About 5 years ago during a routine physical the GP said their was a microscopic amount of blood in my urine sample. I was referred to a urologist for a procedure to scope my bladder. If you have never had this procedure you can imagine where the scope gets inserted on a male.
It was extremely embarrassing when I was led into the room and find two young lady nurses half my age, telling my to strip down below my waste, then lay down on the table while one applied a deadening cream to that insertion point. Then laying on that table for at least a 15 minutes waiting for the Dr. to come in to start the procedure. The nurses stayed in the room with me the entire time. Finally, my view of the procedure was of the Dr. in the middle shoving a probe up my insertion point with the two lady nurses looking on, one over each shoulder of the Dr.
Finally, the Dr. says everything is fine so it was a happy ending, but that was at least 30 minutes of waiting Hell before I got the all clear. I'll take a wait an the DMV over that experience at the urologist any day of the week.
Oh, I had the same procedure. It's a cystoscopy. It's just as unnerving for a woman!
In my case it was to rule out bladder cancer, as that's what the urinalysis indicated. It turns out the blood in my urine wasn't bladder cancer, it was kidney stones, so I was pretty thrilled to have a camera up in there showing no signs of cancer.
I've been dealing with this for a few years now. I recently had a renal ultrasound and the kidney stones are still there. I have occasional blood in the urine but never have had any pain. I just saw a new nephrologist and he said not to come back for a year.