The Happy Fun-Time Surgery Thread!!

[t3]

I know there was a fairly recent thread concerning the horrors of wisdom tooth removal. But you see, MY surgery thread is special. I apparently have a 5th supernumerary tooth coming in, but in all likelihood it won't be accessable for a few decades. And I'm also apparently lucky enough to be one of the 4% of the population to be afflicted in such a way. Even better, the bastard teeth that are already there are working to reinstate my overbite that "a few months" of braces and several ingenious midieval torture deivces to undo. If my luck holds out, that will require future surgery to fix as well. CHRIST I hate my fucking mouth.


So. In lieu of pity, feel free to share all of your horrible experiences with surgery, oral or otherwise. Any hideous or painful inflictions you'd like to share? Medical or emotional scars you'd like to talk about? How 'bout that DS game "Trauma Center: Under the Knife" that's coming out this year? I'll definitely be getting that one, oh yeah. Discuss!

[Retard Girl]

...Uh I had a root canal once. And they numbed up my mouth so much AND they gassed me so I didn't really feel anything. Although I kept on thinking I was going to suffocate and die with the gas on. I almost went psycho there. Also, my dentists were laughing because the movie we were watching was Mallrats.


I don't need braces though. People think I have had them already.

[Zorkporker]

I had some virus when i was like 9 or 8 and the doctors needed blood samples like every week.
Oh also we had to travel to L.A. for some really good hosbital or something.
I think all the did was give me a giant shot in the ass.
Ehh sorry for that i felt like posting.

[exemplary citizen]

When I had my wisdom teeth out, I woke up with the biggest bruise on my face that didn't go away for, like, two weeks. And the odd part was, it was on the opposite side from where all the really burly surgery was taking place. I'm thinking the doctor likes to take the opportunity to punch unconscious people in the face without repurcussions. :(

[HOMERCHESTRA]

I had my appendix taken out in sixth grade. I dunno if the surgeons were just fucking with me or if they just genuinely didn't notice, but they put my boxers on backwards when they were done.

Edit: My mom didn't believe me. She said that they didn't need to take my underwear off for this surgery, but that's bullshit, because I got the lapriscopic version of an appendectomy, so two of the lapriscope scars were right where the waistline of my underwear is.

Conspiracy.

[Sally]

I got my knee operated on when I was 5. I wish I knew where the video tape was...

[banky]

I was gonna have two teeth pulled when i was 16/17ish and while they were waiting for the novocaine to take effect, I simply wiggled one of them until it came out.

At least it cut my dental bill in half.

[brokensirunit]

for 8 or 9 years i had braces, they suck something awful. sorry to hear bout your teeth. i can honestly say : i know how you feel

[Takker]

I've never had to go to the hospital for anything *knock on wood* but I have had a few teeth pulled in my day. not to mention braces and retainers and the like. painful

[ln_e_is_1]

I got to go to the hospital and have the kind PA swe my face back togeather after splitting it open at a Sum 41 show. I was crowd surfing and the stupid kids let go of my head, shoulders, waist, and thighs whilst still holding onto my feet. 8' drop on my head to the face. I'm the only person the EMT has seen that took a fall that far to my face and not black out or suffer a concussion. Broke a tooth off and cut thru my lip up to my nose. Lots of blood. It took six months to fully recover feeling in that part of my face as the nerve endings gre back togeather. Stupid me for assuming that a bunch of 14 year olds know how to pass somebody who is crowd surfing. Oh well.

[Adnama]

i was supposed to get two of my wisdom teeth yanked out, but when the tooth surgeon looked at them, he said that my dentist was a retard pretty much and that i have to get all four taken out. so it was rescheduled to sometime in september. the good part of this is that if i had had the two taken out, they probably wouldn't have numbed me very much. but now that it's four they're going to use anesthesia. yay...i guess.

[t3]

I got to go to the hospital and have the kind PA swe my face back togeather after splitting it open at a Sum 41 show. I was crowd surfing and the stupid kids let go of my head, shoulders, waist, and thighs whilst still holding onto my feet. 8' drop on my head to the face. I'm the only person the EMT has seen that took a fall that far to my face and not black out or suffer a concussion. Broke a tooth off and cut thru my lip up to my nose. Lots of blood. It took six months to fully recover feeling in that part of my face as the nerve endings gre back togeather. Stupid me for assuming that a bunch of 14 year olds know how to pass somebody who is crowd surfing. Oh well.

Christ, face surgery too. My tooth problems had pretty much made me forget about the time a palstic surgeon had to sew up a massive dog bite on my face. It took fooooor-EVER. And the face area is a pretty sensetie place to be sticking needles and crap like that, and sweet FUCK did my lip swell up like some kind of Silent Hill creature design from hell. Not pleasent. (And after that, I didn't even want to sue anybody. I'm a rare breed of American, I guess.)

The pain isn't to much a concern of mine (though the post-op aching isn't exactly something I'm looking forward to) as the paranoia I have about being stoned. (Which I basically will be, with the crap they'll be pumping into me for the surgery.) I donno. The prospect of being completely out of control like that seems kinda spooky. Granted, it's under medical supervision and not some street drug, but I'm none too eager to be experiencing all that in any case.

