This is a diary of events surrounding the discovery that I have haematuria, blood in the pee, first noted sometime towards the end of February, 2008. (See Archive)

Initially, having undergone all 'standard' non-invasive procedures, bladder cancer was not be ruled out as I did not submit to a cystoscopy examination.

My efforts since have largely been on discovering any bladder anomalies and minimising the symptoms. A cytology examination that discovered a small group of epithelial cells in a urine test is the now the focal point. The results were described as highly suspicious of 'Transitional Cell Carcinoma'

This year I did a few stick tests after I've had twinges, but no results, although the sticks are a bit dated??

On the twinges, they happen when I get stressed. Having been a stressy personal all my life, (nay killing spree) I'm not that aware that I'm stressed until I get the twinges.

So I usually ease off when I feel them, but still am concerned that a) I get so stressed and don't mange to avoid those situations and b) as to what the twinges are in terms of nerves and chemicals etc.

Ok for 2011 into the final Mayan year.

I've had a few twinges now and then and on all but one occasion I acted to remove the stress that brought it on. However I have only tested twice this year, both in March and didn't find any anomalies but note that the pH is very low. 5/5.5

April 18th Working lots, carrying too much, still trying to avoid stress Feel twinges fairly often so did a stick test. No haem and pH of 6
April 24th As above with More twinges. pH 6.5
June 17th Been feeling fine, but did a stick test anyway. No change from last test.
July 24th With fever ~ dehydrated a bit so did a stick test. No haem marker, but bilirubin? and nitrites were showing up.

This graph show the daily results of the haem tests for 2009 until Aug 31st

Half monthly averages with a 'Power'trend line.

Half monthly averages shown as square root of above to indicate area that could be the source of blood.with a 'Exponential'trend line.

More Graphs

25th May
Didn't do a stick test yesterday and plotted zero, but today using a magnifying glass there was a tiny spot, so i plotted 0.1 If the tests show such low amounts for another month or so I will consider not using the magnifying glass or even stop doing the tests so regularly.

23rd May
Been feeling a bit twingie lately and there's a bit of a corresponding haem output. However I have just started consuming omega-3 lipids via linseed oil and I saw a note on it facilitating blood in the urine - I think due to blood thinning. Will write an entry on this issue asa.

14th May
Forgot to test early on 13th. Didn't drink much and did lots of physical labour. Getting one spot wasn't a big deal, but I thought I test again so slept for a while, but when I awoke is was 14th. The next test was zero but I decided that the earlier score had to stand at 0.4

12th May
Again a small smudge that wasn't repeated on a second test. The issue seems to be to do or not to do an early test.

9th May
I noticed a small spot today, that I had to confirm with a magnifying glass. I scored it as 0.4 as it seems at least two clear dots would represent 1 cell per µLt. A second test today seemed to show nothing but under a magnifying glass there was a small spot so I reduced the score to 0.2.

30th April
I am a bit concerned as I had a bit of color on the marker last night at about 4am. I had been feeling as but off and today I'm not so cool. However another haem test about 5pm seems ok.

28th April
I've had some small twinges but it hasn't transformed to any significant haematuria. There was a single very light dot this morning and as I am likely to test again as a consequence the record will show zero unless the second test shows a mark.

19th April
Well surprisingly the tests have been rather negative for a few weeks, however after a few days of alcohol and a late night, my early morning pee did have a some marker (1 max). This led me to test twice more and the results were zero, which iused as the figure for today's plot.

10th April
I have used up the final sticks that had Leukocytes markers, which indicated 'normal' readings. The new sticks have Bilirubin and Urobilinogen.

7th April Well things are not getting worse. This first week has been OK. I have slight twinges now and then and the blood tests are sometimes very slightly questionable, but not enough to mark up.

I have started daily testing again to monitor this spring's increase relative to autumn 2008.

I'm also drinking more and drinking more of the 'cleavers' etc.

March 24th:- If anything, things are not getting better this year so far. Although the daily haem results are very low and I feel OK most of the time, I am having to take the increase over the last few months of 2008 seriously.

Well the fist week of February is a continuation of the January regression and although nothing serious may be in the offing it isn't a good sign. I'm not keen on a daily or more frequent check to monitor the change.

I am going to check less regularly and create a graph only of the results. There will be no more blUsh daily record.

The new graph will start Jan 1st, leaving the old 2008 one on a good note. The graph will be plotted daily but some of the element will just be interpolated between actual readings.

End of FebI haven't done any haem stick-tests for 10 days or so as I was away and didn't take them with me. However on my return the results have been zero, much to my delight. My records for this period contain a single 1/µg a) to give the graph some substance and b) as i can't believe it was that good all the time I was away.