1Before gastroscopy

▌Indicator checkMy doctor had me check my liver function before the gastroscopy, and patients with other problems also need to be aware of the following:

hypertensive patient: On the day of your gastroscopy, you should also take your blood pressure medicine at the normal time, with a small amount of warm water. You can't have a gastroscopy if your blood pressure is too high, it can be risky.

Patients on anticoagulants and antiplatelet agents: Medications such as aspirin, warfarin, and clopidogrel are supposed to be stopped 1 week before the gastroscopy, so ask your doctor if you can stop taking these medications.

diabetic: It is important to talk to your doctor about which glucose-lowering medications you are taking, when you are taking them, and whether or not you can stop your glucose-lowering medications and insulin on the day of the gastroscopy to prevent hypoglycemia from occurring because of the long fasting time.

　　There is no need to fast for any of these tests, and you can usually get the results on the same day as the blood draw, and then just go to your appointment.

▌prohibition on eating and drinkingPrior to the gastroscopy it is required that you can't eat anything after eight o'clock the night before, and you can't drink any more water after ten o'clock. Of course, you can't eat the next morning either. So you'd better eat more that night to save yourself from being hungry the next morning.

　　▌Painless Gastroscopy OptionalAfter arriving at the hospital the next morning, the doctor said that I could have a painless one, but with an extra 330 bucks~ Would someone as brave (mei) and courageous (qian) as me pay extra to have a painless one? Of course not! I will do the normal one. And the painless ones require a family member's signature to administer anesthesia, but the baby went alone and then I drank this. ▼

　　Milky white liquid, sweet and not unpleasant, I think it should be because I'm hungry, cover your face~

　　2 Gastroscopy in progress

　　Finally got in, not what I expected lying down not sitting or standing. The doctor said it would take about two minutes if I cooperated well. I thought to myself, "No matter how hard it is, I'll endure it. The longer I struggle, the more painful it will be.

　　When you start gastroscopy, lie on the examining bed to the left side, slightly forward, and the nurse will give you a dental cushion at this time, so just bite down with your teeth. The nurse will give you a dental pad at this time, so just bite down on it with your teeth.

　　A long, thin, black tube (maybe 5mm in diameter) went right through my mouth and into my stomach. I didn't have to do any swallowing, and the doctor didn't ask me to do anything else. It looks like this~▼

　　Gastroscope into the mouth, at first felt particularly nauseous, just want to vomit feeling, vomited several times. The doctor said again: do not swallow, there is saliva out of the mouth haha! Inhale through the nose and exhale through the mouth. Slowly, I felt better. But obviously feel something in the stomach is moving, I do not dare to move, for fear that the things in the stomach to scrape the stomach wall. I didn't feel any pain, from the time the tube went into my stomach to the end of about a minute.

　　3 After gastroscopy is performed

　　I didn't feel any discomfort after the gastroscopy and showed the results to the doctor, who said it was superficial gastritis and prescribed a lot of medication. Then I felt so hungry. Then I had a good meal, haha.

　　summarize

　　All in all, I just felt more nauseous and uncomfortable, and didn't feel any pain. As a woman with a strong tolerance, gastroscopy is not as scary as it is said to be. There is no need to spend an extra 300+ for a painless one at the right hospital.

"Happy Little Dawgs" has the answer for you. Joyful Concerns

As a doctor sometimes you want to experience the pain of all your patients, but that is also unrealistic. How can a person experience all the sickness and pain and still be alive to see others?

But there are some ailments that we as doctors can relate to - after all, we're only human, and we get sick too.

I've had 2 gastroscopies.The first time I strongly urged sobriety for a gastroscopy despite my wife's demands., for two reasons.

For one thing, gastroscopies are done awake in the average patient, which means that the average person can tolerate them.

Secondly, I wanted to experience what it was really like to have a gastroscopy. That feeling is still fresh in my mind.

Because of gastrointestinal bleeding, I needed to have a gastroscopy to clarify the cause of my condition. Like a normal patient, I queued up, received a bottle of medicine and drank it, mentally fantasizing about all the uncomfortable scenes during the gastroscopy and the fear of my condition (the cause of the bleeding).

After drinking the small vial of local anesthetic, my throat was a little numb and the taste was acceptable.

When I arrived at the gastroscopy room, lying on my side facing the doctor with my head toward the gastroscopy machine, the nurse brought me a dental pad and told me to put it in my mouth and explain the precautions.

I was listening carefully to the nurse's instructions when I saw the gastroscope coming towards me with a flashing bright light. As she delivered it, she said to be careful to breathe in through the nose and out through the mouth!

