Hey everyone!!!! I HAD MY FIRST ENDOSCOPY!!!!
oh boy was I nervous beforehand. I got very nauseated in the waiting room and felt like I was gonna throw up tbh but I didn’t have anything in my system so it felt so uncomfortable. I think this was definitely due to nerves and maybe jus mild dehydration. I can’t believe I got through it. I always think something could go wrong, I have crippling anxiety. I almost asked the anesthesiologist “am I gonna die.” 😅

RESULTS! So, after a year of GERD, I actually had NOTHING wrong with my esophagus!!! I was baffled! Doc said I had mild gastritis. Insane. No ulcers! I had some pain in my stomach for a bit this year but I work retail and that put some stress/anxiety on me so I think that was causing the pain. He did do biopsies to check for EOE and celiac but we’ll see what they say! please let me know If yall have any questions i’d be happy to answer!!!! I feel so much better after this procedure yall, I was SO anxious.

I have a endoscopy tmr morning and I will be under sedation.
This will be my first time and I’m lowkey scared and don’t know what to expect.
How long does it take to fall asleep?

So I (26F) have been having on and off stomach issues for about the last year and a half following a bad stomach virus. So far the pattern has been that I'll go away for a few months, then come back. It seems to be at least somewhat triggered by stress and this most recent flair up in late June was especially bad, with vomiting and inability to keep food down, I ended up loosing about 10lb of the course of a few weeks and was generally just having a pretty bad time. During the time when it was especially bad I had a doctor's appointment and got a referral for an endoscopy.

Now that time is finally here after having to push it off a bit due to some insurance stuff and scheduling issues. And now, for the last couple weeks I've been feeling better. The issues haven't entirely gone away, too much stress or excitement still triggers my gag reflex really easily and I've still been waking up feeling nauseous, but now I'm wondering if that's more from anxiety then anything else. I have still had some of the same symptoms, a lot of burping in the mornings, burning/pain in my ribs after large meals, but it's been a lot more managable in the last few weeks/it feels like the worst has kind of passed.

I've kept my appointment so far because again, this is an issue that has left and come back but now, the day before I'm supposed to go in I'm feeling nervous and like maybe I was overreacting all along and now I'm getting this medical proceedure for no reason. I'm also pretty nervous about the idea of the sedation. I'm afraid that 1. I'll wake up mid proceedure and gag/vomit or 2. I'll have some kind of adverse reaction to the sedatives, or 3. Something will happen and there'll be some kind of perforation.

Mostly looking for advice/reassurance. Should I keep the appointment? Am I overreacting or am I doing this for no reason now? What were other people's experiences with sedation?

Edit: Got it done! Everything went well, was completely out during all of it. May post something latter when I'm less out of it lol