Is laryngoscopy painful?

  Laryngoscopy is somewhat painful, but the symptoms of discomfort vary depending on the type of laryngoscope.  Indirect laryngoscopy, electronic nasopharyngeal laryngoscopy, support laryngoscopy, direct laryngoscopy, etc., support laryngoscopy and direct laryngoscopy are usually used when hospitalized for throat surgery, such as vocal cord polypectomy or epiglottis cyst removal, etc., which are usually performed under general anesthesia, and the patient usually does not feel it. There is also the electronic nasopharyngoscope, which is more and more widely used in clinical practice, because it can see many locations that cannot be seen by indirect laryngoscopy, such as the pyriform fossa and the inferior tonsillar pole. The symptoms of discomfort, but there will certainly be some uncomfortable symptoms such as nasal soreness, pain, nausea and other uncomfortable symptoms, is within the tolerable range, in the clinical often see many patients do electronic nasopharyngoscopy, basically is no feeling, so the pain or vary from person to person.  In summary, laryngoscopy has certain uncomfortable symptoms such as nausea, pain, nasal soreness and so on, these pains vary from person to person, most patients basically do not feel anything too much, this point do not worry.