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Do you have to be sedated for a gastroscopy?

I will have a gastroscopy. Do you have to be sedated for a gastroscopy?

3 Answers

No, you can have that with sedation only.
It would be in your best interests.
No, but most people are sedated because they cannot handle the gagging feeling of an endoscope going down the throat and into the esophagus.