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I have recently had intermittent burning while I pee (within the past 2 weeks), and just last night started to pee blood. I assume this is a urinary tract infection. Is this a common symptom? I assume the doctors will give me antibiotics, is this safe for me to take?

You should have an MRI done check your prostate blood in the urine is no good news.....it turned out i have a 1.8 cm cyst right under my sperm duct...so yes get it checked.

Get an STD test, could be completely unrelated.

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or it could..

I was prescribed Ciprofloxacin, and after googling the side effects, I will not be taking it. I plan on returning to the doctor tomorrow to get a much less dangerous antibiotic... probably amoxicillin.

Hematuria is a serious sign. I'm assuming they've done imaging and ruled out more sinister causes. Anyway don't delay.

Actually, no. They took a urine sample and got an inconclusive culture for bacteria, gave me this prescription and sent me home. I am so fed up with doctors. I have never met a more useless bunch of twats in all my life.

I have read reports of at least one other person having the same problem on this forum... this is another clue in the puzzle of PFS....

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I had a scope stuck up my wee hole by my urologist, and he found nothing abnormal. I will be getting a CT scan done soon. Another bacterial culture came back negative, so it's not bacterial (or not a bacteria that will grow in standard culture).

I hope the CT scan reveals something. Considering the random painful spasms I have had near my prostate region for over a year, I believe there is definitely something up down there.

I recall seeing numerous posts on hairlosstalk forum from guys complaining of this after starting finasteride.

This can just happen sometimes due to bacteria or whatever. A family member and a friend told me that it has happened to them.

Moly, did the doctors run tests on your kidneys?

I recently had a CT scan done to determine the source of bleeding while urinating I experienced about 2 weeks ago. The exact source of bleeding is still unknown (no infection, no kidney stones, no bladder/urethra problems, no STDs, etc), but what did show up on the CT scan was about 5 large spots of calcification in the prostate. I have not spoken with my urologist yet, but does anyone else have these? Is there an effective treatment to get rid of them?

I believe this is likely the source of pain I have had since quitting fin, and I think it could be the source of blood as well. Any comments?