Help. I am an RN, 51 y/o and family hx of colon cancer. I'm scheduled for next week. GI Doc is insisting on sedation for the procedure. After extensive reading I can find no valid reason for sedation other than when the scope is placed. If I can do self hypnosis and tolerate dental procedures, MRI, Epidural Steroid Infusions, I think I can handle the scope insertion. Please give me your collegial / professional experience with patients who refuse sedation and outcomes; also, why do you think sedation is required for this procedure.? I think it is a revenue generator because I have this conflict on sedation for nearly every out patient procedure. Perhaps I'm wrong. Glenn