Colonoscopy Pain

I'm so glad I found your post. I had a colonoscopy with sedation this morning and it was excruitiatingly painful. I was wide awake throughout and in so much pain that I had to be given two doses of Pethadine, not that it made much difference. When it was over at last, I felt shocked and traumatised by the ordeal. The consultant seemed to think I'd made a fuss about nothing, though the nurses who looked after me were much more sympathetic and understanding. Ironically, ten minutes after the colonoscopy finished, the sedation seemed to kick in and I fell into a dazed stupor for the best part of an hour. Never again! If I ever have to have one of these barbaric procedures again I will insist on a general anaesthetic and pay for it if I have to. As far as I'm concerned, all the websites I read which said that colonoscopies are not painful are simply telling lies. Be warned anyone else facing one!

I am so sorry you had such pain. I had a colonoscopy last Friday. I had previously had two which were painless with midazolam. This time I asked for Midazolam and the guy wouldn't believe I only had midazolam previously. He was the Lead Nurse and horrible.  He assured me it would be painful and offered fentanyl which I can't have and entonox cause of ear perforation. His manner to a patient was disgraceful and was even a God like complex. We proceeded and with midazolam pethidine ans buscopan it was excrutiating and it is now Monday ans I am still traumatised and very tender I need cocodamol 4hrly. When I speak to my consultant I am asking her why it was so painful. I am 62 ex nurse and never heard of it being this painful. Family and friends say they were fine  I will never have a procedure done at that Hospital again.  The nurses were fab but this guy needs a course on patient manner and how to use a smaller camera. I have a high pain threshold and had total hysterectomy and reconstruction of my knee. Each were not as painful as this. I am really upset, traumatised and will go back to my previous hospital who did not hurt me.

I am so sorry you had such pain. I had a colonoscopy last Friday. I had previously had two which were painless with midazolam. This time I asked for Midazolam and the guy wouldn't believe I only had midazolam previously. He was the Lead Nurse and horrible.  He assured me it would be painful and offered fentanyl which I can't have and entonox cause of ear perforation. His manner to a patient was disgraceful and was even a God like complex. We proceeded and with midazolam pethidine ans buscopan it was excrutiating and it is now Monday ans I am still traumatised and very tender I need cocodamol 4hrly. When I speak to my consultant I am asking her why it was so painful. I am 62 ex nurse and never heard of it being this painful. Family and friends say they were fine  I will never have a procedure done at that Hospital again.  The nurses were fab but this guy needs a course on patient manner and how to use a smaller camera. I have a high pain threshold and had total hysterectomy and reconstruction of my knee. Each were not as painful as this. I am really upset, traumatised and will go back to my previous hospital who did not hurt me.