{"id":2722,"date":"2009-04-30T08:34:20","date_gmt":"2009-04-30T08:34:20","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-04-18T22:56:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T22:56:09","slug":"ive-had-a-gastroscopy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/?p=2722","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;ve had a Gastroscopy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I had to do a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.netdoctor.co.uk\/health_advice\/examinations\/gastroscopy.htm\">gastroscopy<\/a>. Just a routine check, nothing major wrong with me, but it had to be done. I&#8217;ve heard so much about it, would not say I was worried, but I did not know what to expect. Ok, it was not nice, I would prefer not to do it, but then again it was not that bad. I was able to breath without any problems, and occasionally I wanted to throw up, but that is normal. If you want to find out how it is being done, take a look at this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FX_RQT0ODXI\">video at Youtube<\/a> (I do not embed this one \ud83d\ude09 )<\/p>\n<p>Actually, the worst part if you ask me is that you are not allowed to eat or drink the whole day. So I got to bed at about 23:30, and was not able to eat or drink before about 16:00&#8230;I guess I had been sleeping for about two hours when I woke up and was feeling veeeery thirsty&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>And also, I&#8217;ve been told that a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Endoscopy\">endoscopy<\/a> is worse \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I had to do a gastroscopy. Just a routine check, nothing major wrong with me, but it had to be done. I&#8217;ve heard so much about it, would not say I was worried, but I did not know what to expect. Ok, it was not nice, I would prefer not to do it, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c18"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2722"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14881,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2722\/revisions\/14881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}