Modern people are particularly concerned about their health and the state of health of their bodies. As medical conditions become more and more advanced, there are more and more means of examination, and because modern people's diet and lifestyle habits are not very healthy, the chances of the body getting sick are also getting bigger and bigger, so the doctor also advocates that we can do a physical examination once a year, so that we can find out as early as possible the body's abnormality and treat it as early as possible.
And the stomach and intestines is the human body's health is fundamental, the stomach and intestines is healthy, then the origin of the disease is safe, but because of the variety of diet, resulting in modern people's stomach and intestines is particularly weak. More and more people's stomach and intestines do not know, a look shocked. Slight is constipation, enteritis, stomach acid. Serious is intestinal cancer and stomach cancer, said out of the pillow is to make people panic.
The good thing is that nowadays the medical equipment in the hospital is advanced, as long as the timely examination can be the first time to check out the gastrointestinal problems. However, many people are afraid of gastroenteroscopy, after all, this process is required to insert a 1-meter-long tube into the stomach and intestines, just think of the taste is enough to be acidic.
What is it like to have a colonoscopy or gastroscopy without anesthesia?
It's a good question for me to answer because I've been through both.
Gastroscopy without anesthesia
When I was 13 years old, my stomach was uncomfortable, and I often felt cramps and flatulence, so I went to the hospital for a gastroscopy. Before doing the gastroscopy, the doctor prescribed a bottle of white medicine for me to drink while I was in line for the gastroscopy. Vaguely remember is white viscous liquid, after the entrance is the whole mouth is that kind of like eating raw persimmons as numb to the feeling, then go in, the doctor gave me a thing stuffed mouth, is to keep the mouth has been open and closed plastic. The doctor inserted the gastroscope tube into my throat, I felt a wave of regurgitation want to vomit, and then the doctor let me swallow and hold back not to vomit, after this pass, the tube into the stomach, and then there is a variety of tubes in the stomach stirring, this will not feel the pain, that is, I will feel the stomach turned over in the flatulence of the feeling, very uncomfortable.
Then it was too much to bear, and because the food in the stomach was not fully digested, it was not clear to see the end.
General anesthesia colonoscopy
Colonoscopy I have done 2 times, because of constipation is very serious, 14 years in 14 years, and then again in 19 years. But I did a general anesthesia colonoscopy, the day before the colonoscopy, the doctor gave a few packets of medicine, in the morning of the colonoscopy, the medicine will be soaked in 3 liters of warm boiled water, divided into three 3-4 times to drink, drink, not long after the start of the diarrhea, pulling down the poop water into a clear water without impurities on behalf of the discharge of the clean.
Then go to the hospital, the doctor gave me an IV drip, on to the operating table, the doctor is to let me take off my pants, arching the body, and then not a moment later I was unconscious, and when I woke up, the operation has been completed, is to feel the intestinal tract is very uncomfortable, and then will be farting all the time. After a day's rest it was fine.
The good news is that the results were good and there were no problems! I have never had a colonoscopy without anesthesia, it is said to be painful, but it is bearable.
So, gastrointestinal examination is not really scary, I think if you think you have a bad stomach, you should be brave to go to the examination, no need to be afraid, early detection, early treatment.