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[freyakitten]

I went to see the GP early last Friday - mostly because no one had contacted me about the prescription that we found had been waiting at the front desk for almost three weeks for me to pick up. But anyway, now I have a prescription for drugs, and a reference to go see a gastro specialist, whose earliest appointment available at a time that I can go is in December. If I wanted to not go to work, I could get an appointment in late November. But the prescription I got will last until around that time.

But it's an endoscopy that they're threatening me with, not a colonoscopy. Much less painful, as long as I remember to breathe, and the anaesthetic doesn't wear off too fast because they gave me a dosage measured for my weight, not my metabolism.

I hate the anaesthetic wearing off too early. It's nasty.

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[harliquinn.livejournal.com]

You are usually unconscious for Endoscopy procedures. I've only had anaesthic wear off too early once - and that was during a dental procedure. Hospitals and clinics that perform endo/colonoscopy type procedures are usually very careful about what they give you to knock you out during the treatment. They aren't terrible comparatively, but they are not fun either. Make sure you take someone to drive you home.

Best of luck.

[freyaw.livejournal.com]

Spoke to a friend last night who has had an endoscopy done in this city (don't know which hospital/specialist - shall have to ask her, because they can vary a lot more than they should in a city this small) and her experience was that they gave her a choice of a general anaesthetic to knock her out, and a swallowed local. She took the local, and said it didn't hurt, but she had to consciously remember to breathe.

My experience with anaesthetics is that when I'm given them, they always wear off faster than they should, and where they should mean that I can't feel a thing being done, I can feel it, faintly, it just doesn't hurt. Like my dental anaesthetics, they work, but they're supposed to last for an hour after I leave the surgery, and it never does. I can also feel faintly what the dentist is doing, and it should be completely numb.

My first experience with a general anaesthetic was, as an 18 month old, waking up in the elevator before they returned me to my mother. Some elevator wall patterns still induce anxiety, particularly the shiny ones.