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I always refuse sedation. Scrambling your brain in that manner carries with it some longer term risk, especially for older patients. Not worth it just so as to make things more convenient for the staff. They may argue that you have to be sedated but you really don't. Go someplace else if you have to. I've had 2 colonoscopies, an upper endoscopy, and a transesophageal echocardiogram w/o sedation. Not a big deal.
Nice to know that your personal experience = what is right for everyone.
Nice to know that your personal experience = what is right for everyone.
The real problem is that the medical community doesn't convey sedation as something that can be optional, nor do they explain that sedation does carry some risk. They present it as mandatory instead. This is not informed consent.
I don't like Versed, you are conscious but you can't remember what happened. I had it once for an outpatient surgery and for a very long time I would wake up at night in a panic. I would recall small parts of the surgery but never the entire thing, one thing I did recall is that it was very painful, I always felt like it must be what PTSD is like... I could never remember all of it and couldn't move past it because of the flashbacks.
But I guess that's ok with doctors because they figure we won't remember the pain. I will never have it again. A Nurse Anesthetist told me that a lot of docs want to give everyone getting a colonoscopy with versed because they can get the procedure done very quickly (and painfully) but the patient won't remember it.
For dental procedures I ask for Nitrous, I am awake, I remember everything but I just don't care. When they are done it clears your body in a few minutes so that you can safely drive yourself home.
Hmm, a lot what makes pain such an issue is fear. Fear that you are going to feel it in future, and fear that is triggered by memory of it. Controlling or eliminating fear helps a lot.
The real problem is that the medical community doesn't convey sedation as something that can be optional, nor do they explain that sedation does carry some risk. They present it as mandatory instead. This is not informed consent.
Maybe "your" medical community doesn't... mine does.
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