So I got cut open.

[James Joseph Emerald]

I got my wisdom teeth out. They put me under for it. That gas is freaky as HELL. Because when you sleep normally, you're semi-aware of the passage of time. But with the gas, it literally feels like no time has passed AT ALL, like you just blinked. So when I regained consciousness, I was like "FUCK! STOP! THE GAS DIDN'T WORK! I'M WAKING UP MID-SURGERY! OMFG!" and the nurse was like "Your surgery was three hours ago, hun."

 

[hawkeye52]

i only had minor surgery on my toe where they removed the nail on either side of my toe (because i kept getting ingrown toenail) and then killed off the nail bed on either side by putting some sort of acid on it

 

[C95J]

Had a testicle removed.

I win this thread.

But you lose life.

But that doesn't matter, just the thread matters.

 

[Lem0nade Inlay]

When I was 9 I got a Greenstick fracture in my arm (My bone totally snapped, I think that's what you call a Greenstick?) so the doctors had to put wires in my arm.

Only problem was they messed up the surgery and one of the wires was pushing down on my nerve.

Suffice to say....it hurt quite a bit.

 

[Necrofudge]

The last thing even remotely close to a surgery that I was involved in was when I was born. Other than that, I don't think I've had to go to the hospital for anything other than a flu shot, if that.

 

[JoeBattisti]

I broke my collar bone skateboarding when I was younger. I don't skate anymore.

I also had an appendicitis last April. That was a fun spring break... The appendix was actually slightly ruptured. I had it for a few days before I went to the hospital. I thought it was a stomach bug because my sister had it and we thought she gave it to me. So after we found out it wasn't my older brother had to drive me to the hospital. The pain in my lower right side was so severe I couldn't even bring up my right leg to put my sock on. I didn't sleep at all the first night I had it. Torture.

 

[Thunderhorse31]

I've had several surgeries, but if you want a story:

Two years ago I get my wisdom teeth out. Either I'm an amazing healer or the doctor did an amazing job (probably the latter), but either way for some reason I have no pain whatsoever. Seriously, none. I almost went to work that day, I felt completely fine.

Even though I have no pain at all, I still receive the standard perscription of Percocet. My wife - being a nurse and sortof a Nazi when it comes to taking the full course of medication perscribed by a doctor - insists that to be safe, I take the pills as described.

What's that called when you take narcotics when you don't need them? Oh right, getting high.

I spent four straight days high as a kite on Oxy, and I think I developed a mild addiction as a result. I haven't used it since, but to this day whenever someone mentions the drug I get fond flashbacks and kinda wish I had some.

 

[Smagmuck_]

I get my jaw fixed near or on christmas.

"What'cha get for christmas?"
"A broken jaw."

 

[CheesusCrust]

Well I've had quite a lot of surgery in my 16 years of life.
I was born 4 weeks early and immediately taken into surgery to clear one of my heart valves, though I'm a little sketchy on the details. Well this surgery went wrong somehow and damaged my heart so at age 3 I had what I had a ross procedure which ended up causing a staph infection in the bone marrow of my sternum, so I had to have my bones broken open and the infection scraped out. Umm..I may have had more open heart after that but I'm not sure, but I later had a defibrilator implanted in case my heart decides to stop working, and my most recent surgery was in Bangkok for experimental open heart surgery that attempts to regrow damaged muscle by taking the adult stem cells out of my own blood. Next week I'm going to Sydney to see a doctor about some valve replacement surgery and if I get the all clear I'll be having another go at open heart surgery. I think thats all of it, my chest has quite a few scars, I like to say I was in a shark attack.

Oh and I've had a few teeth pulled while under and an ingrown toenail removed with local anesthetic, but they're less interesting

 

[Bill_Stanbrook]

I've had a tendon rebuild, removed some bone to create space in there, and removed some.. "odd" stuff which weren't supposted to be in there.

What, the doctor ended up with some parts left over? Sounds like some of my car repair efforts.

 

[Tharwen]

The only surgery I've ever had was to have a Mastermind pin taken out of my nose when I shoved it up there when I was 3. Not very exciting, I know.

I have had 13 permanent teeth removed. I still have a full set.

...are you a Tyranid?

 

[Kif]

I had a birth mark on my lower flank almost on my butt which decided it wanted to kill me. As such they decided to remove it.

It was quite large what they removed turned out to be benign.

The unfortunate thing is the dirty surgeon left me infected so I spent a while on strong antibiotics and pain killers afterwards.

 

[elcamino41383]

I often would get ingrown toenails on the big toe on both feet so I had the roots on the sides of my toe removed. Haven't had an issue since and its been about 13 or so years. I also have GERD [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gastroesophageal_reflux_disease] and had a Nissen [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nissen_fundoplication] to fix the issue. Sadly 2 years later I developed the ability to puke again, now it sucks even more to do so than it used to.

 

[JohnSmith]

I get my wisdom teeth taken out tomorrow....

Under a general anesthetic I hope. Also make sure you remember to keep the cotton wadding nearby after the surgery and plenty of pain pills but its not that painful.

 

[LimitedPunctuation]

Had a testicle removed.

I win this thread.

But you lose life.

the thread was a mere consolation prize.

 

[The_Healer]

Why is this a competition to see who has had the most surgery?

Surely its better to have none, like me?

 

[Exocet]

I had surgery on my knee a few months ago.I left the clinic the same day since it was a very modern operation involving very small tools,which a few years ago would have required the surgeon to remove the kneecap instead.
Still,I couldn't flex my knee without being in a metric fuckton of pain for 2 week after that and I've only been able to actually put weight directly on my knee without pain via kneeling.

The intruder,which was a detached pieve of bone floating around, cost me my semestre(not being able to walk is problematic when trying to go to school) so when the surgeon came by my room and gave it to me,saying I was one of the last people to be able to receive such thing,I was so happy.I got that little bugger in a plastic cup next to my computer as a reminder to others.Mess with me,and you'll end up in a plastic cup next to me!

 

[Tucker154]

I had to have exploration surgery in my balls to see if I had cancer a couple years back. It actualy turned out that some how,shit got into my balls lol. But for the next month, I wanted to die. At least I got alot of Ice cream. too bad I was in to much pain to eat it.

 

[Lucifron]

I had my tonsils and polyps removed in a single surgery when I was about 8 years old. I was hanging back chowing ice cream and watching shows while the kid next to me was vomiting blood all the time from his tonsil surgery. Fucking pansy.

 

[Turboboost]

The only surgery I have ever had was my wisdom teeth, which came out ten days ago. Very little pain for me, just some ibuprofen. The worst thing about it was the gauze and waking up from the laughing gas and not knowing how much time had passed.