Ever had an operation?

mp3guy

Just wondering how many people have had surgery

edit;

Back surgery can go under chest/abdomen

azezil

Twice, just one more and I'll be the man I always wanted to be *sniffles*

kaimera

some ear problem as a kiddo.

Cianan2

On my nose...what would that go under?

toiletduck

A few years ago i had my appendix out, i had really bad pains in my stomach for months but ignored it (i just thought it was growing pains) but when i had the operation, the doc told me i was lucky because another few days and it would have exploded! i had my tonsils out aswell.

Tobias Greeshman

I had to get wisdom teeth removed, put it down to cosmetic, maybe head would of been better choice, ah well!

dudara

Open heart surgery when I was 10 to correct a hole in the heart

Cianos

toiletduck wrote:

the doc told me i was lucky because another few days and it would have exploded!

I've heard that a few times. Maybe they just say it to see the expression on your face?

toiletduck

Cianos wrote:

I've heard that a few times. Maybe they just say it to see the expression on your face?

no because the operation usually lasts 30 mins but mine lasted 4 hours!

JackKelly

head for me.

Gilgamesh

Broke my Back in a Kobudo Demonstration when I was 17.
have two vertibrae attached to eachother now in my lower back.

Gilgamesh

Cianan2 wrote:

On my nose...what would that go under?

would say head?

xzanti

Never been sliced open but had a camera / scope / keyhole type job done a few years ago... Was under general anaesthetic so I suppose it would count as an operation

_blank_

Well I had my tonsils and adenoids out when I was 4.

So I chose "Head" from the list.

Had my first "girlfriend" in hospital that time too

And now, twenty one years on, it seems the surgeon did a botch job, and left a tiny bit of tonsil tissue in there. Too small to remove, but just big enough to get infected and cause terrible pain every eight months or so. :mad:

MooShop

chest - spontaneous pneumothorax, got a tube stuck in my side, but dont worry it got taken out 2weeks later

Einstein

broke my finger pretty badly when i was like 10...put me under and straightened that bad boy out nicely!

snorlax

had apendicitus a few years ago and had keyhole surgery, was out of the hospital 3 days latter!

NikNik

Broke my ankle ages ago. They didnt actually make an incision, just cracked it back into place
....under anaesthetic of course

Stephen

I had some combination of an appendectomy and surgery to correct a twist in my intestine that was causing severe pain (think of a garden hose with a kink in it) when i was 18.

ow.

Megatron

undecended Testical , when i was about 4.
umm few sticks but wan't unde trhe knife .. and thats it.

g5hn710m4xpdwy

toiletduck wrote:

A few years ago i had my appendix out, i had really bad pains in my stomach for months but ignored it (i just thought it was growing pains) but when i had the operation, the doc told me i was lucky because another few days and it would have exploded! i had my tonsils out aswell.

jebus I get those pains aswell! infact i was out of school a few times and i was sick 3 days last week with em! :eek: I cud explode :rolleyes:

Loobz

Im thinking of getting my tonsils removed. Im doing this because Im having endless problems with throat infections. I had acute tonsilitis at one stage when I was younger and ended up in hospital. I dont know why they didnt decide then to take them out.

I just have a few questions to those who have had them removed.
How long will I have to wait for an operation?
After the operation, how long before I can eat and speak properly?

Thanks.

Femelade

Cianos wrote:

I've heard that a few times. Maybe they just say it to see the expression on your face?

i was told the same.
to this day i'm not sure if he was just pulling the piss - toilet duck says it usually takes half an hour? well i was in there for over 2 i think so maybe it was true.
to took me to surgery fairly lively too when i arrived in the hosp, oblivious to what was going to happen.
ah well, i lived to tell the tale

Femelade

Loobz wrote:

Im thinking of getting my tonsils removed. Im doing this because Im having endless problems with throat infections. I had acute tonsilitis at one stage when I was younger and ended up in hospital. I dont know why they didnt decide then to take them out.

