Want to know which is uncomfortable, colonoscopy or gastroscope?

I have done a colonoscopy, an ordinary gastroscope and a painless gastroscope. Gastroscopy has been talked about by many people. Let me talk about my experience in colonoscopy for your reference.

I had a colonoscopy at 16+ 1 1 because my habit of long-term constipation has changed. Once every four or five days, I will change it to two or three times a day. After several days of ideological struggle, I repeatedly confirmed the precautions for doing colonoscopy, asked other netizens about their experiences and pains, and finally decided to do it.

After registration, the doctor prescribed a checklist and medicine for clearing the intestines, made an appointment for colonoscopy in the colonoscopy room, and began to take the medicine for clearing the intestines the night before. I won't talk about the specific medication process, just follow the medication instructions issued by the examination room. This process is to drink medicine repeatedly and go to the toilet to discharge it until it is light yellow liquid.

You can't eat or drink dinner or breakfast the next day, and you have to wait in line for inspection early in the morning. It was very late that day, because I was hungry for two meals and my blood sugar was low. When I got there, I was a little collapsed, my heart was pounding and I didn't even have the strength to walk. I have to ask my family to buy some chocolates until I lie on the examination bed.

I found the exam experience of a male netizen on the Internet. It didn't hurt that much at first, but it hurt a little when the catheter was turned to intestine, and it ended soon. I thought it would be uncomfortable, and I endured it!

As it turns out, I didn't make full mental preparation, overestimated my pain tolerance, and the examination made by a male doctor made me feel more stressed. In this way, under the condition of physical collapse, inadequate mental preparation and heavy pressure, the exam began.

Check that when the catheter enters, you need to pump air into it, otherwise you can't get in. A young doctor examined me. His technique is not very good, and he moves a lot. Feeling unrestrained, my stomach soon swelled up.

The pain came immediately, and my stomach was about to explode. Sweat swished from my head. I took my family by the hand and wailed in the whole examination room, the kind of pain I have never tasted in my life! The female doctor in charge of pressing me also reprimanded me. So many colonoscopy practitioners have never heard me shout so loudly, and I don't want to shout. I'm sweating all over with pain. Can this be melodramatic? ? After checking several parts, I really couldn't hold on and decided not to do it. I haven't checked the last part or two.

The catheter has been pulled out, and I'm back on earth! I don't remember how I climbed down from the examination table. When the test results came out, there was no problem in other parts except the last intestine. Fortunately, the result is a comfort to me.

The experience of this exam is like a nightmare in my memory. I still clearly remember the feeling that my stomach hurts to burst, and every time I think about it, I have bouts of panic.

For everyone, I still summed up some experiences and lessons.

First, people with hypoglycemia must take chocolate and other foods that can quickly replenish energy with them when they have an examination, because you can't eat two meals, and your body consumes a lot, otherwise your collapsed body can't resist the pain.

Second, don't be too optimistic about your expectations and think you can do it. Otherwise, the gap is too big, and most of them will not last until then. Of course, physical examination varies from person to person. Some people have thick intestines, and the catheter passes smoothly, so the pain is much less. My man also does colonoscopy, and he thinks it's tolerable. Probably, the intestines of men are thicker than those of women.

Third, the quality of the experience is also related to the doctor's operation method. I happened to meet a gentle and serious doctor. This is the luckiest thing. If I have the misfortune to meet a "selfless" person, I will communicate with him in advance, do the examination for the first time, try to be gentle and a little nervous. I think most doctors will pay attention.

Fourth, if you have little tolerance for pain and are a girl, you can also choose painless colonoscopy under anesthesia. There is no pain at all, and you will only feel bloated when you wake up, but it is not recommended for the elderly, and there will be some anesthesia risks.

Fifth, don't be scared by my experience to do it. Actually, it was personal experience. Different physical conditions will definitely make you feel different, but certainly not very comfortable. You must have an expectation in your heart and be calm, thinking that at least it won't hurt your life. If you want to do it, you'd better stick to it. Otherwise, it's not just a matter of spending money. This series of efforts is in vain.

High in oil and salt, heavy in taste, fond of midnight snack, working overtime and staying up late, sedentary and exercising less. Modern people have too many bad routines and eating habits. Faced with the situation that intestinal cancer is getting younger and younger, doctors suggest that the first colonoscopy in life should be around 30 years old.

Because early intestinal cancer, like gastric cancer, has no obvious symptoms, and it is already in the middle and late stages when symptoms appear, why not prevent it early? A colonoscopy can keep the intestines free for four or five years, and the intestines are very tolerant to us.

