| Joined: Jul 2008 Posts: 228 Gold Member (200+ posts) | Gold Member (200+ posts) Joined: Jul 2008 Posts: 228 | 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!
Stephanie, 23, SCC on the right side of my tongue, surgery on 5-19-08, over half my tongue removed, free flap constructed from my forearm, bilateral neck dissection, one positive node. Radiation (32) and chemo (carboplatin) started on 6-16-08. Recurrence 4/09 in lungs.
**** Stephanie passed away 12.15.09.... RIP our dear friend****
| | | | Joined: Jun 2007 Posts: 5,260 Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts) | Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts) Joined: Jun 2007 Posts: 5,260 | 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 .
Since posting this. UPMC, Pittsburgh, Oct 2011 until Jan. I averaged about 2 to 3 surgeries a week there. w Can't have jaw made as bone is deteroriating steaily that is left in jaw. Mersa is to blame. Feeding tube . Had trach for 4mos. Got it out April. --- Passed away 5/14/14, will be greatly missed by everyone here
| | | | Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 598 "Above & Beyond" Member (500+ posts) | "Above & Beyond" Member (500+ posts) Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 598 | 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. Jeff SCC Right BOT Dx 3/28/2007 T2N2a M0G1,Stage IVa Bilateral Neck Dissection 4/11/2007 39 x IMRT, 8 x Cisplatin Ended 7/11/07 Complete response to treatment so far!!
| | | | Joined: Jun 2007 Posts: 5,260 Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts) | Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts) Joined: Jun 2007 Posts: 5,260 | 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.
Since posting this. UPMC, Pittsburgh, Oct 2011 until Jan. I averaged about 2 to 3 surgeries a week there. w Can't have jaw made as bone is deteroriating steaily that is left in jaw. Mersa is to blame. Feeding tube . Had trach for 4mos. Got it out April. --- Passed away 5/14/14, will be greatly missed by everyone here
| | | | Joined: Mar 2002 Posts: 4,912 Likes: 52 OCF Founder Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts) | OCF Founder Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts) Joined: Mar 2002 Posts: 4,912 Likes: 52 | 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.
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. | | | | Joined: Aug 2008 Posts: 113 Senior Member (100+ posts) | Senior Member (100+ posts) Joined: Aug 2008 Posts: 113 | 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
Husband 2/3 tongue removed March 2008. Free flap. . Stage IV. Radiation and 3 chemo's (cisplatin,taxol & erbitux). .Pet scan Aug 08 showed mets to lungs .Oct 08, recurrence. - In the arms of Jesus, July 15, 2009
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