I just have a few questions to those who have had them removed.
How long will I have to wait for an operation?
After the operation, how long before I can eat and speak properly?

Thanks.

i have terrible problems with my tonsils, going to the dr later as a matter of fact to get more augmenten - which i'm practially imune to at this stage.
they used get very bad before, i remember going to the south infirmary in cork (the ear throat and nose section) and i had an appointment with a dr there about taking them out(i was on the waiting list at that stage)
that was in 1999.
dont think they take them out unless u get a certain amount of bad attacks a year now.

Waltons

Had surgery for appendicitis and peritonitis (which was a result of them not acting quickly enough on the appendicitis) when I was about...12/13 I think.
Rather unpleasant since I had to have some of the work done on my insides under local anaesthetic

Kinetic^

Femmy wrote:

i have terrible problems with my tonsils, going to the dr later as a matter of fact to get more augmenten - which i'm practially imune to at this stage.
they used get very bad before, i remember going to the south infirmary in cork (the ear throat and nose section) and i had an appointment with a dr there about taking them out(i was on the waiting list at that stage)
that was in 1999.
dont think they take them out unless u get a certain amount of bad attacks a year now.

Got my tonsils out when i was 6,now 22 & 1 of the little gits has grown back.

Gilgamesh

the appendix doesn't exactly explode, (what would look pretty cool if it would happen to someone else on the street, hehe) but it can burst, when this happens though you are pretty screwed and the survival rate of the person apparently drops dramatically.

Kinetic^

seansouth wrote:

And now, twenty one years on, it seems the surgeon did a botch job, and left a tiny bit of tonsil tissue in there. Too small to remove, but just big enough to get infected and cause terrible pain every eight months or so. :mad:

WHat hospital did you have it done in??? I was in Temple St.

Waltons

Gilgamesh wrote:

the appendix doesn't exactly explode, (what would look pretty cool if it would happen to someone else on the street, hehe) but it can burst, when this happens though you are pretty screwed and the survival rate of the person apparently drops dramatically.

Errr....how dramatically?...

FranknFurter

HA!
Mere Amateurs!! lol
28 and counting!! *nods proudly and shows scars*

lol

Sarky

My head.

General anaesthesia is great. It's like heavy drinking without the nausea and the risk of coma/death.

The_Conductor

FranknFurter wrote:

HA!
Mere Amateurs!! lol
28 and counting!! *nods proudly and shows scars*

lol

Eeek 28 and counting?.......

I've had abdominal surgery for Crohn's Disease including multiple resections of my intestines on 4 occasions. Surgery on one leg (tibia, fibula and femur) for multiple compound fractures in an accident. Then the usual things- broken fingers, wrist, ankle, collar bones, nose- the usual knocks and breaks when you're growing up.

besty

Gilgamesh wrote:

Broke my Back in a Kobudo Demonstration when I was 17.
have two vertibrae attached to eachother now in my lower back.

:eek:

I had a metal pin put into my thumb after breaking it a few years back.

IANOC

had limb surgery & groin surgery

damn i hate student doctors. male of course

hshortt

Had my eyes lazered, so cosmetic for me.

But I'm also with Femmy, and need to have my tonsils out. Very interested in other peoples experiences with that, my uncle had it done a couple of years ago and began bleeding after a couple of days, ended up back in hospital for a week.

Cheers

Big Ears

Got my tonsils out when I was 2 , haven't had a problem since .

Mimikyu

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*Angel*

I had the appendix out when I was a kid.

lampsie

Had a lovely fat varicose vein stripped from the top of my leg down to the ankle...couple of years ago now (i was 21), but my ankle still hurts like a bastard at the slightest touch where the incision occured. Do remember being in a morphine induced happy land the few hours after waking from the operation tho!

- lampsie

Lynibeth

Not an operation as such but had ECT a few times.

Larianne

Loobz wrote:

Im thinking of getting my tonsils removed. Im doing this because Im having endless problems with throat infections. I had acute tonsilitis at one stage when I was younger and ended up in hospital. I dont know why they didnt decide then to take them out.

