No idea where to post this, but here goes. In October, I had my first cystoscopy. The procedure was unfamiliar to me, but the medical staff explained each step and helped ease my nerves. I had been having some urination issues and the urologist suggested I have a cystoscopy. The day of the procedure I had a 3:30 appointment and was put in a holding room by myself forty-five minutes. So, the anticipation only got worse as I waited for them to come and get me. Having no idea how they would prepare me for such a procedure. A nurse finally came in and said they were ready for me and apologized for such a long wait. Explained they were understaffed and after a long day they were running behind schedule. She took me into a small procedure room with a reclining table/chair I would call it, and she held up a sheet in front of her and asked me to remove my paints and underwear and take a seat on the exam chair. I placed my shorts and underwear on a seat close by and took my place on the exam chair. She draped the sheet over me and reclined the chair back making it a table, it raised up a foot or so as well. She removed the sheet and set it aside and placed a green surgical drape over my privates. And by the way I should mention this nurse was a very attractive brunet, I’m guessing around fifty years old and had a gorgeous figure. She swapped sides of the table where I’m laying to where there were several items on a procedure tray. The nurse then laid the green drape to my legs fully exposing me. She had me lift my shirt well up to upper chest, she said I don’t want to get any of this iodine on your pretty shirt. She opened a sterile iodine pack and soaked some gauze in the solution. She said now I’m going to touch you, she grabbed my penis with a gloved hand and started wiping down my penis with this iodine. As she finished, she took the rest of the contents in the package a poured it over my privates and I could feel it running between my butt crack. She said this is a bit messy, but we don’t want a UTI. She then took a syringe and said, this is a numbing gel, I’m going to put it in your urethra to make the procedure less painful. She again grabbed my penis and pushed the entire syringe full of gel in as she pushed it down with her fingers. She held it there for a short period of time, then she placed the green drape back over me. She said we will give that a few minutes and I will go get the doctor. A lay there for what seemed like forever but was probably less than ten minutes. The iodine was soaking through the green covering, and I was hoping that my penis was not retreating due to being exposed!! Finally, I heard two women talking and it was the nurse and the lady urologist, and by the way she is a red head in her mid-forties. She said well, let’s take a look at what’s going on. She uncovered me and I was actually somewhat erect, not hard but certainly not drawn up! The nurse handed the doctor a scope that must be a one-time use type of scope, it was plastic and sealed in plastic. They hooked it to a monitor and made sure it was working properly. She grabbed my penis with her gloved hand and said you will feel some pressure, I did, but was not painful at all. As it got to my prostate she said bear down a little for me and I could feel it pass through the prostate and it felt pleasant. She said okay we are in your bladder and we’re going to take a look around and get a few pictures, also I’m going to be running sterile water in and you will start to feel very full like you need to pee. I never really felt that way and told her that. She started pulling it out and looking as she came out. Once she was out, she said roll to your left side, so I did. I felt her separate my butt cheeks and felt a globe of gel on my anus. She said you’re going to feel my finger in your rectum. She slid her finger in and I could feel her pushing around on my prostate very firmly. The entire time the nurse was observing it all. The doctor then said we are going to have you go sit on our special seat and let you empty your bladder so we can measure your flow, and I’ll be back to discuss what all I have observed. The doctor leaves and the nurse helps me sit up and holds a cloth up to my butt that’s dripping from the iodine and lube gel. I’m totally uncovered, which at this point is no big deal since I’ve been that way more than not. We move to the chair, and she gives me some tissue to wipe my butt with before sitting down. She then has me sit on the toilet chair that has a measuring device hooked to it and has me pee as she’s picking up the drape and sheet that’s by the exam table, feeling kind of awkward that even though she has seen me necked through all of the procedure I’m peeing in front of her. When I finish, she has me come back over and lay on the table and reclines me back once again and scans my abdomen to see if I emptied my bladder. Once that was finished, she said I could clean up and get dressed and the doctor would be back to consult with me. She leaves, but another nurse comes in and says I have to clean up so we can go home, I’m standing there naked trying to clean up as well. We both do what we must do, and I put my clothes back on and take a seat while I watch this nurse clean up the area. The doctor comes in shortly and says that everything looks normal, but I have an enlarged prostate and have a weak urine flow, what’s called BPH. Since I was on blood thinners from a resent heart stent procedure, she wants me to come back in six months and discuss options. All in all, I think it was somewhat of a fantasy come true, and a very pleasant experience as well. With all the hype from others telling me that it would be painful and afterwards would be as well, all untrue. I’m curious if anyone else has had a similar experience and if there’s a possibility, they’ll repeat this procedure again next year?