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 Earth Child
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 Has anybody here ever had surgery? 
#15443762 - 11/30/11 09:47 AM (1 year, 5 months ago) |
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What was it for? Were you scared or nervous?
What does it feel like to go under? And what's it like waking up? Does it seem pretty quick, like sleeping? How long were you out?
Any good scripts afterwards?
Sorry, I'm just really curious. I'll probably have to get one in my lifetime, so I'm just wondering.
Please share.
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Re: Has anybody here ever had surgery? [Re: Earth Child]
#15443798 - 11/30/11 10:04 AM (1 year, 5 months ago) |
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What was it for?
Minor eye surgery. Really minimal impact.
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Were you scared or nervous?
Not really, because I knew the 'recovery' wouldn't be a burden at all in any way.
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What does it feel like to go under?
The arm they injected the propofol into first became a bit tingly, then cold/insensitive, and then I was gone. This took about 3 seconds.
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And what's it like waking up?
Gradual, I guess. There's one moment I remember being awake, but I figured afterward that I'd probably been stirring for a few minutes before that already. But it's basically just like, lights on and you're there again. A bit groggy, but that wears off really quickly.
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Does it seem pretty quick, like sleeping?
Pretty much instantaneous.
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How long were you out?
Maybe two hours or so.
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Any good scripts afterwards?
Hell no. Not for this shit. Actually, no script at all.
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Re: Has anybody here ever had surgery? [Re: koraks]
#15443813 - 11/30/11 10:12 AM (1 year, 5 months ago) |
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stitches in my eye.
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Re: Has anybody here ever had surgery? [Re: Earth Child]
#15443836 - 11/30/11 10:21 AM (1 year, 5 months ago) |
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Earth Child said:
What was it for? Were you scared or nervous?
Hernia - a little I guess  I don't like knives or needles.
What does it feel like to go under? And what's it like waking up? Does it seem pretty quick, like sleeping? How long were you out?
Going under was funny. They gave me an injection of (I am not sure what, but it was a butterfly needle, keep in mind this was quite a few years ago), and also gave me nitrous (laughing gas). I remember the thingy going over my mouth / nose, and then just fading out.
I didn't actually remember anything till late that evening but I guess I had come out of it way earlier and was talking and stuff - just don't remember a thing.
Any good scripts afterwards?
Not really, hurt like a bitch tho, and could not move or walk.
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Re: Has anybody here ever had surgery? [Re: collie man]
#15443842 - 11/30/11 10:24 AM (1 year, 5 months ago) |
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I cut my ring finger off and almost the rest of the fingers on my left hadn last summer (don't know how I got so unlucky with just the ring finger) But had 216 stitches to fix them all. On my ring finger it cut right through the knuckle, they were able to re-attach it but slightly curves and I cannot curl it all the way inwards nor can I stretch it straight out. I was so doped up on fentynal within the first 5 mins of getting to the hospital I went right from shock to being HIGH so the pain never really kicked in until the next day, then even with the morphine it hurt bad. I was scared to go under, like really scared. But my brother was there talking to me and I could here the doctor say keep him going and then next thing I know Im being pushed out a door and on my way to the recovery room four hours later. Like there was no recollection of it whatsoever. I was prescribed percocet for the first month and then norcos. Fun times.
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Re: Has anybody here ever had surgery? [Re: Earth Child]
#15443847 - 11/30/11 10:28 AM (1 year, 5 months ago) |
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its like getting an IV put in and then you wake up however long later in a different room.
its really uneventful.
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Re: Has anybody here ever had surgery? [Re: collie man]
#15443854 - 11/30/11 10:31 AM (1 year, 5 months ago) |
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surgery its self is uneventful.
the needle part for me isnt  i realize that needles arent that big of a deal to most people so i didnt put in a paragraph about my phobia of them.
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collie man
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are you kidding? performing open heart surgery sounds like a great rush.
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Re: Has anybody here ever had surgery? [Re: collie man]
#15443861 - 11/30/11 10:33 AM (1 year, 5 months ago) |
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are you kidding? performing open heart surgery sounds like a great rush.
stitches in your eyeball?  
fill me in a little more, brother. what happened to get to that point?