Finally, I wish you peace and health!

I just finished colonoscopy and gastroscopy this month. Let me talk about my feelings. I didn't choose painless colonoscopy, but it was all common. Ordinary people need to check twice, so they have to ask for leave twice. The gastroscope was made first. Before making it 10 minutes, I drank a tube of medicine for anesthesia. After drinking for 2 minutes, I felt numb from the base of my tongue to my throat, but it didn't affect my speech. After I went in, I lay on my side in bed with a disposable cushion in my mouth. The doctor gave me a tool to fix my mouth. It was plastic so that I could bite. Then I saw a clarinet put on my mouth. I felt like vomiting when I was stimulated, so I vomited. I can't throw up anything because I didn't want to eat before. Then I continued to insert the tube and my tears kept flowing. I didn't want to cry, but I was stimulated and instinctively flowed out. Every time I go deeper, I feel a slight movement in my abdomen and retching. I wish it would be over soon. I feel like I can't hold on any longer. Fortunately, after a few minutes, I felt that the pipe was being pulled out, and the feeling gradually eased until it was all pulled out.

Before colonoscopy, I need to drink laxatives, clean my intestines and drink several times, each time I need to drink 1000 ml, which is really a challenge for me who usually don't like drinking water. Here, it is especially recommended that you have a light diet 2 ~ 3 days before colonoscopy, and it is best to eat less. When doing colonoscopy, you can enter from the anus, and the screen on the side can clearly see the situation inside. The intestines are bent. When the pipe turns a corner, you feel a poke in your stomach. Really afraid of being poked. The doctor kept inhaling and asked me to press my stomach with my hand. I felt my stomach beating. The doctor praised me for clearing my intestines, so I saw it clearly. The exam took less than 10 minutes, which was very smooth. Personally, I feel that the process of colonoscopy is not as painful as that of gastroscope. But if I check again in the future, I will choose painless, and this ordinary one is enough.

Ten years ago, I went to the city hospital of traditional Chinese medicine for colonoscopy because of constipation. I made an appointment to do it in a week. I ate liquid food and laxatives prescribed by the doctor the day before.

I've played it a dozen times this day. Drinking water makes me want to vomit, and my mouth is bitter and tasteless. .....

At the appointed time, I waited in line for the seventh job and sat in a chair. While waiting, I heard someone shouting in the colonoscopy room, and the person who came out was pale, which scared me to pay for it quickly.

When it was my turn to do it, a doctor came and gave us an intravenous anesthetic. After a while, I didn't know anything ... When I woke up, the colonoscopy was finished, but when I woke up, I was still dizzy.

I had a gastroscope last month, so I didn't eat breakfast because I went to see stomach trouble alone. The doctor suggested that I can have a general gastroscopy immediately without company. I am really nervous. The doctor gave me medicine before I did it, and then I drank a small bottle of water, and my tongue was numb. Then the doctor put a long tube in my mouth, which made me feel sick. At that time, the doctor loosened the tube and went back and forth several times. The point is that it's not that terrible.

Patients with gastrointestinal diseases must pay attention to keep warm, and be careful not to check because of fear or trouble.

First of all, this discomfort is related to personal experience. Everyone's tolerance for "discomfort" is different, especially colonoscopy, which also has a certain relationship with the patient's body shape and history of abdominal surgery, so Dr. Wu tries to analyze this matter briefly, and then everyone can take their seats accordingly.

We must first know why some people say that gastrointestinal endoscopy is difficult to do.

First of all, when doing gastroscopy, the most important adverse experience comes from pharyngeal reflex. This is a defensive reflex mechanism to prevent foreign bodies from entering the esophagus or airway and causing nausea and vomiting. For those who have never had a gastroscope, we can also imagine that there is a tube that is not too thin and goes straight into the throat. I'm sure some people might feel sick without actually getting stung. A while ago, when COVID-19 conducted extensive nucleic acid testing and screening, collecting throat swabs was also a relatively sinful examination. A small cotton swab is still like this, let alone a gastroscope with a diameter of about 1 cm.

Under normal circumstances, when the gastroscope enters the esophagus through the throat, this discomfort will be relieved to some extent, but if there is pharyngitis or other pharyngeal lesions, it may always be uncomfortable. Therefore, for gastroscopy, the experience of "pain" may not exist, and the most irresistible thing is the strong nausea and retching caused by the mirror shuttling in the stomach.

