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re: Having surgery while awake
Posted on 3/26/17 at 5:46 pm to Armymann50
Posted on 3/26/17 at 5:46 pm to Armymann50
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I was awake durning my vasectomy. Nurse was flirting with me.
Playing with your balls was part of the procedure, not foreplay.
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Posted on 3/26/17 at 5:46 pm to Roll Tide Ravens
Up until 30 years ago babies didn't get anesthesia or pain relief, not even for heart and brain surgeries.
Posted on 3/26/17 at 5:59 pm to foshizzle
I was awake when I had a knee scope. Was pretty weird watching the monitor and seeing what was going on, but had a couple of Valium and didn't really give a shite
Posted on 3/26/17 at 6:00 pm to TigerstuckinMS
Posted on 3/26/17 at 6:04 pm to foshizzle
Everyone should experience getting the happy juice and trying to outlast the countdown from 10 to 1 to see if they can beat the serum. You can't, but it's a fun game nonetheless
Posted on 3/26/17 at 6:12 pm to AjaxFury
I have had a couple of cysts removed over the years. Had locals. First one the fricking nurse passed out and physician had to get someone else to help him finish the procedure.
Posted on 3/26/17 at 6:16 pm to foshizzle
Had a total knee replacement a few months ago. Opted for a spinal instead of general anesthesia, with an IV of something that made me really happy. I woke up a few times to hear them pounding on my knee and talked to them some. The recovery room was a breeze compared to waking up after general. Was totally worth it.
Posted on 3/26/17 at 6:27 pm to foshizzle
Monitored Anesthesia Care (awake) surgeries take place thousands of time every day in this country. It really is nothing new. You can tell the Anesthesiologist that you don't want to know anything that is going on in the room and they can do the MAC deep, which would be exactly the same as a general, as far as awareness goes. You won't know anything that happened during surgery and instead of being drowsy for 5-24 hours after surgery you will be drowsy for only about 30 minutes. The adverse risks of a MAC are much lower than doing a general too. It is safer most of the time. That is why it is a better choice whenever it is possible.
This post was edited on 3/26/17 at 6:29 pm
Posted on 3/26/17 at 6:28 pm to foshizzle
No "surgeries" but I have had some procedures done while I was awake.
One was having a filter put into my chest to block blood clots. It was run up through my leg and into the artery just below my heart. They let me watch that. When they have it in place they pull something and it opens like an umbrella. Seeing that part of it was really cool.
Another time I had two stents put in my left leg. That one was really odd because the doctor that did the procedure trains other doctors to do it. There were two other guys standing over me and he was explained everything he did to them. He even had them both feel the way whatever they are holding felt during the process.
They gave me stuff that keep it from hurting, but I could feel the movement of everything they did as he was explaining it. I was in there for almost three hours. Both stents are in my left leg, but they put one of them up through my right groin. That one took much longer.
Afterwards, I was really sore down there on both sides.
One was having a filter put into my chest to block blood clots. It was run up through my leg and into the artery just below my heart. They let me watch that. When they have it in place they pull something and it opens like an umbrella. Seeing that part of it was really cool.
Another time I had two stents put in my left leg. That one was really odd because the doctor that did the procedure trains other doctors to do it. There were two other guys standing over me and he was explained everything he did to them. He even had them both feel the way whatever they are holding felt during the process.
They gave me stuff that keep it from hurting, but I could feel the movement of everything they did as he was explaining it. I was in there for almost three hours. Both stents are in my left leg, but they put one of them up through my right groin. That one took much longer.
Afterwards, I was really sore down there on both sides.
Posted on 3/26/17 at 6:29 pm to foshizzle
I had surgery on my hand in which the doctor just had to make a small incision and cut some muscle and while they gave me something during the surgery, I was awake.
Posted on 3/26/17 at 6:38 pm to foshizzle
Probably the scariest "awake" surgeries that I'm occasionally apart of are the "awake tracheostomy" (breathing tube in the neck). No to minimal sedation, done urgently with a little bit of local anesthesia. Can be well tolerated, but I can only imagine how scared the patients are while cutting on the neck, then the trachea.
Posted on 3/26/17 at 6:40 pm to foshizzle
Screw that. Being knocked out was what I looked forward to the most about my surgery. Nothing beats being able to check out for a few hours and catch some really good sleep.
Posted on 3/26/17 at 6:47 pm to jcaz
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Nothing beats being able to check out for a few hours and catch some really good sleep.
And then having to spend at least a day in recovery with the only interesting thing going on being the IV needle becoming more painful? No thanks.
Posted on 3/26/17 at 6:47 pm to foshizzle
I have a distil tendon repair last year. They gave me a nerve block in my shoulder. Arm was totally lifeless. Doc took down the sheet midway through and let me see the tendon in his forecepts hanging outside my arm.
Posted on 3/26/17 at 6:48 pm to Puffoluffagus
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I can only imagine how scared the patients are while cutting on the neck, then the trachea.
Plus the whole not being able to breathe part.
Posted on 3/26/17 at 7:00 pm to foshizzle
I've only been knocked out for one surgery out of maybe 7 or 8 (wisdom teeth, both hands various places, two on head, hair transplant, and small nose one). That was on my right hand when my pinky bone was sticking out and my pinky and ring finger knucks were not it the right spot. Got pins across whole hand
This post was edited on 3/26/17 at 7:02 pm
Posted on 3/26/17 at 7:05 pm to PaperPaintball92
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Surgeons woke my dad up during his second brain surgery to language map. It gives me the chills to think about.
man, that sounds like some archaic shite...it really is strange that we haven't already moved past all of that kind of thing, if you think about it.
Apparently, we really are not all that far ahead of where we were back when a guy got a swig of whiskey and a bullet to bite on while his leg was amputated with a saw....
Posted on 3/26/17 at 7:12 pm to tigeraddict
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Doc took down the sheet midway through and let me see the tendon in his forecepts hanging outside my arm.
When I woke up after having a fasciotomy on my leg, I could see the tendons where my ankle began. I got used to seeing it because I was in bed for awhile.
This is what it looks like now.
The red circle is where I could see the tendon.
Posted on 3/26/17 at 7:15 pm to Spankum
About 20 years ago, I had this ingrown fingernail that grew over my entire finger. My pediatrician was an old school guy. Gave me a tongue depressor to bite on, looked at me and told me girls cry, and started cutting away at my finger and cutting the fingernail off. Hurt like a mf'er
They don't make em like that anymore. fricking lawyers
They don't make em like that anymore. fricking lawyers
Posted on 3/26/17 at 7:57 pm to Spankum
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that sounds like some archaic shite...it really is strange that we haven't already moved past all of that kind of thing, if you think about it.
Not at all. For brain surgery the patient is kept awake so the surgeons can know when they've gone "too far".
It isn't archaic at all, it's pretty advanced.
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