Hello and welcome... I really had no symptoms to speak of. What alerted me to something unusual was just every now and again I saw just a very light pink on the tissue after I went to the bathroom, but it was pretty infrequent. I was thinking at first maybe hemorrhoid related, then it occurred to me that it could be post-menopausal bleeding. I then remembered my gyno had said after menopause, there is no bleeding that is normal, so I called immediately to make an appointment.
I got in to see her the next week, and after a thorough exam she found a bladder mass. THAT had never crossed my mind because I'd never even had a UTI so bladder issues were not part of my consideration.
So I would say for me, it was a two to three months. My surgeon estimated the tumor could have been in there 12-18 months to reach a size of 1.6 cm.