The team makes sure you won't feel pain (though if you are getting this procedure, you often are sedated already because you are breathing through a tube down your throat). The doctor threads a fiberoptic tube with a camera through your mouth to see inside your throat. They make a hole...
Your throat will be numbed by spraying a medication. After the sedative take effect, you will be asked to lie down on your left side and an intravenous line will be placed in your arm. An endoscope will then be inserted in your mouth. You should not feel any pain or discomfort. ...
A colonoscopy is a medical procedure. A doctor inserts a camera mounted on long, flexible tube called a colonoscope into your rectum and colon. Colonoscopies are done to prevent, treat, and monitor diseases of your large intestine, such as colorectal cancer. Your colonoscopy will likely be done...
I'm having a camera soon to check my colon. I'm very worried in case it is Bowel Cancer. Still its better to be on the safe side than sorry. I would advise anyone to get the camera inside, to check for cancer tumours, if you are still bleeding after this type of surgery. Once ...
So far I did not loose my taste buds, I was advised there was slim chance of having a lasting metal taste. I do hear my own voice loadly in my head and I am hearing rushing noises and wind like sounds hoplfully these will pass. They feel like the noises when you had a bad ...
A bronchoscopy is an endoscopic medical procedure that is used to look inside the airways (bronchi) and the lungs. It involves inserting a bronchoscope—a narrow tube that has a light and a camera on one end—through the nose or mouth and guiding it down through the trachea (windpipe) in...
You may also hear your doctor call this a video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS). It checks for problems on the outside of yourlungs. You'll getgeneral anesthesiafor this procedure, which means you won't be awake for it. Your doctor puts a breathing tube down your throat and into ...
My right shoulder bothered me a little bit and I knew that was from the CO2 they fill your abdomen with- pretty normal. I did take some Miralax on Friday and a dose on Saturday as I was nervous about having a soft bowel movement. Worked great and had no pain when I finally had a ...
If you are short of breath, feel as if something is stuck in your throat or you are constantly coughing/clearing your throat and voice changes you could be subject to this. Others are idiopathic (unknown cause) but have these same symptoms without having been intubated. Please do not take ...
You may also hear your doctor call this a video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS). It checks for problems on the outside of yourlungs. You'll getgeneral anesthesiafor this procedure, which means you won't be awake for it. Your doctor puts a breathing tube down your throat and into ...