Upper GI worries

[victoriak419 17]

Hey everyone!

I'm starting to get very nervous about the fact that I will need an upper GI within the next month. I meet with the surgeon on 3/31. My bariatrican and psychologist told me that he will be the one ordering this test. I have already been cleared for surgery from both, just waiting on surgeon and nutrition to clear me. Since its under light sedation, I am worried that I will feel the huge hose going down my throat. I have a horrible gag reflex :/ Has anyone felt it? Not felt it?

[nikko9599 28]

Even though it's light I slept through the whole thing. You shouldn't be awake for it

[momo_schaff 10]

I just had mine last week and remember nothing from the time they gave me medicine until I woke up. You won't feel a thing, that's what anesthesia is for

[InThisLife 7]

I just had an endoscopy yesterday and was sedated for the entire thing.

[jhope71 105]

I had one last week and didn't even have a sore throat afterwards. I don't remember anything, either. You should be fine!

[Ipeek90 64]

Maybe I'm wrong, but I believe an Upper GI is very much different from an Endoscopy.

I just had my Upper GI done last Monday and it was just a Barium Swallow scan. You stand on the machine, drink a little fizzy drink (think alkaseltzer) then you get a cup full of thick chalky liquid and are told to drink it quickly while they move the scanner/xray thing around your stomach and chest. They lay the table back have you roll around and then you drink a thinner version of the previous drink and scan some more and that was it.

[jhope71 105]

You've got a point. I described my endoscopy experience because the OP mentioned sedation and a tube in the throat. An Upper GI is just drinking some gunk and watching the X-ray screen to see how it goes down.