“Is colonoscopy painful without sedation?”
I'm going to have a colonoscopy next week, but I don't want to have any sedation. Will the procedure be painful without it?
1 Answer
Pain is a personal experience based on patient tolerance. With colonoscopy, the individuals who have had it done without sedation or anesthesia, said it was tolerable but it was certainly uncomfortable. There are clearly patients who could not tolerate the procedure without receiving medications and others could. So the answer is dependent on what you can and want to tolerate. I believe most would say that there is some amount of pain that would have to be tolerated to have a colonoscopy without any sedation. I hope this helps.
