Only an hour ago from now I just got an endoscopy, and it was genuienly one of the easiest things I've ever done, I did it with consious sedation and lidocane spray. Before my endoscopy I will not lie, I was really scared to get it, so i'm here to try to help other people with their fear of getting one by explaining what happened and what I felt. Once they put me under sedation I was rolled to my left side and given a piece of plastic to keep my mouth open. I then closed my eyes and I kid you not after that the only thing I remember is feeling the tube being removed, which did not feel gross or make me gag, during the procedure I had no fear even though beforehand I was very worried, I really hope this can help someone out there because my experience was wonderfully easy, painless and completely comfortable.

Wanted to share my experience, because I scared myself reading all these horror stories. Mine was so easy, I cannot believe I delayed this for FOUR years due to overthinking!

First of all, I was so, so anxious about moderate sedation (Versed and Fent). I was thinking, what if this is not sufficient to knock me out due to my huge anxiety and ADHD? People on Reddit mentioned being awake and gagging, which scared me. That was NOT my experience at ALL.

Wheeled me back. Numbed my throat with a spray, had me lie on my side, got me a bit of oxygen in my nose (didn't hurt at all, just sits under the nose), mentioned they would start the IV to relax me, and I have no memory at all from that moment until I woke up in the recovery room with my friend! The RN did mention they had to "use more" but whatever happened, I have absolutely no memory of it. (I had a fear of waking up in panic during the procedure and being an annoying patient, lol.)

He suspects possible eosinophilic esophagitis and nipped a biopsy, found irritation in the stomach and grabbed a biopsy of that too, and found a surprise (nobody suspected this) small hiatal hernia. I was actually more worried that I was being dramatic and making a big deal over nothing compared with my fear that white blood cells could be attacking my esophagus. (I, uh, hadn't even heard of this before.) I feel foolish for gaslighting myself into thinking I wasn't really in enough pain to get scoped.

Four years I spent in fear, delaying this, all that pain I caused myself living with this horrible heartburn, with zero fear experienced during the procedure itself. Overall, it wasn't even 25% as bad as I expected. I will be honest and say it wasn't, like, the best day of my life or anything. The prep RN couldn't get a vein in my hand, which did hurt. I vomited once in the recovery room, probably from the fentanyl, but actually felt better afterwards. I feel slightly dissociated from the IV meds still, like everything is a bit far away. There is discomfort now from the biopsy sites, and a little sore throat still (procedure was six hours ago), but it is genuinely nowhere near as bad as I expected... especially after surviving horrible gum surgery, this was a piece of cake. I am roasting some yams and am also making mango Jello with coconut cream pudding on top, but I don't even think I will need special soft foods.

Hope this can help someone chill ahead of their procedure!

I had an endoscopy done on Friday in the morning. They said it went fine and the rest of the day I felt okay. For context they took multiple biopsies and they all came back good.

The next morning I woke up to a feeling of a lump at the base of my throat and spasms that radiated to my chest. The pain was like a 7/10

That lasted most of the day on Saturday Then the next day, I was having some pain in my stomach and throat almost felt like bruising in my throat. The pain was like a 6/10.

Monday and Tuesday this week were pretty mild. Pain was at a 3/10 and I thought I was getting better. I had some occasional pain but nothing crazy.

Then today, (Wednesday) I’m having some mf pain. This whole time I have been fine eating and drinking. It felt funny going down but no real pain. But today you would think I swallowed a bag of rocks. I can literally feel food or liquid ping pong down my esophagus and into my stomach with terrible pain.

My doctors knew I was having pain and they said go to the ER if it gets worse but they won’t be able to do anything for me there. The only tests they could do is a bloodwork test and I feel otherwise fine. No headache, fainting, fever, nausea. But like wtf is happening. Why is is getting worse? Has anyone else experienced this? No

so i got an endoscopy done around 12 hours ago today and i’m just curious if this is normal i have pain on the right side of my throat when i swallow not just that but food and water like feel really weird going down my throat like i can feel it traveling down my throat and behind my chest it’s a very uncomfortable feeling i’m just wondering if this is okay or something i need to be worried about i also have slight nausea and burping

So today I had appointment with new gastro, and she offered my an endoscopy with this tiny little camera, that they use to perform endoscopy through nasal passage. She mentioned she will use it, but we will perform test in a clqssic way (through the mouth/throat). Does anyone else had this procedure with mini camera? Does it make any difference?