I just have a few questions to those who have had them removed.
How long will I have to wait for an operation?
After the operation, how long before I can eat and speak properly?

Thanks.

How long? Well I suppose it depends if you go public or private. I went private. I don't think I had to wait long. I was 11at the time.

It's not like they remove your vocal chords so you can speak directly after it, when you come 'round. And you can eat afterwards too. It's just a bit sore. Remember after I got it done, they gave me mince meat!! I was like 'Where's the soup and jelly!' so my mam, who worked there sorted me out.

One thing I did remember though was that I coughed up ALOT of blood. But I think it's different for everyone. My brother had the same thing done at the same time and he didn't cough up nearly as much the amount as I did!!

But it's worth getting them removed. I got loads of throat infections and it caused me to have bad breath as they were so rotten. Got my adenoids removed as well. Luckily they haven't grown back!!!

So Tonsils and adenoids removed for me. And before that gromits inserted into my ears.

arbeitsscheuer

Tonsellectomy and eh... circumcision.

Had the circumcision when I was about 8 which is quite old for that particular operation.

Had the tonsellectomy about 2 years ago now, best thing I ever did. I used to have terrible problems wit them, and I used to get colds and flu all the time as well. Since I've had them out I've had the flu once. Not been sick at all otherwise.

General anaesthetic for both btw. Thank cr*p.

Rhyme

Have had a few stomach and intestine ops over the years and a few biopsies too with pretty much a permanent thing going on in there... so i say abdomen.

netwhizkid

I have never had major surgery, 2 and a yrs ago, i had an ingrowing big toenail's roots removed on the left hand side of the nail so it couldn't cut in anymore, I had it done under local anastesia, i felt nothing until it wore off OOOOOOOOUCH !!!!! man was the pain bad, but it was better than putting up with the pain 24/7 it was cured in 3 weeks.

Regards netwhizkid

RVN10

ya last summer i broke my pelvis playin soccer was painful sh**

WetDaddy

I had two malignant melanomae removed when I was 21; one from my abdomen and one from my thigh. I also had two additional biopsies done.

The best part of the whole thing is that it turns out I have hypertrophic scarring (also called "keloid" skin) which means I overheal. The result is that the scars I have actually look like your typical Frankenstein scars, what with the stich-marks themselves being visible.

On top of that, I seem to have a bizarre tolerance to local anesthetics: The doctor gave me no less than six (!) for the first melanoma. She said that normally it takes just the one or maybe two, depending on the size / depth of the incision. I'm sure there's different types of anesthetics too, but apparently my situation's a bit odd.

Apart from that, all I've done is broken my ankle and dislocated my knee. No surgery for those, though. Oooh, and I cracked a rib from coughing fits when I had bronchitis! ;-)

Nightwish

had 4 ear ops as a young one

Haedes1987

Pin through the finger and last october had a metal plate and 7 screws inserted into my ankle. Dislocated it and spiral fracture while playing a spot of rugger, nearly had to have amputation ,they couldnt get a pulse in my foot.There was like 15 doctors and nurses trying to find it, i was ****in it ! More or less the same injury as Cisse the liverpool player

Capt'n Midnight

Bent my thumb back so my whole arm was in plaster for six weeks. Needles were put in the bone so had a general. Weird you can feel the coldness running up your arm and you're thinking "I can feel it, it's not working" and then you wake up in post op. Got the needles pulled out with a local anesthetic with a rusty pliers on my birthday.

lacuna

I had my finger sewed back on when I was two (but that's not really surgery). Had numerous operations on my ears and got my tonsils and adenoids (sp?) removed when I was young. My appendix nearly burst about two years ago...just about got through that one. Nearly had to cancel a holiday!

That's all I know of/remember atm. Hopefully there'll be no more.

rubberduckey

7 knee operations in last 9 years...last one last Wednesday...Sick of operations!!!

Still its only a knee eh??

Dudara your op sounds serious, hope all is well..