Honestly I heard it and thought about how I usually gasp for air, and before I knew it, the gastroscope was already in my mouth. The hardest part was this step.

Medically, it's called the epiglottis, like a finger in the throat. The next time I was just a nausea out of dry vomiting, vomiting I forgot to breathe, do not know what to inhale, what the nose inhalation, mouth exhaling can not be controlled at all.

Drool, snot, tears mixed together almost in the left side of my face. I heart a cross, eyes closed, love how to do it what not to think about anything ...... may be the gastroscope to the stomach, dry heaving better, this is when I slowed down the nose inhale, mouth exhale ...... followed by hiccups, because the gastroscope to see the stomach structure Need to inject gas into the stomach, stomach bloating full of gas is very uncomfortable, stomach rolled, nausea, want to vomit!

A few burps got better and the gastroscopy was completed. I exhaled deeply and the doctor told me I had a bleeding duodenal ulcer and the bleeding had stopped.

The second was a follow-up gastroscopyMy wife hooked me up with a painless gastroscopy, which is the type of gastroscopy done under anesthesia that requires a family member to accompany you. Before the examination, you need to leave an intravenous indwelling needle, before doing gastroscopy, there will be an anesthesiologist to talk to you kindly, shh! In fact, he is judging the effect of anesthesia.

They say that anesthesia gives one beautiful dreams, I don't remember having any beautiful dreams, I woke up with a hazy vision of my wife beside me, my head was a little groggy, but I was sure I wasn't sleepy.

I want to get up and go, my wife said I have to observe for a while longer, saying that I woke up nonsense for half a day, but, I do not remember anything ah ......

This is my experience of doing 2 gastroscopies. One point that needs to be emphasized is that it is still really risky to do gastroscopies for older patients with a bad heart because the violent stimulation will speed up the heartbeat and increase the burden on the heart, and people with a bad heart are prone to induce heart disease and become dangerous.

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Thanks for the invitation! For this problem as a clinician I have the right to speak, but also have a deep understanding, and listen to me slowly, last year, because of their usual hobby of tobacco and alcohol, somehow, since the feeling of loss of appetite, meal size suddenly reduced by half, accompanied by epigastric pain, weight loss of 15 pounds in January, according to their own gastritis treatment for 10 days, the effect is not good, a little doubt that is not gastric cancer, because my grandmother and my father died of stomach cancer, so I went to the county hospital to check the gastroscope! She went to the county hospital for a gastroscopy. Usually, patients are allowed to go for gastroscopy, but this time, I was a little bit nervous (afraid of stomach cancer) when it was my turn to experience it.

After taking the gastroscopy application form, the full viral labs and a lidocaine to the examining doctor, the doctor first asked me to swallow slowly with the lidocaine in my mouth (digestive surface anesthesia), after 5 minutes I was asked to lie on my side, put the cotter in place and then started to go down the lens, and when I reached the pharynx I cooperated with the doctor in swallowing, the process went smoothly, just a bit of regurgitation, and the diagnosis was celiac disease gastritis.

Gastroscopy on the notes written out for your reference: 1. When the stomach upset, weight loss, diet reduction, and nausea, belching, epigastric discomfort or pain and other symptoms, poor efficacy of medication is a timely gastroscopy, because gastroscopy is the esophagus stomach duodenal disease diagnosis of the best examination methods. 2. No one said that the pain is unbearable, you just have to cooperate with the doctor on the line. The most important thing to remember is that it is not necessary to have a painless gastroscopy. There is no need to make painless gastroscopy, that is only in addition to more money (and the risk of anesthesia) the result is the same. 3. suggested that there are no symptoms, the age of more than 40 years old did not check the gastroscope should be checked once, because your stomach to give you 40 years of work, but also care about care it, but also to eat and drink to the end of it with you!

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What is it like to have a gastroscopy?

Hello, small Moon pharmacist has done gastroscopy, can use personal experience to share the feeling of doing gastroscopy, if you want to understand in detail, you can follow me, private message me oh!

I guess most people with stomach problems are afraid to hear the doctor say that they are having a gastroscopy, that fear will instantly surround your nerves, and I am no exception.

Last summer, due to eating and drinking spicy food for 3 days in a row, after a while, the stomach and its discomfort, nausea and vomiting, acid reflux accompanied by occasional bouts of pain. Took omeprazole for 1 week without much effect. Coupled with their own suspicion of whether there will be a major problem with the stomach, the more I think the more afraid, so I looked for gastroenterology colleagues to seek help, he looked at me, said, or do a gastroscopy check it. He looked at me and said, "Let's do a gastroscopy." It was okay if I didn't say that, but when I did, it scared me. I was afraid and rejected the idea of gastroscopy. But I thought to myself, "What if there is something wrong, it's better to treat it as soon as possible. So I nodded my head.

