What surgery have you had?

AARRRGH

So, I'm going to be getting septoplasty in a few weeks to fix a broken nose which I somehow picked up about 18 months ago. (Can't remember breaking it, but it's definitely a new break).

This will be my first surgery, so I'm 50% terrified and 50% excited. It'll be under general anesthetic.

What surgery have you had, and are you happy with the results?

Turd Ferguson

I had the full works...I used to be Ms Turdina Ferguson

SV

had a nose job
now look like this
http://www.teamknightrider.com/classic/cast/hasselhoff/southpark.gif

My name is URL

Tonsillectomy and an Anterior Cruciate Ligament reconstruction

It's a nice feeling to waken up drugged and surrounded by nurses

Long Onion

I have had my entire skeleton replaced with an adamantium sub-frame.

helimachoptor

Nothing too major, a few endoscopes when i was younger, most serious one was when I was about 8, the main vein coming out of my leg kept getting wrapped around muscle/tissue/bone and preventing the blood from going back to my heart, sliced me open and moved the vein and it's been fine since.

token56

I'm going to have to get a Lumbar Discectomy soon myself, not exactly sure how I feel about it.

NothingMan

We can rebuild him.
We have the technology.


....We just don't wanna spend a lot of money.

banshee_bones

None as yet, lets hope it stays that way...

super_furry

The removal of a pleomorphic adenoma, a pleomorphic melanoma and knee surgery.

mikom

I had a strapadictomy.

gaz wac

Had a meckel's diverticulum op about 15 years ago. ment to be quite rare, only 2% of the population get it....so I was told !

KTRIC

A penis reduction, it was just too big

ibarelycare

Nothing too serious. I had a bone marrow harvest a few years ago because my brother had leukemia and needed to borrow some bone marrow. Had a scope on my knee a couple of weeks ago too.

I love the feeling of going under general anaesthetic but I had bad reactions waking up both times. The first time I woke up choking while they were taking tubes out of my throat. The last time the first thing I rembember was lying in the recovery room shivering and crying I had gone into shock while coming out of the anaesthetic and they had me covered with this lovely magical hot air blanket.

Not to put you off OP...nothing to worry about! G'luck with nose!

AnonoBoy

Ankle Lipo.

Who wants fat ankles?

AARRRGH

ibarelycare wrote: »

I love the feeling of going under general anaesthetic but I had bad reactions waking up both times. The first time I woke up choking while they were taking tubes out of my throat. The last time the first thing I rembember was lying in the recovery room shivering and crying I had gone into shock while coming out of the anaesthetic and they had me covered with this lovely magical hot air blanket.

Haha thanks! :eek:

NothingMan

AnonoBoy wrote: »

Ankle Lipo.

Who wants fat ankles?

"Now that's a cankle! Where does the calf fat end and the ankle fat begin? Who knows, that's the fun". Bill Clinton.

Long Onion

ibarelycare wrote: »

I love the feeling of going under general anaesthetic but I had bad reactions waking up both times. The last time the first thing I rembember was lying in the recovery room shivering and crying I had gone into shock while coming out of the anaesthetic and they had me covered with this lovely magical hot air blanket.

Was your butt sore?;)

robbie_998

had toe nail removed in Jan but they didnt get it all so i have to go back soon to get the rest of the nail bed removed

anesthetics are cool... make your toe swell up really big and ya can do whatever you want to it without feeling a thing

ibarelycare

Long Onion wrote: »

Was your butt sore?;)

No! :eek:

SV

ibarelycare wrote: »

No! :eek:

So you're used to it then?

jd007

I had surgery on my knee about a year ago after i tore my cruciate ligaments. I loved the feeling of being knocked out by the anastethic:D, I did feel a bit queasy afterwards though.

Macca07

had surgery on coarctation of the aorta about 11 years ago. basically the main valve into my heart was narrowed and had to get it widened

Biggins

Chest repair, ankle repair, head work including skull and jaw, leg repair and hand work.

bluto63

Had a third nipple removed

Adiboo

I had a circumcision when I was about 3 or 4, my appendix removed when I was 11 and had my ingrown toenails taken care of a few years back. Of the 3 surgeries, the ingrown toenail was definitley the worst, horrible pain afterwards.

faceman

I had a combined naughty and exploratory surgery done. It was rather painful.

Although I still cant come to terms with the fact that there are probably photos of my insides and outsides in medical books.

Pherekydes

Nothing...

...yet.

I'm thinking of having an orchidectomy.

Kimbot

Had 5 operations on my lungs. 3 I was awake for and 2 I was out cold for.

1st time after waking up after general anestethic I was as sick as a dog for an hour or so and second time I was as high as a kite waking up.

Warfi

I've had recessionoplasty surgery done on my bank account....it's not looking good:o

I_am_Jebus

so far only the one type of surgery for me and it was voluntary...

laser eye surgery... oh what a sight as you see the circular blade coming towards your eye, then the tweezers, then watching the flap made in your eye being pulled back before being zapped with a laser... then the wonderful burning smell....

Jay P

Apendectomy. That was lovely.

Also had a dolphinplasty. My life long dream is fulfilled.

spylon

Had my banjo-string remodelled. Hated general anaesthetic. Its like having a personality transplant. Takes a couple of weeks to get back to your old self.

NothingMan

I_am_Jebus wrote: »

so far only the one type of surgery for me and it was voluntary...

laser eye surgery... oh what a sight as you see the circular blade coming towards your eye, then the tweezers, then watching the flap made in your eye being pulled back before being zapped with a laser... then the wonderful burning smell....

