Hi All,
Not sure where to post this, so I just went for general. I have a question in relation to colonoscopies, which may be answerable by anyone who has had one or more.
Yes, I'm a cancer survivor, but not colon cancer. I've had lots of colon polyps removed over the years, but ended up with cancer in my tongue, of all places - yet I'm a non-smoker. My delightfully funny wife (not) declared that it must have been from talking too much crap. See what I have to put up with?
Anyway, I've always had routine 'scopes in the private system, but for financial reasons, this next one will be at St Vincent's public in Melbourne. I have always been asleep in the past, with a consultant anaesthetist administering the light GA / sedative. I have not recollection of anyone even so much as laying a hand on me.
The literature on how they do this at St V's is a little bit...vague. Has anyone out there had a scope at St V's? Can anyone share their experience? Did you feel anything? Was it "lights out" - asleep? Any recollections?
I have heard the odd horror story about scope sedatives in the public system.
Thanks for any assistance available.
Regards,
Mark.
