Posted by Karma Jessen This is my experience and I wonder how many of us are there that do not respond well with versed or other sedatives and won't know it until it's too late? Last Wed. I went through a horrible procedure where friends and family all said the prep part was very bad; the colonoscopy was a piece of cake. Yeah, right it couldn't have been farther from the truth for me. I felt like they all lied to me including the *&*&^( doctor. Immediately into the procedure I said, whoa I feel everything stop. They said they gave me more of the sedative. I once again said, "STOP", I still feel everything just at that moment I felt a cold steely pain and hear a muffled snip! I writhed with pain asking, "Did you just cut me?" Then I felt a searing hot poker burning sensation and screamed, "Stop!" Once again the doctor kept going. He said, "Hold still or YOU'LL damage your colon." I thought he would have stopped a long time before this. I was clearly withdrawing consent! Afterwards in the recovery room. I had words with my doctor that stop means stop, no means no. What part of that did you not understand? He said he was 50% done with the procedure. So, you were aware that the sedative didn't work on me. Oh yeah, it doesn't work on 2-3% of our patients. We probably should have used general anesthesia on you. There it was and you chose not to. I wasn't even told of this PRIOR to my colonoscopy or I would have had the general anesthesia. That's called disclosure. He failed to tell me of that option. Someone had to drive me anyway. I'm waiting on my results of the polyp. Meanwhile, I've filed a formal grievance with the state medical board for him not stopping the procedure when he knew I wasn't sedated and he proceeded with the colonoscopy against my wishes. A good doctor will stop and reschedule you with general anesthesia. Please do yourself a favor, do homework and find out how many of these they have preformed and what they would do if you were not asleep for this. It's your right to know. I haven't slept a night through since this traumatic experience. Ask for general anesthesia if you can.
on 8/10/2005, 12:14 am, in reply to "Re: Sedation for colonoscopy"
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Colonoscopy-awake throughout procedure!