im 13 and getting a Colonoscopy tommarow i want to kno wats it like??

Question

btw i also just startes drinking that fleets phospher soda GROSS!

Answer 1

I work with kids and teenagers who get all kinds of procedures and surgeries done, and I know lots of kids who have had colonoscopies. Do you know if you will be awake or if you will be having anesthesia (medicine to help you sleep)? Where I work, most kids are asleep for the whole procedure. If you will be sleeping during the colonoscopy, you won't feel anything at all! There are two ways for kids to fall asleep:
1)With a mask: you wear a special mask and you breathe in a special sleep medicine, and after a few breaths you just fall asleep.
2)With an IV: an IV is a very tiny straw that is placed in one of the veins on either your hand or your arm. Some places put the sleep medicine through the IV to help you fall asleep.

If you will be sleeping, it is a very deep sleep, so that you won't have to feel anything or be nervous. If the place where you are having your colonoscopy done does not have kids sleep during the procedure, they might give you a little bit of medicine that will help you feel very relaxed and maybe kinda sleepy.

I'm sorry I can't give you a more clear answer as to what will happen--it's just that different places have different ways of helping kids through colonoscopies. If you're feeling nervous, it's okay to feel that way! And ask the doctors and nurses any questions you may have...you have the right to understand everything that is going on. I hope it goes well...let me know if you have other questions!

Answer 2

My daughter is 14 and has a health condition that requires periodic colonoscopies and endoscopies. If the doctor is able to give you a little special medicine first, you probably won't feel much of anything. You might not even remember anything! :-) A couple of tips on drinking the Fleet: * it's not quite as bad, if it's cold, *try to drink it as quickly as the doctors/nurses will allow you, * don't drink or eat anything with red food coloring in it, or the doctor might have a hard time seeing what s/he needs to. Good luck! You can do it! :-)

Answer 3

A little info I think should be considered about this drug Versed ( Midazolam ) that is used for Sedation for many medical procedures..Sedation and General Anesthesia are not the same and quite a few people being given Sedation
think they are being given General Anesthesia!

There is simply no good or valid reason to ever purposely induce amnesia during a medical procedure. It is only a recent development in medical thinking that amnesia is somehow a "benefit" to the patient. On occasion some
some patients will remember a bad experience. Forgetting does not mean it did not happen!!
I feel that if people were aware of the effects of this drug they would Opt For Another Drug!
Erasing someones memory of what was done to them is wrong!!
In fact, many people who use Versed for " IV Sedation,Conscious Sedation" Twilight Sedation, during a procedure are Awake For The Entire Procedure but remember nothing, often Believing They Were "Out" the whole time.

Versed (Midazolam) is an amnestic. It is also commonly used for minor procedures like setting broken bones,colonoscopies,endoscopies, dental procedures like extractions,conscious sedation,twilight sleep, so that patients won't remember pain and discomfort.HOWEVER THAT DOES NOT MEAN THAT THOSE SENSATIONS WILL NOT BE EXPERIENCED!!!!

A note from an anesthesiologist
I agree that using midazolam alone in painful situations is wrong. I've heard people getting colonoscopies and screaming, and maybe they remember, maybe they don't.

A note I got from someone on Yahoo Answers who did have a bad experience..This is very disconcerting... My sister said she heard me screaming from the waiting room but assumed it wasn't me. When we left we heard another female patient screaming. I did a lot of research since your post, thanks so much for the info.

Here is a note from a Dentist Who uses Versed
I've used Versed 1000+ times during oral surgery procedures and I've never had a complaint. It's a miracle drug because it is safe and it causes you to not remember an unpleasant experience. My answer to him is isn't it better to have not experienced the pain than to have forgot it. No wonder you have had no complaints they have no memory of the procedure.....

I feel that giving a drug for amnesia is cruel I would not want it done to me!

A strange development in medical thinking that it's okay for a patient to have
pain as long as they don't remember it and think they slept thru the procedure..


Here is a link for some info

http://www.freehelpforcancer.com/manages-meds/sedation

Answer 4

You appear to be quite young to be getting a colonoscopy .I agree that the Fleets Phosphate of soda is gross. Have to clean out your system in order to inspect your intestine properly. I just finished the sixth procedure which is both simple and painless. You are anesthetized. The doctor will insert a tube which consists of a camera and cutting device , through your rectum, the col on and will examine it for polyps( small growths) which he will remove and have examined. You will then rest until the anesthesia wears off and you're home free. It is a piece of cake !!

Answer 5

The prep is definitely the worst part! The procedure was a piece of cake!! Good luck!

Answer 6

Like riding on the biggest vertical slide at the water park

Answer 7

Read this article, it has heaps of info about it:
http://www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au/bhcv2/bhcarticles.nsf/pages/Colonoscopy?open