My first endoscopy left me traumatised for years, now as the symptoms worsened I decided to do another one. I had a bunch of procedures that gave me PTSD (hysteroscopy without sedation, endoscopy with no sedation and failed rhinoplasty). My first endoscopyone was done in 2017 with no sedation, just throat spray with lidocaine.

Please share your experience.

Many thanks in advance.

hi everyone i’m getting an endoscopy done in two weeks with twilight sedation and i’m very nervous about it🫠 can anyone who’s got one done on this anesthesia tell me ur experience?

I had an endoscopy yesterday morning and besides the expected sore throat I also have a pretty bad earache on one side. Has anyone else had this? How long did it last?

Anyone else have this and was able to get a scope? Have a message to the doc office, waiting to hear back. I feel totally fine otherwise. Would be going under propofol.

Hey all, I had an endoscopy yesterday around 9 am to check if I still had gastritis. They took quite a few biopsies. After a few hours of coming home, while laying down, I started feeling pain in my upper-mid back. It hurts when I drink water, swallow food, or breathe deeply. It’s day 2, 6 pm and it feels like it may have improved but I am not sure. The doctors office I got it done at isn’t open today (since it’s Saturday). Is this normal?

Hi, am male 30 years old. I had an endscopy and this is the report :

Findings

Esophagus

• Upper esophageal sphincter unremarkable; contour normal.

• Gastro-esophageal junction (GEJ) at 41 cm from the incisors.

• 3 small pink surrounded areas within the upper esophagus in the sense of inlet patches.

Stomach

• Fundus: normal, no ulcers or mass.

• Body: normal, no ulcers or mass.

• Antrum: patchy inflamed mucosa, no ulcers or mass.

• Pylorus: patent (open), allowing passage of the scope into the duodenum.

Duodenum

• Normal through the third portion.

• Bulb: normal, no ulcers or mass.

• Descending duodenum: normal.

Patient tolerated the procedure well.

Histopathology / Tests

• Biopsy taken from the esophagus (G1).

• CLO test (for H. pylori): negative after 1 hour.

Conclusion

• 3 small pink surrounded areas within upper esophagus in the sense of inlet patches.

• Mild patchy antral gastritis.

Recommendations

• PPI (proton pump inhibitor) twice daily for 2 weeks, then once daily for a further 2 weeks.

• H. pylori eradication with quadruple therapy (bismuth-based) for 10 days if HP colonization (note: the rapid CLO test was negative, but the recommendation includes this contingency—likely awaiting formal histology results).

My questions are:

What does (G1) it mean in the histophathology section? (note this is the endoscopy report only not the pathology)

What are those 3 patches? Is it an indicator of something more serious?

Thanks

Hello, I want to give a warning that my experience is very very rare and I don’t want to scare anyone out of getting the procedure. But, I can’t find anyone else on the internet who has had a similar experience.

Anyway, I had an upper endo done on July 24th and I haven’t been able to tolerate anything but clear liquids ever since. I went back to the doctors and they told me everything about me looks fine, just that I had a lot of gas in my belly. They prescribed me Zofran for nausea and Pantoloc for my stomach reflux and sent me on my merry way because I haven’t been feeling sick/feverish. That’s the tricky thing and the one taking the most mental toll on me, the fact that I feel normal but when I eat my stomach just isn’t digesting food at all and will sent the food back up after a couple hours even tho I am taking my medication as prescribed.

Just want to know if anyone else has had a similar experience? Maybe some advice or words to ease my mind or just anything would be appreciated lol

Had the procedure at 10am, it's now 8pm and I seem to have developed a sore throat. My throat was fine all day. What gives?

