Miserable and Magical

me, jumping from one emotional extreme to another: parkour

I felt like I need to share this because what I had might be the same with others. I am not self diagnosing my health. I am a Medical Laboratory student and we've been dealing with blood and urine and some other stuff. In school we had this chance to process our own blood and urine specimen and see it under the microscope. We did a urine dipstick where we can tell the results right away after dipping. Everything was normal except that I have RBCs in my urine which is alarming . We shouldn't have any blood traces in our urine. The blood was not seen by my naked eye but through the dipstick and microscope I got to see them. The first time I did this was back in August 2015 and now, I am currently an intern and I had the chance to talk to a Medical Technologists and talked about my experience. They asked me to give sample and we will test it. We ran the test and it went positive for RBCs again, its been a long time I am having that problem it might be longer than what I thought. We looked under the microscope and seen at least 5-10 RBCs and aside from that they've caught a RBC Cast. The Technologist face turned serious and told me that I need to get it check because one is too many for having this kind of cast. Casts is an indication of problem in the kidney but depending on which casts a person have is the degree of the disease. This is asymptomatic, I would not know that I have this if I did not checked it in school. I am thinking, how many people out there have the same problem like me or a different disease but since they are asympromatic we never go to the doctor and get a full check up. I should tell or advice anybody to go to your doctor at least once a year and get a full check-up because what if you have this and can be prevented sooner. I should tell everyone especially if you have medical history which runs through the family. Get it cheked and get it done to prevent them early. -Anna