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My gastro will be doing an endoscopy on me tomorrow. Sounds wonderful. Not too thrilled with being put down. It's my first time going under. I really hope I don't end up as a viral youtube video! HAHA!

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Surgery day was my first experience with anesthesia. I was so freaked out about it, but it ended up being super easy! I worried myself to death over nothing.

Good luck tomorrow!

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The anesthesia for endoscopy isn't bad. It's not full on general anesthesia like you will have for the actual surgery. It's a twilight anesthesia. You'll be completely out of it and wake up in recovery but it's much easier to handle than general in my opinion.


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9 hours ago, Kris_Aloha said:

My gastro will be doing an endoscopy on me tomorrow. Sounds wonderful. Not too thrilled with being put down. It's my first time going under. I really hope I don't end up as a viral youtube video! HAHA!

Stay strong.

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Thank you all! It was fine :) very easy peasy. I felt so chatty and confident when I woke up. It was wonderful.
I wish they told me it was twilight lol, my Grandma had that for her caterats. She had it good!!!
I was just glad I didn't do anything embarrassing. I was chatty but I'm super sure the nurses are used to that. My neighbors didn't feel the same. Maybe I got lucky haha.

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I was nervous for the endoscopy, but it was so quick. They sedate you, it's a different drug than a surgical anesthesia. I worried for nothing. The hardest part for me was being hungry and thirsty because my appointment was at 3:45 in the afternoon




I'm still in the beginning phases on wls, but with the endoscope was the complete surgery or a surgery just to get a view of your stomach?


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It's not surgery, it's just a diagnostic test. Zero pain, very quick and easy.


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