re: I just had a colonoscopy this morning with Propofol, and damn that is one powerful drug

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As far as prep for the colonoscopy, ask for the pill prep not the liquid. A doctor who is a relative advised to take the pills. It wasn't pleasant but not as bad as other people describe the liquid prep.

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I took the pills

My colonoscopy was scheduled for 0700

I took 12 pills at 6 o’clock the afternoon before and the other 12 at 2am, I didn’t sleep all night. shite my brains out

Got to the clinic at 0630 was still shitting

My BP was too high so they wouldn’t put the IV in my arm to sedate me until my BP dropped. It finally dropped around 11 am, they sedated me and boom we were done for lunch.

I didn’t eat or drink anything for over 24 hours. But that Propofol made it worth it

I was cardioverted a while back and they used that stuff to "relax" me.

I remember going in stuck in AFIB with a BPM of 160. They put me in a bed, hooked up the lines and then they injected that stuff into my IV. Took a couple of seconds to hit, but when it did, I was instantly drunk. The nurse said she would be back in about 15 minutes and they would get started.

Well I laid there waiting for them to come back. I watched the heart monitor next to me and I saw my rate slowly come back down to normal. A little after it returned to normal, the nurse showed up and asked me how I felt.

I told her much better and that whatever they gave me lowered my rate and I didn't need to be shocked back into rhythm. She laughed and told me "They all say that, look at your chest."

There was a visible ring where the pad on my chest used to be for the cardiovert machine. She told me they lit me up a few times before my heart returned to a normal BPM. I swore I was awake the entire time and that no one had come by for at least 30 minutes.

Weirdest feeling ever. She told me it has a hypnotic effect and you just forget what happened. I was told that I talked to them and looked at them as they zapped me back to normal rhythm. I don't remember any of that happening. As far as my memory was concerned, all I did was watch the rate drop on the monitor.