I let my follow-up doc put the tube in my nose each 3-month visit. First, I want him to see what there is...after all, survival of any cancer is an issue of early detection and early diagnosis. But more than that, after the first time he did it, I realized that it was no big deal to go through. The tube is really small and extremely flexible like wet spaghetti; it isn't some huge piece of plumbing pipe.... They have an atomizer spray bottle with a little nozzle on it that mists way back into your nose with lidocaine to numb everything up so you really don't feel anything as it goes in. Then after he looks around in the nasopharnyx to his hearts content, he asks me to swallow a couple of times and the tube, without any pain or effort sides down close to my larynx in my throat, where he can get up close and personal with my vocal cords and all the walls of my throat which he would only see in a very minor way with the tiny mouth mirror they hold in the back of your throat. One-minute max, and he has pulled the tube out and it's over.... This is definitely not one of the things you need to concern yourself with. Any doctor that has done a bunch of these will be painless and quick. Plus you get to walk out with the knowledge that he has THOUROLY looked at every nook and cranny in the most intimate detail. But I do relate to the idea of having one more thing stuck in me. However given all the really awful things that have been done to me in the last few years, this procedure doesn