Blue Light Cystoscopy

Hi Tufnailsteve. I have never had the blue light, but I believe it is usually done under GA. Any abnormal cells should be removed and the light highlights any cells that are not normally visible. They do inject a type of dye in to your bladder, so if this causes any other side effects than a normal TURBT I do not know. I hope all goes well. Best wishes.

Other folk on here always say call your CNS [cancer nurse specialist] for info. But if like us you sadly don't find them helpful, my guess is that the general anaesthetic will allow them to TURBT the CIS cells off if they think this is the best course of action. Or they could be using other methods to try and destroy the CIS but I know very little about those. If it is in fact a TURBT I'd be pleased as it means one go of hospital instead of two. After effects then would be the usual TURBT ones, pain peeing, passing fresh blood from the wound early on and scab bits later, more fatigue as your body is busy healing up, etc

Keep on asking wherever anyway until your mind is at rest,

all the best for Monday

Denby

I’ve had this. It’s under GA because it’s a rigid scope. No particular side effects. It shows up any cancer the eye can’t see. Not sure why they don’t do this to start with?!  Hope it goes well. 

And they took another biopsy.