Pre-op ??

Everyone else have an Edndoscopy (sp)? I was told I cannot work that whole day becuase they give me a 'twilight". I never really got into further instruction. I heard "not to work" and did not question anything else, but now I am thinking I want to go into work to save sick time. Will I really need to take a whole day off for an hour procedure?

To be honest with you it depends on what you do and how you handle anesteshia (sp). I don't handle it well so I am out for the day. I have had two and been thankful for the extra rest time from work but I was sick when I had mine.

wow, I guess I should just look forward to a nice day of sleep then!

This is actually called conscious sedation. According to my nursing text book, it is "a drug-induced depression of consciousness that retains the patient's ability to maintain her or his own airway and respond appropriately to verbal commands, yet the patient achieves a level of emotional and physical acceptance of a painful procedure." It is often a combination of an anxiolytic (e.g. Versed) to provide amnesia and an opioid (e.g. fentanyl) to provide pain relief. You should plan to have someone drive you to & from the appointment and to just take the entire day off, because you may be too sedated to drive or actually do any work. Sharyn nurse2b

Sharyn, I love it when you talk nurse : - )

I had one when I had my stricture.. I was fine afterward, but it's different for different people.

I did need the whole day to not feel groggy. The procedure was a breeze, but I was out of it just a little bit all day long. Rachelle

As everyone else says, it's very much an individual thing, but you can at least count on being legally impaired to one degree or another for the rest of the day. Definitely NO driving. I haven't had an endoscopy, but when I crossed the "half-century" mark (and not the kind we like to boast about here on OH), I had to schedule a screening colonoscopy, for which they use the same med combo. When my partner had his, he was out like a light, flying high afterwards, and didn't even remember having coffee with me after the procedure. He would not have wanted to return to work that day! On the other hand, I didn't seem to feel the effects of the drugs at all--I certainly didn't fall asleep, and I felt wide-awake afterwards, with no amnesia for the procedure. But they must have worked to some degree, since the procedure wasn't all that terrible. /Steve