【一起学英语】第34期|Cystitis

D:Your doctor asked me to have a word with you regarding the urinary symptoms you've been having. What kind of symptoms have you had?

P:Oh, Doctor, I have to pass water all the time and I'm running back and forth to the toilet, and it burns and stings every time.

D:How often does this happen? Does this happen all the time, or is it an intermittent thing?

P:I have good days and have bad days. Sometimes when I get a bad infection it can floor me for a week. But at other times in between it never quite feels right but it's, you know, I can live with it when I don't have a bad bout of infection.

D:Have you noticed any blood or discoloration in your urine?

P:Yes, I passed blood on one occasion, but normally I don't pass any blood. Sometimes when I have an infection, my urine is smelly. It smells foul.

D:Is it cloudy at that time?

P:Yes, it is.

D:How is your health otherwise, apart from this? Do you have any trouble with diabetes, heart disease, blood pressure?

P:No.

D:Are you on any other medication?

P:I'm taking aspirin for my arthritis.

D:Has your doctor given you any antibiotics for this?

P:Yes, he gives me some tablet whenever I get an infection, but in the meantime, in between times. I'm not on any tablets for it.

D:Now, in the first instance, what I'd like to do is to examine you, examine your abdomen and then afterwards we will organise some tests. I'd like you to get undressed and put a gown on so that I'm able to see your abdomen. Would you please get up on the table and I'll come round and examine you. … That's fine. You can get down. Now, about the tests. I'll send some of your urine off to be examined in the lab to see if there's any infection present. We would advise you in the meantime to drink plenty of fluids and carry on taking any antibiotics that your own doctor prescribed for you. We'd like to organise routine X-rays and an ultrasound scan to assess the renal tract further. An ultrasound scan is a simple scan and it doesn't involve any radiation. It involves you attending the X-ray department for a few hours and they scan over your tummy with a probe which allows them to visualise the kidneys and the bladder. It's not a painful or unpleasant procedure. Once we have all these tests, We may call you in to have an inspection of the inside of your bladder. We call it a cystoscopy.