Hi all , i have been looking at info on the site for a while now and today decided to join! my story is .... about 2 years ago had the sensation of needing to pee all the time and generally feeling tied , sometimes blood in pee , i went to my GP who arranged for a flexible cystoscopy to be done at local hospital, had this done and doctor found a 4 cm tumor growing over left UO , a week later had rigid cystocopy to remove it , turned out to be G2 pTa , this had grown over the UO almost completely blocking it , the surgeon removed as much as possible , after this procedure i was getting a lot of kidney pain and following a ultrasound they found that the ureter was blocked by scar tissue , so back in again to have more scar tissue removed , 3 month check up found another tumor, had this removed and a stent fitted through my kidney and down into my bladder to try and ease the obstruction in the tube, told me this should only stay in for 3 months max, then Covid struck! so last week after waiting for nine months the stent was removed , and another one was fitted , they tried a balloon dilator but put the stent back in , i have been told this should only be in for four weeks and then this will be removed via a flexy cystocopy with just a local anesthetic? this is a 24cm stent and i am not keen on having this taken out without some sort of sedation , I have had seven generals in the last two years and do not really want another , has anyone had a 24cm stent removed like this and am i allowed to insist on some for of sedation? thanks in advance
