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I had a camera up my dongle 10 days ago to investigate a 'potential something' that a scan showed up - after a practice nurse noticed I'd lost 18kg since my last annual review. Then came a MRI scan that showed a possible something in my bladder. I'm seriously peeved that they elected to investigate with a large rigid cystoscopy "just in case' something needed to be removed instead of a nicer smaller gentle flexible one for a looksee like I had a few years ago. A little thickening of the bladder wall was noticed but nothing needed to be taken away. The large camera size resulted in massive damage just inside my urethra that makes a catheter insertion intense agony - I'm guessing nerve ends got exposed or damaged: the surgeon claims it can't be damaged but he's not the one who screams if anything is introduced there. Since then I've endured intense pain just inside my dongle and I've made it clear if the catheter needs replacing (again) it'll have to be done under sedation, which they say they wont do.The second catheter insertion attempt, in A&E because the first got blocked, would not get past prostate median lobe enlargements protruding into the bladder. I suffered a third one being put in with a wire brace to push past the prostate lobes. I screamed like a girl with that while two assistants restrained my hands to prevent me pushing it away. I cannot go through that again and the urology department don't allow a patient to return if there's any issue after 48 hours have passed. Well I noticed the catheter was blocked again by 50 hours. If I was a good lad I'd have to go to the overworked A&E, bother them again with assessments etc before they send me back to the urology department at the different hospital by ambulance. Well I have some syringes from when I worked with fibreglass resin so I flushed it out myself using a little salt into boiling water that I then let cool down. I've cleared out substantial amounts of blood clots and other debri and its draining ok again. They put me on antibiotics which will hopefully deal with anything in the boiled tap water. Before this episode I was weeing fine with the help of Tamsulosin with no urine retention or pain of any kind. I've looked at several online images of the male urethra path and there is no straight path into the bladder that I can see and can only assume the rigid camera/scope was rammed in and possibly shoved the prostate lobes a bit. I now have to have a procedure that HRH possibly had - lobes removed from my prostate. If they do that through my urethra without general anesthetic I'd rather step in front of a train than take that pain again.