I get a blast of decongestant first and lidocane spray second. It does taste like Hell when it drips down into the back of your throat. My follow up doc, Bill Armstrong at UCI, uses about two miles of scope (it feels like) and looks even past my larynx, and that can be a chair arm grabber.

Brian, stage 4 oral cancer survivor. OCF Founder and Director. The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.