Blood clots, onset questions

Hello and welcome... All too often doctors tend to dismiss blood in the urine for women as "female issues" which could very well be the case. BUT... it could also be something in the bladder that needs to be checked, if just for peace of mind.

I went to my GYN as soon as I saw a little pink on the tissue after urination. Since I was post menopausal, she had already told me any blood should be checked out. I had never had any urinary issues, not even a UTI, so I never even considered that it could be bladder related. She kept me there three hours checking different things running back and forth between seeing her other patients.

Finally she said let's do an ultrasound... and there it was! A little walnut looking thing attached to the lining of my bladder. Had it not been for her persistence, it would have been so much worse later down the road.

I'm not trying to scare you, but the bottom line is there are not always other symptoms of BC. We become alarmed at blood in the urine because that is what led many of us to our first trip to a urologist.

My opinion is to insist on a urology appointment. You will feel better knowing if it is or isn't bladder related. And, please know that no question is off limits or too trivial here!