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Good morning @oldgreenpaint. And the answer is “Friable Prostate”. I went for my 3 appts, they took a urine culture, had me try to void and measured the remaining urine in my bladder. I failed that test, so asked to be able to try to finish peeing. After the second void, I just marginally passed the urine retention test. Docs weren’t happy and wanted to put a catheter in for the weekend and irrigate my bladder. They reluctantly agreed to let me go home without the catheter as long as I would go right to the ER if I couldn’t pee. The blood and difficulty peeing continued until finally just this morning. I bled a little overnight, but so far today, urine looks mostly clear and it’s much easier to pee. I’m 66, and I’ve had BPH for more than 15 years, and I guess BPH makes the prostate more fragile with more vascularity and therefore more subject to random bleeding. And call also be a sign of prostate cancer - so I’m waiting for the biopsy results which will probably come in on Monday. I think the biopsy made my prostate very angry, and the doc said they took 16 cores on an already fragile prostate. Hence all the bleeding. I had this happen one other time about 15 years ago, and my urologist did a cystoscopy and diagnosed a friable prostate. Never had that issue again until last Tuesday following the biopsy. I have another appointment tomorrow to retest everything and am hopeful that I won’t need that damn catheter. Thanks for following up.