You had a urodynamic study done first, which tests bladder function and capacities, which is usually painless because the catheter/transducer that's inserted into the bladder is quite small. The other wire is a rectal; transducer that's inserted into the rectum, to measure muscle contractions. But to have urodynamics AND a scope done at the same time, back to back! love it! I've had both done, each urodyanmic test was wild, and i;ve had 2 flexible scopes... they weren't painful, and I found the peeing of razor blades AFTER the scope to be a nuisance. Strangely, I am craving a RIGID cystoscopy.... the ultimate in urethral violation.

I had blood in my urine a few years ago. I went to my GP who examined me and recommended me to a urologist. The urologist {male} first asked me many questions about my history and then asked to me to remove my pants and boxers. First he examined my penis and scrotum and then testicles. He then explained to me that he was going to do a cystoscopy. I layed down on the table and he first put a clamp on the tip of my penis and then he numbed it. After about five minutes he inserted the cystoscope which really did not hurt until he pulled it out. The process took less than a minute. However he saw some poloyps in my bladder. He told me that I needed to have them removed asap. About a week later I was in the hospital and the doctor removed them.

The operation was similar to the cystoscopy but I was given general anesthesia and did not feel anything. The next few days it burned when I had to urinate. He insists that I return every six months for a cystoscopy. I go back as he asks and so far so good.

After the cystoscopy too for the first couple of hours it does burn a little.

But my experience at the urologist is very professional. The nurses {female} just ask a few questions and instruct me to go to the bathroom for a urine specimen and prepare the room but they are not present during the exam.

I had a cystoscopy about a month ago. I had undergone one over 10 years before so I knew pretty much what to expect. The first one had been done in a surgical type room. I had heart, BP, blood oxygen monitors on and had to completely undress and put my legs in knee support leg rests, real surgical.

This time, the procedure would take place in the urologist's (same MD as first one) office. I was fairly nervous and the nurse could tell I think when she took me back to the room which was a normal exam room. She said for me to undress from the waist down and get up on the table and she left the room so I could do that. I covered my lap with the sheet she left for me and when she returned a few minutes later she told me she was going to get me in the stirrups and prep me for the procedure.

Once I was situated in the normal stirrups at the end of the table, she told me that she was going to wash my vulva and numb me with a shot (no needle) of lydocaine before the doctor joined us. I opened my legs as the nurse rolled up close to me and warned me she was going to touch me. As I felt her spread my folds I prepared myself for the wiping/cleaning of the eurthral area. During the cysto I had gotten in the past, my clitoris had accidently been brushed against during the cleaning so I was trying to prepare myself for that to happen again. This time it wasn't touched at all. The anethstetic was injected into my bladder and she left me there in the stirrups, alone in the room, to wait for the numbness to take affect.

My sock covered feet began to get sore being in the stirrups for almost 10 minutes, waiting for the doctor to come into the room. I wasn't allowed to move because the sterile instruments were just below the table, under my bottom.

Finally the nurse came back in with the doctor and he greeted me. We exchanged a few pleasantries which is strange when you are in a compromising position, but he put me at ease, then he rolled down to the end of the table. While I was waiting I had moved my legs around some so I took a deep breath and spread my legs for him as he parked himself down there. He pushed the sheet covering my upraised knees down into my lap and I could see him if I wanted to look up.

I felt him hold me open and then the insertion of the scope. It hurt. The first time I hadn't had much sensation of the instrument sliding into my body, but this time I groaned and lifted my head off the table. I could feel the scope moving around inside me, that didn't hurt, but where it had entered me was hurting. I managed to stand the pain though and he was soon gently removing the scope. He told me what he had seen and prescribed what I needed, then he was gone.

The nurse got me up and gave me some tissues to clean myself up. For almost 48 hours after the procedure it felt like I was pissing razor blades.

Cystoscopy is a very invasive procedure. I dreaded it, but I looked forward to it also...having my legs spread, having something inserted.

I was cystoscoped once, but was put under sedation first, so unfortunately remember nothing about it! I gather that there is a difference between flexible and rigid cystoscopes - the latter is apparently quite brutal.

Anyone have experience? I read today cystoscope, I like try that once. But this examination need real doctor. It would be very nice to see inside my body. Anyone else like to try?

