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| Jemmy | | posted 11-Jun-2002 4:49pm |
Having my stitches taken out. Hopefully, I'll never have to do anything more serious than that. |
| teatree | | posted 11-Jun-2002 4:51pm |
C-Section and hysterectomy at the same time. It was painful enough going through both procedures at the same time, but the pain was compounded by the nurse assigned to my area. She came in late and instead of checking charts first, started her rounds doing routine fundus checks (where they check the new mothers to see if their uterus is going back to normal size). I had just got back to my room from the recovery room and was just starting to drift off to sleep with the help of a good dose of pain medication when she comes in a clamps her hand down through the gown right over my nice, fresh stitches! I let out a long scream of pain and sitting bolt up right I swung my arm out to try and grab hold of whomever was doing this to me. Unfortunately I connected with the nurse's face instead and sent her sprawling on the floor. I double over in pain as she starts screaming, "Why did you hit me...you have no right to hit me?" I'm in so much pain that I can't answer her. Right about then the floor supervisor came in and wanted to know what's going on. The nurse said I hit her for no reason, but I managed to gasp out that I thought maybe some of the stitches may have torn (I was right). The supervisor asked the nurse again to tell her what happened and the nurse told her, "I was late and was trying to get the fundus checks done on the new mothers when this patient struck me and knocked me to the floor." By then I was able to tell the supervisor what had happened and she turned to the nurse and said, "Why didn't you check each patient's chart before you did your examination?" "This patient just came back from surgery and now she has to go back because some of the stitches torn out!" It turned out later that this type of behavior was typical of this particular nurse, but nothing had been done about it. She was transferred to a floor where she would no longer have contact with surgical patients any longer. |
| confetti | | posted 11-Jun-2002 5:04pm |
I guess cataract operation. I don't remember much of it, I was like two? three? I got a lot of gifts afterwards, that I recall. So it was really not bad at all. |
| darkshadowsseeker | | posted 11-Jun-2002 5:18pm |
A complete upper G.I. series including a really delicious (I'm being sarcastic!) barium swallow. The only thing good about it was that I didn't have to go through a barium enema as well! |
| juliw | | posted 11-Jun-2002 5:38pm |
a MRI-hated it
The grossest procedure was when they stuck a camera down my esophagus and took pictures of the back of my heart, but I was under anesthesia the whole time |
| mandy | | posted 11-Jun-2002 5:40pm |
amniocentesis |
| mandy | | (reply to teatree) posted 11-Jun-2002 5:43pm |
......and a fundus check over fresh C-Section stitches! I forgot about that. I grabbed the nurse's hands and screamed. What a stupid chicken. I wish I had thought to belt her like you did!  |
Enheduanna  | | posted 11-Jun-2002 6:06pm |
Getting a shot of novocaine in my genitals, to have a little blistered piece of skin removed. |
| Glassa | | posted 11-Jun-2002 6:16pm |
I was born with a benign lymphangioma (lymph and blood vessels) tumor in my side. When I was 2 I had it removed, but it got infected. The doctor needed to let the infection juices out. Well to do this he decided to slice me in the side several times with a scalpel...WITH NO ANESTHESIA! I'm 27 now, but I still remember my mom, aunt, and grandmother holding me down while I was screaming. |
| Hans | | posted 11-Jun-2002 6:18pm |
When I was 18, I spent 6 weeks in a hospital after an appendicitis with perforation, resulting in a vehement peritonitis. That was not funny at all. Afterwards I heard that at the beginning nobody expected I would survive. |
| spidertea | | posted 11-Jun-2002 6:19pm |
Having my stomach pumped. Yuck! |
| teatree | | (reply to mandy) posted 11-Jun-2002 6:22pm |
I didn't hit her intentionally, I was just trying to grab hold of her hand to stop her. I have a few stronger names I would like to call her if I could see her right now. I've always wondered how much pain she had caused other new mothers with her careless, unfeeling actions. |
| teatree | | (reply to Glassa) posted 11-Jun-2002 6:23pm |
Doctors who do things like that should be shot or at the very least forced to feel the same level of pain they have inflicted on a patient! Maybe it would make them act with more compassion next time. |
| Amanda | | posted 11-Jun-2002 6:29pm |
The scariest was my c-section. The most painful was my kidney surgery. |
| Amanda | | (reply to mandy) posted 11-Jun-2002 6:31pm |
