Is it normal to be afraid of drugging you to sleep before a procedure?

Colonscopy... sounds like something I would want to be asleep for.

I'm a nurse and believe me you want to be asleep! It's too stop you from tightening your rectum and airway making it easier for the doctor to perform the surgery. Both are not invasive but you don't want to be awake for them!

Getting put too sleep is no big deal at all. It's real quick,like the blink of an quick. You'll be fine don't worry.:)

its normal to be scared of something you can't control, but you wouldn't want to do the procedure without anesthesia.

There are two choices to this:

Either stay fully concious and feel a large object being inserted in you so deep that the pain will eventually make you fall unconcious.

- OR -

Get the anesthesia, which in modern medicine is unbelieveable safe, with the only thing that can go wrong is an upset tummy.

Trust me on this, I have been under the knife very VERY often and there is absolutely nothing to fear.
Normally I am a man who despises all sorts of medication, but this might be the one exception to this rule.
There is only one thing you certainly need to fear a little: You will wake up in the special room where nurses constantly monitor people who were put under anesthesia, and you will be grumpy as hell. It will feel like waking up after only one hour of sleep and you were really tired.
It is a small thing and afterwards it will be a fun game trying to remember anything anyone has told you in the first few hours after waking up. Then you will go to bed that same night and you will sleep like an angel.
Don't get me started on how refreshed you feel the next morning. Just be careful, you still had an operation the day before and you will certainly not mind that in the first few hours after waking up in your bed!

I've had those before and I was scared too, but it's not that bad

It's normal to be afraid. It's logical.

Da fuq?

This reminds me of Awake. The guy has heart surgery but suffers from anesthetic awareness so he hears everything the doctors are saying and how they and his wife were planning on killing him for the benefits.

Okay movie but it's scarier knowing this could happen (although rare don't worry!) and you being in pain and not being able to stop it b/c you're paralyzed! =..O

it will be much more uncomfortable if you're not asleep. plus it's not as bad as people say it is. the doctors have to say those scary things so that they don't get sued. complications from anesthesia are very rare. as long as you have an empty stomach, you'll be fine.

They're very much invasive surgical procedures, you wouldn't want to be awake for them.

Blink of an eye. DOH

The last I checked those weren't surgical procedures.... So, I don't see why you'd be unconscious. It's understandable to be afraid, but I still don't understand why you'd be unconscious.