I helped with one the other day to get rid of a bladder stone

I would prefer a cytoscopy to be carried out fully sedated...

remerber, that in times of better ultrasound-diagnostics, in the future cytoscopies will be performed less often than today...

I have had two cystoscopies. Both with only a local numbing agent. The first was only a look around and although the doctor had a bit of trouble getting past the sphincter, there was only mild discomfort and no pain, either during or afterwards. The second was a different story. I had a blood vessel break in my bladder and the male urologist called his female colleague in to consult. She looked at the monitor from the cystoscope and decided she could electro-cauterize it, which she did, fortunately. Nevertheless, there was the equisite stinging as the cautery worked and as they "forgot" to give me any pain medication afterwards, it was extremely unconfortable to urinate for the next day.

In had one done a few years ago. My was pretty much like most of the post here. I didn't have very much pain when the scope was put in. I did feel it go pass the prostate but was not to bad. I had to have TURP done as I was almost block off from a enlarge prostate. Now when they took out the cath after 2 days the nurse said take a very deep breath and hold. When I took the deep breath she starting pulling it out and I saw stars, She never stop till it was out. I let out big gasp and she left the room. I waited as long as I could till I had to pee but was surpise that it did'nt hurt to much when I went.

I've had two cystoscopies. THe first was just for a look since I had had some bleeding, but in the second, about three years later, they found a broken blood vessel and they proceeded to electro-cauterize it. There was a female nurse, a male and a female urologist, and myself all looking at the TV monitor. The scopes themselves were uncomfortable, but not painful (they used numbing gel), when they filled the bladder with water, but the cautery smarted a bit. My late uncle was chief of urology and I can say this was a lot less uncomfortable than the cystoscopy proceeduress I used to watch him perform many years ago.

After the procedure the local anesthetic wears off very quickly, within three or four minutes, When it does, your bladder and urethra will feel sore. Urinating will be painful: a burning sensation. It will take a long time to begin to urinate, with a thin stream, and be quite uncomfortable for the first 12 hours. The second 12 hours it will be a bit better, but only a bit. After 24 hours it will still be burning, but not nearly as bad. After 48 hours you will feel almost normal. Complete normality, in terms of urination and ejaculation may take a few more days, but this period is without any real discomfort at all, only the realization that you are not completely back to normal.

[font=verdana]Al C.,

You and your urologist are undoubtedly correct.

Then again, if the only disadvantage to the rigid scope is that it hurts...hmmm...maybe I got the right guy after all![/font]

Question for wcguy....How do you shoot with a scope in you?

Next time, find another urologist. One that uses a flexible scope. There is no advantage to a rigid scope. In fact my urologist, a woman, told me she thinks doctors who use them are sadists. (She used a flexible scope on me).

[font=verdana][/font]I had a cystoscopy a couple of years ago, and there was quite a bit of "ceremony" around the procedure.

The nurse, an attractive Asian woman around 30, maybe younger, told me to undress from the waist down. The doctor's instruments were on a table to the side, covered by a cloth.

The nurse gave me a smock sort of thing to put on, and told me to get on the table and put my feet in the stirrups, scoot down, usual drill. I wasn't frightened or particularly embarassed. I was more curious than anything else. I think the nurse found my attitude a bit odd.

Then she says, "I will now cleanse your penis." Yes, she said "cleanse." I think I said "fine," but my mind said, "be my guest!"

Next, she said, "I will now put in some numbing gel" or something like that. She gets a syringe full of lidocaine-infused lube and shoots the stuff down my urethra. It's a bit cold, but no big deal.

Ordinarily, the lube would leak out, but they have this little clip (like the triangular ones that you use to hold papers together) that they use to clamp the penis closed, and the nurse proceeds to apply it. Not painful, and not exactly unpleasant, either. And it was one thing I hadn't previously tried.

It takes a few minutes for the lidocaine to work, so the nurse leaves the room. I'm left there with my legs in the stirrups wearing this dopey smock, with my penis clamped with a big paper clip. I can't do anything about the clip, but the smock has to go. I toss it to a table to my right.

