I had a dreadful experience today during my colonoscopy. I had it following a 2 week rule referral to exclude bowel cancer. I requested gas and air as my family were away so I needed to be able to drive myself to the endoscopy unit and back. I was told the proceedure might be a little uncomfortable , but that taking the bowel prep medicationn was probably the worse part of the whole process.
I was in pain from the start as the doctor seemed quite rough and rushed in his approach. I could see the camera travelling quickly along the bowel. I stopped watching when the pain became more intense. I became high on the entanox and started laughing really loudly and was moving too much. So the gas was taken away from me intermittently. The pain got worse and a female nurse told the male doctor he should abort the proceedure. However he just carried on. Eventually a Male charge nurse came in and told the doctor to stop the proceedure. I was so shocked , not just by the pain but also the callass attitude of the doctor and other nurses in the room who did not stand up for me, against him. I was making a lot of noise and writhing in pain. I was told I should have had a sedative because of my low pain threshold. I disagree, I have given birth to 2 children with just a TENS machine and entanox for pain relief. I had terrible abdominal cramps afterwards, I still feel degraded and traumatised by the events and will never have another colonoscopy again.
