Re:Help with insight into urodynamic test

January 17, 2008

At six months my daughter got a UTI and after FINALLY determining she didn't

have Spinal Mengingitis (so yes, they told me she was pretty much going to die)

they scheduled her for a VCUG, the X ray version of the bladder test for Urinary

Reflux.

They did as you mentioned, filled her bladder up fill with 'dye' and cath'd

her. Slowly they released it and we watched on monitors what her bladder was

doing until she was empty of the dye. Since this is in real-time the Dr. sat

with me as we watched the monitor and showed me what the bladder was doing. It

actually looked like a little hiccup and the bladder was pushing the urine back

up into the kidneys. So the dianosis was Urinary Reflux. She was a stage one

on the Right side and Stage two on the Left side. So we were given options at

that time. Surgery to correct the reflux, or antibiotics (Furadantin) to

protect the kidneys while we 'wait and see' if her little body would correct the

reflux on its own.

With or without the surgery she was going on the antibiotics for awhile

because her kidneys are so small we couldn't risk damaging them. So since she'd

just gotten out of surgery we opted for the 'wait and see' unless of course she

came up with another UTI then we'd re-assess.

For one year she stayed on the antibiotics and no UTI's. She literally just

had her re-testing done two weeks ago. We did the renal ultrasound which she

hated...the gel was cold and she had to held down. Then we also did a nuclear

version of the original VCUG test. She was put into an MRI type machine,

completely strapped down, cath'd, and filled with a radio-active dye this type.

The results were not in real-time, just raw data. This is supposed to be a much

more thorough test and no x-ray so safer for the patient. We got the results

back and we're thankful we waited, her body corrected the reflux and she is now

two weeks off of the antibiotics and thriving! Just get good tests and retest

if you have to.

My opinion is that this doctor did not complete the proceedure and didn't

perform a thorough test. Sorry

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