A member asked:

Hi, i had a endoscopy 2 days ago with no sedation (never again)! since then i am experiencing a sharp pain in my left ribs and abdomen. is this normal?

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Dr. Milton Alvis, jr answered

Specializes in Preventive Medicine

No. This implies an: injury, presumably temporally associated with the endoscopic examination. Also careful about words (they affect one's thinking). By normal, most imply good or OK. But normal only means common, usual, average & is defined by the medical industry as average to include the central +/- 2 SD, i.e. 95.6% of everything. Normal has little, if anything, to do with excellence (which is abnormal) of health.

Answered 4/27/2016

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