Endoscopy

If you choose to undergo your procedure without sedation, then no, you do not need to have someone drive you. However, if you get part way through your procedure and are too uncomfortable to complete it, it is likely you will have to repeat the endoscope.

Colonoscopy: You may eat 1 hour after your procedure.

Gastroscopy: You may eat 2 hours after your procedure.

The procedure is not going to be sunshine and roses, but it is tolerable. It feels like cramping at some points. Other times there is no pain and sensation.

There are many patients who go through the entire procedure with no sedation and are comfortable.

The goal of the medication that we give is for comfort, not for amnesia. Some people remember the whole thing from start to finish, others remember nothing.

2-2.5 hours from the time you arrive. After your procedure you have to go to a recovery area where you will be monitored by nursing to ensure the sedation given wears off safely.

Opaque liquids leave a residue in your intestine tract which makes it harder to see any abnormalities.

Yes. The scope goes down your food tube, not air tube.

Yes, there is a numbing spray that we apply to the back of the throat that removes most of the feeling.

You’ll get a brief overview of what the findings were from Dr. Joy after your procedure, but these are not the final results. You will be given the final results at your follow-up appointment.