Has Anyone Had Propofol For A Colonoscopy?

I had my highly intimate extreme close-up back in 2011. I had propofol for it (and while I was under they also did an upper endoscopy). Don’t recall anything from the time I was wheeled into the procedure room until waking up just in time to cough out the tube for the latter. No side effects whatsoever. A couple of years later, I needed another upper endoscopy for a suspected GI bleed at a different hospital. This time, they used just IV Versed, and I was awake for the whole thing. I remember discomfort but no pain.

I've had Propofol for two colonoscopies. I LOVED it! No side effects and I felt absolutely refreshed when I woke up (so refreshed in fact, that after having it that once, 5 years later when due for another colonoscopy, I was looking forward to the getting knocked out part!). I can see how Micheal Jackson, a rich insomniac with an unscrupulous doctor, could get hooked on it.

I have had several colonoscopies with propofol, and it is great. I had colon cancer 17 years ago, and when I started having colonoscopies the drugs of choice were Versed and Demerol. They worked well, but I was out of commission for at least a full day because of the Demerol. With propofol you're awake, then asleep, then awake, not the drawn-out sedation that comes with the Demerol. I definitely prefer it.

I had one done by a doctor who didn't want to spend the time to do anesthesia (before propofol), and I can't speak for anyone else, but it was very painful. For me, there's no reason to deal with pain when there are so many options available to prevent it.

They used propofol when I had cataract surgery. I wouldn't have even known except they sent me home with a paper that showed the anesthesia they used. My best experience with sedation.

I wish!

I had multiple "conscious sedation" procedures over a year using the Versed/Fentanyl cocktail, and apparently I am a "rapid metabolizer" of Versed. It does not give me amnesia like it does most people. I remember and can quote back the conversations in the procedure room for transjugular liver biopsy and insertion then removal of an inferior vena cava filter, which is mostly just creepy, not painful. I then had my colonoscopy (which hurt.) I watched my colonoscopy on the screen and was in pain and crying out while the nurse held my had saying "almost done, almost done." Almost everyone I know says they have no memory of their colonoscopies, so if it hurts they just don't remember it.

I've also had it at least 4 times. I like waking up without asking over and over the same question I already asked...from the other sedation. I do want to warn you...it will burn for just 2 seconds before you fall asleep. So don't let that scare you if anesthesia doesn't warn you.

Brenda E

one more...I had propofol for a spinal injection. I do remember it stinging as it went in, felt a little tingly at the top of my head and that was it! Woke up in recovery with no side effects at all. It was great

I've had Propofol for colonoscopies. Hopefully I can have the same for my scheduled port removal next month. No nausea, vomiting, hangover, headache, etc. Great stuff.

Oh My Sandy that doesn't sound so delightful. 39 years ago I had ganglion cyst surgery on one hand. I had local via a Bier block and some kind of happy IV drug. I distinctly remember yelling out "I want a cheeseburger" I guess in response to how was I doing.

My GI doc uses SuPrep though it is not gallons of stuff it is just nasty. I had an exam last year for my hemorrhoids diff. doc and had to self admin. Fleets' enemas x 2 along with some kind of colon prep.

Blessings you will know the Propofol if you see the syringe - milky looking.

ICU ventilator patients are freq. given brief propofol vacations but have to be watched closely for subtle signs of awakening d/t such a short half life.

Like everyone else here, I had Propofol. No problems. Went right to sleep, I had wanted to watch on the screen. Woke up with no hangover. DH & I went out for lunch afterwards.

My surgeon uses Pico Salex as a prep & has his own set of instructions which is completely different than the box directions. I'm not going to say it was easy but it was much better than the previous time for abdominal surgery having to drink a gallon of some foul thing.

There’s a reason why they’ve nicknamed it “milk of amnesia.”

And as gruesome as the tendon-release surgery may have sounded in my description, it wasn’t bad at all. I wasn’t even on an operating table--more like a chemo recliner with my arm elevated on a platform. I could even hear the nurses discussing their weekend plans (this was late on a Fri. afternoon).

yep.. worked like a charm and you wake up not even realizing the test was done... lovely stuff!

So far, I've had multiple D&Cs and multiple colonoscopies and had propofol every.single. time. with no reaction at all. Propofol is my drug of choice.

Also want to add that preceding my colonoscopies, I do a week long prep. My GI claims my little body frame is a hindrance to doing a one day prep. Seems people with petite frames usually accumulate stool higher up in the colon. That said, if you follow this simple protocol several days before the final day's prep, the final prep should be a little easier. For a week, leading to the final prep, I do a "White diet." A white diet consists of eating mostly white food. In another words, find as much high glycemic food to eat as possible. White bread, Twinkies, white rice...as much junk food as you can find! The rest of the prep is a piece of cake 👩❤️👩!