Unable to urinate? Is it BPH or Bladder Disease caused by DMT2?

I was urinating OK, but there was blood in my urine with occasional small clots. The ER stuck the catheter in and I was sent home with it and two bags. Whenever I passed urine, there was an uncontrollable urge to try and "help" the flow by forcing the bladder to do its thing. That sent painful spasms all the way down to my feet. Could hardly keep from crying out. After five days I had to get it out. Urology was no help. No appointment for weeks. That's when I called PCP. She told me to come in right away. Ten minutes later, and the cursed thing was out. Urology finally called me several days later. THANKS! Went in and am scheduled for cystoscopy in early June to check bladder for any issues. Two different urine cultures came back negative, so no infection.

And76 and there you have it...our awesome healthcare system at its finest. I am sorry you have had to go through all this stuff. And, I can't imagine how your poor father has managed to go through this. I am 76and am totally frustrated by the incompetence and lack of empathy exhibited by most of the dostors here. In our prvious home, I never had this kind of treatment (or, lack, thereof).

@heienberg34, I actual understand that... like i said earlier. Why are we letting time go by? Okay I understand for swelling to come down, start of new medicine to see what's working. It the other time and waiting for the longest appointment schedule ever. My dad has made his catheter more useful. He still works and uses his power tools and works on cars. If the top part of the foley folds alittle with a kink in it. That urine is now getting backed up into his bladder and not the bag. I made different straps for the hose and bag, more secure under his pants. I just need to remind myself he not without medical help 24/7, its the waiting between steps of getting back to a close baseline like before. That is complaint.

@heisenberg34 thanks for a good laugh! 😆 Sitting here watching those medical shows like Grey’s Anatomy, Chicago Med, The Good Doctor and Transplant, I too wonder where those hospitals exist! lol!

Transplant, for one, is set in a hospital in Ontario, Canada, and so far removed from Canadian (albeit I can only speak about Ontario) health care! Nowhere can you be greeted outside the entrance doors (or even if at death’s door in the waiting room) and ushered immediately into a room replete with state of the art equipment at the ready! 😄 Even if you are brought in by ambulance (you do get seen faster - but just a bit) you have to wait to be triaged and put in line for treatment! lol.

@samcal9977zz Not to mention in the fifties and sixties doctors even made house calls at any hour of day or night, with little thought to fee payments!

Yup, exactly. I had home visits from doctors, when I was sick as a child.

Different era.

Things will turn around again. Ignorance doesn't win. It has a short burst of attention grabbing behavior...then dies out, because, ultimately, people are not interested in lies and spin.

We will see another era of proper, honest, caring medical professionals.

I am 63. I may not live to see it come around again, but it will come around again.

@heysp22, thanks for the update. I know. It's hard to have the parent-child roles reversed and have to talk about a parent's private parts.

I see you mentioned that he is finding it hard to get comfortable with the Foley catheter. You might find helpful tips in this related discussion:
- Foley Catheter Discomfort: How do you walk comfortably?
https://connect.mayoclinic.org/discussion/foley-catheter-dis-comfort/

House calls...what a great thing that many of us older folks were able to experience. Not today. Imagine dragging a sick child who has a raging fever into the local ER and being told to have a seat and wait for the next available person (ER doc, nurse, EMT, orderly, janitor, etc.). The last place I want to go unless I am on death's door step, is our local ER here in our new town. Nothing like our ER back in PA. For the most part I have seen very little empathy from medical personnel here.

@heisenberg34 I feel for you reading your complaints but medicine is not practiced like it used to be. Most docs work for someone else (big corporations, venture capitalists, etc.) and have limited time with patients. A 15-20 minute visit these days is usual. The problem is due to Obama Care opening up health insurance to many folks who couldn’t afford it. But no one ever considered the fact that we needed more practitioners too. Since we have this huge healthcare system the government needs to subsidize medical education to train more docs. And the number of geriatric docs has always been small and now even smaller. No you most likely receive healthcare like you used to. I’ve learned to accept what I can control and what I cannot and try to remain healthy.

Well this weekend, I went back in my Dad's medical records, starting from 2022. In the beginning, with the questions being asked, Of why is Dad still not able to urinate on his own, and still using a catheter? What body part failed or not working? Was it from the acute refractory severe hypoglycemia secondary to diabetics medication in the setting of acute renal failure? At the same time, would this cause him to have enlargement of his prostate? PSA was 56.92. How are we unable to know or determinate what caused an infected his prostate to have a high PSA? Today his PSA level is now 0.3. What I understand that a PSA blood test is to measure cancer? And not the measurement of the prostate itself. This is were I get confused about this. I wished on July 27, 2023, Urology surgeon to explain this or at least research to find at why this happen. To understand why a TURP procedure was ordered only. To really make sure that its the prostate and not a bladder neck problem causing the urine retention. No scopes or CT or KUB or biospy has been ordered. I can't find in the records that mention a rectal exam being performed on the prostate. But on February 22, 2024 for an office visit to go over lab and ultrasound of renal and bladder results in September 2023 to say that he transferring him to UCI Urology for Consult for HoLEP if that. Appointment set for August 1, 2024. In between this time his won't do any further testing, just come in every three week to change his catheter. I"m really concern now. I have reached out to the referring doctor for help in communicating with the surgeon on this decision. We'll see what happens today May 7. Has anyone been through the procedures or even had a delay of care? Do you think its to late for my 79 year old Dad?