Blood in urine after visit to vet

Kittybear went to the vet on Thursday.   She was urinating frequently and eat a lot, but losing weight.  Her glucose was 435, so the diagnosis is diabetes.  We have an appointment on Monday to learn about injections, etc.  While at the vet, they needed a urine sample and got one with the needle to the bladder.  She came home with us and displayed no problems at all yesterday.  This morning we get up to repeated, almost frantic,  trips to the litter box.  Now we notice that she is passing blood in what little urine is coming out.  She even passed a small clot, which I have in a vial to take to the vet.  We plan on taking her in as soon as the vet's office opens this morning.  Could the method of collecting her urine the other day cause blood in her urine?  The UA was normal Thursday.

Yes, the needle stick to the bladder can cause a little blood in their urine. Some cats don't ever have a problem with it and some cats have more blood. If you think about sticking a needle in your own skin, it does sometimes bleed and sometimes the scab is bigger than other times. Same thing happens in the bladder. It could be that it bled a little more than normal and the clot from the blood is causing a partial blockage. You are very wise to get her to the vet this morning.

Good luck!

Cystocentisis - sterile needle draw from the bladder - can cause some mild bleeding in the bladder but usually would not be visible to the eye like that. Please let us know how the vet visit goes. Many vibes for you and your kitty

Update:  Kittybear visited the vet this morning.  We had just had a routine UA done Thursday, so they were able to request a urine culture on that sample.  Should have the results of that in a few days.  In the meantime, Clavamox was prescribed, as well as Pravocin to calm the urethra wall and buprenorpO for pain as needed. I was able to take a clot in with us, which was good. The vet said even if the cytocentisis caused bleeding the bladder, it wouldn't have been to that extent.  Since she was just diagnosed with diabetes we already had an appointment scheduled for this Monday.  Hopefully, this episode will be behind us by then and we can focus on getting her glucose under control with insulin and diet.

We have held off on the pain med and the muscle relaxer, since she doesn't show any signs of distress when using the litter box.  We'll keep a close eye on her and get the other meds into her if we think she needs them.

For Kittybear..... Just thinking of her and hoping for all to be better soon for her. Hopefully the urine culture will help give some answers :cross: ... Keep us posted

Update:  We had our diabetes education appointment today.  Now we just need to get the prescription filled and Kittybear will start receiving twice-daily injections of insulin.  So far, the urine culture is negative.  Her vet said that the blood clots were caused by the cytocentisis.  The suspicion is that the clot was big and she had to pass it in several tries.  Under the vet's order, we have taken up the dry food.  Both Kittybear and Ruth are quite puzzled by this turn of events.  The first day, they thought they would starve to death. After 3 days, they realize they won't starve, but aren't very happy.  I want to thank everyone for the suggestions and get well wishes.

You have a great plan in place and glad the culture was negative and the blood was from the needle draw. The girls will get used to schedule feedings..... But I can imagine the look on their cute faces thinking you have lost your marbles taking up that dry food. :bigmouth: Good luck with everything and more vibes for Kittybear