I have had two, both without sedation right in the doctor's office. I was told to go into he room, strip from the waist down and put a paper covering over my lower half. the doctor walked in, took off the covering, grabbed my penis, and put some numbing gel inside. He told me to lie down and he inserted the camera. I didn't feel a thing. It went into my bladder, which he declared," pristine" and then he slowly withdrew. He said," I'm going past your prostate; you might feel something." I did; it made me tingle with a bit of pleasure. After that, I was on my way - about ten minutes in all. He did say that I would experience a stinging for a few urinations afterward, which I did. But, having been warned, I knew what to expect. I drove myself home and everything was fine. If you have sedation, you have to have a driver and will take up much more time recovering from the sedation than from the procedure. Now, if the procedure is for a rigid cystoscopy, then you need to be put out, but it looks like you will have a flexible one, which is fine if done without sedation.
Rigid cystoscopy. A rigid cystoscopy is where a cystoscope that does not bend is used. You're either put to sleep for the procedure or the lower half of your body is numbed while it's carried out.