Absolutely... this is not "happy talk" here, I find the proceedure very easy.

They give you some relaxers first (including demerol... MAN that feels good!!! ) so MOST people actually SLEEP through the whole thing. That's what happened to me. I was sitting there in heaven over the demerol and the doc said "it's over" and I said "but you didn't DO anything yet!" Apparently I had been asleep for about 20 minutes.

The next time I was afraid I wouldn't sleep because now I was anxious hoping that I would fall asleep again. No problem, I guess demerol is pen and anxiety is the sword, and we all know who is the mightier of the two.

I slept through the subsequent ones (I have one every year)

EXCEPT for the last one I had! So now I can also honestly tell you that it is still OK even if you don't sleep through it. I remember being awake and I was not anxious, but I was noticing that I was awake. The demerol still felt reeeeeeally good so in a way I was happy to be awake so I could enjoy the drugs longer . The time still flew by really fast... maybe I slept through part of it without knowing. My only mistake was at one point looking over to the image on the monitor... which I KNEW was a mistake from the BE's and things I've had in the past... but even that didn't bother me too much. Hey, there are my intestines... wave hello!

I do have a very good doctor for this but from my experience the procedure is absolutely nothing to worry about. You don't feel it, you may simply sleep through it, and time flows by so fast that even if you don't sleep it is over before it begins.

There is no discomfort afterward either. Unlike a BE where it may take a while to get the last of the barium out.

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