My ENT uses the spray and I hate that stuff! She never really waits for it to kick in either. My RO doesn't use the spray at all because he says it narrows the nasal passages and makes it harder to get the scope down. My RO doesn't hurt when he scopes me, but my ENT kills me. I once got scoped by both of them about an hour apart (that was the last time I scheduled two doctors appointments on the same day!) and my RO got mad because my ENT used the spray when she scoped me and apparently he could still tell when he went to scope me. Oh the drama!

I owe someone an apology for using the wrong word LOL It should have been anesthesia and I like a dipstick put anesthetic LOL Man what intelligence I used. Sorry about that David and all. a little difference in spelling chanes the meaning big time .

The docs at our cancer center (both ENT/Surgeon and RO) seem to prefer the rigid, pistol-gripped scope with the 90 degree lens, rather than the flexible nasopharyngeal scope. Looking at films from each, it seems that the rigid one is a bit clearer, at least to my eye, and does have a larger field of view.

No anesthetic required, but you do need to remember to breathe to get past the gag reflex.

I must have been talking about the wrong scope . I get this one too whenever I see either my oncologist or the im-plant surgeon and they just use the spray,, It's the scope that goes all the way down and get the biopsies that they knock me out for. Then the recovery room. One time I came to in ICU from a bad reaction . Oh the fun we can have LOL Time to get over these childhood problems i would say.

You are referring to and esophageal endoscope. I get this regularly for a variety of reasons, and it is through this that I found my esophageal adenocarcinoma which saved my life again.

All our docs and nurses have been informed by me to sound encouraging when talking to Jim. I am not hiding anything from him, but a brutal approach would put him into a further depression. -- Claudia