Comment by TFNA
6 hours ago
I had the colonoscopy without anasthesia, it was over in 5 minutes with less pain than almost any visit to the dentist. The experience made me baffled at the insistence on total anasthesia, and the assumption the unanasthesized procedure is harrowing, that is often reported by people in private-insurance countries like the USA. So, I agree, if you need the procedure because of age or family history, just get it done.
I will say, the drink prescribed by my own GP tasted just fine, like any electrolyte sports drink in powdered form, so I think you were unlucky there!
>I will say, the drink prescribed by my own GP tasted just fine, like any electrolyte sports drink in powdered form, so I think you were unlucky there!
Mine was so bad I almost vomited it all up immediately from the taste. Would very much like your option next time.
I would also like to do it without the anesthesia next time to save $1500.
I asked, but the clinic that I went to did not offer the option. They cited safety as the reason. e.g. any movement by me could risk intestinal damage.
Presumably they still used a nerve block or some sort of local anasthetic on you. How was the recovery?
No, no local anasthetic at all. A lack of anasthesia seems usual for public healthcare in multiple EU countries; if you want anasthesia, you go to a private clinic and pay.
Recovery? The procedure left no lingering feeling at all except for a little gas; it was as if I had never had the procedure at all. The sole discomfort, when air is blown into the colon to inflate it for inspection, abated as soon as air was no longer being blown.
Maybe ya just got a loose b-hole. Congrats.
Stop slit shaming