There are two kinds of cystoscopes, flexible and rigid. The flexible kind is like a goose-neck gizmo, while the rigid scope is a metal pipe, maybe a foot long. Rigid scopes are supposedly more painful. This guy uses the rigid scope, which suits me fine. In for a dime, in for a dollar.

After 10 minutes, the nurse returns, sees the smock on the table, laughs a little bit, and puts it back over my crotch. I think, 'Fine, lets not argue about it' and let her have her way. Right before the doctor comes in, she removes the clip.

The doctor comes in, says, "just think of nothing." What does that mean? I ask. "Just, nothing, he says." OK, cool. It's Zen and the art sticking a metal pipe in the penis, let's get started.

I'm kind of half sitting up, and the doctor says, lie back. I do, but I'm really disappointed, because I want to see the show. Hey doc, that's my penis you're sticking that thing in, I have a right to watch. Didn't say it, but I should have.

I did say, "I hope you're going to go slowly." He says, "Nope, fast is best." And before I can think, "You're damn right this is going to hurt" he holds my penis at about a 90 degree angle to my body, rams the scope down, and deftly does this underhanded tennis-swing kind of move that gets the rest of the scope home, all the way past my prostate and into my bladder.

Whew! Now that was something!

The procedures takes about 15 minutes. I can feel him filling and draining my bladder with cold water, and I can feel the scope moving around.

Interesting, and not all that painful until he flips the business end of the scope around and starts doing something like pinching, hard, the lower, outside wall of my bladder and the bladder neck (which is fairly close to the inside base of my penis. This hurts, but it doesn't last long.

He withdraws the scope, which I really feel, because the lidocaine is wearing off. I'm tired, but not unhappy; it's been educational.

Next time, I'll be sure to watch.

I was having urinary and I guess prostate problems shortly after I turned 50 and went to the doctor, he prescribed Cipro, the drug that treated anthrax back when the mail letter terrorism was goning on. I took it or 10 days and did no good. Called the doctor back and they referred me to a urologist. He checked my prostate and said everything felt normal, but I didn't. He then said the one defining test was the cistoscopy, so I agreed to know what was going on. Day of my appointment, his nurse Kathy was getting me ready, had me take my clothes off and hepled me into the exam gown and positioned me on the table and got my legs into the stirrips.

What a feeling, but I was nervous about what the doc would find, or I would have enjoyed the whole thing. The doc came in and injected my cock with some anthesetic and then started the probe up into my dick, very intense feeling. I guess when he was going into and had to pass through my prostate, I felt such an intense feeling, I shot about 3 feet into the air, as nurse Kathy was holding my hand and rubbing my thigh. The doc ducked as I guess he saw it coming through the scope. After, he and Kathy looked at each other and he smiled and said, "very good". Ended up nothing was really wrong with me and the situation just finally sorted itself out, but it was a very neat med fetish experience thinking back on it.

Great story.

My first Cystocopy turned me onto medical paly.

I had a prostate infection they sent me to a urologist to find out why and got to enjoy the scope as well. They did the ultrasound first and they told me to go to this other room. I just had to drop my pants and underware down and I was so worried about getting an erection but the nurse pumped in the numbing gel and held the tip of my penis closed so it would not leak out and I think I was more nervous then anything. Wish I could have been in the stirups but i was just laying there and the doc came in and only time I felt anything was the scope going past the prostate and then as soon as I got up having to pee. After I pee ed out the numbing gel then I really felt it only the second and third time you pee do you feel it bad trying to relax the prostate to be able to go. It's not that bad and no need to be knocked out for it as long as you relax, I might be the exception since I have an extreme threshold for pain.

I've had 2 with just local numbing agent on the penis, 1 with light sedation, and one under full sedation as surgical procedure with a larger scope that let them scrape tissue samples from the bladder, take pictures, etc.

They felt weird more than painful, maybe just a pinch going past the urinary sphincters or prostate. Basically the same kind of feelings as when getting a catheter. The only one I had any real discomfort with later was the bigger one, and it just kind of stung when I urinated for the next day.

I do like having the female nurse prepare me in the chair, clean the end of my penis, squirt in the numbing agent, etc.

I've had this done twice and I may need it again.

Alais

My best friend's girlfriend just got one. I'm hoping to hear all about it.