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Re: Has anybody here ever had surgery? [Re: Earth Child]
#15443863 - 11/30/11 10:34 AM (1 year, 5 months ago) |
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I had to get my appendix removed after it ruptured(pretty much the worst thing that can happen) when I was 12.
I was pretty much too sick to be nervous. My fever was so high before I got into surgery that I was delirious. When I arrived at the hospital I pretty much went into surgery right away.
I remember everything just going black then pretty much immediately woke up when it was over. I didn't dream or anything.
I was too young to care about what scripts I was getting back then so idk. I was on morphine in the hospital for about 6 days though.
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Re: Has anybody here ever had surgery? [Re: The Influence]
#15443867 - 11/30/11 10:36 AM (1 year, 5 months ago) |
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I had my right ear pinned back.
Not scared at all
When they put me under, they dude slipped the needle in and I felt pretty good. It came on at the speed of a nitrous high, gradual then BAM! I tried to resist it but after maybe 10seconds was completely out.
I came to gradually. I remember briefly opening my eyes with surgeons around me, putting on my head bandage. I then drifted back out and woke up as they wheeled me to my recovery bay. It took maybe 15-20mins for me to 'come back to reality'. I was seeing a bit of double vision and very lethargic.
I was out for 2hours or so.
I was given a script for 20 5mg oxycodone. Honestly, I didnt really like them. I had a few and then switched to weed. I used them to help get to sleep during exam block after studying and consuming bulk caffeine.
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Re: Has anybody here ever had surgery? [Re: Earth Child]
#15443886 - 11/30/11 10:43 AM (1 year, 5 months ago) |
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are you kidding? performing open heart surgery sounds like a great rush.
stitches in your eyeball?
fill me in a little more, brother. what happened to get to that point?
The wall of my eye got split. And basically deflated marginally. So they stitched it up. After about a month the stitches dissolved. But the steroids fucked my pupil up slightly.
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Re: Has anybody here ever had surgery? [Re: collie man]
#15443948 - 11/30/11 11:05 AM (1 year, 5 months ago) |
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waking up felt like being drunk, I told the nurse so and she replied to enjoy it cause it wouldn't last, haha.
I still wonder what they gave me, it was good shit tho put me to sleep in seconds.
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Re: Has anybody here ever had surgery? [Re: Synth Ethics]
#15443959 - 11/30/11 11:10 AM (1 year, 5 months ago) |
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I've only had "real" surgery once, which was to take an extra tooth out of my gums...basically if I had been born in any other era in time that tooth would have given me extreme fucking misery and pain, as it had nowhere to go and would have just raped the roots of my other teeth and eventually abscessed. they didn't put me fully under though, they gave me what they called "twilight sleep" so i remember being there and being conscious enough to follow directions but i have no actual recollection of it other than that...
I also had "surgery" on an ingrown toenail but they just gave me a local anaesthetic so that doesn't really count.
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Re: Has anybody here ever had surgery? [Re: Solemente]
#15443975 - 11/30/11 11:16 AM (1 year, 5 months ago) |
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Solemente said:
I had to get my appendix removed after it ruptured(pretty much the worst thing that can happen) when I was 12.
I was pretty much too sick to be nervous. My fever was so high before I got into surgery that I was delirious. When I arrived at the hospital I pretty much went into surgery right away.
I remember everything just going black then pretty much immediately woke up when it was over. I didn't dream or anything.
I was too young to care about what scripts I was getting back then so idk. I was on morphine in the hospital for about 6 days though.
Same exact scenario for my surgery story...
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Re: Has anybody here ever had surgery? [Re: Pigasus]
#15443988 - 11/30/11 11:19 AM (1 year, 5 months ago) |
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All manner of shit.
Appendix out when I was twelve.
Two surgeries for staph infection in my elbow when I was like fifteen.
Surgery to fix a lacerated liver and punctured/collapsed lung after a car accident on my eighteenth birthday.
Surgery to fuse my spinal vertebrae together about six months later as a result of the same accident.
Going out is quick and easy, but does hurt a bit. The injection they give you in your IV, they told me to count down from 100. Get to like 96 and you're out. Burns like a motherfucker though, at least for me. Getting prepped before they knock you out is the weirdest part. Lots of anxiety and nervousness and the like.
