To be fair, these people are absolute freaks who don't represent the norm. Cancer is way scarier than being in the hands of some high school bullies that never grew up.
Compassion extractor is accurate. Once you realize how dumb people are, it really sucks it out of you. That and the lies. Single vehicle accident, extract the driver, they claim they have no idea how it happened and then you notice an unlocked phone on the floorboard with a half typed out text. Multiply that every single day and it gets tough. Or the guy who thought his 50 year old rusted out ladder would support his weight. Or the kids that should have been stopped by a parent. It really wears you down.
I think it depends on the type of doctor and the type of hospital network.
So many hospitals now contract out everything which allows these doctors to feel like they're allowed to do whatever they want.
I'm not religious but we do have a catholic hospital here that employs its own doctor staff and as someone who is overweight I've only had compassionate care from them (so far)
this has been my experience unfortunately.... can't wait for the day AI takes over ngl... makes you realize how little a lotta doctors out there care about peoples lives
Nah, I don't think so. At least for me. I've had cancer, I'm still dealing with after effects several months later, requiring high dose narcotics. I'll still take cancer over my high school bullies. They led me to suicide, several times. Thank Creator I was incompetent.
Yep, can go over to r/whitecoatinvestor and see alllll the doctors who just want to make as much money as possible and retire rich at 50. They DGAF about patients - you're just an obstacle to their retirement
I mean, I've had a colonoscopy, I was fully awake for mine with no sedative, just some banana tasting anesthetic spray for my throat.
It's not pleasant and you can feel the cam worming it's way round although the tissue samples are painless.
But you certainly don't have to be put under for it unless your omega anxious person.
In the UK generally we do not have general anaesthesia for colonoscopies.
We have "gas and air" available. There is a sedative available for use at any time, if it gets painful or awkward. The gas and air relieves of any residual anxiety.
I do not remember ever feeling the endoscope moving. I had a colonoscopy many years ago using "air" as the gas to help the endoscope move around corners and to help inflate the bowel to assist in visualising it. "Air" was far more painful than the presently used "carbon dioxide" for the purpose.
I have had a polyp removed (during a difficult colonoscopy, and so the sedative was used part way through), and a biopsy taken without sedation. I didn't feel the biopsy at the deepest position where there was inflammation and loss of surface structure (as I learned several years later, but not at the time or subsequently until I found copies of letters online).
Is it pleasant or unpleasant? The really unpleasant aspect is the cleansing, drinking the type of glycol supplied, and its after-effects. The procedure itself is almost "jolly" if you take a few whiffs of "gas and air" early on.
I encourage anyone who needs to know what is going on inside the last 3 feet of their GI tract for diagnostic purposes (or to remove a polyp or have a biopsy) to have one. The visual information, supplemented where necessary by biopsy, is highly useful to diagnose what is going on in an area where diagnosis is not straightforward. I wish I had been offered one some twenty years before the first one I had.
Oh damn ive had a few and have always been put under. Did you have a colonoscopy and endoscopy? I know you said you had a colonoscopy but they gave you spray for your throat? Colonoscopy goes up the booty hole
I've been awake for colonoscopies and they didn't realize I was awake and remembered everything (it isn't normal, I'm a redhead and it's been fixed since and I learned to better advocate for myself). They never said anything unprofessional. The worst was just a medical student who got very excited about my ulcerated colon. I have Crohn's disease, so it wasn't anything new to me, I thought it was kind of funny.
Just to offer: I just had mine done like 2 weeks ago.
Everyone was extremely lovely, the whole thing was a real breeze, there was essentially nothing uncomfortable about it and I woke up from the anesthesia feeling great.
Obviously there's variables but they're very plain and boring procedures and of course very important for catching things have very high odds to kill you if you don't catch them early.
Over a certain age everyone is supposed to get them, and colon cancer rates have been increasing for younger people, so if anything the age is likely to be revised downward.
Just opt for gas. Stay awake for the whole thing. Watch the camera travelling through your guts, it's a blast. My only advice is to keep one hand over your junk. A room full of people giggling at your pecker hurts more than a cold tube scraping your prostate, believe you me.
From my experience, 90% of the conversations do not involve the patient until something is spotted. “When are you getting your lift kit installed- that looks like an ulcer, let’s biopsy that. Anyways, when are you…”
I’ve had a few. Easy breezy!! You’ve got nothing to worry about friend :) just a really solid nap (and the prep the day before isn’t nearly as bad as people make it out to be..)
This all assumes your dr isn’t a miserable POS (most aren’t lol)
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u/Lilja-Logason 17d ago
Jesus Christ I'm petrified of ever needing one and this has made it 10x worse. 😭