I was originally diagnosed with a papillary tumour at the beginning of 2015 and following a TURBT plus chemo was clear until a recurrence in January 2017 but this time it was found to be a CIS.

I had another TURBT and since then I have been on BCG immunotherapy. I've lost count of the number of treatments but it's a lot. ( the latest was August this year and my next are scheduled for February next year).

The early treatments didn't bother me greatly and I naively thought that the more I got the more used to it I would become but I couldn't have been more wrong!
 As time wore on the side effects became exponentially worse along with them lasting for longer and longer periods.

Until I stumbled onto this forum I thought that maybe I was just unlucky and in a minority but I now think that this is definitely not the case.

Having tried various combinations of pain relief and anti-cholinergics to no great avail, last month I decided to give acupuncture a go and after 6 treatments I feel better than I have done in months.

I thought I would share this as I know how miserable this BCG treatment makes us all feel and I approached it from a position of " nothing ventured, nothing gained".

I should also have mentioned earlier that since the recurrence I have been getting flexiscopes every 3 months and my latest confirmed that I have been clear for 2 years, however the BCG continues to the end of 2020.( All being well till then, of course.)