Bronchoscopy

[Buxxfan]

Hi Piper!
My experiences with bronch's are similiar to Marjolein's. With me they gave the numbing med through nebulizer and every 5 minutes, squirt some more numbing med to the back of the throat to make sure you have no gag reflex. After that thay give you the "twilight" meds. The feeling it gives is a<u><i> very </i></u>relaxed feeling, your awake but out of it. They kept me partially awake in case I feel pain I can signal them. Of all the four bronch's I had , I have never felt pain. They went down my throat for all of them. Like Marjolein said, afterwards they take you back to your room and tell you not to eat for about 3hrs.

Good Luck on Friday Piper! <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0">
- Kevin

 

[Buxxfan]

Hi Piper!
My experiences with bronch's are similiar to Marjolein's. With me they gave the numbing med through nebulizer and every 5 minutes, squirt some more numbing med to the back of the throat to make sure you have no gag reflex. After that thay give you the "twilight" meds. The feeling it gives is a<u><i> very </i></u>relaxed feeling, your awake but out of it. They kept me partially awake in case I feel pain I can signal them. Of all the four bronch's I had , I have never felt pain. They went down my throat for all of them. Like Marjolein said, afterwards they take you back to your room and tell you not to eat for about 3hrs.

Good Luck on Friday Piper! <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0">
- Kevin

 

[Buxxfan]

Hi Piper!
My experiences with bronch's are similiar to Marjolein's. With me they gave the numbing med through nebulizer and every 5 minutes, squirt some more numbing med to the back of the throat to make sure you have no gag reflex. After that thay give you the "twilight" meds. The feeling it gives is a<u><i> very </i></u>relaxed feeling, your awake but out of it. They kept me partially awake in case I feel pain I can signal them. Of all the four bronch's I had , I have never felt pain. They went down my throat for all of them. Like Marjolein said, afterwards they take you back to your room and tell you not to eat for about 3hrs.

Good Luck on Friday Piper! <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0">
- Kevin

 

[Buxxfan]

Hi Piper!
My experiences with bronch's are similiar to Marjolein's. With me they gave the numbing med through nebulizer and every 5 minutes, squirt some more numbing med to the back of the throat to make sure you have no gag reflex. After that thay give you the "twilight" meds. The feeling it gives is a<u><i> very </i></u>relaxed feeling, your awake but out of it. They kept me partially awake in case I feel pain I can signal them. Of all the four bronch's I had , I have never felt pain. They went down my throat for all of them. Like Marjolein said, afterwards they take you back to your room and tell you not to eat for about 3hrs.

Good Luck on Friday Piper! <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0">
- Kevin

 

[Buxxfan]

Hi Piper!
<br />My experiences with bronch's are similiar to Marjolein's. With me they gave the numbing med through nebulizer and every 5 minutes, squirt some more numbing med to the back of the throat to make sure you have no gag reflex. After that thay give you the "twilight" meds. The feeling it gives is a<u><i> very </i></u>relaxed feeling, your awake but out of it. They kept me partially awake in case I feel pain I can signal them. Of all the four bronch's I had , I have never felt pain. They went down my throat for all of them. Like Marjolein said, afterwards they take you back to your room and tell you not to eat for about 3hrs.
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<br />Good Luck on Friday Piper! <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0">
<br />- Kevin

 

[blondelawyer]

I have never had a bronch, but I have seen one, so I can offer that perspective. What they did with my husband was they knocked him out and then inserted a tube down this throat and snaked it through the lungs...it was pretty neat to see. They just looked around and had to suction out a little bit of stuff. My husband was completely out the entire time. It looked weird to see the inside of lungs...they looked like a bunch of tunnels... <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0"> I realize this isn't very helpful now that I write it, except maybe it is comforting to know that to an observer, the patient seems to be completely out and unaware of what is going on. The doctor also told my husband to remember the word "aspargus" right before knocking him out. Then the next day he asked if he remember the word and my husband didn't even remember that he was supposed to remember the word (I think that this is test that the sedation was sufficient). <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0">

 

[blondelawyer]

I have never had a bronch, but I have seen one, so I can offer that perspective. What they did with my husband was they knocked him out and then inserted a tube down this throat and snaked it through the lungs...it was pretty neat to see. They just looked around and had to suction out a little bit of stuff. My husband was completely out the entire time. It looked weird to see the inside of lungs...they looked like a bunch of tunnels... <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0"> I realize this isn't very helpful now that I write it, except maybe it is comforting to know that to an observer, the patient seems to be completely out and unaware of what is going on. The doctor also told my husband to remember the word "aspargus" right before knocking him out. Then the next day he asked if he remember the word and my husband didn't even remember that he was supposed to remember the word (I think that this is test that the sedation was sufficient). <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0">

 

[blondelawyer]

I have never had a bronch, but I have seen one, so I can offer that perspective. What they did with my husband was they knocked him out and then inserted a tube down this throat and snaked it through the lungs...it was pretty neat to see. They just looked around and had to suction out a little bit of stuff. My husband was completely out the entire time. It looked weird to see the inside of lungs...they looked like a bunch of tunnels... <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0"> I realize this isn't very helpful now that I write it, except maybe it is comforting to know that to an observer, the patient seems to be completely out and unaware of what is going on. The doctor also told my husband to remember the word "aspargus" right before knocking him out. Then the next day he asked if he remember the word and my husband didn't even remember that he was supposed to remember the word (I think that this is test that the sedation was sufficient). <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0">