After it hits, it's instant sleep and the next thing you know you wake up. No dream time or awareness of time passing or anything. Literally, down for the count and wake up asking if they'll take the breathing tube out of your nose and if that shit is over with.
For my lung/spleen surgeries I had a wicked awesome morphine drip for a week or so afterwords. Just push the button and boom. I remember after like a week the doctor came in and said, "Listen, I know it's fun, but if you keep pressing that button every twenty minutes you're never going to get any better." I was pretty sick of the hospital at that point, so I took his word for it.
Total injuries from that one drunk driving accident = all the ribs on my right side broken, punctured and collapsed lung, lacerated liver, broken neck, broken arm and all manner of cuts, scrapes, and bruises. Shit sucks, don't let your friend drive you drunk.
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My friend had a recent surgery. His appendix was about to burst (the human body's ticking time bomb).
He told he while he was under its like a dreamless night.
When he woke up he was confused and his mouth was desert dry.
Then its all good.
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Yours, so far, is the only story I've seen that beats mine.
Hit head on by International truck hauling a load of ice cream. Popped me out of the truck onto the road. Foot got caught on the way. Permanent ankle damage. Broken femur. 2 broken ribs, Torn Aorta, repaired with a Dacron graft. Cracked skull, 9 day coma. 9 weeks in traction. Torn diaphragm, stomach crammed partway into my chest cavity. Died twice, brought back. Doc told my mother I had a 6% chance of living and that if I did live, the odds were 50 - 50 that I'd never walk again. Used a walker for several months, cane after that for almost a year.
Surgeries since.
Hernia (2). Stomach repair (valve work). Lasik (I know, but just flinging it out there).
I was conscious, but don't remember being put out for the accident, but your description matches my experience for the others.
My morphine button was set for 10 minutes. I remember watching the clock like an eagle, just waiting to see the timer flip. 
To anyone that says they'd like to have an accident to get money... you're fucking idiots. There is no amount of money high enough to compensate for a lifetime of pain.
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Re: Has anybody here ever had surgery? [Re: luvdemshrooms]
#15444179 - 11/30/11 12:15 PM (1 year, 5 months ago) |
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Oh yes, the Dacron graft is non-biodegradable.
There will always be a little bit of luv in the world.
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Re: Has anybody here ever had surgery? [Re: luvdemshrooms]
#15444273 - 11/30/11 12:42 PM (1 year, 5 months ago) |
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Yours, so far, is the only story I've seen that beats mine.
Hit head on by International truck hauling a load of ice cream. Popped me out of the truck onto the road. Foot got caught on the way. Permanent ankle damage. Broken femur. 2 broken ribs, Torn Aorta, repaired with a Dacron graft. Cracked skull, 9 day coma. 9 weeks in traction. Torn diaphragm, stomach crammed partway into my chest cavity. Died twice, brought back. Doc told my mother I had a 6% chance of living and that if I did live, the odds were 50 - 50 that I'd never walk again. Used a walker for several months, cane after that for almost a year.
Surgeries since.
Hernia (2). Stomach repair (valve work). Lasik (I know, but just flinging it out there).
I was conscious, but don't remember being put out for the accident, but your description matches my experience for the others.
My morphine button was set for 10 minutes. I remember watching the clock like an eagle, just waiting to see the timer flip.
To anyone that says they'd like to have an accident to get money... you're fucking idiots. There is no amount of money high enough to compensate for a lifetime of pain.
Holy shit man..
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Re: Has anybody here ever had surgery? [Re: luvdemshrooms]
#15444302 - 11/30/11 12:52 PM (1 year, 5 months ago) |
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Yours, so far, is the only story I've seen that beats mine.
No, I'm pretty sure you win.
That sounds fucking hideous.
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no wonder he luvs dem shrooms.
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luvdemshrooms said:
Yours, so far, is the only story I've seen that beats mine.
No, I'm pretty sure you win.
That sounds fucking hideous.
No. You had me at your broken neck.
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Re: Has anybody here ever had surgery? [Re: akira_akuma]
#15444493 - 11/30/11 01:43 PM (1 year, 5 months ago) |
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no wonder he luvs dem shrooms.
Nope. Loved hallucinogenics since my first trip with "Purple Haze" at the ripe old age of 16.
