Endoscopy

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I just scheduled an endoscopy to see my new gastroenterologist. I'm really scared about it. What should I expect? Will I get nauseous? I was put in twilight when I had hand surgery and I woke up about 5 times and I remeraber most of my surgery. I really don't want to remeraber any of this. Any advice?
 
Just make sure you tell the anesthesiologist your prior experiences. Waking up during proceedures would be a definite mention to him/her and if you had nausea - extreme or even mild with the twilight, as well as your apprehension of the next experience. Your anesthiologist will take careful note of this - they rarely guarantee you will not experience, what you did before - however, in my experience - they will do everything they can to make sure you are sedated enough and calm as well. With prior surguries, extreme nausea was my biggest issue - and with the last surgery - no nausea whatsoever! Good luck.
Rose
 
Make sure to ask who is doing the anesthesia. Is it a Nurse or RN Anesthistist or Anethesiologist? sp?

Making sure they keep you asleep and pain free during procedure is important.

I had an upper and lower done yesterday. Let me know how yours goes.....

I cannot tell you how important it is to tell them ahead of time about waking up. I have never woke up during any surgery and I woke up several times during my procedure yesterday. Not a pleasant experience. Be assertive about it and insist on discussing it ahead of time.

Let us know how you do.

Oleander
 
I had an endoscopy-colonoscopy corabo three years ago. Other than the prep for the colonoscopy (all that stuff one has to take and running to the bathroom every fifteen minutes), I have no recollections of the procedure and had no side effects. I know I was awake talking to people afterward because my husband told me, and I don't remeraber anything until I came home.

I would tell the anesthesiologist (likely a nurse practicioner) about your previous experience so they use a type of anesthetic that causes retroactive amnesia. Then, you will not remeraber anything even if you wake up during the procedure. From what I understand the endoscopy is uncomfortable but not painful like surgery would be. Hopefully, you'll have a completely different experience. I think it is certainly worth the aggravation to be able to obtain peace of mind in return.

By the way, there is no prep for the upper endoscopy other than no eating or drinking from midnight the night before.

Rose
 
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