(Updated) Endoscopy Showed Nothing

I promise you that an endoscopy is an easy procedure, made even easier if you accept sedation.
You will be able to breathe normally, the size of the tube is very small compared to your "breathing hole" and it does not go down this part anyway, it goes down your oesophagus, and you will be able to breathe quite normally.
An endoscopy will not strangle your hernia, and I've never heard of a tear happening during an endoscopy.
I think you are getting yourself a bit worked up over a relatively simple procedure, please take the sedation, you will be given a rubber mouth piece to bite on which protects your teeth, and the tube will be inserted through this, I have had them with no sedation, and considering I have upper dysphagia I don't find them a problem at all.
You will find the nurses and doctors very compassionate if you tell them that you are particularly apprehensive about the procedure.

I'm sure you will be just fine,

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Ok thanks all.

To Brianaia, I meant more like the esophageal spasms that happen when lying on the left side sometimes depending onwhat was consumed if lying down too soon after. Now the inner consumption of an endoscope tube, I just had trouble imagining how my esophagus wwould behave.

Thanks

Hi all and thanks for the support. Got over the fear, showed up and did it.. ('better living with hypnosis" on the net by the way... i would have cancelled the test if not for catching that 1 dollar an mp3 sale... highly recommended).

The test and how was it? absolutely NOTHING like forums describe it. At least not up here in Brampton Ontario. I walked in and as soon as I saw how high tech the room was i felt this sense of comfort. As like an alien room. And whoever else has to get one of these... do not listen to what forum say... its better to stay off them altogether... there is absolutely NO such thing as being "asked to swallow a tube", there is no such thing as any discomfort or gagging, or even feeling a single thing for that matter other than the IV going in your hand, or the mouth piece on your mouth for a sec... As soon as the mouthpiece goes on you go to black and you then wake up in the recover bed sleeping. As if nothing even happened. At least in a place that knows what they are doing. Technically. All other endoscopy stories i have read are total BS. If you ever go to a clinic that asks you to actually swallow the tube then those people are clearly on crack and should not be in med.

The GI guy said there is nothing wrong with my stomach or esophagus and i have a tiny 5mm hiatal hernia that slides. (Thats right 5 millimeters.). No strictures no polyps, no ulcers, no gastritis, no nothing. Nothing at all.

So now I am left with no concrete answers as to sudden esophageal spasms other than possible hypotheses - the only one given by the doc was anxiety causing it. My guesses are either that, or some unknown physiological change that science cannot as of yet detect.... led on further by possible food allergies, poor rest habits... bad mentality... etc... but nothing is concrete empirically as to say "this or that is the anxiety molecule that changes tissue in this or that way to produce the symptoms... absolutely no real answers from science... just an insane display of technology. Nothing but flash and attempts at reassurance that my issue was just anxiety.

Post Edited (7Stringer) : 5/29/2014 4:33:49 PM (GMT-6)

Yay! I'm glad to hear it went well!

It happens mostly with dairy and other allergy foods.

Especially pig fat and dairy based fat...

Clearly dairy and eggs are now out of the question for my allowed foods. I just had spasms again from them now... Allergies are in the danger zone. This is so clear now... i had an allergy test (advanced expensive one months ago), and i didnt take it seriously... danger items are cows milk and cow cheese... egg whites, quinoa and mushrooms (most likely after the stupid 'shroom' intake incident two years ago).

Fat stimulates the stomach to produce more acid, and it also stays in the stomach for the longest, so usually makes GERD symptoms like chest pain worse. I find I have to stay away from raw veg too as my stomach doesn't like it. It might be worth you keeping a food and symptom diary to try and find what does and doesn't give you symptoms, usually everyone has different triggers.

I throw up bad fats, strawberries in shakes with peanut butter, dairy, etc....

But eggs are my highest allergy and I never throw up those and never have any chest pain from those. Strawberries are a minimal allergy, so the allergy test makes no sense.

Why did my GI doc office call me back the next day to refer me to my fam doc for anxiety? I have felt a sense of relief after the test showing nothing, and no anxiety these past few days. But I've still been throwing up if I mix and match various foods, especially if heavy.

Can someone please tell me what is wrong with me because doctors can't.

A PH test will not show why there is acid reflux or chest pain. It just measures how much acid or how frequently there is such reflux upwards to the chest. I want to know why I started having the problems. Was it anxiety? Or is it the acid affecting and enlarging the hiatal hernia and therefore making the chest throb at that area since pain at the hernia will obviously be more during relfux than not having one. But what caused all this? Poor sleep plus anxiety? Being depressed? (Then isn't it bile reflux? Because I rarely have acid reflux, its not burning per - se, it is just pressure... Reflux of contents). Was it from being single for a long time? I want to know how these factors change things down to the cellular level and by what means. Because I was perfectly healthy. This was not supposed to ever happen. Is the science of analyzing my stomach sample tissue and/or stomach juice or whatever they took going to provide real answers? And the main answers I need are the cause of those other sudden esophageal spasm episodes as if a person was sticking a knife right through my chest.

Thanks Andy. You got good down to earth info.

I forgot to ask the guy to especially check the top left of my stomach (top left my perspective). As sometimes I feel this pinched sort of ache when I twist a certain way. First time.I felt that was years ago. Then went away. But during the last while with my issues its persistent usually.

And also, in the winter its like the top left of my stomach shivers. Its its a kinda disturbing and weird-feeling. As if almost in the heart but below. Right below those ribs left side.

Post Edited (7Stringer) : 6/3/2014 11:35:52 PM (GMT-6)