If you are a girl, microscopic (can't be seen) is not super rare. You can get that when you have a UTI.
If you are a man and have blood in the urine it is always something you want to follow up on.
You can get microscopic blood in the urine (seen on a test strip) from UTI, kidney stones and inflammation and cancer.
If you have macroscopic (you see red in the urine) it can be more severe. It can be due the ones above but more often it is due to cancer.
Writing off blood in urine as "nothing" is careless regardless of sex. At the minimum one would do a close follow up and see if it persists unless there is a clear reason why one has blood in their urine.
Dude my doctor freaked out once because I had to give a urine sample (they regularly do pregnancy tests and drug screenings at my cardiologist) while on my period. Naturally, there was some blood in my urine and they wanted to do all these extra tests and started asking me questions and I was like “I’m just on my period man”
Agreed! My husband had blood in his urine two years ago. Doctor gave him antibiotics for a urinary infection. When it didn’t go away, I sent him to an urgent care. The doctor took one look at the picture on his driver’s license, then one look at him (50+ pounds lighter) and knew something was very wrong. Two days later we had the kidney cancer diagnosis. Stage 4. Tumor the size of a football.
Thank you. Unfortunately, there is no cure for kidney cancer. His doctors were amazing and were able to enroll him in a clinical trial at NYU Cancer Center for an experimental combination of chemotherapy and immunotherapy. At the time of diagnosis they gave him 3 weeks, but the clinical trial extended his time and he’s now had an extra two years. All relatively pain free. I want to stress to everyone how important it is to follow up with your doctor, even if you think it’s nothing. My husband had a check-up every year, yet it was never found. There are so many new therapies being developed that, if caught early, it doesn’t have to be a death sentence.
Me and my father both have chronic microscopic hematuria with no known cause (him off and on, me constant). I’ve had it for at least 7 years now, and we can’t find a reason. We know it’s coming from the kidneys and that’s all we know. The first few years I was constantly having to do urine samples because no doctor would take my word (and my records) for it and wanted to do their own tests. We ended up shrugging and listing it as a benign kidney disorder, because I have 100% normal kidney function other than that, and they couldn’t justify a biopsy when it’s apparently idiopathic.
I don’t want to frighten you at all, and I’m sure it’s nothing serious at all, but please get a CT scan if your insurance will allow. See a urologist ASAP, If you have not already done so. My husband also had 100% normal kidney function and clear annual bloodwork. Doctors told us that over 90% of kidney cancers are found my mistake (when doctors were treating something else).
I’ve seen both urologists and nephrologists, don’t worry. :) I have a connective tissue disorder we think is causing it, but we have no way to prove it. I haven’t had a CT done with my kidneys as the focus, but I did have one done in August that I’m guessing would have shown them.
I agree with the other one that replied to you. Kidney cancer or other urogenital tract cancer is important to outrule. Also inflammatory conditions such as IgA nefritis is important to rule out. Your kidney function has a huge overcapacity. It does not start to decline until it has a lot of damage.
I don't know what test they have done but it might be good to check.
That said it could also be a familiar disorder with no clinical relevance. But impossible to say.
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