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Followup for Noninvasive High-Grade: Anyone chosen no more treatment?

Posted by openloc1949 @openloc1949, Nov 6, 2025

After 2 TURBTs, faced with ongoing treatment with BCG, at age 76. Has anyone opted not to have that treatment? If so, what did you do? OR, if you had BCG and are in my age range, what were the side effects?

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gemdoc25 | @gemdoc25 | Apr 13 10:01pm
In reply to @daddyroxx2025 "Well,...I had to Post Pone the 6 Treatments...These Treatments are a "Preventive" Treatment...The Key Word is..." + (show)
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Well,...I had to Post Pone the 6 Treatments...These Treatments are a
"Preventive" Treatment...The Key Word is " Preventive".... Which Means Your Doctor is Recommending the Treatments...In other Words its an "UpSell"....You go an get an Oil Change,
along with that they offer Wiper Blades....Same Idea....
Everything has a Business Side and The Hospital or Medical is No Different
I Will Go Every 3 Months have my Doctor, Go into the Bladder....and Check for Possible Tumor Growth....
I Dont think I can do a Catheter Ever again,...Unless I am Put Out, in a Coma or Some other Non Awake Measure....
Right Now, I am Good, Everything is Going back to Normal....
I know What to look for, with My Urine,...Any Color Changes and I go back in...for Some kind of Testing...
"CATCH IT VERY EARLY AND YOU CAN BE GOOD....Start Guessing and Wait and think its gonna go Away....
Its Not"....

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I really can't understand the fuss about a catheter. If the correct size is used and lidocaine is administered before insertion, it should be a non-event. Just my opinion from experience of about a dozen insertions. I suggest your nurse or doctor is inexperienced with the procedure.

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kevinpm | @kevinpm | Apr 14 10:17am

Third TURBT completed. Had BCG after the second one. Mayo wants to do the six BCG treatment again which I start in two weeks. No issues during the first BCG round. It’s 90 seconds of minor discomfort with the catheter each time. Worth it if you consider the worst out come. I’m 73. The nurses at Mayo are most capable at inserting the catheter and squeezing the formula into the catheter and removing the catheter.

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