So I got cut open.

[open trap]

Well i had my tonsils removed when i was little, i had 4 teeth pulled out but it turnes out im immune to novicane so pretty much it was with out anyseptic but my skin was all numb (im immune in the sense it only numbs the top of my skin for a short time and no more than that), i also had my fingernail removed and then sewn back on with novicain put into the mix again, which didnt work again.

 

[open trap]

This is gun'na be long, but here it goes. I had the Nuss Procedure done for my Pectus Excavatum condition; they had to place a steel bar into my ribs and force them forward, now I have to keep it in for another year or two. The surgury itself only took about 2 hours (naturally, I was unconscious the entire time), and when I came to a few minutes after, I was completely out of it, I couldn't even open my eyes to focus. I requested some medication because I was feeling itchy so they gave me a drug called Rubain. Turns out I'm allergic to it because I started to have a panic attack and they put me on another medication. I had to stay in the recovery wing for an entire week, only getting about 2 hours of sleep each day because the heavy duty anti-pain narcotics kept me jittery (and when I say heavy, I mean HEAVY; at one point I was lying down and had my knees up; when I trying to lay my leg flat, they automaticly retracted and were shakey).

Also, because of the pressure on my chest, I would get severe hiccups during every meal because the esophagus was in a slightly new position and was adjusting (speaking of which, for the next two months I could LITERALLY hear my inards repositioning themselves with that sort of nasty alien-pod-hatching-open sound). Also, I had to be put on a catheter (think I spelled that right) and they had two young nurses come position it.

Now I'm a young man, and what happens when two young nurses come and start messing with a young man's junk?
That's right; erection.
Not my finest hour.

Later, they had to remove the catheter and told me I had to pee within an hour or they would have to put it back in. So I tryed. And tryed. And I got nothing. So now they had to put it back in, but this time I wasn't on the magic-liquid-hypno-painkiller-juice, so it hurt.
A lot.
Ah, but it gets better kids, and by better I course means sucks worse.

So at some point within the next day I have to pee. So I do. Except the catheter apparently wasn't put in exactly right and half the urine was going in and the other was going out. And it hurt.
A lot.
So then they had to remove it. And it hurt.
A lot.

All the meanwhile I'm spending a week in a bed that hasn't been changed and is now covered in a thin layer of my own blood, sweat, and urine.
Nice.

Then I spend the next two months in a recliner, the first two weeks of which I couldn't get myself out of so I had to rely on others. Also during this time I was put on the magic-pink-painkilling-narcotic pill. I was promptly addicted to them for a week before I realized it and managed to switch over to high doses of ibuprophen.
That's about it I think, I've had the bar in a little over a year now and it's going fine.

You sir are a real man.

 

[NeedAUserName]

He has a prosthetic testicle now and you'd never know the difference in look or feel.

...Quite close friends, eh?

I've never had any surgeries though, the only thing I would say is when I was 6 I fell over in a clothes shop, and got a security pin stuck in my knee. That was not fun.

Edit: Just realized, I've had my head glued together... It got split open by someones teeth. Yum for them.

 

[GirlGamer]

I've never had surgery, but I'm terrified if I have to. My medical condition makes me allergic to most anesthetics, so if I have to have surgery, I'll have to go without or hope that they have the (fairly rare) types of anesthetics I'm not allergic to, or I might not wake up after. I really hope I never have to get surgery. (At least not in a poorly-equipped hospital.) Although, I know people who go through surgery, and ASK to not be put to sleep because "it's interesting to watch," and "I can tell them when they're doing it wrong," so maybe it wouldn't be TOO bad, but still.

I have, however, gotten stitches from a variety of things... I got blindsided by a plank of wood, dropped on my face when I was a little kid, etc.

 

[dmase]

I think i can pretty much beat anybody here with scars. I sometimes produce keloids that spread out along a wound instead of something like a scab. its pinkish in color and from where i broke my arm i have a z shaped scar. I even have some keloids from smaller scrathes like my cat biting me that won't end up going way ever.

When i broke my arm i was four(even then i was clumsy) i was jumping over a cooler playing follow the leader fell and chicken winged my arm. Went to the docter had my surgery and as i woke up drowsy as hell i saw two pins that looked like they where jammed through my arm. A nurse came around and as soon as she saw my arm said, oh you poor thing, and i started to cry like crazy.

 

[dmase]

I've never had surgery, but I'm terrified if I have to. My medical condition makes me allergic to most anesthetics, so if I have to have surgery, I'll have to go without or hope that they have the (fairly rare) types of anesthetics I'm not allergic to, or I might not wake up after. I really hope I never have to get surgery. (At least not in a poorly-equipped hospital.) Although, I know people who go through surgery, and ASK to not be put to sleep because "it's interesting to watch," and "I can tell them when they're doing it wrong," so maybe it wouldn't be TOO bad, but still.

I have, however, gotten stitches from a variety of things... I got blindsided by a plank of wood, dropped on my face when I was a little kid, etc.

...interesting to watch? Hey doc I read on wikipedia about this and you are defintely doing it wrong.

Copious amounts of alcohol thats how they did it in the olden days. And with IV fluids no hangover from black out drunkness.

 

[Macgyvercas]

I've had my wisdom teeth removed. I also had surgury to remove a pilonidal cyst. The doctor wanted to keep me overnight, but I told him "The hell with that, I've got a date tonight."

 

[GirlGamer]

...interesting to watch? Hey doc I read on wikipedia about this and you are defintely doing it wrong.