 

[blondelawyer]

I have never had a bronch, but I have seen one, so I can offer that perspective. What they did with my husband was they knocked him out and then inserted a tube down this throat and snaked it through the lungs...it was pretty neat to see. They just looked around and had to suction out a little bit of stuff. My husband was completely out the entire time. It looked weird to see the inside of lungs...they looked like a bunch of tunnels... <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0"> I realize this isn't very helpful now that I write it, except maybe it is comforting to know that to an observer, the patient seems to be completely out and unaware of what is going on. The doctor also told my husband to remember the word "aspargus" right before knocking him out. Then the next day he asked if he remember the word and my husband didn't even remember that he was supposed to remember the word (I think that this is test that the sedation was sufficient). <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0">

 

[blondelawyer]

I have never had a bronch, but I have seen one, so I can offer that perspective. What they did with my husband was they knocked him out and then inserted a tube down this throat and snaked it through the lungs...it was pretty neat to see. They just looked around and had to suction out a little bit of stuff. My husband was completely out the entire time. It looked weird to see the inside of lungs...they looked like a bunch of tunnels... <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0"> I realize this isn't very helpful now that I write it, except maybe it is comforting to know that to an observer, the patient seems to be completely out and unaware of what is going on. The doctor also told my husband to remember the word "aspargus" right before knocking him out. Then the next day he asked if he remember the word and my husband didn't even remember that he was supposed to remember the word (I think that this is test that the sedation was sufficient). <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0">

 

[Marjolein]

I never got the 'twilight' med that Kevin talkes about. At least I don't think so, I have never been 'half awake'. I have been completely awake for almost all my bronchs and have been asleep for one. With this one I was asleep and they didn't do it in theatre so they must not have put me under... But I can't remember a single thing of it. So whatever I got it must have been very strong as it just knocked me out <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0">

The only thing I know is what my sister told me. She later told me she was sitting and waiting in the waiting room and she saw them taking me away while I was still sleeping, she saw them pushing a bed and suddenly saw it was me. This was very strange for her cause no-one had told her that was how it was supposed to go. They brought me to recovery where I was very awake soon after that and luckily she could come too and I was back on the ward very soon.

 

[Marjolein]

I never got the 'twilight' med that Kevin talkes about. At least I don't think so, I have never been 'half awake'. I have been completely awake for almost all my bronchs and have been asleep for one. With this one I was asleep and they didn't do it in theatre so they must not have put me under... But I can't remember a single thing of it. So whatever I got it must have been very strong as it just knocked me out <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0">

The only thing I know is what my sister told me. She later told me she was sitting and waiting in the waiting room and she saw them taking me away while I was still sleeping, she saw them pushing a bed and suddenly saw it was me. This was very strange for her cause no-one had told her that was how it was supposed to go. They brought me to recovery where I was very awake soon after that and luckily she could come too and I was back on the ward very soon.

 

[Marjolein]

I never got the 'twilight' med that Kevin talkes about. At least I don't think so, I have never been 'half awake'. I have been completely awake for almost all my bronchs and have been asleep for one. With this one I was asleep and they didn't do it in theatre so they must not have put me under... But I can't remember a single thing of it. So whatever I got it must have been very strong as it just knocked me out <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0">

The only thing I know is what my sister told me. She later told me she was sitting and waiting in the waiting room and she saw them taking me away while I was still sleeping, she saw them pushing a bed and suddenly saw it was me. This was very strange for her cause no-one had told her that was how it was supposed to go. They brought me to recovery where I was very awake soon after that and luckily she could come too and I was back on the ward very soon.

 

[Marjolein]

I never got the 'twilight' med that Kevin talkes about. At least I don't think so, I have never been 'half awake'. I have been completely awake for almost all my bronchs and have been asleep for one. With this one I was asleep and they didn't do it in theatre so they must not have put me under... But I can't remember a single thing of it. So whatever I got it must have been very strong as it just knocked me out <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0">

The only thing I know is what my sister told me. She later told me she was sitting and waiting in the waiting room and she saw them taking me away while I was still sleeping, she saw them pushing a bed and suddenly saw it was me. This was very strange for her cause no-one had told her that was how it was supposed to go. They brought me to recovery where I was very awake soon after that and luckily she could come too and I was back on the ward very soon.

 

[Marjolein]

I never got the 'twilight' med that Kevin talkes about. At least I don't think so, I have never been 'half awake'. I have been completely awake for almost all my bronchs and have been asleep for one. With this one I was asleep and they didn't do it in theatre so they must not have put me under... But I can't remember a single thing of it. So whatever I got it must have been very strong as it just knocked me out <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0">
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<br />The only thing I know is what my sister told me. She later told me she was sitting and waiting in the waiting room and she saw them taking me away while I was still sleeping, she saw them pushing a bed and suddenly saw it was me. This was very strange for her cause no-one had told her that was how it was supposed to go. They brought me to recovery where I was very awake soon after that and luckily she could come too and I was back on the ward very soon.