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Let’s go back to the weekend before Valentine’s Day, myself and the wife were looking forward to a nice meal out… just before we was due to leave I needed a quick wee before we set off.. BAM!!!!!! A toilet bowl full of claret looking urine….not a little...
Hello Friends I was diagnosed with T1 Grade 3 in November last year and have had two follow up biopsies and 6 BCG treatments. This week I was told that carcinoma in situ has also been found, so I am shocked as I am feeling so much better after a recent...
Hi all wanted to ask if on second turbt you have to have catheter in again and have to come home with one again as on my first turbt I was informed I had to go home with it and keep it in for 2 days but after just one day started have bad pains and problems...
Hi all, so I just heard I am having my GA Cystoscopy Bx next week on 15th. My urologist does it like this; 6 weeks BCG then flexi cystoscopy. Then 3 more BCG then GA cystoscopy BX . I do find it a bit odd that I cant just have another flexi, but i have...
How do we prepare ourselves going forward from this. I know we have to be strong, and the old adage - get your affairs in order, but with 47 years under our belt, should we be looking back at old photographs, when do we tell the close family, at which...
Hi all, I finished my second BCG induction on 18 July and still having trouble with bladder spasms and urgency to pee which is quite painful. GP thought it might be a UTI and I am on second lot of antibiotics but culture from my sample has shown no...
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Hi all, I had my TURBT in May and had to return to hospital the following month for a re resection of the bladder as there was no muscle in the biopsy specimen taken in May. Biopsy results showed a high risk G3pT1 and although the Consultant was steering...
Hi all. Hope you are all keeping well and safe. Back in January 2022 I was diagnosed with bladder cancer. TURBT followed, had a bit of a mare after that and was found to have low grade grade 2 non invasive lesions. Had 6 week course of mytomycin which...
Hi, has anyone else experienced loss of balance after TURBT, GA and one infusion of Mitomycin? Diagnosed with pTA G2 and TURBT Jan. Exactly one week later, felt light headed and since that day, I have lost balance and lurch when I walk. Not vertigo, room...
