I’m a 14 year bladder cancer survivor. I’m no urologist, but I can share my personal thoughts in hopes it will help. Live positively with today! Absorb joy now, and find kernels of joy in every day. Today, you are cancer free! No reason to fear what you do not have or worry over something you hopefully won’t ever have again. Grateful ! Stay physically active/ move (and our muscles love to work for you ), stay hydrated, be extremely aware of UTI symptoms and other bladder cancer symptoms . Most importantly, if u have ANY bladder CANCER symptoms ( Mayo Clinic has a thorough write up in bladder cancer on their web site) get an appt with your UROLOGIST as soon as possible! Don’t delay or think “ maybe it will go away”. Your appt will allow u to give a urine specimen, and the office/lab will diagnosis if u have a UTI or not. If u do, your urologist will give u an RX TARGETED ANTIBIOTIC that works best/ TARGETED for the specific bacteria identified from YOUR LAB results plus share any other additional information. Finally, I schedule my ANNUAL cystoscopy months in advance where my urologist gets a magnified look inside my bladder plus sends my urine sample to lab. Good maintenance
annually for his/ her “ look and see” in my bladder for any changes .
Let’s hope we will never get bladder cancer again. However if either of us do, our ongoing vigilance will help us “ catch it early”.
Congrats on being bladder cancer FREE!