Too much information alert!
Proceed at your own risk
This is another one of those things that I would ordinarily keep to myself, both because I didn’t want people around me to worry, and because I genuinely don’t know how much it should be worried about at all.
Since Friday I have been having symptoms very much like a urinary tract infection. This was kind of curious. While I have more reason than some to have a uti, it’s pretty much been life as usual for me for the last month or so and I would think that any infection issues related to the BCG treatments would have popped up before now.
So I went in to urgent care (my primary care doctor was scheduled out for the next month or so), dropped off a urine specimen, picked up a prescription for nitrofurantoin and went on my way. A couple of days later I got a call reporting that my urine culture was negative. Which would almost certainly mean I didn’t have a uti.
And yet I continued (and continue) to have symptoms very much like a urinary tract infection, only thing missing is fevers. So what is causing the symptoms?
The answer is, of course, “I don’t know, but probably not anything I’m going to be happy to find out about”. I already have an appointment with the urologist in three days and I don’t think three days is going to make any difference with anything one way or the other.
We shall see.