Colonoscopy with severe problems with sedation. Is sedation necessary?

Yes. You can seek out and find a gastroenterologist who will try to do this without IV sedation. You might ask about a nitrous oxide/oxygen mask that you self administer as needed. You have to remain concious to hold and operate the device, thus: you cannot overdose.

A little info I think should be considered about this drug Versed ( Midazolam ) that is used for Sedation for many medical procedures..Sedation and General Anesthesia are not the same and quite a few people being given Sedation

think they are being given General Anesthesia!

There is simply no good or valid reason to ever purposely induce amnesia during a medical procedure. It is only a recent development in medical thinking that amnesia is somehow a "benefit" to the patient. On occasion some

some patients will remember a bad experience. Forgetting does not mean it did not happen!!

I feel that if people were aware of the effects of this drug they would Opt For Another Drug!

Erasing someones memory of what was done to them is wrong!!

In fact, many people who use Versed for " IV Sedation,Conscious Sedation" Twilight Sedation, during a procedure are Awake For The Entire Procedure but remember nothing, often Believing They Were "Out" the whole time.

Versed (Midazolam) is an amnestic. It is also commonly used for minor procedures like setting broken bones,colonoscopies,endoscopies, dental procedures like extractions,conscious sedation,twilight sleep, so that patients won't remember pain and discomfort.HOWEVER THAT DOES NOT MEAN THAT THOSE SENSATIONS WILL NOT BE EXPERIENCED!!!!

Here is a note from a Dentist Who uses Versed

I've used Versed 1000+ times during oral surgery procedures and I've never had a complaint. It's a miracle drug because it is safe and it causes you to not remember an unpleasant experience. My answer to him is isn't it better to have not experienced the pain than to have forgot it. No wonder you have had no complaints they have no memory of the procedure.....

I feel that giving a drug for amnesia is cruel I would not want it done to me!

A strange development in medical thinking that it's okay for a patient to have

pain as long as they don't remember it and think they slept thru the procedure..

Here is a link for some info

http://www.freehelpforcancer.com/manages...

Thanks David. I will agree to an IV saline drip so they can administer medicine if anything goes serious wrong like a puncture of the colon. Nitrous just makes me sick so I will do without. I will ask if I can take a Tylenol or something mild instead. I have read that other industrial countries don't usually sedate male patients for Colonoscopies, for some reason. Also I had wisdom teeth extraction, knee procedures, and even needle based EEGs without sedation and I find nothing to indicate that a Colonoscopy will be horribly painful for a male with a "normal" textbook colon. The worst part should be getting the Colon inflated like a bicycle tire and I've had that before with a Barium enema.