I like the story and thanks for the info I'm looking forward to this exam

I had it done by a female nurse and a female doctor and it was not at all pleasant (except possibly in painless memory). I described it on this board so if you want you can do a search on my name and find it.

I had to visit the urologist to have a check up and got the usual rectal exam. Nothing much there but was then sent to adjoining exam room where young nurse was waiting. Given the gown to strip off and told to lie on the exam table. Still unaware of what was to come. Questions to the nurse did not help all that much. he next thing I knew was that my penis was grabbed and it had an injection stuck into it. Then I was left to ponder what was coming next. Did not have long to ponder as lots of lube was pumped in followed by what I now know was a cystoscope. Got passed the prostate and into the bladder when it was withdrawn and inserted rapidly several times. Not at all pleasant although have the female nurse there did make it endurable. Love to have it all again if only it could be done by female nurse and doctor. Just have to dream.

Luck me - Had been using sounds regularly before cystoscope exam - to my embarrassment at the time I enjoyed it ! The Doctor's only comment " You seem remarkably relaxed "

Like some of the other posters I didn't think the cystoscope was

any big deal. After several trips to the Urologist for peeing

difficulty it was finally decided to "look inside". The nurse

took me into the procedure room and gave me a paper sheet and

told me to take everything off below the belt. She left and I

did as asked. Then the Physicians Assistant came in and put the

numbing jell into my penis with a clamp on the end. She left

for about 10 minutes and then she, the nurse, and the doctor

came in to do the procedure. Now I'm fully exposed to all 3 of

them. The flexible scope was slowly inserted as the doctor

explained all he was doing and seeing. Once the scope was in

the bladder he was able to manipulate it around to see up, down,

left, right, etc. All was well and the scope was withdrawn.

The nurse gave me an antibiotic and everyone left me to get

dressed. I didn't realize why at the time but after that exam

for a few days, I was peeing again like a horse. Now I realize

that the scope probably dialated me.

I had a cystoscopy several years ago. It was the first time I had been in stirrups, but they were not real high or wide, so I felt less exposed than I would have thought.

The Dr. (male) injected the lidocane into my penis, and put a clamp of some sort on the end of my penis to hold the gel in to take effect. I couldn't see what the clamp looked like. After various preparations of the equipment, he removed the clamp, held my penis up, and threaded the scope in. I had had a catheter inserted earlier in my visit, and the scope was less uncomfortable. The numbing gel helped. I saw the inside of my bladder on the monitor screen, and the distraction of the view took my mind off any discomfort for the exam. To answer a question I have always had about the procedure, I didn't become erect. All very clinical and professional. The injection of the gel beforehand was just a little pleasant feeling, but no erection, either.

I have only had this done once and it was at the local VA hospital. The doctor said I was retaining too much urine and wanted to look in my bladder. He actually did a two part test.

The first part was to completely fill and then vacuate my bladder. The nurse first had me completely undress and then gave me a half gown for just my upper body. Everything from the waist down was exposed. Then he put a wire up my rectum for monitoring purposes. Then he put a catheter in my penis and started running water into my bladder. When I couldnt hold anymore he had me pee int a funnel connected to a computer which measured the intensity at which I was peeing as well as the volume. When I couldnt expel any more, he did an ultrasound of my bladder to see how much if any was retained. That was the end of the first part

After this part he put surgical drapes around my penis and completely covered it with and antiseptic. After this was done the doctor came in to do the actual cystoscope. A local anesthetic was injected into the urethra. After a couple of minutes he proceeded by inseting a long tube into my penis until it finally reached my bladder. There was some discomfort but no real pain that I can remember. He positioned the tv so I could see what was happening. After looking at my bladder for a few minutes he slowly removed the tube and the nurse cleaned my up as much as possible. The male nurse, the doctor, and an observer were present during the whole cystoscopy as well as the clean up and while I was getting dressed. Quite an experience.

Sounds like a nightmare! I'll never fantasize about such things again!

I've had two. The first was under general anesthetic and only had minor burning the first time or two that I went afterward. The second time was with numbing gel and fully awake and everything went well until he started through the prostrate gland and then it really hurt for a few seconds. Then afterward I was peeing needles for about a week and a half. I think the Urologist could have been a little more gentle and taken things slower. Don't think I'll be going back to him.