Hi. My urine was dark brown on first visit this morning. It has been crystal clear for months. I had my 6th BCG infusion two days ago and this is the first time I have had anything other than normal coloured urine. I did have a few glasses of red wine the previous evening and this may have caused irritation of the bladder. However, I have been drinking red wine all through my weeks of BCG (only one night a week) and have had no problems until now. It is a Saturday morning as I write this. Urology nurse is not back on duty until Monday so a couple of days of worry for me. Ugh!
Aw I’m so sorry. Do you have any other symptoms? It happening on a Saturday just complicates things doesn’t it? All I can say is that sometimes side effects from BCG do get more noticeable as the treatments go on. I had number 15 this week and had much more blood this time than ever. It’s always a shock when you see blood isn’t it!
If it were me I’d just keep an eye on it and drink loads of lemon barley water but if I felt more unwell or the blood persisted I’d probably reluctantly go to ER or an out of hours service if one was available.
I can’t say what you should do though! Hopefully someone more experienced will come along with some more advice sending love joyce x
Hi Kenzie, sorry to hear about your issues…
Ive had the brown coloured blood before…now I can only tell you what my medical team told me so please don’t take this as medical advice…
After a set of BCGs I went for a jog on the treadmill, a day or so later I also was peeing brown looking blood..after speaking to my CNS I was told that it was blood that was sitting inside me.( possibly from a TURBT) .apparently ( and please don’t take this as gospel) when the blood is brown it means it’s old blood that has oxidised which is why it comes out brown..now with me it was nothing to worry about and I hope you’re is the same…but please wait until you get medical advice..
again, this is only my experience….
Nigel xx
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