On Mon, 30 Jun 2014 12:07:28 -0400, Dave Smith
> wrote:

>On 2014-06-30 11:57 AM, Janet Bostwick wrote:
>
>>
>> I'm sorry. I had one in my twenties that was painful and awful. The
>> cleaning out was an assault to the body only exceeded in pain by the
>> examination itself. I'm so glad they have discovered ways to perform
>> medical procedures without pain.
>>
>About 10 years ago my wife was suffering from horrible cramps in her
>guts and had to go for tests in the other end, tube down her throat to
>check out her stomach. She said it was a horrible experience. They
>didn't find anything. The cramping still hit her occasionally. After
>many years of that she had some X rays and ultrasound that revealed a
>problem with her gall bladder. The gall bladder surgery was less
>bothersome than that test had been, and the problem disappeared.
>
I had the down-the-throat test. They promised something to numb the
area. B***-S***. They forgot and rammed that tube down. The doctor
was a complete ass. He was basically an ambulance chaser/
Janet US