Cystoscope . Has anyone experienced it ?

Can relate 100%. I've had 6 or 7 over the years and despite objections concerning pain the docs try to reassure about how they will be gentle. Hardly. Most recent was in May and I requested Demerol. It helps. Docs prefer to forgo this option because it may require a recovery period and someone to oversee your way home.

I had it done 3 times. First time was more painful because urologist was rushing and pushing cystoscope thru my urethra fast creating pressure on sphincter valve and manipulating it harshly.

Other 2, no problem at all. Different urologist was very gentle.

MK

I have undergone 2 cystoscopies in the last 8 months and had no pain during (just a slight feeling of pressure) or after (other than a slight tingling on the first post-cystoscopy pee.)  For me, no worse than a DRE.

Most of the pain is mental.  The fear of it is worse than the actual procedure, mainly because it involves your most precious part.  However, I have found that self catheterization is much less painful because I am in control, when I feel pain I slow down or stop.  The doc doesn't feel your pain so doesn't know when to slow down or stop, He just keeps pushing it in.  Often the people in the urologist's office are under time pressure, they have other patients waiting, so they go fast,

The cystoscope is very valuable to the Urologist because he can get his eyes right on the urinary track and bladder.

Thomas

The first one I had was only slightly uncomfortable.  The last, done by female urologist was totally painless.  Was yours done by a urologist, or a by a guy from Jiffy Lube?

Had my second one done 5 days ago, the one before that was 2 years ago.

Whilst the lubricating/anesthetic gel they inject into your penis first is a little painful, the procedure itself is not that bad and being able to see what is onscreen is fascinating. 

It was painful to pee for a few hours after, but really by the next morning, everything was basically back to normal.

On a side note, I feel really sorry for my American Counterparts having to pay such exorbitant amounts for the procedure... both mine were done on the British NHS and didn't cost me a cent.

I had one a few weeks ago.  Out of the blue, I'd had an incident of urinating blood, so the urologist started with ultrasound, then X-ray, then CT scan.  None of those showed any problems, so he said we had to do the cysto in order to see if there was a tumor in the bladder (he said the CT scan can miss tumors).

The procedure itself wasn't too painful.  But urinating afterwards was incredibly painful for the next 2 days.  The best way I can describe it was it felt like someone was dragging barbed wire through my urethra as I urinated.  Just excruciating pain.  Day one was bad, but day two was just off the charts.  I think it was the first time in my life I had pain bad enough to actually scream out loud.  And it would take about 15 minutes after urinating before the pain was finally gone.  

The doctor had given me Pyridium to supposedly ease the pain (he called it like a "pepto bismal" for your urinary tract...).  But didn't seem to help at all.

Day three was finally less pain, and day four was finally no pain.  And the procedure didn't find anything.  So after all the tests, they tell me that the blood in the urine was just due to my BPH.

On annual visit, my GP discovered high PSA result so sent me to urologist on that basis alone.

Told Ur I hadn't had enough issue to warrant visit other than high PSA.  Ur decided he should have endoscope look anyway after which following days couldn't pee due to infection.  Ended up with catheter strapped to my leg for several weeks.