Besides, enteroscopy is different from gastroscopy. Enteroscopy will not bring us too much discomfort when inserted (except hemorrhoids patients ...), but with the deepening of examination, this discomfort will continue to come. Generally speaking, colonoscopy brings us two kinds of discomfort: bloating and pain.

Because the intestines are shriveled in our body, in order to see the environment clearly and facilitate entry, doctors should inject gas into the intestinal cavity. This kind of gas injection will cause flatulence in our abdomen, and many people are very dissatisfied with this feeling.

In addition, because the direction of the large intestine in our body is irregular, when doing colonoscopy, doctors need to constantly "bend over" by operating the advance and retreat of the colonoscope, so that the intestine can cover the endoscope to shorten the distance. In this process, constant pulling on the intestinal wall will cause pain.

Therefore, this kind of swelling and pain makes many people suffer from colonoscopy, especially those who have had surgery on their lower abdomen and are thinner.

To sum up, the uncomfortable feeling of gastroscope and colonoscopy is completely different, and everyone's tolerance for these two tests is also different. Some people do ordinary gastrointestinal endoscopy as painless as they do, and nothing happens; Some people are in pain on the examination bed. So let's make a plan according to the scene I described and our actual situation.

From my personal experience, it is difficult for me to accept the nausea and retching caused by gastroscopy, but if I have to do the examination, I will definitely choose painless gastrointestinal endoscopy.

Had three gastroscopes. The first time was superficial gastritis. Later, I raised it. Leave it alone. Drink with friends and eat meat. The following year. Slowly uncomfortable, hunger came out again. I haven't recovered since, so I have to go again.

Check gastroscope

Superficial gastritis plus erosion

Focal gonadal intestinal metaplasia

Bad for the stomach

Gastroscopy is uncomfortable

enteroscope

If you have to say uncomfortable, colonoscopy is even more uncomfortable, mainly to clean up the intestines and prepare the intestines. You need to drink water and medicine to have loose bowels, so that your stool will be clear. In contrast, you don't need gastroscopy, you can do it on an empty stomach. Generally speaking, it's just a little more trouble, not so terrible.

First of all, I'm glad to answer your question.

In the eyes of doctors, gastrointestinal endoscopy is a very important means of examination and treatment of gastrointestinal tract, at least at present it is an irreplaceable gold standard in gastrointestinal examination. But when it comes to gastroscopy, many patients are very resistant and feel that gastroscopy is very painful, which leads many patients to refuse or give up gastroscopy.

So is it really hard to do gastrointestinal endoscopy? Which test is more uncomfortable? Anyone who knows about gastrointestinal endoscopy should know that gastrointestinal endoscopy is divided into ordinary gastrointestinal endoscopy and painless gastrointestinal endoscopy. People who feel uncomfortable or painful about gastrointestinal endoscopy usually refer to ordinary gastrointestinal endoscopy.

What does it feel like to be an ordinary gastroscope? When doing gastroscopy, the most common discomfort described by patients is nausea, vomiting and other symptoms, especially for people with sensitive throat. I have done my own gastroscope. When the mirror enters the esophagus through the throat, it is really uncomfortable. The instinctive throat reaction produces the feeling of nausea and vomiting, and the saliva keeps flowing, and the nose and tears are coming out. At this time, it is effective to inhale deeply through the nose and exhale through the mouth. After this hurdle, the later inspection will be relatively comfortable. In short, try to stay calm, breathe naturally and cooperate with the doctor during the examination.

What's it like to have an ordinary colonoscopy? Intestinal pain is not as sensitive as stomach, so ordinary colonoscopy is tolerable for most people, but sometimes in order to better expose the intestinal cavity for observation, the surgeon will appropriately inflate the intestinal cavity, and then the patient will feel abdominal pain or bloating. Because the intestine is curved in the abdominal cavity, some patients may feel unbearable abdominal pain when the colonoscopy passes through these curved places. At this time, they should take a deep breath as much as possible, keep relaxed, and the anus can be naturally discharged without holding their breath. If the abdominal pain is unbearable and it is difficult to cooperate with the examination, the operator should be informed in time. In short, try to stay calm, breathe naturally and cooperate with the doctor during the examination.