I had an amnio, too. My Mom was there holding my hand the whole time. Without her being there, I'd have really freaked. She kept me calm, though. It was so scary. |
romkey  | | posted 11-Jun-2002 8:21pm |
having surgery to put my left ankle back together is almost the only medical procedure I've ever undergone |
Galomorro   | | posted 11-Jun-2002 8:53pm |
It was the most ineffective. When I was a kid, I would have ear infections and earaches and the doctors never did anything to make them go away. I would sit and sit in different little rooms with my ears stuffed with cotton that had medicine on it but none of this seemed to help. When I got older, the infections and earaches went away, but I am now moderately hearing impaired in both ears, |
| Glassa | | (reply to teatree) posted 11-Jun-2002 8:57pm |
Well, I think at the time (1976 or 1977) the thought was that I was too little for a local anesthetic. Or maybe it was his lazyness. Either way, it was traumatic. Anytime someone tries to tickle my ribs or poke me in the side as a joke I come real close to whacking them upside the head and knocking them out. I've never understood how someone could be ticklish in their ribs and this is probably why. I've always been very sensitive there and no one is allowed to touch me there. |
| kirst | | posted 11-Jun-2002 9:07pm |
Definitely emergency surgery for a collapsed lung...I had no insurance, the ER didn't diagnose me correctly, no surgeon to do the procedure at first, etc. My c-section was a piece of cake compared to the lung. |
LindaH   | | posted 11-Jun-2002 10:28pm |
Having fluid drawn from my spine. |
| bobofwestgate | | posted 12-Jun-2002 2:32am |
Except for getting a cast on my arm in 6th grade when I broke my arm, nothing comes to mind. It wasn't that bad so I don't think it would rate as worst in anybody's book. |
| teatree | | (reply to Glassa) posted 12-Jun-2002 3:51am |
That's insane! Why would a doctor think a child, even a young one couldn't feel pain. My nephew fell and cut his head when he was about 2-3 years old and they weren't at all hesitant about numbing the area before they started stitching up his scalp. I can understand why you wouldn't want to be touched in your ribs. My sister is the same about her feet and legs. She had the misfortune of getting warts as a child that had to be burned off because they kept reoccurring and if that wasn't bad enough, she caught a plantar wart (it's a type of wart you get most often on the bottom of your foot and it has a deep core) from someone in her junior high gym class, probably in the shower. Everybody was supposed to wear shower thongs, but it wasn't strictly enforced. She had to have it gradually removed over a period of many weeks (it took over 2 months) where she would go to the doctor on a daily basis and they put acid on it. When she got home from the doctor it would burn and itch so badly that she would repeatedly hit the back of the heel of the affected foot on the floor (we had wooden floors). I think what bothered her more than anything was not being able to play in the sand dunes when we went on our vacation during this times. She had to sit in camp and watch everybody else having fun. |
| NthenSome | | posted 12-Jun-2002 5:47am |
I had to have lead removed from the palm of my hand, two years after I was too embarrassed to tell anyone I had poked my hand with a pencil I had just before sharpened. Hey, it was third grade - you don't fess up to things like that. |
Kristal_Rose  | | posted 12-Jun-2002 6:37am |
7 Stitches when i was seven. Dental work. Gravel cleaned from my hands after a bike spill in my early 20's. Shots. |
| Kristal_Rose | | (reply to juliw) posted 12-Jun-2002 6:43am |
Were you able to feel all the magnetic molecule realignments too? |
| jettles | | posted 12-Jun-2002 7:40am |
i've only ever had my tonsils out but that was at 21 so it was painful. |
| Cain | | posted 12-Jun-2002 9:03am |
I've never realy undergone any surgical procedures. I've been for stitches a few times but that was OK. I've had some teeth out but I was out cold for that. I suppose the worst would be when I was given an examination for STDs. Not painful, just a little embarassing. |
| grmbrand | | posted 12-Jun-2002 9:20am |
Getting fillings; my regular dentist was a little impatient with the novocaine. In contrast, my root canal (done by a specialist) was quite tolerable. |
| CarolL | | posted 12-Jun-2002 11:05am |
The most unexpected and life-threatening was a craniotomy for subarachnoid hemmorage (brain aneurysm). |
| Biggles | | posted 12-Jun-2002 11:24am |
....having my plaster cut off after I broke my arm when I was almost 3. They used an electric saw that looked huge to me at the time. The nurse had to show me that if it touched the skin, the blade stopped moving by puching it against herself.
Or the brain scan that I had - that was pretty scary because I was frightened about what the results might show. |
| Biggles | | posted 12-Jun-2002 11:28am |
Oh I forgot the worst - blocked out memory! Having vaginal swabs done were certainly the worst. I was only very young - maybe 9-11 the first time and it was a thoroughly unpleasant experience. At least the second time I had a female doctor (I was a lot older). |
| cuteasabutton | | posted 12-Jun-2002 12:21pm |
I had to have my eardrum reconstructed. It was horrible! The second worst was my C-section.... my epideral was not placed properly and was numbing up the sheet behind me very nicely, but I was not as numb. It was draining out on to the bed because the Anistesiologist was a idiot. OUCH!!!! |
| they | | posted 12-Jun-2002 1:06pm |
I guess the csection... but the scariest would have been the knee surgery after my accident when I was 10. |
| moonstone | | posted 12-Jun-2002 2:04pm |
I just had a breast reduction surgery about 2 weeks ago. I guess that was the worse I've had to deal with. The actual surgery wasn't that bad, I had a really bad reaction to the anesthesia and was sick for about 4-5 days. Wasn't that painful, but I couldn't lift or reach anything, so it was really hard on Ethan and I know Mike is glad that I'm getting back to normal. My Mom had to come over every morning to take care of Ethan for me. I suppose child birth wouldn't really apply here, but that was probably the most painful and scary thing I've ever had to go through. |
| ASexyBabe | | posted 12-Jun-2002 2:11pm |
When I dislocated my thumb and they popped it back into place or when I broke my collarbone and they moved it back to where it should have been and set it. Both were very painful. |
| Dino | | posted 12-Jun-2002 3:28pm |
I've been pretty lucky and have so far managed to stay out of hospital. Well I had my stomach pumped as a teenager but not general medical stuff. |
| Cleo | | posted 12-Jun-2002 6:53pm |
A DNC |
| mandy | | (reply to Amanda) posted 12-Jun-2002 7:08pm |
My mother was there too. She held my hand and stroked my forehead. |
| Oscar | | posted 12-Jun-2002 9:12pm |
The most painful afterwards was an arthrogram on my jaw. It didn't hurt during the procedure, but my jaw became so stiff and sore afterwards that I don't think I could let them do it again. I just cried. I couldn't even close my mouth because the joint swelled so bad. Swallowing hurt too because you use your jaw to swallow.
*Arthrogram - a dye is injected into the joint to be imaged and then an x-ray is video taped while you move the joint to disperse the dye* |
| Oscar | | (reply to Galomorro) posted 12-Jun-2002 9:16pm |
Same here. People that have never had ear infections don't know what it's like. I've had tubes put in my ears three times. Now my right ear is so scarred that I have lost about 30% of the hearing in it. I can notice the difference all the time. I remember my ear drum popped when I was 14. I bawled like a little baby until it popped, but once it did it was like orgasmic relief.  |
| Zang | | posted 13-Jun-2002 6:50am |
Probably getting a blood test when I was really young. It is kind of scary seeing all that blood coming out of your arm when your a little kid. |
| doom |
I had the same thing done to my right ear. While to surgury did not really bother me at all the removal of the packing gauze two weeks after surgury was unbelievibly awful. It felt like they were pulling sandpaper out of my ear. |
| cuteasabutton | | (reply to doom) posted 13-Jun-2002 3:05pm |
I think the worst part is the fact the it is so loud  |
| doom |
Heh. I am deaf in my right ear so loudness was not a part of the process for me  |
| Galomorro | | (reply to Oscar) posted 13-Jun-2002 8:38pm |
5{ ar drum may have popped too, but not sure. I had this horrific pain in my ear once (did not go to doctor about it at that time) and then I got this really weird feeling and the pain stopped suddenly. Soon I am going to be getting hearing aids. |
| juliw |
Nope-guess what? I just had another mini stroke wednesday-back home now and doing just fine and had ANOTHER MRI |
| Kristal_Rose | | (reply to juliw) posted 14-Jun-2002 8:04pm |
Egad. Well, wishing you the best of health. Keep your love of life going instead of worrying about things. |
| juliw |
That's what I am trying to do. I do think my positive attitude has been a big help. |
| NthenSome | | (reply to juliw) posted 15-Jun-2002 2:46pm |
Wow! You don't hear that sort of success often! I think if people held your philosophy more often (re "positive attitude"), that would change the success rate. Step further: Demand that positivism from those around you. Call it "reinforcement".
Good for you.