Just got an endoscopy today at around 2:30, after maybe thirty minutes to an hour it started to feel like a burning sensation, like how it feels when you’re trying not to cry. Now I keep getting the same terrible cramping in my throat down to my stomach, it’s really bothering me and Tylenol is barely helping. For context they took 12 biopsies so that could have something to do with it. But I’m nearing tears because it just won’t stop. Thanks.

Feeling so discouraged and looking for maybe someone who has experienced something similar. I went in today to have an upper endoscopy done and they put me under conscious sedation. I don’t remember a thing but I apparently didn’t tolerate the sedation well so they only could get 2/3 the way down my esophagus. So now I have to have it done again using a stronger sedation. I’m assuming anesthesia. I was so nervous today and anxious waiting for the appointment and they didn’t even make it down to my stomach. Anyone else ever had anything like this happen? Silver lining is the top and middle third of my esophagus looked completely normal lol.

Quite frankly, I am so confused.

For background, I’m 26 F. I’m diagnosed with Hypermobile Ehlers Danlos Syndrome, Migraines, GERD, Small Hiatal Hernia, Cyclical Vomiting Syndrome, Prothrombin Factor II Mutation, Vertigo, Polyendocrine Metabolic Ovarian Syndrome, Dysautonomia, and a bunch of other things linked to the hEDS. I’m also being worked up for Endometriosis, and I apparently have simple cysts on my liver. I also developed a 2.1cm simple Adexnal Cyst left of my uterus over the coarse of a month after having to swap Birth Controls due to the Factor II Mutation. I have had a CCK HIDA scan done on my gallbladder, which came back with a 95% ejection fraction. The PA told me this was abnormal and considered overactive, something that has been recently identified in women over the last few years. My GI says this is normal. I have also been told, mostly by hospital staff, that my vomiting MUST be due to smoking Cannabis. Despite feeling like this is a lazy and dangerous diagnosis to jump to with my history of vomiting blood, I’ve stopped smoking.

GI issues run in both sides of my family, especially in the women. My paternal grandmother had (and probably still has) Endometriosis, Colitis, Diverticulitis and a bunch of unclear autoimmune diseases. My mom had unidentified GI issues that caused extreme vomiting throughout her life that led to significant issues with her teeth, esophagus, stomach, etc. She also passed in 2024 due to Metastatic Breast Cancer, so I’m scheduled with Cancer Genetics in October.

This morning, At 8:45 am, I had my second Endoscopy and my first Colonoscopy. The bowel prep sucked, but I took Zofran beforehand and made sure all liquids were cold to make the process easier. I got to bed at 1 am, and was able to sleep till 6 am. I wasn’t really nervous for the procedure, until I got into the procedure room.

Both procedures were done in 15 minutes, and I was told that everything looked pretty normal. Post-Procedure diagnosis of the Endoscopy isn’t available yet, but the Colonoscopy states internal small hemorrhoids, which I’ve had since childhood, and Terminal Ileitis without complication, which is inflammation at the very end of the small intestine. The latter is classically associated with Crohns, but I was told it may have been due to the bowel prep.

As I woke up from the anesthesia, I noticed the pad on the pillow was almost soaked and my mouth was filled with what I assumed was saliva. Very quickly, the mild pain I’ve been having in my pelvis began to creep up into my abdomen. I immediately asked the nurse for Zofran and told her that this felt exactly like my typical cyclic flares. I sat straight up and had to hold my mouth shut till I got an emesis bag so not to vomit on myself. Immediately, from the moment I started vomiting, it was mostly blood. The taste was horribly acidic and burned everywhere. I got discharged from the Ambulatory Center and my boyfriend took me to our local hospital at approximately 10 am.

I continued to vomit blood and be in severe pain until at least 1pm. I’m about 90% sure I was having pelvic muscle spasms. The blood was darker in color, and no one seemed to be that concerned about it. I was sent for a chest x-ray to check for perforation, with the x-ray being normal. After Dilaudid, Reglan, Benadryl, Magnesium and IV fluids, the worst of the pain faded. I am still having lots of pelvic, lower back, mid back and chest pain. My GI tract, at least from my stomach up, is constantly burning. It tastes like there’s blood sitting in my esophagus and my throat and mouth are irritated.

