Here's the second and final installment of my little adventure with visible blood in my urine (also known as gross or macro hematuria). To recap, in March 2020, for the first time ever, blood came out when I peed. I don't mean that my urine was tinted a charmingly pink-lemonade hue or perhaps an ...

That sounds like an excellent approach. And yes, looking at that PSA link, I see what you mean about my PSA score being not low. My father had aggressive prostate cancer in his 70s, so thanks for making me aware of that information.

My PSA is 2.64 (normal), and it was measured the day after I saw blood in urine.

Yes, that makes sense, Webslave, given the fact that the bright red blood came out first, followed by normal-colored urine. Bright red blood followed by normal urine suggests the source of bleeding is distal to the bladder. A urinalysis performed 13 hours later found no blood in urine at all. I was ...

Hi,

The weirdest thing happened a few nights ago: when I started to pee, a small amount of bright red blood immediately spurted out, followed by normal yellow-colored urine. Except for that one strange incident, all my subsequent pees have looked perfectly normal.

Freaked out, I underwent a ...

Many thanks for the kind words! I most appreciate it. —David

Many thanks, Webslave. I most appreciate the kind words. But the real thanks go to you. This forum is invaluable. Without it, I might never have made the mental shift from thinking about my condition as "prostatitis" to realizing that it's actually muscle-tension-related. And that's key.

Hi European,

You're so right. Plus, given the part of the body that's involved, it's a taboo topic in a lot of ways. One thing I like about this forum is that by talking about it, we lessen the taboo aspect of it.

--David

Hi, I’m David Sharp, an editor at Painopolis, a podcast for people with chronic pain. But on this forum, you know me by the username “HuckFinn.”

I first started using this forum in 2003, when my long-simmering pelvic achiness (misdiagnosed as “prostatitis” by several doctors) escalated into a ...

Hi,

I first logged onto this forum 13 years ago, after I’d developed a very severe case of chronic pelvic pain syndrome. The pain was so bad that I was nearly bedridden for many months. It was through this forum that I first learned about Dr. David Wise’s treatment approach. I eventually attended ...

I'm curious about a hemorrhoid procedure called the Keesey Method, which uses some sort of probe to zap the hemorrhoid with electricity. The hemorrhoid then shrivels and disappears, leaving an imperceptible amount of scar tissue. From what I've read, the Keesey method is supposed to be pretty ...

Thanks for sharing your experience, Calguy. I've been wondering about that issue of scar tissue and what the implications of that are, since all treatments--laser, electrical, surgery--in essence replace the hemorrhoid with scar tissue. And I wouldn't think scar tissue would be as elastic as normal ...

Webslave, I've been squatting for four years at Dr. Wise's suggestion, and I also eat a healthy, high-fiber diet. Yet I still get hemrroids. In your post, you describe yourself as a "one-time sufferer" of hemorrhoids. What does that mean exactly? Have your hemorrhoids gone away completely? Or are ...

Apparently a lot of people with pelvic pain are also susceptible to hemorrhoids. O, the indignities we have to put up with! I got my first hemorrhoid four years ago, about a year after developing pelvic pain. For a while, the hemorrhoid was quite tender, but then it shrank and went dormant, and I ...

FYI, along with JFK and Glen Gould, here's one other person to add to the dubious list of celebrities with chronic prostatitis: the late author William Styron (Sophie's Choice, Confessions of Nat Turner, etc.). The May 11, 2008 NY Times Book Review section has a review of a newly published ...