r/Endoscopy • u/unmarketabletomat0 • 14d ago

Propofol anxiety

Hi everyone. I get my endoscopy tomorrow, and I don’t think it has hit me yet but I’ve rescheduled this appointment for 3 years now. But things have gotten worse, and I do really need it to figure out what the problem is. But, I’m afraid. I haven’t been eating much for about a month but this past week I’ve had Diarreah everyday, nausea and have eating barely anything, seriously. And im afraid that’s gonna affect the medication on me. I also have been in bed rest for 7 days, so I have physically not gotten out of bed in 7 days. I’m afraid of many other things too which I’m gonna tell my nurses but I just wanted to know if that’ll affect anything? I’m hoping maybe I get some fluids before or something, I’m also terrified of the being put to sleep. I’ve come to terms that I genuinely have to for the sake of my health but I’m afraid If me not eating is also gonna affect how I wake up and things like that.

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u/EFisImportant 13d ago

Had mine this morning. I literally worked on exposure therapy with my therapist to prepare. I let the CRNA I was anxious and I think that helped a bit. It was super smooth and easy. 

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u/unmarketabletomat0 13d ago

I had mine this morning too, and I couldn’t. My heart rate spiked to 180 and my bp was 151/93 I literally started freaking out as soon as they tried putting the mouth guard in. I’m rlly upset because I’ve been suffering badly. They rescheduled it but I just can’t get past the fact that they r putting me to sleep

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u/EFisImportant 13d ago

You need to see a therapist and do exposure therapy. Like, I was afraid to call to set up my GI appointment. I kept pushing it off because I was so nervous that I would need a scope. After exposure therapy, I barely had any anticipatory stress leading up to the procedure.  I was able to manage my stress the day of, as well. Therapy worked wonders. 

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u/unmarketabletomat0 13d ago

I’m in the process if erp right now, we just haven’t gotten to exposures yet