sluff it off and attribute to a bladder infection. I had symptoms for 3 yrs and it did not get the attention of the doctors until i had gross hematuria. So its just not the older ones. Many bladder cancer patients are diagnosed way too late. I was lucky as mine was small and a low grade but became lethal......but oh the stories that could be told.
pat

Well, the first was a military hospital in Oakland, Ca that is now closed.They did absolutely nothing, they asked questions about how often he urinated and shrugged it off.

The second was a doc in Grants Pass, he did a finger probe and shrugged it off.

The third is local, and he shrugged it off until George had blood in his urine, a few weeks after being treated for a bladder infection because his bladder hurt. He is the one that then referred him to the Urologist.

The older he got, the less anyone was interested in the issue.

Supposedly the older the person, the slower the cancer grows, and something else will get them before the cancer does. How do these people purport to know how long a person will live? They must have some special pipeline none of us mere mortals are aware of.

I wonder how many people have died because of that attitude - I bet it's massive.

I am in my late fifties and they insist on mammograms and pap smears - and I have no complaints at all. Why didn't they have a look at George, just once in 15 years, when he kept complaining? Nuts!

Well at least they should have done a cystoscopy!
It is a surprise that they didn't do that.

If it is bladder, urethra, and prostate, it sure sounds like it should come out and he should get either an Indiana Pouch or Ileal Conduit.

Mike