painful colonoscopy
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Colonoscopies are usually painful; pure and simple....That's why they insist on giving versed (it's not to relax you, it;s to cause you to have amnesia of the terrible event)....so, using the logic of \"if you can't remember a painful experience, it's o.k. to do so\" what a bunch of bs..a lot of people do remember the terrible experience...and the scant amount of painkillers given are a joke....whay to you think that they have so many nurses available to restrain the patient when the patient screams \"stop\"????????????
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I have pain in both sides, I feel as if I have been kicked in the stomach and up the backside! :shock:
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Poor you, I do hope you are feeling a lot more comfortable today. It sounded a really awful experience and really shouldn't have been as unpleasant and painful as that. What on earth is happening in the medical world today?
I was a nurse working on an endoscopy unit in Kent 25 years ago. Endoscopies and colonoscopies were carried out on a regular basis and I assisted with thousands - and I can honestly say, I was only awareof one patient who felt any discomfort and this was soon remedied with further IV analgesia. The majority of patients had no recollection of the unpleasant procedure at all.
A couple of years ago my husband had to undergo a colonoscopy and I had assured him that he would feel very little - how wrong I was! When I went to pick him up he was white-faced and could barely speak - he was really traumatised for weeks - he has vowed never to have another one. This was carried out in a private hospital - my mother too, had a similar experience despite my requesting that the specialist ensure she had adequate sedation. Neither my mother or husband have a low pain thresehold - quite the opposite in fact.
It seems that endoscopy units have definitely got to get their act together - the procedure is barbaric in the first place without feeling pain. Complaints must be made to ensure the medics are aware of this. Hopefully, very soon a far less traumatic method of examining the colon will be available, involving swallowing a tiny camera and just watching it's progress on a screen.
Roslin, I do hope you will soon feel less traumatised by your experience and manage to have a lovely Christmas.
Regards
Katie
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