sent for colonoscopy as a precaution. Did all correct prep. Was prepared for some discomfort but had to endure excruciating pain as doctor continually probed attempting to examine sigmoid colon. I’m fairly stoic but I was screaming with pain,the doctor carried on regardless in repeated attempts. Eventually after about half an hour & many attempts he gave up. The pain was comparable to childbirth except it did not go on for so long. I was terribly upset - traumatised is not too strong a word - & thinking this was somehow my fault, but the nurse reassured me it was not, & of course she was right. What on earth possessed this so- called doctor to persist as he did unless sheer bull-headedness
On the copy of the report to my GP there is a heading “comfort score”. The doctor left this blank. Minus 50 would be my assessment.