If you have agreed to a gastroscopy, you need to consider whether to have an anesthetized gastroenteroscopy or a regular gastroenteroscopy. Each has its own advantages, but considering that gastroenteroscopy requires a family member to accompany the patient and requires propofol anesthesia, it takes a long time and is troublesome. However, considering that gastroenteroscopy requires family members to accompany and propofol anesthesia is needed, it takes a long time and is troublesome.

That night, I actually lost sleep and tossed and turned thinking about all the horrors and hardships of tomorrow. Combined with the anxiety, my stomach got even more upset, and with an upset stomach, I couldn't sleep even more. And so, in a daze, I don't know how long it took to fall asleep.

Early the next morning, I went to the Laboratory, before the gastroscopy, need to be tested a pre-gastroscopy routine test, mainly HIV, HBV, syphilis and other blood-borne infections. Soon, the results were out in half an hour.

I got my results and headed straight to the gastroscopy room. I wanted to be the first one to do it, and my coworker was very cooperative and came 20 minutes early, which was appreciated. The nurse assistant first made me drink a lidocaine gel, which is a local anesthetic, and after I drank it, I felt a numbing sensation in my mouth as well as in my throat and esophagus.

After a while, my coworker told me to lie down on the bed, on my side with my feet arched and scrunched up. I was given a mouth gag to bite down on, and the horrible moment was finally coming. A thin black tube inserted from the mouth, a sudden wave of nausea attacked over, very much want to vomit, throat is very painful, the colleague reassured in on the good, with the tube slowly inserted, feel much better, is still very uncomfortable, very much want to vomit. Inserted into the stomach, I thought hurry up and finish it, this process lasted about 2 minutes or so, my colleague took pictures while saying to me that the problem is not big, did not find anything bad, I was much more relaxed. At this time, the assistant nurse took a thinner tube, saying that she wanted to clip a bit of tissue for testing. Behind me, the tube was finally pulled out of my mouth, and I immediately felt relieved and very comfortable. After I got up, I dry-heaved a few times, thinking that gastroscopy is really uncomfortable and I really don't want to do it again next time. Luckily, the result was chronic non-atrophic superficial gastritis with HP (-), and I took a course of gastric pills afterward, and the discomfort finally disappeared.

Through this gastroscopy, I learned that, usually or to take good care of their stomach, not overeating, stomach bad, really can not eat anything, eat anything does not smell good, sleep is not good, where all uncomfortable.

Although it is uncomfortable to do gastroscopy, but the process is not as painful as imagined, and the time is quite short, the average person can still tolerate, for the sake of their own stomach health, if the physician asked to do a gastroscopy examination, that is still to follow the physician's advice.

Lastly, I hope everyone has a good stomach!!!!

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Anyone who has had a gastroscopy should experience the same thing, which is that it is very uncomfortable, after all, it is a foreign object inserted into the stomach. Next, I will tell you the whole process of gastroscopy from the beginning of the preparation, to the end of the end.

胃镜It is the most widely used and fastest progressing endoscopy, through which the nature, size, location and scope of inflammation, ulcer or tumor in the esophagus, stomach and duodenum can be directly observed, and histological or cytological pathology is feasible.

pre-inspection

Fasting for 8 hours, those with pyloric obstruction, prior to the examination2-3Eat fluids within days and before the test1The stomach should be pumped at night. If donebarium meal X-ray contrastThe people whoShould not be done within 3 daysGastroscopy.

pre-inspection5-10Minutes, one oral2%Lidocaine gel, used for local anesthesia. In addition, testing for hepatitis B and C virus markers is required prior to the examination, and specialized gastroscopy is used for those who are positive!

Checking in:

The patient is usually placed in the left lateral position, with the legs flexed, the head on a low pillow to loosen the neck, and the collar and tie loosened. A curved tray for the patient's saliva is usually placed at our mouth.

The operator faces the patient, holding the operating part in the left hand and the end of the lens in the right hand for about20cmThe gastroscope is inserted into the mouth under direct vision and slowly advanced downward along the dorsum of the tongue and the posterior pharyngeal wall to the level of the cricoid cartilage when the upper esophageal opening is visible.

The patient needs to keep his head position still at this time, when the gastroscope is inserted into the15cmWhen it reaches the pharynx, the patient is instructed to make a swallowing motion, but not to swallow the saliva to avoid choking, and to allow it to flow into a curved disk or to be sucked out with a straw.

