Ever have a scope stuck up your nose and down your larynx?

[Misunderestimator]

It is WAY uncomfortable! That's about it.

[Blue-Jay]

1. I call that procedure....

Saturday night.

[Clintmax]

2. Ummm....NO!

And thanks for the picture in my mind, Dude! That makes the baby jeebus cry!

[datasuspect]

3. better than up your butt

or urethra

[Misunderestimator]

4. The urethra maybe...

the butt... To tell the truth... I'd pick that over the nose scope.

[datasuspect]

7. you're right in one way

all you have to do is push back on it.

or so i heard . . .

[Misunderestimator]

10. Yeah, and let me tell you... you do NOT want to push back on the nose

scope! Ouch!!

[NNadir]

5. I had a feeding tube once.

It was awful. I had my head split open, 40 stitches on the back of head, tremendous neck cramps from trying to keep my stitches off the pillow, 3 broken ribs, a collapsed lung with a thoracotomy tube through the side of my chest wall in into to reinflate it, IV's, blood tests every couple of hours.

The worst thing about the whole deal? The feeding tube. I pleaded with them to remove it, and when they finally agreed to do it, it was probably the happiest moment of the 22 years I'd lived at that point.

[Misunderestimator]

8. Yikes! Thank you, I feel much better now!

:scared:

(Seriously though... yikes)

[NNadir]

12. You have to compare.

Of course, I should compare myself to people who died after going through similar stuff, or people who were permanently injured.

I lived and I am fine. That was really the best part, getting better. It was 30 years ago.

[Misunderestimator]

13. It's all relative, that's for sure.

Glad you survived. :thumbsup:

[Pithlet]

6. That can't be fun.

Is everything okay?

[Misunderestimator]

11. Yes, fortunately.

I've been worried for months that I had nodes on my vocal cords (long story)... but they are perfectly healthy... :whew:... I NEVER want to have that thing down my nose again.

[johnnie]

9. I've heard

That georgie has had tubes in his nose before.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

14. My dear MisU!

I've never had such a procedure done to me...but I feel for you!

Glad it's over, and that you are fine....

I'm relieved to hear also that your nodes are whole, and healthy...

I'll bet this reinforced your determination to keep on non-smoking...

:woohoo: :woohoo:

:applause: :applause:

:loveya: :pals:

[Misunderestimator]

16. Yes it did....

I was worried that my smoking (and coughing) had caused some damage. I'm lucky. :loveya:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

18. That is the best news!

Now you can get your voice back, and we'll be able to hear you shake the rafters with it!

I'm so happy to hear your good news! I can hardly express it....


:bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

[kiraboo]

15. There are a couple of really fun tests I've been through:

one, where they put a tube with a diameter a little less than a pencil down your nose and into your esophagus & stomach. Then, over a period of about thirty minutes, they measure the response of the lower esophageal sphincter and the esophagus as they put water down you throat. They have to move the tube up and down to get different measurements. The other one is the ph probe, where they thread a (mercifully) thinner but still not thin enough plastic-coated monitor down your nose, through your esophagus and into your stomach. Where the line comes out of your nose they tape it firmly, then snake it around your ear and tape it there and down your neck. This end is attached to a hand-held monitor with buttons you must punch to record certain digestive events. You wear this sucker for twenty-four hours. It is suggested that you "go about your regular daily activities, such as going to work, eating meals and snacks, etc." Yeah, RIGHT! I've gone through it twice and both times my body violently rejected the probe after a few hours. It's torture.

[Misunderestimator]

17. Holy Shit! You Win!

That really sucks! :scared:

30 MINUTES?!? Yow!

[kiraboo]

19. Well, (modestly,) I try! n/t

[JanMichael]

20. No. Plus I hope it doesn't appen anytime soon either.

Can Steph have her toaster yet?

[hallc]

21. Oh i have...many times

I used to get it done yearly to check for calluses on my vocal cords...I was once very into singing and wanted to make something of it, so I took my cords very seriously. It is most definitly not fun. I dreaded those appointments every year.