Yergh. We'll just hafta see how it goes. My face mangling will most likely happen in October, so I have about a month to dread it. Mmmyep.

[ln_e_is_1]

Dog bite on face? HOLY SHIT!!! I had a pretty clean cut; you can't tell unless ipoint it out, and my dentist did a fantastic job with my prosthetic tooth. OH MY GOD! FACE MANGLED BY DOG!!! That must have sucked. Ouch.

[exemplary citizen]

The pain isn't to much a concern of mine (though the post-op aching isn't exactly something I'm looking forward to) as the paranoia I have about being stoned. (Which I basically will be, with the crap they'll be pumping into me for the surgery.) I donno. The prospect of being completely out of control like that seems kinda spooky. Granted, it's under medical supervision and not some street drug, but I'm none too eager to be experiencing all that in any case.
Well, if it puts your mind at ease in the slightest, most oral surgeons have moved away from using full-blown general anesthetics and instead use local anesthetics and "amnesiacs" that simply prevent you from remembering the experience.

Wow, that sounds even worse, somehow. But the long and the short of it is, you won't be feeling goofy for very long afterwards. In my case, and with most people that I've talked to, you "wake up" long enough to stumble out to your ride home, sleep it off for about an hour, and wake up again feeling fit as a fiddle. Well, except for those bleeding gaps in your jaw, but you get the point. There's a lot fewer undesirable side effects from amnesiacs. And I didn't even end up using any of the pain meds they gave me after the fact, simply because I have that same paranoia about being in an "altered state" that you do.

Haha, I remember when they started the IV on me. I was sitting there thinking, "wow, shouldn't I be feeling something by n--", and then all of a sudden I had a swollen face and there was a nurse standing in front of me giving me and my mom the post-op instructions.

[PK]

No surgeries. Ever. My front tooth got chipped and have had the cap replaced because I bit into a carmal sucker. The worst I've had at a hospital was for a blood test. Then I found out I have something wrong with my veins or something that makes me pass out a lot. Bitches

[t3]

Dog bite on face? HOLY SHIT!!! I had a pretty clean cut; you can't tell unless ipoint it out, and my dentist did a fantastic job with my prosthetic tooth. OH MY GOD! FACE MANGLED BY DOG!!! That must have sucked. Ouch.

Yeah, it was pretty much without contest the least pleasent experience of my life. They couldn't knock me out, else I could have gone into shock or something nasty like that; in fact the hadda try and keep me from passing out for the better part of the procedure. Amazingly, there's only the tiniests car left on my lip, where it stopped being just a cut. There, a piece of flesh was actually missing, so to keep there from being a hideous scar all up my face they hadda bring in some plastic surgeon or summat to put hundreds of tiny stitches in. She did a great job though, you can only even notice it if you're really up close.
The aftermath to that was pretty gross, but not very painful. It was mainly incredibly unpleasent to try and eat and brush my teeth and the like with this huge, swollen madd of thread and dried blood clinging to my face. Also, I was on like 3 differnt medications for a few weeks to keep it from getting infected. The grossest feeling topical cream in the world and some pills that brought the most foul, bitter taste to my tongue that I have ever experienced. To quote Ralph Wiggum: "It tastes like burning!"

But the long and the short of it is, you won't be feeling goofy for very long afterwards. In my case, and with most people that I've talked to, you "wake up" long enough to stumble out to your ride home, sleep it off for about an hour, and wake up again feeling fit as a fiddle.

Yeah, I guess if I'm not totally fucked up for too long after it's over it won't be so bad. Aching teeth probably won't compare to the aformentioned lip sewing in terms of sheer agony, anyway. I'm also a bit concerned about the possiblity of getting sick from it. Seems like vomiting would be even less pleasnt with big empty holes in my mouth to get full of stomach acid. Yeech... (Damn insurance-related obligatory video detailing every concievable thing that can go wrong. Oh, my face could be rendered permanently numb? WHAT A COMFORTING CONCEPT.)

[exemplary citizen]

Yeah, that's one of the reasons why they started using the amnesiacs -- no post-op nausea. Or at least, it's pretty nil compared to what you'd get coming out of general anesthesia. It's nothing that a sip of 7-up won't get rid of.

[robot]

i'm looking forward to it

[SLUM WIZZARD]

When I was four or something, I just got finished watching the olympics (or something related to it in a way) on TV, the pole jump in specific, my mom was building a patio set.

"Matt, can you go get me that pole over there?"

Me, being the stupid shit I am, try to pole jump. On a metal pole. I get up, and my head is over it. Next thing I know, my head is practically though it.
My grip (being 4 or something at the time) is horrible, so my hands slip and I get a metal pole halfway though my neck. I have a massive 3 inch scar on my neck to this day. All I can remember about the hospital trip now was how good the popcorn they asked me to eat was, and how they refused to give me any more than 5 kernels. I think it's better that way.