You may have a mild sore throat after the procedure... MY ASS!

[CornField]

Yesterday I went into the hospital for an endoscopy. (Where they send a tube with a camera down into your stomach for a look around.) Although I was nervous, I wasn't horribly so because my mother-in-law had it done a few weeks ago and it didn't affect her adversely at all. *sigh* It feels like someone rammed a railroad tie down my throat and roughed up my vocal chords. It hurts to talk... it hurts to swallow. It just hurts. Dammit.

[radwriter0555]

1. You can take ibuprofin for that, and it will make a big difference.

Just a regular dose, as if for a headache.

[CornField]

2. I'm sure it would help, but I can't take it

I'm limited to Tylenol only -- unfortunately.

[radwriter0555]

5. THEN take the tylenol... it will help also.

And I recommend about a quart of your favorite ice cream as well.

[REP]

9. I Feel Your Pain!

I can't take any NSAIDs (kidney failure) and there are times I'd give my right arm for a naproxyn. I hoe they gave you something like Tylenol with codeine or hydrocodone - that's gotta hurt like hell. Try some hot tea with lemon, honey and whisky; if nothing else, the whisky should make you care less!

[u4ic]

3. I had a strange reaction to the anaesthetic

during mine, and ended up wide awake during the procedure. :scared:

Mine was pretty raw for a few days, too. I took some honey every few hours, and it seemed to take the edge off. (the sugar rush was a bonus)

[REP]

8. You, Too, Huh?

They probably gave you Versed. It doesn't work on me, either. It's called "the paradoxical reaction" and you should now this in case you ever have a colonoscopy, needle biopsy or any other procedure done under "twilight" anesthesia so you can tell them - and they'll try something else. (I learned this the hard way - I've had multiple colonoscopies, endoscopies and a kidney biopsy done while WIDE AWAKE because of this rare reaction.)

[CaliforniaPeggy]

4. My dear CornField.......

I know it hurts......and it will pass.....

Hope all is well down inside you!



:loveya: :hug:

[CornField]

7. I'm still kicking, Peggy

The semi-official word is Bartlett's Esophagus (stomach lining moving up into the esophagus). The doctor took a biopsy while there and I won't know the results of that until next week.

Two things:

1) I had hurt so badly for almost 3 years that I finally got to the point that I figured the worst news imaginable couldn't be any worse than the hell I was already putting myself through by not knowing.

2) I refuse to go look up the diagnosis on the internet and scare the crap out of myself further. Whatever will be, will be.

[BikeWriter]

6. Yikes! I'm sorry. Feel better soon!

:(

[grasswire]

10. try this

Orange Julius, home style

In the blender whirl ice cubes, orange juice concentrate, milk, and vanilla.

I fed it to a friend who had a fish bone removed from his esophagus. He said it really helped.

[hfojvt]

11. I do not remember my throat hurting

I think it was my stomach or further down my esophagus. However, they had to dialate me in two places two and gave me some ulcer medicine too. I do not remember how bad the pain was, but I wanted some relief and they promised something, but I think I buzzed them every hour for about three hours "sorry to bother you, but I am still in pain here." until they finally gave me some morphine, which made me feel like puking. That first drink some six hours after the procedure, however, was incredibly painful. Like taking a drink of fire.

[Jazz2006]

12. OUCH!

Hope you're soon feeling better.

Sometimes it happens that the "norm" doesn't necessarily apply to any particular medical procedure, of course, and it sounds like you hit the unlucky side of the lottery on that one. I feel for you, and hope that you are back to 100% soon. It could be 100% legit that you experienced pain that most people don't, and it could be for any number of reasons.

That said, I woke up in the midst of orthoscopic surgery to repair nasty tears of the ACL and MCL in my knee from a skiing accident but when I woke up, I had memories of wierd visions of things that I couldn't figure out but put down to anaesthetic dreams. Still, I had a fat lip, broken fingernails and nasty bruises on my upper arms that were inexplicable to me, along with memories that didn't fit anything I could fathom.

So, I asked what had happened. At first, members of the medical team said what amounted to no more than "huh? what? nothing" but when I asked the surgeon point blank and mentioned the wierd and inexplicable but very vivid memory I had of a video screen that appeared to show a scope through my ligaments and such and which was confuzzled in my anaesthetic memory as a video of the surgery (which they had done, as it turns out), he told me that I woke up during surgery and had reacted physically (duh - who wouldn't? and why on earth hadn't they calculated the anaesthetic properly in the first place?) and that they had to "restrain" me, which caused the bruises on my arms, and he said that I'd been trying to pull the tube out of my throat, so they had to hold stuff down on my face, which accounted for the fat lip, and that I was fighting them off, which accounted for the broken fingernails.

My point is that they lied at first and tried to convince me that nothing untoward had happened at all, but later admitted that things had gone awry. At first, that pissed me off no end, but when I thought about it further, I realized that the surgeon could have, had he wanted to, have continued the lie. After all, I was anaesthetized so I could hardly dispute whatever version of events they chose to present.

Bottom line - even though it sucks big time to have to go through what yo'ure going through, there could be a perfectly rational and reasonable explanation for why your throat hurts more than expected. But ask questions if you have any doubt about it.

And I sure hope you're starting to feel better by the time you read this :)