Just finished my sixth week of BCG treatment. After the first one, which seemed to have no effect whatsover, the effects kicked in good and proper from week 2......
I will never cease to be amazed at what one can get down a very small tube from the bladder ! For about 6 hours after a treatment it was, at times, like someone had set off a small hand grenade in my bladder.....I suppose that it's a sign that it's doing something in there - hopefully beneficial. I was tempted (but resisted....) to photograph the debris, as I was somewhat taken aback by some of the fallout.
Having spent most afternoons after the treatment drinking vast amounts (8+ pints) of cold water, in order to flush my system, it eventually dawned on me that this might well be a contibutory factor in me feeling very chilled....I was effectively adding a conservative 15 degrees centigrade to 8 pints of water, over about three hours. Knowing the energy required to raise the temperature of a kilo of water by one degree was quite substantial (engineering background....!), I figured out that I was basically chilling myself like a car radiator....so switched to drinking vast mugs of ginger tea instead, and felt the better for it !
Had to prod the clerical bods about the next steps (a pattern here, it seems), namely a suggested cystoscopy to check how things have been going in there and how effective the TRBTs and BCG have been.
I apparently get 6 weeks off the BCG, then a 3 week "maintenance therapy" of it. Will see what the verdict is then.....
