For starters, I know there’s a difference between an upper GI Endoscopy and lower GI Endoscopy. Obviously you wouldn’t have your choice between the two because it would already be known which one you specifically needed.
But let’s say the doctors need to just take a look around the inside of your body for general purposes and that you have your choice of getting an upper GI Endoscopy or lower GI Endoscopy.
In an Upper GI Endoscopy, a tube with a small camera on the end is put in your mouth and you have to swallow it. It then is pushed down your gullet and into your stomach, all while the rest of it is still protruding out your mouth.
In a Lower GI Endoscopy–you guessed it–the tube is put in from the other side.
Which would be easier for you to have? Would you be able to swallow the camera tube down your throat without gagging horribly? Or, if you couldn’t do that, would you be more comfortable having the tube shoved up your ass?
If you had to choose, which would it be easier for you to do, personally?
Down the throat. Already had that one, and that was a walk in the park.
Of course, the nice dose of Versed that I had helped a whole lot. To the point where I didn’t remember a thing about it.
I had a boss who had the same thing done, and he had to drive himself home, so he said he’d do it without the Versed. I’m assuming he had a mess of topical anesthetics or something.
Considering that through the ass requires you to clean out with laxatives for 24 hours, I would never choose that. Down the throat for sure. Don’t ask for through the eye at all.
I’ve had the down-the-throat thing done. Piece of cake, although the Valium and Demerol I got made it easier. (I didn’t care for the post-Demerol hangover, though.)
Sitting on the toilet the night before a colonoscopy might not be that bad if I had a shower and enough reading material, but it’s really not something I’d go out of my way to do. Frankly, I’d mind the colon cleanse stuff more than anything else.
That’s my problem as well. I have a feeling I’ll have to have an endoscopy someday, I’m hoping, well assuming rather, that I can get knocked out for it.
I’ve heard/read that you can’t get totally knocked out for it because you’ve got to actually be able to swallow the tube and to exhale hard when they want to bring it back up…at least that’s what one of my friends said he had to do. Granted I don’t know any of this for certain and have no cites.
I, like a few others in here, still feel I’d never ever be able to take a continuous tube down my throat without gagging and retching all over the place. :S
Um, I had both done at the exact same time. I was unconscious during the procedures and felt no discomfort upon awakening, so I really have no preference. I didn’t mind the colonoscopy prep, it was the fasting (which you have to do for either) that killed me.
Having done both, I choose ass. Even sedated almost to the point of unconsciousness down the throat is just absolutely awful. Ass is just uncomfortable and humiliating. In fact, it’s exactly like an IRS audit.
Done both, knocked out both times. No aftereffects to speak of either way, so I’ll go by the prep work. Ass prep is a pain in the ass (really…wipe your ass 40 or 50 times in a day and, believe me, you’ll be sore), so I’d go with throat.
The nasty prep pre-colonoscopy, and the fact that your intestines get puffed up with air for better visibility, means you’re shitting for days beforehand, and farting for days afterwards.