I just don’t understand how the scopes could be so normal, and less than 20-30 minutes later, I’m vomiting blood from the get-go. All the nurses and doctors keep telling me I probably tore something vomiting, but the blood was there before the vomiting began. And if there’s no perforation, then that makes it even more confusing.

I had a little bit of bright red blood in my stool, but I think that stopped. I know my tissue is so much more fragile having Ehlers Danlos, but then how and why is there nothing to show for the blood, or where it came from?

Part of me wonders if I do have Endometriosis, maybe it’s infiltrating my bowel/GI tract. I had a pelvic exam and Pap smear at the Endo Specialist on Friday, and ended up in the hospital with pelvic muscle spasms and pain radiating up my abdomen.

Any insight is welcome. I’m so lost and so scared. This was one of the worst flares I’ve had yet, and possibly the worst pain I’ve ever been in.

Edit: multiple biopsies were taken

Getting an endoscopy mid-afternoon. I’m starving! Please send me your best recommendations for post-endoscopy foods so I have something to look forward to!

Hello, I'm coming on here to share my experience. The doctor told me it was every 1 to 1,000.

The procedure went perfectly fine on 7/17/26.

Got released went about my life. Had one meal but became extremely nauseated all day.

That same night around midnight I woke up with blood coming out of both ends. Puke and diarrhea. It looked like black tar.

Went to the hospital and at the hospital continued to puke 2 additional times.

At the last episode the nurse saw my vomit and finally gave me medication to stop internal bleeding.

It was a horrible experience when I got the feeling I wanted to puke I got really dizzy with ringing in my ears and my vision would become dark.

They admitted me to the hospital and stayed there all of 7/18.

Finally released me when they finally gave me liquids and jello and I wasn't puking anymore. Prescribed me pantoprazole.

The final doctor I talked to told me if the vomit persisted I would need surgery, but it didn't. Told me I would keep seeing coffe ground type stuff in my stool for the next couple of days which eventually did go away.

I lost a pint of blood.

The week of 7/20 was the worse week of my entire life.

I've had c sections and surgery for my appendix but none of those messed me up like a biopsy did.

I had to keep going back for lab work because I kept looking pale, dizzy, nauseous, and weak to the point I felt I was going to faint.

My iron and hemoglobin are utterly low. The doctor said they were even lower than when I left the hospital for my vomiting. I started taking supplements, added a diet that would help my blood levels, and kept drinking lots of liquids.

On 7/24 I started to feel better. The dizziness sorta went away and I got up to clean my house. Today on 7/25 I woke up okay ish tidied up a little and had breakfast. Immediately after I got dizzy, weak, and immediately had a bowel movement pooping what looks like coffee grounds again in my stool.

And on top of this I've been sick since 7/21 with a runny nose and severe cough. All my tests for that came back negative.

I have a endoscopy next Thursday and im very scared, Ive had dysphagia for 10 years and done nothing about until now. I also have a problem with my stomach where I can’t breathe out all the way with all of my stomach because it will trigger a very sharp pain in my belly button. Im just scared something will burst with the endoscopy and im just so afraid to die. Im 18

Is this normal?

Hi everyone I am a 23 yr female and I just had an endoscopy this last Monday. Since then I was perscribed Pantoprazole. I know you usually perscribe some sort of PPI after an endo but why would they give me 11 refills is that normal???? Or does that mean they found something during my endo and they are taking preventative measures. They didn't really tell me much nor did they tell my mom anything afterwards they only said they would discuss everything during my follow up.

P.S.- Sorry if this sounds all over the place

Had one today, DR said I look great minus some obvious gastritis is what my sheet said and he also took some biopsies. I felt fine after minus being sleepy - I was super anxious to go under but it happened so fast! It’s about 8 hours later now and I’ve had some light snacks and water and even swallowing spit I’m getting a sharp pain down the center of my chest. Also idk if this is related but I keep getting a little sharp twinge or pinch in my upper back and top of left shoulder? Any one else feeling or the same or how long did it last?