What surgery have you had?

Jay P · 04-11-2009 02:21PM

Apendectomy. That was lovely.

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

spylon · 04-11-2009 02:22PM

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 · 04-11-2009 02:27PM

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 · 04-11-2009 02:28PM

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

petes · 04-11-2009 02:28PM

None. Thank fcuk!

Rattlehead_ie · 04-11-2009 02:31PM

Re constructive Surgery on my shoulder that kept dislocating!

uch · 04-11-2009 02:34PM

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

faceman · 04-11-2009 02:39PM

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 · 04-11-2009 02:42PM

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 · 04-11-2009 02:44PM

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

ScumLord · 04-11-2009 02:45PM

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 · 04-11-2009 02:52PM

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 · 04-11-2009 02:54PM

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 · 04-11-2009 02:55PM

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 · 04-11-2009 03:05PM

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

NewFrockTuesday · 04-11-2009 03:15PM

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 · 04-11-2009 03:20PM

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 · 04-11-2009 03:26PM

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 · 04-11-2009 03:34PM

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 · 04-11-2009 03:40PM

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:

jokettle · 04-11-2009 03:46PM

I've been under general twice, the first time I was a bit queasy so I mentioned this for the 2nd surgery and they promised to give me something. When I woke up I felt awful, vomiting and shivering (possibly went into shock as it was only a wisdom teeth removal!!) But the nurses were wonderful, gave me loads of the good drugs and made sure I was ok before leaving my bedside. So even if your body reacts badly, you'll be perfectly safe

I also got that lovely inflatable warmed blanket thing to stop the shivering, ever since I've wanted to buy one for home :rolleyes:

TherapyBoy · 04-11-2009 03:48PM

Had brain surgery for tumours nine times in the last 17 years. Funny thing is no matter when the surgery is, as soon as they hit me with the pre-anaesthetic I sing Christmas songs. I think it's cos the first op was a few days after Christmas.

What surgery have you had?

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