{"id":160,"date":"2008-08-10T21:09:31","date_gmt":"2008-08-10T13:09:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/2008\/08\/10\/my-endoscopy-experience\/"},"modified":"2022-04-23T12:04:16","modified_gmt":"2022-04-23T12:04:16","slug":"my-endoscopy-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/2008\/08\/10\/my-endoscopy-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"My Endoscopy Experience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Endoscopy means looking inside and typically refers to looking inside the body for medical reasons using an instrument called endoscope. The instrument may have a rigid or flexible tube and provide an image for visual inspection and photography.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-content\/photos\/endoscopy\/DSC04939%20-%20Copy.JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Blood test before the procedure<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Preparing for endoscopy<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Do not wear jewellery such as ring, ear studs, earrings, necklace and bracelets.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">For ladies, please remove nail varnishes. Do not wear high heel shoes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Do not bring children.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Sedation Advise<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">A relative or friend must be available to accompany you home if sedation is given. You may feel sleepy and forgetful due to the sedation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Do not drive, sign legal document, operate machinery, exercise and drink alcohol.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Diet Advise<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">DO NOT eat or drink from 12 midnight onwards if your procedure is in the morning.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>What happens during the procedure?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The whole procedure usually takes between 2 &#8211; 4 hours which includes time for registration, preparation, procedure, recovery and discharge.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Local anaesthesia or the oropharynx using lignocaine spray with or without intravenous sedation would be given. If sedation is given, your pulse rate and oxygen level would be monitored with a finger probe throughout the procedure.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-content\/photos\/endoscopy\/Photo469%20copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-content\/photos\/endoscopy\/Photo470.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Sedation given to me<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">There wasn&#8217;t any uclers found in my stomach. Yeah! My next appointment with the doctor is scheduled to be in October since there is nothing too seriously wrong with me.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">JR waited for me at the reception area of the Endoscopy Centre. There is a LCD screen there showing the relatives &amp; friends of the patients&#8217; process status.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-content\/photos\/endoscopy\/08082008020.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">My number: 071198F &#8211; Recovery mode<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">We had lunch after my endoscopy and headed straight home after that. I slept the whole afternoon away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Endoscopy means looking inside and typically refers to looking inside the body for medical reasons using an instrument called endoscope.&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7514,"href":"https:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions\/7514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lowsweetling.com\/mylife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}