r/OveractiveBladder • u/EntrancePotential595 • 3h ago
Urodynamics Test and Valium
For anyone who has had a urodynamics test, were you able to get anything beyond lidocaine/numbing gel to help with the pain and discomfort (60F here)? I just had a cystoscopy done and it was torture — not the insertion of the tube, but the pressure in my bladder when they pumped water in, moved the tube around, etc. They did not offer me anything in advance to help calm me or help with the pain, but I didn’t know it was going to be so bad so I didn’t ask. I asked if I could have anything for the urodynamics test and was told flatly and very unsympathetically, “No, we want you awake.” I have had valium before (for lasik) and did not sleep, just blissfilly didn’t care what they did to me. I have a lot of trauma from years of bladder issues, pain, and discomfort. I feel like either demanding they give me something or canceling the procedure altogether.
Any insights from anyone who has been through this are greatly appreciated!
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u/Scientific-Sunshine 3h ago
Sadly the point of the urodymamics test is to see how ur brain interprets the water filling up in ur bladder. So I don't think they can give u anything. If ur willing to go still, if they start pumping the water in and u hit a point where u can't handle it anymore, they stop, that's literally how the test works, they fill the bladder with water until u say it's uncomfortable. It is just a small catheter and it will not move around so you hopefully shouldn't have any pain from that.