That was so bad and very unprofessional for your knee doctor to say. Well they are only people and there are some very ignorant people out there too.
I was mildly sedated at my discogram, but let me tell you when my most painful disc was hit, i was moaning and crying it hurt so bad. I told him it was rated a 30 out of the pain scale of 1-10! The only problem is after that being so horrible some of the next ones were probably really bad , but in comparison, i gave them like a 6 or 5, not enough for DrRegan to try to remove them. So he only went for the 2 that i was crying at!!! But the sedation sure did not stop me from knowing what was going on.
When i left the facility a little while later, i was fine .
judy