Having serious difficulty doing a wee. I feel like I need to go all the time and nothing apart from a dribble comes out. It’s so painful like a bruised horror cystitis type feeling but much more painful.
anyone else experienced this?
Hi Claire1976 ,
If I remember correctly you’ve just finished your treatment am I right? This could possibly be radiation cystitis or the whole load of inflammation that goes on during & after treatment has finished.
I suffered a bout of radiation cystitis around weeks 2-3 of treatment & it wasn’t great although I was managing to have a usual length wee but I’d be back in between feeling the need to do more but as you’ve described next to nothing would come out. I was told unlike with bacterial cystitis there’s no treatment for radiation cystitis, I was told just to wash with the QV cream provided & to up my fluid intake, it passed in around a week or so. I did experience something like you’re describing though following my local resection surgery, I could feel my bladder was full but I was back & forth to the loo every 10 minutes just doing the tiniest bit, this lasted about 24 hours & I was on the brink of taking myself to A&E as I thought something was seriously wrong! In hindsight for me I think it must have been inflammation from my surgery that probably affected things. If this continues I would give your treating team a call just to be sure.
Nicola