I have never been more happy to have been blessed with 20 20 vision.:eek:

xzanti

Just tonsils out.. that's it *touches wood*

petes

None. Thank fcuk!

Rattlehead_ie

Re constructive Surgery on my shoulder that kept dislocating!

uch

a "person I know" had a Gickerectomy to get me sorry their hole widened because I sorry they couldn't Sh1te

faceman

I_am_Jebus wrote: »

so far only the one type of surgery for me and it was voluntary...

laser eye surgery... oh what a sight as you see the circular blade coming towards your eye, then the tweezers, then watching the flap made in your eye being pulled back before being zapped with a laser... then the wonderful burning smell....

Thats not a burning smell, its chemicals.

dublingal80

Ive had my big toe broken and some bone removed from it, that was nearly 4 years ago. a hip replacement 5 years ago and part of my bowel removed 3 years ago. out of all of them the two was the easiest operation to do but it was the worst one pain wise

I dont remember going under anesthetic but I remember waking up, the first time I was shivering and they put the tin foil type blanket on me and the last time I remember asking the nurse a question about my op. Its honestly grand. I was ****ing myself going down to the first one. they give you a relaxant tablet the morning of it to help you keep calm, which didnt work for me. hadnt a clue what to expect but the 2 after that were grand. when u wake up, you just keep sleeping until the nurses are coming around with questions or to check you o ut and then u are back to sleep again

El Siglo

Tonsillectomy and a plate and screws put into my leg (I broke it in two places and it was sideways).

ScumLord

I haven't had any "surgery" done to me, never any broken bones or anything like that. Had cameras stuck up and down me, that was about as invasive as it got.

I really want to have the laser eye surgery, I want to be able to shoot lasers from my eyes so bad.

I_am_Jebus

faceman wrote: »

Thats not a burning smell, its chemicals.

Not sure, they turned the laser on and said don't worry if you smell burning. Smelt like hair being burned or something... not sure if it was actual burning or chemicals as you say but it was interesting none the less

Dacelonid

Tonsillectomy - I guess I am happy with it, no more Tonsillitis

All four Wisdom out - Can only clearly remember 2 things about it,

1, being so dopey when being collected after the surgery that I left my runners behind me and only found out a week later when I came off the painkillers.
2. The guy in the bed opposite me was in so much of a rush to go back to work that he ripped the canula out of his arm and walked off. The nurses didn't find him either.

A few moles, skin tags and a piece of discoloured skin removed from my neck. Done under local anaesthetic, and I fainted in the car on the way home, so I had to be brought back into hospital for observation.

Function Endoscopic Sinus Surgery and Septoplasty - to correct sinus problems. Wasn't too happy after about 6 months as it didn't seem to have worked, but 18 months on and I can now say it has worked and I have no sinus problems, yippeeee

I_am_Jebus

NothingMan wrote: »

I have never been more happy to have been blessed with 20 20 vision.:eek:

ah but at my last check up I was deemed to have 20/16 vision... Which was an interesting statment to hear. I thought 20/20 was as good as it gets...

I;ve been waiting for the day that I can see through walls but it hasn't happened yet. Maybe next year I'll be 20/14 and one step closer...

Lollipops23

I had surgery for an umbilical hernia when I was 3, that's all for now!

NewFrockTuesday

My baby teeth incisors never fell out and the second teeth grew back into the roof of my mouth so I had to have the baby teeth and ajoining teeth out, the roof of my mouth opened and the teeh pulled from there and then a heap of bridgework done to replace the missing teeth. I was numbed for the roof teeth pulling but it was in Germany and they use the bare minimum of anestitic so I had to keep asking them to top it up.

The dentist was one of the best looking guys Ive ever seen in my life. Could just stare and stare without looking the least bit stalkery.

Good times.

Acoshla

Had all four wisdom teeth out when I was 17.

It was all going fine and dandy until about a week later when my face swelled up and I had big shiny yellow and green bruises all over my jaw. Then my stitches burst a few days later when I was in the pub, this is pretty gross but as it happened at like 2am I just went home to bed to wait to see the dentist in the morning, I spent the whole night swallowing copious amounts of blood every time my mouth filled up from the burst and infected stitches :eek:

Rabies

Hmmm.

I had a gastrography done 4 times I think, a colonoscopy, pill cam swallowed if that counts, an infected sweat gland cut open and drained (woke up in intensive care after that one, I've fractured my thumb before, but thats easy sort.

Thats all from me

rubyred

I LOVE going under and waking up from general anaesthetic. I always get gas first to knock me out cos I'm terrified of needles so I have to be out cold before they can put the drip in my arm/hand.


Had gums slit and four wisdom teeth removed - they were growing sideways instead of straight up. (It wasn't too bad except that I drooled blood for about three days and haven't been able to eat medium-rare steak since.)

Had a cosmetic procedure (It hurt like hell. Defintely the worst of the three. I spent the first night begging the nurse for morphine.)

Had intraocular lens implants - basically contact lenses implanted inside my eyes as they were too complicated for laser (It was uncomfortable for about a week after but so worth it - it was like magic...go to sleep practically blind and wake up with perfect eyesight.)

Professey Chin

Circumscision when I was 3/4
Some lump thing had to be removed from under my eye when I was about 9/10.Theyre the only 2 I was under general for.
Had 2 mole thingys removed but they were just under local anasthetic.Course for one of them the stupid doctor took a phone call in the middle and the anasthetic was wearing off as he put the stitches in :eek: