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Re:Notes on My Colon Cancer by dmm on Wednesday October 21, 2020 @10:36PM (#24854391)
My understanding is that in many places they are regularly performed without anesthetic so they must not be that painful.
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Re:Notes on My Colon Cancer by unishark on Thursday October 22, 2020 @08:24PM (#24864875)
They do pain research on people getting colonoscopies because it varies so much. A lot of people do find it unbearably painful. It's a relatively small fraction though.
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