bit embarrassed to ask but this worried me.........

[2shoes]

on Thursday I had an colonoscopy. I had been told by people that have had one that i wouldn't know much about what was going on. all was fine I watched the nurse put the painkillers/sedation in the thing in my hand and she put 5ml of each in.
and omg did it hurt. i was screaming. she then gave me more sedation and I can't remember anything more till I woke up.
Reason I am posting is to ask if anyone can tell me if 5ml of pethidine and 5ml pain stuff was enough,
I won't have to have another one for 10 years but am having a follow up appointment so what to bring this up then.

I had a general, is this not standard?

NurseyJo ouch

I was sedated for my sigmoidoscopy but I can't say I felt sedated. It chuffing hurt and they had to stop at a bendy bit before the sigmoid. You did well to cope with full colonoscopy!

Waiting for results of biopsy now.

Btw. I had 2 doses of sedative and one extra muscle relaxant.

it said on the bit of paper that they gave me that it had to be stopped because..at patients request!!!!
lucky they did enough to say all was ok.
funny though i was talking to a lady who had an ediscopy and she said they only gave her 2ml

I was fully aware during my colonoscopy (sp?), in fact pain meds did not work , started screaming and they all had to hold me still and give me some more drugs.
There was a painful area in my bowel that the doc could not go in at all as was sooooo painful.
He untwisted a loop of my bowel, which was very painful, and I screamed but did not move.

When finished was in shock, shaking and was violently sick when wheeled back to ward.

it was one of the most painful things I have ever had, and I have given birth four times with only a whiff of gas and air with no problems.

I hope I NEVER have to go through a so called minor op like this again.

williamsmummy how awful
StrangeTown i can only assume they just sedate you so you can move when asked.

I am so glad I asked on here now. feel so much better. I thought I was just being a baby.

2 shoes were you at the chartwell unit by any chance? Only they do Thursday appointments so just wondered!

no brighton.

2 shoes the volume is irrelevant

some nurses dilute the sedative/pethidine in saline or water as its easier to give ( a larger volume is easier to give slowly than a small one iyswim)

or the drug could be a different ratio, made by a different manufacturer, lots of reasons

what you need to do is find out the mg (milligrams) as opposed to the ml

hth

nailpolish that makes sense I will querie it a the follow up

I had a sigmoid colonoscopy, so only the lower part of the bowel. I don't think I had any pain relief at all.

Does that mean I'm really dead hard?

Sorry to joke - presumably it's much more painful if you're having the whole bowel investigated.

yes your dead hard