Hematuria

[scoobage]

Wow, a forum for hematuria...? I'm excited!

Anywhoo. I'm a 25 year old male (from KS) who has had microscopic hematuria for around four years (detected in a routine physical in college). I've seen two urologists ending with an IVP tomogram (and because I'm now off the parental's insurance). The IVP procedure produced nothing significant besides he suggested a slight uretercele or a ureteral jet (no info online for). Skip almost 3 years and I have a job offered to play music on a Cruise ship that requires a militaristic style physical exam (CBC, UA, Metabolic panel, HIV test, Hepatitis check, Drug Screen). Everything looks ok but a slightly high Eos (Eosophine) on my CBC (9%) and a mark of "10" on "blood" for my UA, as well as "5" on ketones. They required a repeat of the two tests and my EOS was the same for the CBC, but surprisingly my blood AND ketones on the UA were negative (much to my shock!). So you figure I'd get the green light...? Nope, now they want a note from an Urologist saying I'm ok. And I was worried about the drug screen...
IMPORTANT: My maternal aunt has had hematuria since before she was in the PeaceCorp in the seventies and is otherwise healthy. No one else in my family, that I know has had this condition. I'm thinking (& hoping) Benign Familial Hematuria ..
KICKER: I have no medical insurance, wait tables, and can't afford many hundreds or thousands on tests to appease their corporate interest doctors. Cha, I'm concerned for my own health, but many medical insurance providers don't cover pre-existing conditions.
FINALLY: I am otherwise healthy with no serious medical history besides pneumonia when under 3 years, positional sleep apnea, and I drink moderately with no crazy drug use and a few cigs a week. Is it surprising for me in this situation, with an opportunity to leave KS, make music & $, to be slightly depressed?

First off, thanks for reading this short story. If anyone has any idea of what procedures I might have to go through (even just to get a benign hematuria edict), medical insurance ideas (short term) or even symphathy, whimpers, guesstimates or support; I'd very much appreciate any.

Thanks,
Scott
Lawrence, KS

P.S. Even if you're a doctor of Space Time Continuum, like Dr. Emmett L. Brown, I could really use your time machine (I'll even provide 4.1 exawatts) to switch which UA I sent to the snitch witch in the ditch at the "Cruise Company".

[UroDoc]

You may very well have benign hematuria. One of the issues you have is that you smoke which is the leading cause of bladder cancer. The way we pick up bladder cancer in early stages is finding microscopic blood in the urine. The usual work up is a urine cytology, a xray test like an IVP, ultrasound , or Cat Scan, and a Cystoscopy. Good luck