For me the worst part is the drugs (Versed is given for amnesia and often causes memory loss...) No doc would do mine unsedated despite my symproms and family history (bad) until I med Dr. K...she was super and reassured me that the exam could be done without the mind-numbing "sedation". anyway, the exam without drugs was painless. I had some bad lesions and now need yearly exams. My GI doc was worried that an unsedated exam might make me reluctant to return each year for a colonoscopy; heck no! She recently toldme that I oculd skip the sedation and get painkiller (fentanyl) only...so may last colonoscopy was done with fentanyl only...what an easy exam, no grogginess, memory loss etc.... I hope that everone gets as good a doc as I have. Too many GI docs are doing colonoscopies "carwash" fashion and miss problems... the sedation of worse than the exam.......if you don't specify "no versed" on the consent, you will be given this lousy drug to induce amnesia.trouble is, many GI docs abuse the patient under the influence (midazolam) and do the test roughly and carelesly (she won't remember anything",,,not true....slob gastros need to stop pushing amnestic drugs (versed) and give the patient s csreful, unrushed exam.......but in my experience, most GI docs zre in a hurry doing colonoscopied..patient care be damned.....
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For me the worst part is the drugs (Versed is given for amnesia and often causes memory loss...) No doc would do mine unsedated despite my symproms and family history (bad) until I med Dr. K...she was super and reassured me that the exam could be done without the mind-numbing "sedation". anyway, the exam without drugs was painless. I had some bad lesions and now need yearly exams. My GI doc was worried that an unsedated exam might make me reluctant to return each year for a colonoscopy; heck no! She recently toldme that I oculd skip the sedation and get painkiller (fentanyl) only...so may last colonoscopy was done with fentanyl only...what an easy exam, no grogginess, memory loss etc.... I hope that everone gets as good a doc as I have. Too many GI docs are doing colonoscopies "carwash" fashion and miss problems... the sedation of worse than the exam.......if you don't specify "no versed" on the consent, you will be given this lousy drug to induce amnesia.trouble is, many GI docs abuse the patient under the influence (midazolam) and do the test roughly and carelesly (she won't remember anything",,,not true....slob gastros need to stop pushing amnestic drugs (versed) and give the patient s csreful, unrushed exam.......but in my experience, most GI docs zre in a hurry doing colonoscopied..patient care be damned.....
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