Funniest part of my story was my dad telling me a few years later that... "Before your accident, you were a real asshole. Now you're not too bad".
Seriously though, when people say that after an experience like that... the sky seems bluer and the trees greener... they are 100% correct. It changes you.
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Re: Has anybody here ever had surgery? [Re: luvdemshrooms]
#15444543 - 11/30/11 01:52 PM (1 year, 5 months ago) |
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There is a upcoming snowsport called snowskating.. Well I guess it's sorta a novelty, but I was riding one at a mountain on like a black diamond like an idiot. We'd get pretty good and started to take wood trails that had berms that made it real fun. One time all stoned I was simply going off the side of the slope into the woods when I decided I didn't feel like it so I took my front foot off, went to slip forward and kicked a snow bank and my ankle and leg snapped back. I've come to the conclusion it was all the Red Bull I was drinking (Seriously like 10 a weekend) and it stole all my calcium seriously who the hell breaks bones kicking a frozen snow bank at like 5mph? I ripped through some tendons in my ankle, broke the back bone in the calf, snapped that nub off the side on my ankle.
Anyway I had to get surgery like 3 weeks after the accident. Got put under with a mask and I was out in like 10 seconds.. Suddenly it just felt like I snapped out of it and everything was over I was by myself.
I got 2 pins/screws and a metal wire brace thing for my ankle. All I got was percs lol. It was bad times.
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Re: Has anybody here ever had surgery? [Re: Everlong]
#15444583 - 11/30/11 02:02 PM (1 year, 5 months ago) |
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2 ACL repairs, right and left knee...
I got shivers reading some of the stories in this thread.
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Re: Has anybody here ever had surgery? [Re: chopstick]
#15444607 - 11/30/11 02:08 PM (1 year, 5 months ago) |
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I had my wisdom teeth out, went under. I was given the chemical "propofol"
I asked the doctor how it was going to make me feel. He said I'd feel good, so I asked "how good"? and he said really good. and thats the last thing I remember. The next day i was just basically reallllly sleepy and kind of relaxed. a little stupid. not at all unpleasant.
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Re: Has anybody here ever had surgery? [Re: NWlight]
#15444616 - 11/30/11 02:10 PM (1 year, 5 months ago) |
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The next day i was just basically reallllly sleepy and kind of relaxed.
How long did they keep you under?
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Re: Has anybody here ever had surgery? [Re: koraks]
#15444623 - 11/30/11 02:11 PM (1 year, 5 months ago) |
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I think about an hour
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Re: Has anybody here ever had surgery? [Re: NWlight]
#15444628 - 11/30/11 02:12 PM (1 year, 5 months ago) |
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Oh. 'cause you said 'the next day'. I was kinda surprised at that.
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Re: Has anybody here ever had surgery? [Re: koraks]
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My surgery was late afternoon. I went home and slept until the next morning then just laid and watched movies all the second day.
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Re: Has anybody here ever had surgery? [Re: NWlight]
#15444663 - 11/30/11 02:15 PM (1 year, 5 months ago) |
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Ahhhh. I don't remember any after effects the next day, really. Just felt completely normal
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Re: Has anybody here ever had surgery? [Re: koraks]
#15444890 - 11/30/11 02:59 PM (1 year, 5 months ago) |
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In 2005 three level neck fusion surgery with titanium plate and screws.
Same fusion for lower back. You look at the x-rays and I just cant believe that shit is in my neck and back.
Real scared about the neck surgery as they went in through my neck. Had either a morphine drip with button or dilaudid. What I do remember is pushing that thing whenever I could.
I ended up talking to the walls like they were my friend. I would be carrying on a conversation with the wall, or a piece of paper on the wall and then say " what the shit" your not a person. I then heard the nurse say " we better lower his dose he's talking to the walls".
Had to learn to walk after the back surgery and it hurt like hell. Still use a cane to this day and have to use opiate pain meds. Sucks balls.
Oh and last year had both kidneys shut down due to a over prescription of Opana and they said it was "end stage kidney failure". Really scary and they had to do a (vas-cath) I think it was they cut open your neck and flush out your blood with dialysis. When they were doing this I went into a seizure and they were freaking out witch made me freak out.
Shit.
