During a consultation, your doctor will use various techniques in his assesment of the symptom: Bloody semen. These may include a physical examination or other medical tests. Your doctor may ask several questions when assessing your condition. It is important to remember that your consultation is a two-way process and any extra information you can share with your doctor may help them with their diagnosis.
Some of the questions your doctor may ask are listed below:
Why: to establish if acute or chronic.
Why: e.g. recurrent urinary tract infections in past may suggest prostatitis.
Why: to determine risk of sexually transmitted infection as cause of prostatitis.
Sometimes, other symptoms may be present and may help your doctor analyse your condition. These may include:
Why: e.g. fever, sweating, pain in perineum, back and/or above bladder, urinary frequency, urgency and painful urination, possibly blood in urine , variable degrees of urinary retention.
Why: e.g. frequency of urination, urgency, need to pass urine at night, hesitancy of urination, slow interrupted flow, terminal dribbling of urine, acute retention of urine. Blood in the urine and ejaculate may occur from rupture of enlarged prostatic veins.
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