*sending out invisible rings of health and wellness* |
| juliw | | (reply to NthenSome) posted 15-Jun-2002 3:24pm |
Thanks for the good wishes. I wish it was easy to demand positivism from others. But I have been pretty lucky in that respect. My family and I, and my friends and I have a very supportive relationship. |
| NthenSome | | (reply to juliw) posted 15-Jun-2002 6:00pm |
You probably already make that 'demand' (as I put it) on those around you by simply inspiring - and engender more results than you probably know. Leading by example...I happen to think it's the most responsible style of headship. |
| Kristal_Rose | | (reply to NthenSome) posted 15-Jun-2002 6:21pm |
What a great guy. Do you get to see immediate results from such prayers? |
| juliw | | (reply to NthenSome) posted 15-Jun-2002 6:53pm |
I agree with you that leading by example is the best form of leadership. I usually try to keep negative people "at arm's length". Not that I never complain, but I don't chronic complainers. |
| NthenSome |
I sure do! For example, see Juliw's response right after mine! My validation of a result is already revealed in her first word. [Content=Wellness] |
| NthenSome | | (reply to juliw) posted 15-Jun-2002 7:15pm |
I sure know I complain - can't forget we're human, no matter how hard we may try, haha. And I sure don't complain to an excess either. Only when I succumb to material things do I complain. Hm...actually - now there's a little realization for myself to walk away with. HM! This little conversation just helped me with something I needed. I just realized something. (It's so far away from this place it would take a bit much to explain, so I'll spare you - but thanks!) |
| Kristal_Rose | | (reply to NthenSome) posted 15-Jun-2002 11:56pm |
Well, sure. I suppose that's on the way to the 'Matrix' like silent manifesations of your thoughts I was referring to. |
| NthenSome |
Reading last, rereading...
For some reason - and with so few words there - you can locate me in the left fielder's position with that one. Am I twisting? |
| Kristal_Rose | | (reply to NthenSome) posted 16-Jun-2002 8:01am |
I'm trying to get you pitchers position, or at least a cachers position. It appears your more up to bat then out in left field. The band stand might think you're out in left field for awhile, the players will see where you're at though. Oh now I recall why that guy left, I got him connected, he didn't need me anymore. |
| juliw | | (reply to NthenSome) posted 16-Jun-2002 10:51am |
No problem-glad we had this little conversation. Good luck! |
| mikehunt696 | | posted 16-Jun-2002 3:29pm |
The only thing that comes to mind is when I broke my leg and had to wear a cast during the hot summer months. Talk about itchy! |
| mikehunt696 | | (reply to jettles) posted 16-Jun-2002 3:35pm |
A friend of mine had his tonsils out when he was 37. He was getting monthly bouts of tonsillitis and this was causing him to lose weight because he couldn't stand to eat solid food because of the pain. He is a skinny guy to start with and certainly couldn't afford to keep losing weight. |
| ASexyBabe | | (reply to juliw) posted 18-Jun-2002 12:28pm |
Do your doctors have you on anti-clotting drugs? |
| dlp34 | | posted 18-Jun-2002 3:19pm |
ear surgery...my equilibrium was all messed up, really screwed with me. |
| juliw | | (reply to ASexyBabe) posted 18-Jun-2002 5:34pm |
Yes, and I go for frequent blood tests to make sure they are working. I take ten different prescriptions every day-blood pressure medicine, cholesterol medicine, etc. |
| ASexyBabe | | (reply to juliw) posted 19-Jun-2002 6:39am |
So what happened to make you have another mini stroke? I am so glad you are ok. |
| juliw | | (reply to ASexyBabe) posted 19-Jun-2002 5:29pm |
I don't really know-the doctor had taken me off the blood thinner in March, but now he says I have something in my system that makes me have the tendency to form blood clots, so I am back on the blood thinner, and will go for frequent blood tests. |
| wolfchik9 | | posted 21-Jun-2002 1:29am |
I had a tonsilectomy when I was 5. I had some minor oral surgery when I was 13. Other than that, I've been pretty healthy. |
| juliw | | posted 23-Jun-2002 5:11pm |
And a week after my second stroke, Sue the backstabber stabbed me in the back...what a dog! |
| pengy | | posted 27-Jun-2002 3:23pm |
Gall Bladder removal |
| davethebrave371 |
Having my testicular tortion fixed. |
| NthenSome |
Just the name of that procedure has me wincing (and instinctively cupping myself). |
| Oscar |
ouch |
| bandit1cat |
Having skin cancer cut and burned out of my back with only local pain killer. OUCH |
| RGirl | | posted 11-Feb-2006 11:11pm |
Surgery, brain. |
