Are cystoscope procedures dangerous at all?

So pluff mud did you find out you had BPH and the details surrounding that after the cystoscope?  Did you start cathing right after that?  Have you had surgery?  I remember reading something you shared on another thread but refresh my memory if you don't mind. 

I have had BPH for 10 years.  It has been getting progressively worse.  I would get a physical each year, and the doctor would check my prostate with his finger.  A little over a year ago, my doctor prescribed Flowmax (Tamsulosin).  The Flowmax helped for awhile, but it was getting to the point that I would get up 2 or 3 times during the night.  In the morning, it was not uncommon for me to go 3 times in an hour.  Bending over often triggered the urge to urinate.  If I got the urge to urinate, I could not hold it back for long. My primary care doctor referred me to a urologist.  This was the first time that I was referred to a urologist.  The urologist performed an ultrasound and said I was retaining 1.5 liters of urine.  When I did void, it wasn't any more than a urine sample bottle.

The cystoscopy showed my bladder was distended.  I was also prescribed Finasteride.  A few weeks later I had urodynamics testing.  My prostate is enlarged and my bladder is distended.  My bladder muscle does not generate enough pressure to empty the bladder.  I started self cathing after the urodynamics.  My PSA numbers are low.  No one is recommending surgery at this point.  We are waiting to see if the body will heal itself.  Cathing allows me to keep the fluid in my bladder at normal volumes, with fewer trips to the bathroom than before.

Wow - sounds very much like me.  Maybe I am doing the right thing  I not only was experienceing urge incontinence like you but also terrible overflow incontinence.  My GP didn't catch on to the fact that I was retaining large amounts of urine after NV for months and months.  Should have been obvious to a doctor but I didn't know.  I thought there was no way a man could have all that urine in the bladder and not even feel it!  I bought a pad for the bed and lots of depends.  My sweet wife was so understanding.  And now thats all changed.  This Uro that I met once - the other times have been his assistant - never offered the drugs to me.  Did you request them?  I had to; I brought it up to them, they prescribed me an alpha blocker but I never picked up the prescription.  Maybe my condition is worse than I think and they wanted to rush me into surgery, not knowing I would take to doing CIC so easily.  I declined to take the meds due to just having finished hep c treatment.

I did not have much problem with leakage before I started cathing.  I was going alot, but not much would come out.  The only issues were when I could not get to a bathroom right away after the urge came.

I would thoroughly check all options before deciding on surgery.

My first uro and cystoscopy was just about the same experience. The video screen I was supposed to watch didnt even work. He asked his assistant how it was broken she said a few weeks. I can't believe he didn't know. He told me I needed to have TURP and walked out of the room. Needless to say I didn't go back to him.

I'm guessing 10-15 years ago. Ever hear the expression "hitting the ceiling". Well, that's exactly what I felt like was happening I was in so much pain. The urologist happened to be very well known but he was in his 60's at the time so definitely old school trained. 

Jim

"Miss Waterfall". Love the name! Apparently this is still a place for the rigid with certain procedures as they can fit more tools through it. But you definitely want to be knocked out!

Jim

I had a dentist who came to the UK as a refugee from France at the start of the war. His name was Inkpen.

There is a Village by that name in Berkshire and there was an 18th century English clockmaker by that name but I've not met anyone else by the name.