Urinary Problems for Boys?

[KatKat]

Hi, everyone. I found this forum while googling questions regarding my 12 yr old's urinary issues. He was just diagnosed in June and has had 3 Remicade treatments so far. He went from occasionally describing symptoms that sounded like a UTI to now having problems daily. He tested negative for a UTI, but he continues to have pain, feels like he really needs to pee but then only pees a very small amount, and is now wetting the bed almost nightly. He is about to have an MRI to see about inflammation around his bladder.

Has anyone else's child experienced this? Were you able to find out what was wrong and help?? Obviously this is deeply embarrassing for a 12 yr old boy. He's already been through so much with his bowel; it is so unfair that he's having to deal with his bladder now too.

 

[bethhall3434]

My 8yo daughter also has frequent accidents, mostly just enough to get her underwater wet, but they started before she was even diagnosed. I think an MRI is a good idea. I hope you figure things out. That would be hard for a 12 year old.

 

[Maya142]

Your poor kiddo. I hope the MRI gives you some answers.

There's no chance he's constipated right? That can cause bladder issues.

I'll tag Farmwife because her daughter has had similar problems, I think.

 

[KatKat]

He's definitely not constipated lol.

 

[Farmwife]

Hi and welcome.

Grace did have lots of bladder issues.
She did so many urine samples the office just gave a bag full of cups. Lol

She did about 7 or so test before a bacteria showed up.
Still we didn't know if that was the cause.
Went to a urologist because she had microscopic blood keep showing up in her samples.
Her urologist felt that 2 possible scenarios were at play.
One was that they believed it could be bladder inflammation because of the bowel disease that she has.
The second they felt that it could be was constipation that would swell up and inflamed her bowel there by pressing down on her bladder.
He thought the bacteria showed up because of prolonged inflammation.

But......each time her bladder will stop acting up so we never know for sure.
We believe it is connected to one of her conditions.

 

[KatKat]

I've been reading about Interstitial Cystitis online. I'm going to bring it up to his doctor. Sounds like it's pretty much a fancy name for inflammation of the bladder.

 

[Farmwife]

Lol, yup. That's what Grace had. Its called by most IC because interstitial cystitis is just to long to say.:ybiggrin: