Nervous about Endoscope! What were your symptoms before and what did they find?

I am in the same boat as you, but I do not believe that you need to be nervous. I've had GERD for 8 years (I'm now 26) and my symptoms are worse than yours. Tight throat, stuck food, hoarseness in the morning, actual pain in throat because the acid came up and burned my larynx, pain between the shoulder blades, flare ups after eating, and chronic cough. The reason my symptoms are worse is because I only took PPIs for a short time (less than a year) and then I resumed my life of overindulgence.

My biggest concern like most was Barret's/cancer, but several posts here have put my mind at ease from a statistical perspective, as the odds for either are low with constant GERD (although of course relatively high to someone who doesn't have GERD).

Given my symptoms, I believe that I might have a case of esophogitis - although painful it does heal over time - but we won't know for sure until I get my scope one month from now.

So although I don't yet have a personal story about the result of my scope, I just wanted to post to let you know that we're going through a similar thing, and to hang in there.

There is nothing to worry about, it's a simple procedure to find out what is causing your symptoms and how to properly treat it. If you do have Barrett's (I did not), medication can reverse the damage and less than 2% of people with Barrett's develop cancer.

I'm set up for endoscopy this week and thanks to the people who are encouraging that it's no big deal and not to expect a bad diagnosis. Sometimes when symptoms are bad it's easy to think otherwise. And YoungSuffererCanada, I'm hoping your test turns out with nothing serious wrong. Good luck.

I literally just had an endoscopy done a week and a half ago. It was my second one in 7 years due to reflux/GERD. I can tell you that there is nothing to it. They sedate you so you're talking with them one minute and the next you're waking up. My doctor came in the room afterward to tell me that there were a couple of brownish/red spots that they biopsied just to be safe. That's typical for anytime they see something that isn't regular tissue. They also mostly come back fine which mine did. It was reflux and gastritis which are both just from inflammation. No Barrett's. I'm sure you'll be fine.