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...about wednesday, i go into hospital for an operation.
I have had two before however this time a little bit older and wise to things that could go wrong (obviously from reading too many false newspapers and daytime TV such as City General, as well as Holby city and Casualty) I feel awful, add that to a very bad experience last year when i was taken in following a 'blood clot' etc.
I am terrified, i know the risks are small and that i am being a wimpy wimp! but the fear is so bad i am not sleeping, in fact i finaly got to sleep at 4:30am last night after lying in bed for nearly 3 hours, until then i was on here trying to take my mind off it! :rolleyes: (obviously making it much worse!)
Can anyone please help me feel slightly better by just giving me some reassurance? anyone had one, or a few that they could share experiences of? I mean the only bit I am scared of is the anaesthetic, not waking afterwards, i will be fine when i come around, its just the needle and gas and everything in that small room arggghhhh!
:crazyeyes i am going MAD!
I have had two before however this time a little bit older and wise to things that could go wrong (obviously from reading too many false newspapers and daytime TV such as City General, as well as Holby city and Casualty) I feel awful, add that to a very bad experience last year when i was taken in following a 'blood clot' etc.
I am terrified, i know the risks are small and that i am being a wimpy wimp! but the fear is so bad i am not sleeping, in fact i finaly got to sleep at 4:30am last night after lying in bed for nearly 3 hours, until then i was on here trying to take my mind off it! :rolleyes: (obviously making it much worse!)
Can anyone please help me feel slightly better by just giving me some reassurance? anyone had one, or a few that they could share experiences of? I mean the only bit I am scared of is the anaesthetic, not waking afterwards, i will be fine when i come around, its just the needle and gas and everything in that small room arggghhhh!
:crazyeyes i am going MAD!
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i'm off in tomorrow to have them maul my mouth. joy to the world.
needles, not bothered. hospital, not bothered. anaesthetic, not bothered.
waking up afterwards? absolutely crapping my pants. and it had to be my mouth. i am such a baby when anything is wrong with my mouth. anything else and i wouldn't give a shit. they have to sedate me at the dentist just to get their little shiny mirror in.
You will have a pre-med? cos that will make it easier for you.
I know when our Becks had her op i was crying my eyes out and she was only in theatre and recovery for about 40 mins.
sorry im not being much help am I
Thanks Kaff....for proving me wrong
hehe. the doctors all think i'm mental.
when i told the consultant guy i was scared, he started to give me a lecture about how safe it was, fairly low pain, and the needles, blah blah'
so i told him:
i'm not scared of pain. i've been in pain for 3 months so i figure, how much worse can it get? even if it's agonising, i know eventually it'll go away.
i'm not scared of needles. i had one pushed through my tongue, ffs.
i'm not scared of dying from the anaesthetic. if you're gonna die, best time in the world to do it is when you're unconscious. won't feel a thing.
but i am absolutely, totally, shitting-my-pants terrified that either the anaesthetic, or the painkillers, or the anti-biotics i have to have afterwards will make me sick.
and i swear the guy pulled this exact face :eek2:
From what i was told people who have pre-meds tend to not recover as quick(in kids anyhow).
i am so scared of the needle, and i really do not want to spent the night in hospital, i get so home sick (sounding like a real wimp now )
but really i am terrified
Yes, I did think about the things that can go wrong, and have heard/read horror stories about ops and anaesthetic gong wrong. But I just sort of figured that if it all went wrong, then I'm not going to know anything about it, so why worry about it. I'll either wake, or I won't. The odds say it's extremely unlikely that I'd die from a minor operation, so I felt at ease. There are thousands of ways to die in everyday life. Thousands of risks we take. It's just that they seem so everyday and ordinary that makes us pay little attention to them. But when we do something a bit out of the ordinary (for most people), such as fly on a plane, or have an operation, it scares us. Simply because it's just something different from what we're used to.
Yeah thanks Mr Wobble, least you made me think about it in perspective, if it happens it happens if it dont it dont
its just scary, and i dont help myself :S
was all over and i was back in my bed by 10am. dozed and dribbled my way through a couple of daytime home improvement programs, was force fed soup and orange juice, and sent on my way. just got home, and don't feel too bad at all.
i worried them a bit, cause my blood pressure was pretty low, but after monitoring me every 15 mins all morning and it staying the same even when i was sitting up and chatting and i was obviously not on the brink of death, they decided it was probably normal for me.
so yeah. about a million times better than i was expecting. i even got some free tissues out of the bargain, so i could dribble happily all the way home.
Just made a post for you on lj .
glad you got on well
I'm glad it all turned out well. May you be healthy from now on.
ah well
speak to you all in about a wek i suppose
xxxx
nurses were horrible on the morning shift, otheres were lovely, i actually spent all yesterdaycrying, one will say one thing and another says something completely different
had them again today and to be honest i am really glad i do not have to put up with another again!