Georgia_C

I read your post this morning, I said to myself I feel I will be just like you on Wednesday 14th August . I'm glad you put this post on I've been a bag of nearve's all wk . Some of us are more sensitive and I suffer with anxiety. The fear is worse than the actual treatment  thank you for sharing, hope you got good results and you are keeping well x

Molly.

Georgia_C

I read your post this morning, I said to myself I feel I will be just like you on Wednesday 14th August . I'm glad you put this post on I've been a bag of nearve's all wk . Some of us are more sensitive and I suffer with anxiety. The fear is worse than the actual treatment  thank you for sharing, hope you got good results and you are keeping well x

Molly.

Polly everything you said I was scared off! The worst part is the throat spray but as soon as the sedation happens you honestly don’t care. Sedation is so so strong it will honestly knock you out and you won’t remember. I can’t give you advice about whether you can talk or not because I forgot everything as soon as I was out!!

remember people only write bad reviews! Thousands of people have this done and have absolutely no issues. I cry at blood tests so the worst part for me was the canula because of the needle and the throat spray. the only reason I didn’t like the throat spray was because it numbed my throat - lol what it’s meanr to do. But like I said sedation goes in and I forgot all about it! 

Molly, 

the only reason I wrote this review because I was in your situation and could only find bad reviews. The treatment is a piece of cake the worst part is the bloody canula!!!! Goodluck let me know how it goes xx

Morning Georgia

Thank you for keeping in touch. I felt awful because my mid is so full of my own fears and hence I am forgetting to be aware of other people and their own fears and battles. I do hope you are well.  

Polly

Hi Molly

I hope you don' mind me sending you a message. I can honestly 'feel' for you. Like you, I am going to be in the same situation as Georgia was, so I am assuming the hospital staff will be used to helping people as sensitive as we are. Doesn't take away the fear though. I also suffer with hig levels of anxiety, which itself can be difficult to live with.

I will keep you in my thoughts on Wednesday. Like me, I trust you will be going for sedation?

Polly 

Molly

If you read this, I hope it goes okay tomorrow. 

x

Polly

Goodluck polly! 

Excited for you to get it over with x

Hi Polly 253.

Georgia was right the worse thing is the cannula, by the time you get that in and the drugs ,oxygen mask on your well on your way . I came back from my op and had a great cup of tea and some lovely toast didn't feel any discomfort as drugs went through the cannula before the op so I was pain free. I was feeling quite good with myself as it was all over with and I was able to relax at last the anxiety was gone for now. I was just chatting with a patient in the next cubicle when the doctor arrived to say they had taken a biopsy looked at my voice box and throat and said it's not a cyst , they are now going to do a scan of my neck and chest. It was then that I just broke down in tears.After a good cry I got dressed and was on my way home I am still no wiser after 3 months. I didn't sleep at all last night got up and took some paracetamol at 3am and have been taking them and ibrufen throughout the day but no more than the stated dose. I shall take some tonight before I go to bed. I have been ok eating it just feels a little sore at times you just have to keep on top of the pain it's bearable , it's only the day after it can only get better. will keep you posted. Please let me know how everything goes with you . X

Good morning Molly

Thank you for letting me know how you got on. I am pleased it is over for you. I think the shock of not knowing after 3 months is hard to manage. The positive, I imagine, is they have ruled out the cyst. Do you have to wait for an appointment now for your scan? The waiting can be as hard as the procedure itself. Thank you for your reasurrance about the endoscopy. As you will know, until I have done it, it is hard to put the fear to one side. 

I hope you will keep in touch and feel free to vent any frutration of fears. If I can help I will. 

I will let you know when my appointment comes through and how I get on...unless you would rather not know ...and I understand as I am so self absorbed it is ridiculous!!!

Keep managing the pain and as you say each day you will see some improvement. 

I am going to pay for some counselling for my anxiety (the waiting list with the NHS is so long). It will be hard financially however I think it will be worth it if I can at least put a smile on my face. I wonder if you know the feeling as you suffer with anxiety? The therapy is called CAT -Cognitive Analyitic Therapy, I don't know if you have heard of it? I will update you, unless you tell me not to...I won't take it personally. 

Take care

Polly x

Of course I will keep in touch why not, I too am waiting for CBT. and yes you have to wait a while. I have not heard of CAT though please please let me know what it's like , Anyway today is Friday I couldn't be bothered getting dressed it's poured with rain all day , I've looked at my throat the cyst thing is still on the tonsil. Monday I'm having a Scan on my neck and chest. X

Hello, thanks for posting your positive stories. I’ve got one on Wednesday coming, likewise I am very nervous about it. Not so much about the procedure but about the retching and gagging part as I have a bit of a phobia of being sick. Still nervous but your stories have helped settle me a little x