I had a colonoscopy last Friday with no sedation. I asked if I could watch and
the doc said sure. the turned the big monitor and he explained the bottom
left corner will show what part of the colon the camera is at. so in goes the snake, spraying a fine mist of water and injecting some carbon dioxide
to go around the first sharp corner, then all the way up and around and back
down to what he called home. this is all done quite quickly. now as he starts
looking as he,s pulling the scope back. he found 1 polyp and he injected something in it and then he said he was a cowboy. the nurse hands him
a thin plastic tube that is shoved in the scope tube and while he,s pushing
that in , a nurse slaps a ice cold specimen bag on my bare hip. I just about hit the ceiling. the doc laughed and the nurse ,I,m sorry! that thin
plastic tube has a multi strand wire in it . he put the loop over the polyp and
tightens the loop and said now I,m burning it of and it disappears back in the scope tube and into the specimen bag. everything else looked fine.
just before the scope was all the way out , he said now I,m turning the camera all the way around and were looking at your rectum. he said looking good , no internal hemorrhoids. I asked the nurse about these scopy,s and
the colon ones are different than the gastro ones and yes they are kept
separate. I,ve had quite a few gastro scopes done in the past without
sedation but never got to watch. the secret is to close your mouth and breathe
through your nose. next time I,ll tell u about a wart I had on the end of my
tongue.