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Re: Has anybody here ever had surgery? [Re: ilovephish1]
#15444923 - 11/30/11 03:07 PM (1 year, 5 months ago) |
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I had surgery on my shoulder in May, I don't know what they used to knock me out, but it was 
I was a little nervous going into surgery cause I had never had anything like that done before, but it was a breeze. You basically just completely lose consciousness, and regain it a few hours later.
Idk how long I was actually unconscious for, but when I woke up I was sooooo drugged
I remember telling the nurse who wheelchaired me out "man.....i'm fucked up" hahaha
started feeling normal again later that day. I'd say about 6-8 hours after I got home.
i got a nice percocet script. needed half of them for the pain, took the rest of the bottle for fun 
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Re: Has anybody here ever had surgery? [Re: Earth Child]
#15445159 - 11/30/11 03:56 PM (1 year, 5 months ago) |
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Earth Child said:
What was it for? Were you scared or nervous?
What does it feel like to go under? And what's it like waking up? Does it seem pretty quick, like sleeping? How long were you out?
Any good scripts afterwards?
Sorry, I'm just really curious. I'll probably have to get one in my lifetime, so I'm just wondering.
Please share.
I've had 2 surgeries where I was put all the way under...
First, for nerve damage in my left elbow, I bashed it and collapsed the cubital tunnel, where the cubital nerve that is connected to half the arm and the pinky, ring, and part of the middle fingers. Its your funny bone. It got moved from your funny bone spot in your elbow, up under the flexor muscle (I think that's it) on the inside of my arm. I don't have a funny bone in the typical spot anymore, it's on the inside of my arm and hurts like a bastard when it gets hit, which isn't that often. The tests to determine what was wrong, it was one of the worst things ever. They poked my hand about 50 times all over my hand and wrist with a THICK needle that detected nerve activity. I think I got Perc 10/500's for that one afterwards. Going under SUCKED, I was disoriented and unstable for HOURS afterwards, and it made me sicker than hell. I couldn't hold anything down, and they wouldn't let me leave until I could... I finally got out of there by holding it back, I puked in the trash can right outside the hospital. There is a foot long incision along the inside of my elbow that is VERY ugly scar. Recover SUCKED, the doctor left the brace, bandages, and the stitches in too long and it began healing over parts of them. It was agony having them taken out, and just tore me up and made the scar 10x worse. My elbow was essentially locked up and it took a couple months to regain full range of motion.
Surgery #2 was repairing a very broken right cheek bone and trying to repair nerve damage as much as possible. My orbital and cheek bone were broken in, IIRC, 3 spots, so they made a 1/2" incision in my eyebrow, a 2" incision under my eye, where I have a wrinkle/crease, and one inside my mouth up along the gum line. They put in 3 titanium plates and a dozen screws to fix it. Nerve damage was never completely healed, I have very limited feeling on that side of my face (no lack of control though). That time the anasthesia wasn't all that bad, I was pretty good after about an hour of coming to. I got a SHIT TON of pain meds for that one. Recovery was surprisingly not too bad. Took the stitches out myself, this time. Barely any visible scarring, the doctor that did the surgery was a fuckin' artist. You can feel the screw heads though by touching my face, it weirds the kids out.
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Re: Has anybody here ever had surgery? [Re: koraks]
#15445197 - 11/30/11 04:04 PM (1 year, 5 months ago) |
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What was it for?
Lance and drain my arm. Puss had built up from a MRSA infection.
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Were you scared or nervous?
Very slightly nervous right as they were going to put me under.. but not really.
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What does it feel like to go under?
Nothing really.. Just similar to falling asleep, just very quickly. Lol
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And what's it like waking up?
Very similar to waking up after sleeping, boom, you're up. I personally didn't feel groggy at all.
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Does it seem pretty quick, like sleeping?
Yep, exactly what i would compare it to.
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How long were you out?
I actually can't remember.. haha
I think a few hours.. Nothing too long.
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Any good scripts afterwards?
Actually they gave me a script for OCs that I didn't fill(my brother OD on OC so I'm a bit weary of opiates).. Shocking considering I said I didn't have any pain whatsoever..
Then again, that was in FL. Lol. OC capital of the country.
