Hi everybody!
I have a problem here. I have a new health care provider (Kaiser Permanente) and I had to go in to another gynecologist than my own because of pelvic pain and back pain. She did a psychical check and sent me to take an ultra sound of my pelvic and asked me to leave an urine test, as well. The ultrasound of my pelvic was fine but it was a little blood in my urine so I went in for another urine test and there was still some blood but you cant see it in the urine by eye. The urine was otherwise clear. Now she wants me to get a very expensive CT Scan of my kidneys. My problem here is, as a Interstitial Cystitis sufferer, that there can always be a little blood in the urine because of the disease. Specially when you have a flair and I think the flair caused the pelvic pain. Isn't there any other cheaper test which can be done to figure out if there is some problems with the kidneys. The doctors always want to go with the most expensive test at first :help
I have a problem here. I have a new health care provider (Kaiser Permanente) and I had to go in to another gynecologist than my own because of pelvic pain and back pain. She did a psychical check and sent me to take an ultra sound of my pelvic and asked me to leave an urine test, as well. The ultrasound of my pelvic was fine but it was a little blood in my urine so I went in for another urine test and there was still some blood but you cant see it in the urine by eye. The urine was otherwise clear. Now she wants me to get a very expensive CT Scan of my kidneys. My problem here is, as a Interstitial Cystitis sufferer, that there can always be a little blood in the urine because of the disease. Specially when you have a flair and I think the flair caused the pelvic pain. Isn't there any other cheaper test which can be done to figure out if there is some problems with the kidneys. The doctors always want to go with the most expensive test at first :help
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