For a cystoscopy, the doctor will administer an anesthetic, which is not particularly painful and is acceptable to most people. Don’t be too nervous, because after anesthesia, there will only be slight pain or uncomfortable feeling, but basically it is bearable. Generally speaking, a cystoscopy can be completed within 30 minutes, but relatively speaking, the examination time for girls will be a little shorter than that for boys, because women’s urethra is shorter and straighter. The examination will be easy and very fast. In the past, the cystoscope is very hard, this time to put inside the urethra is painful, and the patient will be very painful, now the cystoscope with advanced technology, has become a soft mirror can be bent. And under the operation of a very skilled urologist, basically using local anesthesia, this test can be done very quickly. Some people are able to have a cystoscopy without anesthesia, and there are a few others, who need to have the test done under intravenous general anesthesia.