What did your Dr. say today?

Hi Valsmom!
Blood can be bright red if there is enough of it. Most of the time it isn't visible to the naked eye and is found in the lab work. I have only had enough bleeding to be bright red once.

Hope you don't. Take care of yourself.

Blessings.
Possi

((CEMC)) Thanks for your input. The first thing that showed up was a small thing that was unidentifiable in an MRI that was checking my back. That led to more and more tests and now to misery. More tests Friday and the next week. I am glad to know about amloyidosis. That is new to me.

Thank you and blessings.
Possi

Thanks Rumble. You just wrote my story. I have had blood in my urine for a lot of years and protein at different times, etc. etc. diagnosed with early kidney disease quite a while ago. The main reason they are having so much trouble is because I am extremely allergic to the dye and they are trying to check things without using it. We talked today about 3 days of high dose steroids and Benydryl to prep for another test. That worked for my angiogram. I am on some new meds today and will be for a long time the urologist says. Too many different cooks in the kitchen.

Thanks. Hope you didn't get the terrible storms last night. We have screens to be replaced from the hail/wind, house has to be painted, gutters replaced and vehicle dents fixed. Haven't had anyone on the roof yet because we are supposed to have more storms tonight. Our grands had their windows of their house knocked out and a mess of water and broken glass. Another grandson-in-law got stranded in high water and had to be towed out and probably has a ruined car. Daughter had windows knocked out. We finally got power back on.

Keep a weather eye!!

Hugs.
Possi

Thanks Lon. It is always good to see you. I hope mine gets better with the new antibiotics even though they make me feel pretty weird. (more weird)

I am glad yours are better. Thanks for sharing.

Blessings.
Possi

Hi Pea!
Wrote you a long PM. Probably told everything in these other posts. Just basically new meds and more tests ordered.

Take care. Hope you get to feeling better.

Hugs and Blessings.
Possi

Hope you begin to feel better soon. Does a body really need Kidneys (That was a joke)! My bladder has been ongoing problems for a few years and they ruled out kidney diseases first! Thank goodness.

I have had so many things removed through the years. There must be a lot of things we don't need!!

I am glad there was no kidney disease. Bladder problems are no fun.

Hope you have a glorious day!!

Possi

Possi, your kidneys sound a lot like what was happening in my liver. Docs here have decided it is nothing, but I never got checked out for amyloidosis which kind of worries me as I have in the past had a skin biopsy showing amyloid. In my liver, first off an ultrasound scan showed a slightly denser patch that they decided was a haemangioma. A few years later another upper abdominal ultrasound showed something in the same kind of place, maximum about 2.5 cm long, that they decided was a fatty nodule. I then had another ultrasound 3 months later that showed it fairly much the same, and had a third ultrasound ordered for a further 6 months on just to confirm it hadn't changed. Well, by the time they came to do that last one it was really hard to identify the "nodule" because whatever the changes were it had spread in a patchy way right through my liver, so the nodule didn't really show up. At that point they decided it was just fatty liver disease and discharged me. However, my liver function tests are NOT consistent with fatty liver disease (being quite normal), so I am really wondering if the echogenicity or denseness in my liver was really something else - and given the previous amyloid on my skin I thought that they should at least have considered that. But this is the NHS, so no. I am going to ask the rheumatologist about it though, because he is the only one so far who has even vaguely considered the possibility of secondary amyloid. I also have borderline chronic kidney disease which is unexplained.

I hope you find out exactly what it is. I had been diagnosed with kidney disease and now I don't think it was at all. I am at least counting on this taking care of my problems.

I have been diagnosed with the fatty liver thing also. It seems they hang that on a lot of people.

Hope you feel better.

Blessings.
Possi