Is painless gastrointestinal endoscopy the first choice? Compared with all kinds of discomfort and pain that may exist in ordinary gastrointestinal endoscopy, painless gastrointestinal endoscopy is basically a whole sleep, without any discomfort or pain experience. Therefore, if personal tolerance is not good, it may be more appropriate to do painless gastrointestinal endoscopy. However, painless gastrointestinal endoscopy requires tolerance of cardiopulmonary function and bears the risks during anesthesia. Painless gastrointestinal endoscopy is relatively expensive, and the preparation before examination and the precautions after examination are more complicated. It's not what you want to do, but you still need a doctor's comprehensive judgment before making a decision.

Therefore, it is really hard to say which is uncomfortable to do colonoscopy or gastroscope, mainly depending on the personal endurance and the experience and technology of the operator. Some people think that ordinary gastroscopy will be particularly uncomfortable, some people think that ordinary enteroscopy will be particularly uncomfortable with abdominal pain and bloating, and some people may have anesthesia allergies or anesthesia accidents when doing painless gastrointestinal endoscopy, which may also easily lead to cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. Therefore, gastroscopy and colonoscopy are not absolutely more uncomfortable, only which one is more suitable.

Yesterday, I had a gastroscope. /kloc-go in at 0/0, and the nurse let me drink oral liquid. It was not until after 1 1 point 40 that it was my turn. I vomited violently when I entered the nozzle, and then I vomited all the time, but the nozzle couldn't be closed and I vomited all the time. Tears kept flowing and my legs began to kick, which killed me by half. I had a colonoscopy this afternoon, and I felt better after drinking laxatives in the morning. I just went to the toilet to fetch water. When I arrived at the hospital, I was told to lie down like a gastroscope, and then my ass touched something and it hurt a little. When I first entered the first corner, it seemed to hurt for a few seconds, but the back was completely relaxed. I watched the TV I was checking and discussed with the doctor whether it was good here and what it was. I finished it with more ease.

Summary: The gastroscope can't stand it for a minute.

Although the colonoscopy hurts at the corner, it adds up to more than ten seconds. There is no nerve in the intestine, and it doesn't hurt to turn around. Ps: I also took an ulcer sample with pliers and felt nothing.

For people with intestinal stenosis like me, ordinary colonoscopy is more uncomfortable than ordinary gastroscope.

Colonoscopy:

(1) Long bowel preparation time: Generally speaking, eat a semi-liquid diet with little residue, such as porridge, and do not eat vegetables and fruits rich in fiber 2-3 days before examination. 1 Eat liquid food without residue, such as rice soup, the day before the examination. Check the fasting breakfast in the morning, and check the fasting of liquid breakfast and lunch in the afternoon. Take laxatives 4-6 hours before colonoscopy, and discharge colorless diluted water samples to complete intestinal preparation.

(2) The examination time is relatively long: the human intestine is more than 1 m, so the time of colonoscopy is relatively long, generally around 15 minutes;

(3) Some people have wider intestines and less pain, but some people have narrower and curved intestines, so the pain is intense when doing colonoscopy, and they can't even tolerate stopping the examination.

(4) After colonoscopy is completed, because there is still a lot of gas in the intestine, the feeling of abdominal distension will exist for some time before it can be relieved.

Gastroscope:

(1) Short preparation time: Eat less fiber and digestible food for dinner the day before gastroscopy to ensure that the stomach can be completely emptied during gastroscopy (this is much simpler than intestinal preparation of colonoscopy); No food and water on the day of inspection.

(2) Short examination time: the normal gastroscopy process is only 5 minutes.

(3) The gastroscopy process is not rude, and the pharynx may be a little uncomfortable. Gastroscope is full and disgusting, but it has little pain; During gastroscopy, close your eyes, observe the doctor's operation as little as possible, distract yourself, cooperate with the doctor, breathe rhythmically, inhale through your nose, exhale through your mouth, and keep breathing at a constant speed, which can effectively inhibit vomiting.

The discomfort of general gastrointestinal endoscopy varies from person to person. Try not to sit too much, and choose the appropriate gastrointestinal endoscopy method (painless or ordinary) according to your own situation.

Let me talk about my feelings. I work in a hospital. Anesthesiologists often cooperate with the Department of Gastroenterology in our hospital to do painless enteroscopy. Compared with ordinary gastroscope, ordinary enteroscope is fuller and more disgusting, but less painful. Ordinary colonoscopy varies from person to person. Some people have narrow and straight intestines and less pain. Some people will have a strong pain when doing colonoscopy, and even can't stand to stop the examination. From my own point of view, painless enteroscopy requires deeper anesthesia than painless gastroscope. I hope it will help everyone.