After checking:

Pump as much air as possible when withdrawing the endoscope to prevent the patient from bloating. Postoperative anesthesia in the pharynx does not wear off, try toDo not swallow saliva to avoid chokingThe postoperative2hours, you may drink a small amount of water and eat again if there is no choking.

The diet of the day should be fluid and semi-fluid, and the line ofPatients with biopsiesshouldNo food or water for 4 hours, a warm and cool diet should be consumed. Note that if sore throat and foreign body sensation in the throat occurs, make sure not to cough hard to avoid damaging the mucous membrane of the throat. If abdominal pain or bloating occurs, massage can be performed to promote gas evacuation!

To add, nowadays, with the advancement of materials and examination techniques, the pain of gastroscopy has been significantly reduced compared to the past. If there is still fear in the heart or patients are very afraid of pain, they can choose "painless gastroscopy", but not everyone is suitable for it, and an anesthesiologist is required to evaluate the situation.

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Having a gastroscopy can be a hundred different experiences for a hundred people.

I have done two gastroscopy, one is 15 years ago, gastrointestinal hemorrhage, hospitalized in a county hospital, after two days of hemostatic injections, gastroscopy to investigate the cause of the gastroscopy, that time the anesthetic used to make their own choice, a kind of domestic, as if it is 12 yuan, a kind of imported, about 80 yuan, I remember the doctor said that imported is not in the health insurance coverage, but the person will not be too suffering, I chose to imported, indeed, after the tube into the throat, the feeling of foreign objects into the throat is indeed uncomfortable, you can clearly feel so thick a tube pumping and inserting from time to time to rotate, but will not feel pain. Indeed, after the tube into the throat, the feeling of a foreign body into the throat is indeed difficult, you can clearly feel so thick a tube pumping insertion, and from time to time to rotate a little, but will not feel the pain, mainly spasms and dry heaving, Moreover, the doctor (yes, is the attending physician personally do the gastroscope) is also good to pacify, although difficult, but basically tolerable, no rumors of so horrible.

The second time I had a gastroscopy was last year at a municipal hospital (Triple B) outpatient clinic. The cause of stomach pain and accompanied by black stools, because there is no sample, suspected of gastrointestinal bleeding, the doctor suggested directly in the outpatient gastroscopy, gastroscopy experience, I feel tolerable agreed to do, but, but, but I was wrong, this time to do the gastroscopy of the specialized laboratory personnel, should not be part of the doctor's sequence, is a woman, I do not remember her face, but I know that she is definitely incompetent. I don't know whether it is her rough action or what, this time the dry heaving reaction is particularly violent, and she has been impatiently saying: "you bear, you like this how can I check ah", not I can't speak with a tube in my mouth, I really want to scold her, this kind of reaction can bear? I really want to scold her, can she tolerate this kind of reaction? And then even a burst of dry heaving, she complained again and again, "you like this how can I check ah", I gave her a sign, give up to continue the examination, she also hastily wrote the results of the examination on the report card, I did not even take the results of the examination to the doctor to see, directly home, do not see the doctor.

When the stomach makes some trouble, the doctor often says to do a gastroscopy, and the heart is instantly horrible and afraid, because I often hear people say how horrible it is to do a gastroscopy, so what kind of experience is it to do a gastroscopy?

Today we will tell you about a situation that often occurs during gastroscopy, in life, we sometimes yawn, open your mouth wide when biting fruit, the upper and lower dental beds can not be closed, commonly known as "jaw drop", which is medically known as temporomandibular joint dislocation.

TMJ dislocation is actually one of the common complications of having a gastroscopy.

Why is this happening?

First, let's find outHow does a gastroscope work?。

A gastroscopy is a tube with a light-conducting fiber with a lens on the front end that the doctor uses.

To prevent the subject from biting the gastroscope tube autonomously, a washer is placed in his or her mouth, and the gastroscope is passed through the washer into the subject's esophagus, stomach, and duodenum in a sequential manner.

Projected by a lens with a light source onto a display at the doctor's workstation, the doctor can clearly observe all parts of the upper gastrointestinal tract from the display.

Gastroscopy full examination timeAbout 10 minutes., if pathology is done or treatment is performed endoscopically, theTakes 20 to 30 minutesNo wait.

At the end of the gastroscopy, if the subject has a disorder of jaw movement, inability to close the mouth, salivary outflow, slurred speech, difficulty chewing and swallowing, and anterior extension of the lower jaw, it means that the temporomandibular joint is dislocated, which is commonly known as "Jaw dropping."。

When this happens, the doctor will perform TMJ repositioning, and for those who have difficulty with repositioning, he/she will usually ask for the assistance of a dentist or an ENT.

