Roger wrote:
Same for Colonoscopicy (sp?). You're gonna do WHAT with that thing?
The lights go out and you wake up an hour or two later. Of course you
told them your life's history while out and all the dirty little
secrets and where you hide your money and porn magazines.


No you don't. What you really do is fart a lot, to the great amusement of
everybody on the other side of the curtains. So nobody knows where you stashed
your money but they might be able to guess what you've had to eat.


If it was done as routine screening they don't care. You list it as
routine screening and every one is happy. Ah, the indignities of
age...and no you don't go flying right after having one of those due
to the little nap. OTOH I didn't notice any after effects from the
anesthetic.


I have driven after a root canal done after I preloaded myself with 15mg of
Vicodin (hydrocodone) without any problems but I don't think I'd consider flying
until the next day. And while I've never had a colonoscopy, I have had an EGD
(esophageal gastric duodenoscopy), which is where they stick the tube down your
throat and look at your guts from the other end. Like the colonoscopy, it's
done under conscious sedation. They call it conscious but as far as most people
can tell, it sure seems like lights out. In any case, I did *not* drive home
after that; I was driven by a friend. And if I wouldn't drive, I sure as hell
wouldn't fly.

But I would the next day.



--
Mortimer Schnerd, RN

VE