Recently I had a gastroscopy (a camera down into your stomach) to investigate the source of some persistent digestive problems. It's easily the most unpleasant of all the procedures I've had under local anaesthetic. You go into a little operating theatre, they spray the back of your throat and thread down a thick black tube with a bright light at the end. You can feel it rumbling around your gullet and into your guts, then they pull the tube backwards and forwards through your mouth, twisting the little camera around the folds of your stomach. You're gagging and belching, as they're also pushing in air to inflate your stomach whilst they're taking the pictures. This continues for a very long half an hour. You wouldn't want to have it twice.
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