Hey All,
I went to a new Urologist yesterday as my old one retired. In 2005 I was dx'd with hyperspastic bladder and incontinenance after alot of outpatient testing at local hospital. I hadn't seen this doc since late 2006. My PCP referred me to this new doc, waited @ a month for the appt., took recent blood labs and all test notes from old urologist. After a simple UA and an ultra sound of bladder this guy tells me that the Flomax I've been taking for 3 yrs. is working against me & making my problems worse. He continued to say he felt my incont. and other bladder problems were only caused by my age 46, (ancient right!) and childbirth ( I've had 2 children, and my youngest is almost 17 y/o. ). I'm to do a urinary diary for 3 days noting time and amounts. Mail it back to them as its 25 miles away, and I have a return appt. for one month when they will do all the major testing again. I agree with doing the diary, and updating testing as its been 3 yrs. What I can't understand is how this guy can disregard all my other history and meds, saying its not SLE or Sjogrens causing my problems. Also I did tell him my dad had his bladder removed due to cancer and is now been told the cancer is back and he's got 4 to 6 months of life left.
Sorry for the extended rant.
Michelle
I went to a new Urologist yesterday as my old one retired. In 2005 I was dx'd with hyperspastic bladder and incontinenance after alot of outpatient testing at local hospital. I hadn't seen this doc since late 2006. My PCP referred me to this new doc, waited @ a month for the appt., took recent blood labs and all test notes from old urologist. After a simple UA and an ultra sound of bladder this guy tells me that the Flomax I've been taking for 3 yrs. is working against me & making my problems worse. He continued to say he felt my incont. and other bladder problems were only caused by my age 46, (ancient right!) and childbirth ( I've had 2 children, and my youngest is almost 17 y/o. ). I'm to do a urinary diary for 3 days noting time and amounts. Mail it back to them as its 25 miles away, and I have a return appt. for one month when they will do all the major testing again. I agree with doing the diary, and updating testing as its been 3 yrs. What I can't understand is how this guy can disregard all my other history and meds, saying its not SLE or Sjogrens causing my problems. Also I did tell him my dad had his bladder removed due to cancer and is now been told the cancer is back and he's got 4 to 6 months of life left.
Sorry for the extended rant.
Michelle
