Ileoscopy, who has had one?

My first ileoscopy is in 2 weeks. I'm starting to get nervous. One because I have loved being off meds so I hope they don't find anything. But also I'm kind of freaked out about my GI touching my stoma and sticking the scope in there! I know someone who said their stoma felt a little bruised or sore after the scope.

Who here has had one? How often do you get one?

From what I know i think the scope goes in quite a bit further than the enema thing radiology does to check pouches for leaks.

I have heard some people have stayed awake but most get anthestia like with a colonoscopy.

My GI said it was my choice, not sure what I will do yet.

I've had 4 ileoscopies and 1 barium injection x-ray through the stoma. I was given Propofol and was out for the ileoscopies. I would recommend you do the same. Didn't feel a thing and the stoma was perfectly fine after. I wore a 2-piece appliance so they didn't have to remove the wafer. Just make sure to demonstrate for them how to put your bag back on so they do it right. My only prep was a liquid diet the day before the scope and no eating or drinking the day of the procedure. Easy.

I was awake for the barium injection x-ray and was nervous before that, but I didn't feel a thing. That one got messy because the stoma keeps spitting out the barium but they cleaned me up. There was no discomfort or even any weird feeling.

I would definitely get them pretty regularly if I were you, since you're on no meds. Three of the four scopes were in a span of a month because I had a stricture that they were trying to open up with balloon dilation. That failed and I had to have surgery to remove it. Fun. My new GI wants me scoped every three months for now because we don't know what caused the stricture (no signs of Crohn's recurrence in any of the scopes) and we want to make sure I don't start developing more. So, I'm sort of a special case. Every six months for you sounds reasonable, at least to start to make sure nothing is brewing. Ileoscopies are so much easier than colonscopies - no prep meds and no butt burn from the prep.

I'll keep my fingers crossed for you!