My egd was fine... i wasn't

I had a horrible reaction to the benzocaine they used to numb my throat and stuff. I turned literally BLUE. I looked like a smurf, and had tons of needles, meds and other things done to me. Basically the benzocaine bound to my red blood cells preventing my red blood cells from getting the oxygen to other portions of my body. At one point my o2 was 61. BAD! They ran in methaline blue, and reversed it. They also reversed all the other meds, and did an arterial blood gases, and several other items. They bagged me, they tried to place a nasal airway. I apparently didn't like that idea. My 10 am test left me coming home at 3 pm. And with loads of people around me. I found it difficult to sleep last night, as I'd have nightmares, or freak I was gonna turn blue again. Right now my color is ok. Not quite normal, but not blue. The chemical reaction was called Methemoglobinemia. Being a chemical reaction is an incidence of like 1 in 10,000. And in all the years they've done them (10 yrs) here, they have NEVER had that reaction. I had multiple drs, nurses, and anesthesia drs, and my bariatric surgeon. UGH!

teri

((((((HUGS)))))) I hope things get better for you soon. 

Wow is all I can say to that! Very scary, I'm glad they could treat you fast and you are recovering!
Rhonda

So were you blue like in HYPOXIA -like unable to breathe, or just BLUE like Violet Beauregarde? Either way is TERRIFYING, and I'm so glad you're okay. Holy cow.

I am so sorry. I hope you get better fast.

OMG! thats crazy! I had my EGD yesterday and I was sooo scared. My nurse couldnt get my IV in and I got poked a million times. I thought my day was bad, but hunny, I think u won....lol..im so glad u r ok and doing better. Hopefully this is the only bump in your journey and you will do great sweetie no worries...It sucks to find things out in situations like this but all that matters is that you are ok.  Keep ya chin up and keep on truckin lol! MWUAH!