Copious amounts of alcohol thats how they did it in the olden days. And with IV fluids no hangover from black out drunkness.

Nah, he knows what he's doing, and the doctors who were doing it were medical students who actually were making mistakes.
Admittedly, they were using weights to break his leg (it hadn't been set properly the first time so they had to break it and start over), and were putting the weights in the wrong places. That would probably be easier to tell if they're doing it right than say... a heart surgery or something. The whole lack of leg-breaking being one tip-off. I don't think if they were giving him heart surgery he'd be saying, "You're doing it wrong." He'd shut up and trust the doctors. But for the situation he was in, yes, he knew what he was doing and happily informed them that they weren't doing it properly.
My apologies for not being clear in the original post.

IV... would they give me a needle for that? I'm scared of needles... cripplingly so.

 

[Jonabob87]

In 2006 I got cut open and 10 disks taken out from between vertibrae in my spine, with titanium rods to hold my spine in place until the vertibrae fused into 1 big vertibrae.

I win.

 

[Cid Silverwing]

I've had a total of 5 surgeries done on my legs. Twice on left, thrice on right, because I was born with clumpy feet (stuck in the fetal position) the doctors had to literally slit apart. No physical evidence for it however.

Sometime at age 7, I think, I had a tumor removed from the left side of my head. I was left with a permanently damaged balance nerve.

At some point earlier I was put under for dental extraction. I forget how many, all I remember was it felt like I had worms hanging from my palate.

 

[dmase]

...interesting to watch? Hey doc I read on wikipedia about this and you are defintely doing it wrong.

Copious amounts of alcohol thats how they did it in the olden days. And with IV fluids no hangover from black out drunkness.

Nah, he knows what he's doing, and the doctors who were doing it were medical students who actually were making mistakes.
Admittedly, they were using weights to break his leg (it hadn't been set properly the first time so they had to break it and start over), and were putting the weights in the wrong places. That would probably be easier to tell if they're doing it right than say... a heart surgery or something. The whole lack of leg-breaking being one tip-off. I don't think if they were giving him heart surgery he'd be saying, "You're doing it wrong." He'd shut up and trust the doctors. But for the situation he was in, yes, he knew what he was doing and happily informed them that they weren't doing it properly.
My apologies for not being clear in the original post.

IV... would they give me a needle for that? I'm scared of needles... cripplingly so.

You could go into the hospital for almost anything and you have to have an iv put in. its like a tube with a needle attached that gets put in a vain(I had mine put in my hand). They can then just hook whatever that what to that small tube. It gets much worse when its in there for a few days it starts to itch and heal over.

... have you ever had a vacination? I mean i get a fear of needles but a crippling fear sounds like you grabbing on to the door frame as nurses try to restrain you. Or you just pass out but then i don't see the problem.

 

[GirlGamer]

... have you ever had a vacination? I mean i get a fear of needles but a crippling fear sounds like you grabbing on to the door frame as nurses try to restrain you. Or you just pass out but then i don't see the problem.

I cry like a baby and have someone hold my hand. I'm getting better though, they had to take blood, and I didn't cry THAT much, and no one held my hand for that.
I just use "crippling" to refer to my past of running away and hiding whenever a needle was even in the same room as me.

 

[NJ]

Do you mind me asking why? Or is that too personal? I'm intrigued.

I had two separate torsions. I didn't catch the second one. It had...explosive properties.

Taking "being blown" to a whole new level, I'm sure.

 

[dmase]

... have you ever had a vacination? I mean i get a fear of needles but a crippling fear sounds like you grabbing on to the door frame as nurses try to restrain you. Or you just pass out but then i don't see the problem.

I cry like a baby and have someone hold my hand. I'm getting better though, they had to take blood, and I didn't cry THAT much, and no one held my hand for that.
I just use "crippling" to refer to my past of running away and hiding whenever a needle was even in the same room as me.

At a young age my docter said i'll right i'm gonna poke you on 5. One... two... stab. It was just like woah thats quick.

 

[Parallel Streaks]

Hmm, I'm having Scoliosis surgery in 3 months. They tried to make me wear a corrective brace when I was little, but I was fickle.. and a dipshit, so I didn't. Now me back's gettin' all sliced up.

I hope I don't get paralyzed. That'd just be TYPICAL.

I've also had ocular surgery, though that was when I was small and blurry on the details of general life.

OO, also, I had to have my tummy cut open when I was a baby 'cos I was tubed incorrectly. Life was a ***** when I was little.

 

[TimeLord]

I have had surgery on my right knee because the tendon swelled and exploded my kneecap

 

[MelziGurl]

I had a skin cancer removed from my face when I was 14. They gave me about 5 shots of local anaesthetic but that was it, awake for the entire surgery.

 

[Mr Metzger]

I broke both bones in my left arm after falling off a trampoline (dangerous stuff they are) and had serious nerve damage. The doctor gave me morphine and I could not feel anything, anywhere. Had surgery the next day to reset the bones. My arm is still crooked almost 3 years after

 

[superbatranger]

When I head back to the US, I'm getting my deviated septum fixed. I don't if or even when I'll get my wisdom teeth removed. Last, but not least, I had a certain operation when I was 7 or 8, the details of which are not pretty.

 

[Valkraye]

I had my tonsils removed a few years ago. And then a vein in my throat hemorrhaged a few days later, right after the pain subsided. That was fun. Other then that I've had toes operated on, four wisdom teeth removed in one sitting, a lump removed from my throat/neck and some general stitching to solve a few dumb-ass induced problems.