I have just had a colonoscopy today for the first time. I'm a 40 year old female who has given birth naturally 3 times, with minimal gas and air, i would consider myself to have quite a high pain threshold. But this procedure was very painful at times. I opted for sedation but was drifting in and out, when the camera goes around the corners it becomes very painful and this brought me around so to speak. I was squeezing the nurses hand and really wincing for a few minutes. The start of the procedure and the end is fine, it's just the middle bit where those corners are. I had quite a large poloyp removed and a few biopsies so I dont know if that made it much worse. I'm pretty sure I was given more sedation at points as I recall the nurse being told...so many mg of something and I dont remember much again. Good news I was in there 40 mins and it seemed like 2 or 3. And I found the moviprep fine, didn't taste that unpleasant and it certainly did its job.
It's definitely worth it to find out what's going on in there, have all the sedation offered I say.
I have just had a colonoscopy today for the first time. I'm a 40 year old female who has given birth naturally 3 times, with minimal gas and air, i would consider myself to have quite a high pain threshold. But this procedure was very painful at times. I opted for sedation but was drifting in and out, when the camera goes around the corners it becomes very painful and this brought me around so to speak. I was squeezing the nurses hand and really wincing for a few minutes. The start of the procedure and the end is fine, it's just the middle bit where those corners are. I had quite a large poloyp removed and a few biopsies so I dont know if that made it much worse. I'm pretty sure I was given more sedation at points as I recall the nurse being told...so many mg of something and I dont remember much again. Good news I was in there 40 mins and it seemed like 2 or 3. And I found the moviprep fine, didn't taste that unpleasant and it certainly did its job.
It's definitely worth it to find out what's going on in there, have all the sedation offered I say.
