Not what I wanted to hear

Absolutely I would rather have my biopsy and cauterization in the office instead of an entire day of outpatient surgery. The discomfort is over with quickly; I HATE general anesthesia, I throw up for 36 hours afterwards! I'm still waiting on my biopsy results from just such a scenario last Thursday. Third recurrence in 4 years.... now I get to go through BCG after I heal. Oh joy.

I too have had the biopsy procedure done in my FORMER Uro. The first time he told me that he was going to do it. The second time he was doing it before I was aware of what he was doing. This and several other things (cleanliness of the office, attitude of staff and doctor, etc.) made it easy to make the decision to switch Uro’s . I’m not sure, but I don’t think my new Uro would do a biopsy in his office. I just had a TURBT on Tuesday. Other than the effects of the anesthesia and the normal invasive side effects it went well. Sara Anne, have you thought about changing Uro’s. I have to agree with the group that doing biopsies in the office invites problems we don’t need. Hang in there.

Chuck

Every once in while, I feel the need to share this part of my husband's story. Reading Steve's post just reminded me of that need to share. My husband was 6 months past finishing a 3 year BCG regimen when he began having visible blood in urine and intense urinary problems. The uro did a cysto and decided his "red patches" were still from the BCG reaction. "Still needs to heal" he said. The problems got worse and a CT was done. "All clear" he said. Problems continued and he did a biopsy. "Looks like a superficial reoccurance" he said. THEN, the pathogy showed muscle invasive so we went looking for a surgeon. Pre-op CT scan showed liver, lung and bone mets. ALL OF THIS OCCURRED WITHIN A 11 WEEK PERIOD. I truly believe that those little "red patches" found in a cysto at week "one" were really a reoccurence and the uro just plain missed it by not doing a biopsy.

You guys are all tougher than most of the Marines I served with. I am now filled with dred with my upcoming cysto. He saw some "red patches" in May and we did some more BCG's. Now I go in for the check up next month.

I have not been to our site in some time due to some issues with the Fam, but I am so inspired by you all. God Bless.