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In colonoscopy, the prep is the worst part if you do it with sedation. The prep is just unpleasant because you spend so much time on the toilet. For myself and
by crispyambulance 6y ago
In colonoscopy, the prep is the worst part if you do it with sedation. The prep is just unpleasant because you spend so much time on the toilet.
For myself and many others, it's not really about the pain (supposedly there is little to none), it's just the unsettling thought of that scope so far up one's...
I was sedated with Propofol and that seemed to be routine in the facility I went to. It was a white fluid that came in through an IV. I remember saying to the nurse as I saw the propfol going in "that tingles..." and she said "that's normal", but it seemed to me that she said her answer before I finished saying "tingles", then a herringbone pattern visual from my tightly shut eyes, then nothing, and I woke as I was being wheeled out to the recovery area and felt no grogginess at all, seemed that only a couple seconds had elapsed from the time I saw the propfol (it was 20 minutes). Powerful drug.
- gwbas1c 6y agoI had Propofol last Friday. I don't even remember going out. I climbed into the surgical seat, moved my limbs to where they could be tied down, while I joked with the nurses and anesthesiologist. I wonder if I just passed out mid-sentence?
- derekja 6y agomore likely you carried on a conversation you don’t remember. I came out of a procedure and the doctor came out afterward to talk about the results and mentioned things I had absolutely no memory of telling him!
- noir_lord 6y agoI didn't find it unsettling but I got over body modesty issues a long time ago due to ill health, I'm just a machine for carrying a brain around and they are mechanics. The last one the doc doing the colonoscopy was training (under supervision) and kept not making the turn, that was somewhat painful but generally yeah they aren't very painful (for me, ymmv etc).