Let me tell you about the most miserable experience that I had.  On Dec 23, at 11:45p.m I was taken to the hospital because I thought that I was throwing up blood, I had intense pains in my stomach as well as my lower abdomen, I was dizzy, and I could not stop throwing up for the last 8 hours.  I told my doctor that I had acid reflect disease and he pushed on my stomach to see where it hurt.  He was worried that with my medical history and the thought that I was throwing up something reddish brown, so the only way to see what was in my stomach was to scope my stomach.  The way that they would have to scope my stomach would be to stick a rubber tube down my nose passed my through to my stomach where all the fluids would be sucked out.  Pleasant Huh???  I was not crazy about this option but the doctor said that you are bleeding in your stomach you can die within the next 12 hours if nothing is done.  The nurse, who was a Michigan fan and who was trying to talk me out of the procedure, gave me my I.V. and some painkillers and she slowly slid the tube down nose to my stomach.  The whole time the tube was in me I felt like I was chocking.  I couldn’t breathe, I kept on coughing, and I was crying because the pain was so bad.  At one point I was screaming, GET IT OUT!! GET IT OUT!!  The doctor finally pulled the tube out of my nose and it burned coming up.  I could not breathe and I was still throwing up.  Thankfully, there was no blood in my stomach.  I was finally discharged at 4:00a.m (Christmas Eve Day) with a diagnoses of vertigo and in so much pain I couldn’t see straight.  That was the most painful experience of my life I was still hurting 2 days later.