USA moment
I was shitting blood, turned grey, and fainted in public. I did go the hospital. They literally said "idk" and sent me home with a 4000$ bill. It kept happening.
Went to a specialist that also resulted in a literal "idk", and they wouldn't clear a colonoscopy because I am "too young" and "don't have a family history." I was begging them to figure it out because this was a fucking nightmare. Nope. At least the bill was 400$ this time around.
It kept happening for over a year at random. Actually terrifying.
FINALLY, I put myself on a diet of oatmeal and water for a month and slowly introduced new foods every week. I was curious to know if maybe certain foods triggered it?
Turns out: yes. I triggered a reaction using one of my favorite foods/ingredients. No idea why, but I had developed some kind of severe intolerance to it. And I had to figure it out myself.
I'm very sorry that you went through that. I know it sucks with the American healthcare $ystem, but you are always allowed to seek a second opinion and any provider that is opposed to that is a bad provider and you shouldn't see them again anyways.
One thing to keep in mind about the ER though, is that they're there to rule out anything that is going to kill you quickly, and if you didn't lose enough blood to drop your hemoglobin count (a measure of how many red blood cells you have), it is perfectly within the standard of care for them to discharge you and tell you to follow up with your primary care physician or a specialist. The ER has a lot of resources, but not enough resources to fully diagnose every possible problem. They can make sure you're not on death's doorstep, and stabilize you if you are, but beyond that, they're pretty strapped for resources and staffing which make it hard to fully work up every mystery diagnosis.
probably a man living in USA
Guaranteed, anyone with access to real healthcare would've had that checked out immediately.
Maybe bro just eats a fuckton of beets
Semi-Funny story. I had never eaten beets before, but I started eating those beet and sea salt chips (so good!), and I freaked the fuck out when I peed red that next morning.
I have hella good healthcare through my job, and so I made an appointment with my primary care doc right away, and he was like "Any changes to your diet?"
Felt bad about wasting his time, but Jesus, I was not expecting that amount of red in the bowl!
Don't feel bad about that! There are no stupid questions when it comes to your health and it's important to ask someone who can give you accurate answers (and there's no one better to ask than your own physician that you have a relationship with).
Can relate, my dad sees 'going to the doctor' as a personal weakness and thus rarely goes.
I see it as financial weakness and thus rarely go.
Many if not most men are like this. It's usually their wives or another woman in their lives that drags them in when something is about to fall off. It's another way in which husbands leave 71% of a household’s ‘mental load’ on their wives, down to their own well being.
Men are raised to bring money into the household, and it can easily be half a years wages to go to the hospital. It's weird to act like they are being malicious to their partner by being this way.
So that's why I accomplish nothing and only have 29% well-being is I don't have a wife to do it for me...
side note haven't been to the doctors in years and last time I went it's cause my girlfriend made me... at the same time, I'm the reason she could find her car keys, so fair trade, I guess...
That’s a whole part of my cynical conservative upbringing that I have to consciously work against.
You can’t do the obvious thing you’re SUPPOSED to do. What are you, some kind of sucker and/or [gay slur]?
That's dangerous, that could be sexual transmitted disease 💬🤔or kidney diseases
Let's not rule out bladder cancer.
Painless hematuria (blood in the urine without pain when peeing) is one of the first (and frequently only) signs of bladder cancer. Especially if it's frank blood (meaning that you can see it without a microscope).
Mr. Rockefeller over here seeing doctors
Can you really piss blood?
Yeah I'm pretty sure that's a key sign of kidney failure. It can happen rarely in cases of some crazy workouts, but if this dude is saying all the time then it's probably something worse.
It can happen rarely in cases of some crazy workouts
If anyone's curious about why:
Muscles break down during workouts. They release myoglobin, which is a large protein. The kidneys can usually filter it in small quantities.
If you go too hard and give yourself rhabdomyolysis, your body releases a large quantity of myoglobin and it overloads the kidneys. Large proteins begin passing through the nephrons en masse and damaging them because they're too big.
Now your kidneys are unable to filter properly because the nephrons cannot contract to prevent excess fluids or particles from going into your urine.
Yeah, bladder cancer.
Piss is blood, in a sense. It's the bits of your blood that get sieved out and rejected by your kidneys.
Normally those are the only bits supposed to be getting out. But if the filter is busted (kidney trouble) or if the walls of the storage tank it sits in after filtering become damaged (bladder trouble), you can end up pissing actual, unfiltered blood.
Alternatively, you ate something recently with a strong red pigment that can survive digestion, enter the bloodstream, get strained out by the kidneys, and collect in your piss in high enough concentration to turn it red. Beets are a pretty famous culprit.
Not only bladder cancer but a whole bunch of things. I used to run home from work and I would always pee right beforehand so I wouldn't risk having to find some sort of place to pee, but then I started peeing blood every couple of weeks when my mileage went up to around the 10 mile mark. Apparently hematuria can happen from basically having a totally empty bladder chafe itself raw if you run long enough lol. I quit peeing before leaving work after my doctor recommended giving that a shot and it cleared up
Plenty of reasons. Twice i woke up with my pijama pants full of blood, like, full. No scar, no wound, nothing, just blood. I never knew where it came from (as all places from where it could have come were with blood) but I assume it was urinated. It was a side effect of an antidepressant I was taking that start happening two years after beginning the treatment. I had to change the antidepressant and it never happened again
yes though normally pee is brown/red from myoglobin accumulation (muscle breakdown) which is a sign of many things, some of them normally fine but many are extremely life threatening, and can lead to kidney failure. if your pee is ever brown or red you should most likely see a healthcare professional and have them do a urinalysis.
Yep. Kidney stones can make anything coming out of your urethra bloody. And holy hell does pissing blood that way hurt.
Yes, even for some minor things. I once got a UTI and didn't get it checked out for a week (I was mega dumb back then). What pushed me eventually to get a doctor to see me was when I started pissing blood. Not loads, but even a single drop was enough to spook me. Got some antibiotics and all was back to normal in a couple days.
I'm currently pissing blood on the regular and I have free healthcare, so I think this is more of a "dumb dude" thing than an "American with an overdraft" thing.
I will go to the doc eventually, but I need more. I can't be turning up there with one thing to report. I need stabbing pains, memory loss, night terrors and maybe some jaundice before I pick up the phone.
I know I can't die early, because I'm not getting off that easy. So I'm safe for the time being 👍🙃
Painless gross haematuria is one of the most common first signs of bladder cancer. A very treatable cancer for most people. Peeing blood for no reason can be bad. It can also be beats.
Can confirm, dude is indeed dumb ;-)
If symptoms linked to kidney failure isn't enough to send you to the doctor...
I've got a spare
Holy fuck just go to the doctor so at least they can do simple blood work and make sure it's nothing obvious. I pissed blood once, turns out along with the leg pain my kidneys were about to shut down. Go to the fucking doctor
Look at Constantine over here, cursed to live.
no, stupid questions!
Not going to lie LLMs give pretty solid medical advice. They are trained on huge medical datasets. Works well as long as you have a common problem.
they do not and saying this sort of thing actually harms people. do not trust an llm with anything medical, ever.
llms have no conception (of anything) of truth, you are getting a probabilistic bullshit. in a literal sense.
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