gastroscopy

At the same time a friend of mine needed to have a gastroscopy and a colonoscopy.

After some tests and maybe a gastroscopy they will diagnose or rule out the common things: ulcers, celiac disease etc.

The gold standard is gastroscopy, which is often performed anyway to rule out ulcers etc.

That said, you what you should really be afraid is gastroscopy, it feels like dying.

I had dozens of blood tests, an ultrasound, a gastroscopy, and a colonoscopy with biopsies - nothing.

You might catch a hernia that could become a problem from a gastroscopy.

Or when I once needed a gastroscopy, I was given a sedative and a local numbing agent in my throat.

This combined with the fact that my initial bout of reflux went away when I went in for a gastroscopy.

I've had general anesthesia for a hemmorhoids surgery and it was a completely different thing than the intoxication I got for colonoscopy/gastroscopy!

I am curious: I had both my colonoscopy and gastroscopy while I was asleep.

I don't think it's common to do general anesthesia for colonoscopy (or gastroscopy).

I've never had a colonoscopy but I had a gastroscopy two months ago and it was fully covered by our single payer insurance.

Let's say that you don't have to worry about choking like with a gastroscopy, which I "luckily" had booked for the same day as the colonoscopy.

There seems to be an unfounded fear of gastroscopy here in Austria so people often choose to get fluoroscopy during barium swallows (euphemistically called "stomach x-ray") for check-up on common issues like gastritis, ulcers, etc.

I then had a Colonoscopy and Gastroscopy.