Reasons for this complication:

First, some patients with chronic wasting disease, such as anorexia wasting, cancer wasting, etc., its muscle tension malfunction, ligament laxity, generalized wasting lack of adipose tissue, temporomandibular joints lose the protection of adipose tissue, in the gastroscopy, due to the large open mouth biting the mouth ring, the examination time is too long or ordinary gastroscopy patients can not tolerate frequent vomiting ergo inverted, it is easy to occur temporomandibular dislocation.

Another reason is that some patients gradually fall asleep after injection of anesthesia drugs during painless gastroscopy, a process that involves involuntary yawning resulting in excessive opening of the mouth, which can lead to temporal ligament strain or loosening, causing the small head of the temporomandibular joint to come out of the joint fossa, resulting in temporomandibular joint dislocation.

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Hunan Medical Chat Q&A with Pi Qian, Department of Anesthesiology and Surgery, Second People's Hospital of Hunan Province, China

As a gastroenterologist to answer this question:

Although I'm a gastroenterologist, I did my own gastroscopy 5 years ago, and it was for a regular gastroscopy.

How to say is indeed a bit of a sour feeling. Now that I have done more gastroscopy with other people, I know that I have to cooperate with the gastroscopist in order to do a general gastroscopy, and if I cooperate well, it's definitely not as hard as everyone imagines or describes, but of course, if I don't cooperate well, it's really an extreme challenge.

If you know how to cooperate to do gastroscopy general skilled gastroenterologist to do the whole down you will not have too much difficulty. According to my personal experience to do ordinary gastroscopy is the most difficult place is in the gastroscope just over the throat that moment, is equivalent to a chopstick in the throat to stimulate you, this time is also the most likely to produce nausea, vomiting time, most people at this time if you are very nervous will be nausea, dry heaving first gastroscope to vomit out, which in fact, is also a person's normal physiological reaction. But if this has been vomiting certainly mirror is not able to enter, can not enter the esophagus, not to mention into the stomach.

So in order to cooperate with good words is in our gastroscope into the time to relax the whole body, especially the gastroscope in the throat to the time even if you want to nausea and vomiting to use all the strength to endure, when the gastroscope completely over the throat into the esophagus because the gastroscope is very smooth stimulation will not be so big nausea and vomiting will feel a lot better, if the front can hold back, behind the general will be a lot of good to go in the mouth and the nose together with a slowly deep breath will be a lot better. A deep breath at a time will be much better, most people should be able to hold back if the beginning of the desperately vomit behind will also be vomiting. In fact, when you do gastroscopy you have been fasting for four or five hours, this time the stomach is empty, no matter how you vomit there is nothing to vomit out, the more you vomit behind the more uncomfortable, and always nausea, vomiting will obviously affect the observation of the gastroscope.

Well, this is my personal experience my experience, you refer to it. Of course, if you are a very sensitive and very afraid of pain now a lot of hospitals have to carry out painless anesthesia gastroscopy, you can consider adding 500-600 yuan to do painless anesthesia gastroscopy, a good night's sleep, basically no hard, is to spend a little more money is, of course, painless gastroscopy because there is no repeated nausea, vomiting nutrition so you can see a little bit more clearly for a longer period of time also see a little more clearly.

I had a gastroscopy because of my chronic stomach problems. Gastroscopy is actually considered an interventional procedure, right? Everyone has a different body type and may feel differently, so let me tell you how I feel!

A few minutes before the start of the gastroscopy, the doctor will ask you to drink a kind of medicine, the medicine has to be drunk slowly, it won't be hard to drink, and after drinking it, it will have the effect of anesthesia, and for a layman with no professional knowledge like me I guess that medicine is a local anesthesia.

To begin a gastroscopy, the doctor has you lie on your side with a funnel-like appliance in your mouth, and the tube of the gastroscope passes through that appliance into the mouth esophagus to the stomach.

The doctor in the tube through the gastroscope to the pharynx you will feel nausea, at that time I wanted to vomit, after all, the first time to do, inexperienced, the doctor told you to take a deep breath, take a deep breath with your mouth, I did so, and it really helps, nausea is much better.

Gastroscope in the stomach movement is not obvious feeling, may be because of local anesthesia, including the doctor to take a small point of biopsy for laboratory tests, did not feel the pain!

The entire process from start to finish didn't take many minutes, and there was no significant discomfort other than the nausea that started to improve using deep breathing!