General Anesthesia & IBS - 3rd question
#183012 - 06/02/05 04:13 PM
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HeidnOut
Reged: 02/15/05
Posts: 148
Loc: CA, USA
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I have 2 Dr. appointments, one with my Dentist who has most likely more than one tooth to extract, one is abcessed. They perform that under general anesthesia. I have had a bad reaction to general anesthesia but it didn't happen to affect the IBS at that time. Back then, I had no IBS symptoms.
I also have an appointment with a new Gi (Consult) whom I'm assuming will do further testing in which they do it under concious sedation. I have done very well with that.
Both of these procedures will be done on different days. My questions is: I have no idea which procedure will be done first. Should I have the dental procedure done first under general anesthesia, can it cause me to have an severe IBS attack? Can anyone either relate or give me some kind of answer as to what I can look forward to?
There will be some distance between the 2 procedures but not for too long. Any info is much appreciated. Heidi
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I can tell you that general anesthesia can put me into a tailspin for weeks, the type used for surgery. I was in surgery for 4 hours last year. But whatever they used for my colonoscopy (I was in and out of the anesthesia in an hour and I mean under in seconds and came out of it in 10 minutes or so once I started waking up), didn't bother me at all.
Hope this helps your decisions.....
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I'm not sure that one order is better than the other. My guess would be that the general will tend to make you C, but I don't know if that will make any difference to what your GI wants to do later.
Hmmm. I'm IBS-D. I'd probably get the general first, figuring it would make me C. Then if my GI wants "clean me out" for a colonoscopy or whatever, that would counteract the C. I'm not sure if that logic would work for you since, if I remember correctly, you're a C.
Whatever order you decide to do them in, good luck.
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