shanaladee
02-05-2008, 08:53 AM
Hello all,
I am a 41 year old female who has newly been diagnosed although I now think that I have had this for years and years.
At the age of 12 or maybe younger, I began getting recurrent UTIs which ultimately became kidney infections. It was constant and many doctors and years later, my left kidney became deformed with lots of scarring.
In 1998, I was diagnosed with cervical cancer which had spread and I had to have 40 doses radiation along with radiated seeds...radiated rods and who knows what else.
Sometime after all that, I began to get the feeling like I had a UTI infection of some sort (usually it felt like it was bladder or kidney) but when I went to the doctor, they would detect blood but there would be no infection. It was thought that the blood in my urine was probably the result of the previous radiation.
Separate from this, my right kidney would hurt. After a few years and finally finding a doctor to listen to me; I was diagnosed with kidney cancer. (More than likely the result of the radiation). In 2004, my right kidney was removed.
The pain that I once felt in my back from my right kidney is gone but not the pain of feeling like I have an infection. My urologist, who has been wonderful, did a cystoscopy with biopsies and diagnosed me with Chronic Cystitis/Radiation Cystitis.
I have just recently found this site and am so relieved to read what others have had to say and get other prospectives and in turn; I hope that I maybe able to eventually offer help also.
Dee :hi:
I am a 41 year old female who has newly been diagnosed although I now think that I have had this for years and years.
At the age of 12 or maybe younger, I began getting recurrent UTIs which ultimately became kidney infections. It was constant and many doctors and years later, my left kidney became deformed with lots of scarring.
In 1998, I was diagnosed with cervical cancer which had spread and I had to have 40 doses radiation along with radiated seeds...radiated rods and who knows what else.
Sometime after all that, I began to get the feeling like I had a UTI infection of some sort (usually it felt like it was bladder or kidney) but when I went to the doctor, they would detect blood but there would be no infection. It was thought that the blood in my urine was probably the result of the previous radiation.
Separate from this, my right kidney would hurt. After a few years and finally finding a doctor to listen to me; I was diagnosed with kidney cancer. (More than likely the result of the radiation). In 2004, my right kidney was removed.
The pain that I once felt in my back from my right kidney is gone but not the pain of feeling like I have an infection. My urologist, who has been wonderful, did a cystoscopy with biopsies and diagnosed me with Chronic Cystitis/Radiation Cystitis.
I have just recently found this site and am so relieved to read what others have had to say and get other prospectives and in turn; I hope that I maybe able to eventually offer help also.
Dee :hi: