After my colonoscopy I realized a lot of people around me have went through it and they have had anal experiences
People passing out. People starting to vomit. People crying
Damn I was like ... man idk how to feel lmao
It was ducking awful. Worst 6-8 minutes this year so far. There were pains I didn't knew there will be.
But didn't passed out. Didn't vomit. Didn't cry. Well at the end I let scape a tear but man the pain was too ******* hard at the end
All in all
Feeling brand ducking new today. And results were all normal. Kindda not what I was expecting cause I need to know wtf I have so more exams to come lmao
Haven't had one myself but as a nursing intern I was often present in the room during colonoscopies or endoscopies. Most were elderly people, often already on pain medications, and they were still in agony. I can stand quite a bit of pain so I usually lent them my hand to squeeze for the severe bursts of pain. Turned out to be a bit of a miscalculation at times and had some moments where I had to step back for a second to let my hand recover.
Shows how painful that experience is though. Those people were going through hell in those minutes. Standard procedure for a colonoscopy here is no sedation but if you insist you can get it done with sedation or even full narcosis. And quite a few people actually do insist to have it done under narcosis.
When the procedure is done the patients didn't seem to have much resilient pain. A little discomfort for the remainder of the day but no major complaints. They describe it as ~7 minutes of pure hell but hardly any after effects when it's done.
If I ever need one I'll do it without sedatives or full narcosis as I've been under too much narcosis already and there's always that potential for lasting side effects the more you do it.
I did have a gastroscopy once and that was pretty damn awful too despite only taking 5 minutes or so. Normally you have not have eaten or drank anything in x amount of hours before the procedure but in my case the school sent me to the hospital because I was coughing up large bloodclots. That was in the afternoon so my lunch was still in my stomach. Based on the blood clots they thought my stomach should be examined immediately so they started the procedure immediately. In terms of pain it wasn't
that bad but the gag-reflex was pretty much non-stop due to all the food in my stomach. Normally they only do that procedure on empty stomachs to limit that. Most of the pain came from the constant gagging rather than the endoscope poking around.
My throat hurt pretty bad for the rest of the day too.
Aside from the food in my stomach it was all clean so the blood wasn't coming from my stomach or intestines. A CT-scan with contrast then showed the coughing up large blood clots came from a small tear in a malicious aorta-sized artery bleeding into my right lung. Hence why I required that surgery that removed half of my right lung. Some of you might remember me posting about that process here a few years ago. Very complex case of a congenital lung defect called intralobary pulmonary sequester. The surgery went great though. My lung has regenerated itself almost entirely and I scored a few points above average healthy males of my age in my most recent lung test. That kind of amazed me.
As for full narcosis, if I can avoid it I will. I have a number of side effects from being under full narcosis several times already and the most recent being 4+ hours of narcosis during that lung surgery a few years ago.
If it's not
really necessary for a procedure, I would recommend avoiding full narcosis.
Or at least reduce the monthly €650 since I'll be collecting some form of income from inherited farmland down the street that is being rented to a local farmer. That's the income I know of at this time anyway. Still have to arrange things with the bank, the notary, ... etc
)
