Pink urine

Good Morning EmanSh 

I understand this is an ongoing issue and you did have an appointment with your husbands oncologist a couple of months ago - did this not resolve the issues of a low blood count and blood in his stools and urine?

Blood in urine 6 months after radiotherapy is quite common and can be caused by radiation cystitis - this weakens the bladder blood vessels and causes them to bleed.

You need to contact his team, advise them of the bleeding and they will investigate the cause and take any action required.

Best wishes - Brian.

Dear Milibob

You are great..

unfortunately with PC and treatment  so much happen and we move from one hurdles and issue to the next. So I apologise.

Yes,  blood count was very ow both white and red after radiotherapy. We visited a private consultant and the NHS oncologist they both said it is expected after radiotherapy but the blood count will recover in time.

Also, hobby went through colonscopy (privately) no damage from radiotherapy but a large polyp was removed fortunately not cancerous.

The pink urine is a new phenomenon as we had just  recovered from colon issue but I am so reassured by your comments regarding possible side effect radiotherapy. 

I dont know if you are a believer, but God Bless this forum for the help and mental sanity it provides.

I will keep you posted. Thank you

Hi EmanSh  the radiotherapy is obviously aimed at the bad guys (cancer cells), but inevitably other body parts take hits as the beam is passing through.  Side effects can take months to surface, so I doubt it is anything much.  With any new symptom I always chat to my oncologist, cancer nurse specialist or GP just to be on the safe side.  

Thank you David we will follow up and send an update . So grateful for your advice

EmanSH

4 years after 20 sessions of R/T I had blood in my stools but following a very unpleasant colonoscopy all that was found was signs of damage from radiation. So it can show up even after several years. I had also had some bleeding a few months after R/T but was told just to keep an eye as it was expedted.I had the treatment in Feb 2019.

Hi Perfect56

Thanks for sharing your experiences. It is helpful to know that these symptoms can show up  even after 4 years!

Bleeding through urine is very distressing  as it is so visible. We are trying to contact nurse hope to be told  be told itbis a side effect and my husband can relax. Poor man ..

Thanks for your help

Hi

I wrote a few months ago about my husband PC and his treatment with radiotherapy and hormone tthat he completed last Oct. He was perfectly fine and we began to breath a bit and live normally. But in April he began having pink urine which is very frightening. It does not go away. After months of waiting he managed to get all known tests cytoscopy, kidney , infection  checks etc.. Nothing was picked up. His psa is still ok undetectabl. But the sight of this pink urine is making me more and more anxious that somehow the cancer is back but they can't detect it. He is due to see oncologist December.

Has any suffered this persistent light bleeding? Is there any hope will this go away? Is this something more sinister.  Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated. Thank you

Contact your cancer specialist nurses and chat with them. They will give you medical advice which we can’t .

best wishes 

liz & OH xx

Hi EmanSh , if your post had started with ‘my husband has suddenly started having blood in his urine’ I would have been a little anxious had it not been for the list of tests carried out by the team already.  Personally I would try not to let it worry me, if there is no pain, then chances are it is merely a byproduct of the RT and will likely go over time.  Have a word with the CNS if you can, otherwise make the most of the undetectable PSA.  

Hi David thank you I too hope it goes away. As you said all tests have been done

Best regards

EmanSH