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Re: Has anybody here ever had surgery? [Re: metalfaith]
#15445548 - 11/30/11 05:21 PM (1 year, 5 months ago) |
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I've had both my knees scoped, and I had the same shoulder repair as Anthony done in August. The knees were pretty easy, quick recovery.
Shoulder sucks a giant dick, had a sling on for 6 weeks, and I still only have ~60% range of motion. I have to do physio 5-6 times a day for the next couple months, then I can finally start working out/strengthening. I can't wait to get to the end of the tunnel and start playing sports again. I feel like a weak little bitch, a shadow of my former self.
I've also had strabismus surgery on my eyes twice, but I was young for that.
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Re: Has anybody here ever had surgery? [Re: pwnasaurus]
#15445571 - 11/30/11 05:25 PM (1 year, 5 months ago) |
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pwnasaurus said:
I've had both my knees scoped, and I had the same shoulder repair as Anthony done in August. The knees were pretty easy, quick recovery.
Shoulder sucks a giant dick, had a sling on for 6 weeks, and I still only have ~60% range of motion. I have to do physio 5-6 times a day for the next couple months, then I can finally start working out/strengthening. I can't wait to get to the end of the tunnel and start playing sports again. I feel like a weak little bitch, a shadow of my former self.
I've also had strabismus surgery on my eyes twice, but I was young for that.
lol dude you don't even know. just wait til you start working out again....your muscle is going to be non existent.
i slacked pretty hard on my physical therapy to be honest. I'm 6 months post op right now, and I started doing pushups less than a month ago. certain movements are still pretty uncomfortable.
I hated walking around knowing that if I were to get jumped or something, I couldn't fight back. I still can't fight back with confidence....i won't feel confident w/ this shoulder for probably 6 more months
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Re: Has anybody here ever had surgery? [Re: Anthony]
#15445584 - 11/30/11 05:27 PM (1 year, 5 months ago) |
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I had major surgery on my legs after I got into a car accident. They said they were gonna put me under and I remember thinking that it wasnt working and I was still awake but then I later wake up after surgery etc. Worst thing that ever happened to me.
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Re: Has anybody here ever had surgery? [Re: Anthony]
#15445590 - 11/30/11 05:29 PM (1 year, 5 months ago) |
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I had all 4 of my wisdom teeth removed. I don't remember shit.
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Re: Has anybody here ever had surgery? [Re: Anthony]
#15445593 - 11/30/11 05:30 PM (1 year, 5 months ago) |
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*walks into thread, reads about horrible injury and pain*
*has never had surgery*
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Re: Has anybody here ever had surgery? [Re: Anthony]
#15445644 - 11/30/11 05:40 PM (1 year, 5 months ago) |
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I've had both my knees scoped, and I had the same shoulder repair as Anthony done in August. The knees were pretty easy, quick recovery.
Shoulder sucks a giant dick, had a sling on for 6 weeks, and I still only have ~60% range of motion. I have to do physio 5-6 times a day for the next couple months, then I can finally start working out/strengthening. I can't wait to get to the end of the tunnel and start playing sports again. I feel like a weak little bitch, a shadow of my former self.
I've also had strabismus surgery on my eyes twice, but I was young for that.
lol dude you don't even know. just wait til you start working out again....your muscle is going to be non existent.
i slacked pretty hard on my physical therapy to be honest. I'm 6 months post op right now, and I started doing pushups less than a month ago. certain movements are still pretty uncomfortable.
I hated walking around knowing that if I were to get jumped or something, I couldn't fight back. I still can't fight back with confidence....i won't feel confident w/ this shoulder for probably 6 more months
I know what you mean! I used to be a pretty big guy (6'1", 195), now I'm like 175, and I can barely move my arm. I'm always worried I'm going to get jumped, or some cop is going to try to arrest me and rip my arm around my back in a way it doesn't go.
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Re: Has anybody here ever had surgery? [Re: pwnasaurus]
#15445843 - 11/30/11 06:16 PM (1 year, 5 months ago) |
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I've never had real surgery but I had an endoscopy which I was sedated for.
It was nice when they sedated me cos I was a bit scared before when they were sounding worried about a problem with the machine thing.
For the rest of the day after it I felt kinda drunk and the morning/day after it I felt kinda hungover
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