Freaking--- bleeding from urethra (me)....

smiling76

I had some major discomfort and such after getting the catheter removed (c-section)-- lasted a good week or two at least.  Then I started having heavy bleeding from the vagina--- would come and go---and now that has stopped and I'm getting bright red bleeding from the urethra (pee hole)......  I double checked and it's not coming from the vag.  So I called the OB--the nurses were like "you'd be in severe pain if you had bleeding coming from there"----- well, I am in pain....and I'm for sure bleeding from there.  Would I categorize it as severe????  no---but it hurts to walk, stand, etc.  Very uncomfortable.  I've never had a UTI so I don't know....

So they called in antibiotics--but never tested me.  Kind of urks me.  I go Weds for my 6 wk pp. so I'll ask then if they can at least do a follow up or something.  I mean, I'm googling (not smart) and over and over it's saying cancer......  so then it has my head wondering about all these other things I've been feeling. 

Anyways...... has anyone else had bleeding from their urethra????  Was it just a UTI?

mommy0411

Hi! I have had this happen before so I completely understand the freaking out! I got a very bad UTI on my honeymoon in Ireland. I was in a pretty good amount of pain and I was bleeding from my urethra when I went to the bathroom. It mostly went away with the antibiotics but it came back 2 weeks later because the antibiotics didn't completely knock it out! That happened last summer and everything is completely fine now!  

I hope you feel better!  

erikawvu

I have found googling all my symptoms leads to me being a hypochondriac. Everything is cancer apparently. =/

Hope your 6wk appt goes well and you find some answers!

MommaA117

It could be a bad UTI or even kidney stones..

alliejoe

AprilLynn09:

It could be a bad UTI or even kidney stones..

I've had both UTI and kidney stones the bleeding is totally normal for either situation.  With the kidney stones I had some crazy bad back pain (worse than labor).  It is annoying that they didn't test you or anything, but I think having a UTI would be a common side effect from a catheter.

Maryland Baby

I've had LOTS of UTI's over the years! The worst one I had I was so uncomfortable I was in tears and every time I went to pee I was just peeing blood. All it was was a UTI, absolutely certain the catheter probably caused it. Antibiotics cleared it right up. And yes at the time if I had googled I would of gone to to Emergency department lol! 

Good luck, hope you feel better soon! 

Lizbethie

When I had a UTI so bad that I was bleeding I was in the most uncomfortable pain of my life.  I was peeing every 2 minutes, or feeling like I had to.  I had severe malaise.  I would definitely go and pee in a cup somewhere and possibly get your kidneys checked out to make sure that it's not a kidney infection.  You don't want to mess around with that!

nowayamyrae

I had this 2 summers ago -- turned out to be a gnarly kidney infection -- my doctors didn't test me either, just gave me antibiotics, when it was still an issue after a week and a half on them, someone finally ran some tests.