I was having a cavity filled and the anesthesiologist hit the nerve in the lower right side of my bottom lip. Stung like a bitch for about half a second and then I felt nothing for days. Actually kinda scared me because I could still feel it slightly numb for weeks afterward. I thought she screwed up and I'd have a droopy mouth like that one sewing lady. Fortunately after a month I was back to normal -- drooling all over myself erryday.
Having had chronic back pain for three or so years now I can safely say I am usually pretty good with pain. Most days it is ok, it just sucks when you are having a it hurts to breathe day.
Oh god. I know exactly what you mean.
Did you ever lose feeling in one of your legs? One time that happened to me while I was working and I was a waitress at the time. It sucked.
Oh yeah, feet getting all numb, legs all tingly
Only thing that hurt worse than my back at that point was the cortisone shot to fix my back
I had a spinal tap as a kid, not a fun experience, painful as hell because THEY FUCKING MISSED THE SPINE AND HIT BONE, and it created my only known phobia, needles.
fuck needles. yet i still do all the health needle related things, but fuck them so much.
I had to have 900 thousand shots in the back of my head when I was a kid because the lady that cut my hair never washed her shears and cut me once. The hair stopped growing there and then started falling out. talk about not at all fun
I had a spinal tap as a kid, not a fun experience, painful as hell because THEY FUCKING MISSED THE SPINE AND HIT BONE, and it created my only known phobia, needles.
fuck needles. yet i still do all the health needle related things, but fuck them so much.
I had to have 900 thousand shots in the back of my head when I was a kid because the lady that cut my hair never washed her shears and cut me once. The hair stopped growing there and then started falling out. talk about not at all fun
the only bad hospital thing I've had is when they didn't use enough anesthetic on my leg before they started stitching a cut on my shin up and I got to feel them stabbing my leg over and over
When I got my blood taken for mono tests the nurse hit a valve and I nearly blacked out from nausea
And I wasn't even looking at the thing, I was intentionally averting my gaze
I know it's not her fault but still, that kind of put me off on needles for a while
As a wee lass of nine I had an MRI with contrast done to figure out my headaches
The contrast is this dye that looks a lot like saline solution, so the nurse tries to set me up with an IV in my arm. Key word here is "tries". She missed the vein. Repeatedly. In both arms. And kept yelling at me to sit still so she could get my vein.
Finally the tech comes in to see how far along I am and finds one frustrated nurse and me bawling because OW and calls the doctor and my Mom in. Doc put it in the back of my hand, bandaids the hell out of my arms and tells the nurse to get the fuck out.
By that afternoon I was black and blue like the night sky from above my elbows down almost to my wrists and could barely move my arms
Consequently any time someone tries to give me a shot or take some blood I hyperventilate and pass out. Getting better recently but still gives me the willies thinking about it.
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Jacques L'HommeBAH! He was a rank amateur compared to, DR. COLOSSUS!Registered Userregular
edited January 2011
I've never had any problems with anesthesia, 'cept for this time I apparently came to in the middle of some oral surgery and started talking about the French. Something about really good bread stuffs, so they doped me up more. The next day and a half were a blur.
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edited January 2011
Talked to my grandmother. She is complaining about the "ridiculous tests" they're keeping her in the hospital for (like the MRI she just had ) so it sounds like she is nearly back to normal.
Ya, I definitely had to request more anesthetic when I was getting my wisdom teeth removed. I know I'm supposed to feel pressure... but that was PAIN.
I got them to gimme more before the pain could get too bad though.
I got the gas when I got my wisdoms removed. Slept through it rather well though I do recall some pressure towards the beginning.
And I recovered rather quickly as well. Seeing outright HOLES in your gums at the back of your mouth is a trip though. I remember flushing stuff out of 'em and being in a bit of a panic that they're heal right over a piece of corn or something.
Ew.
Edit: When I was four I had Pseudotumor Cerebri Syndrome. I was in and out of the hospital for a span of 6 months to a year. According to my mother I had quite a few spinal taps and injections. The only one I really remember is a needle in my ass but thankfully I was young enough that I don't remember much of it.
Between that and the naturally occurring hernia issue I had when I was 8, I'm not necessarily frightened of hospitals but they do give me an uneasy vibe.
Talked to my grandmother. She is complaining about the "ridiculous tests" they're keeping her in the hospital for (like the MRI she just had ) so it sounds like she is nearly back to normal.
That's good!
How is her speech?
After my grandmother had a stroke she had trouble with certain words and remembering things for a few months. She was fine but it was very frustrating for her since she was such an intelligent woman and didn't like feeling "stupid" by not being able to communicate as well as she could before.
They put a weird...uh, string like thing in mine, and then just took it out after a few days.
I'm actually concerned that mine is coming back...
That's bacteriostatic packing material. It keeps it from being able to fill with puss while new tissue grows inside to start closing the wound.
Rane: The EZ IO is awesome. If you want fucking brutal look up the FAST IO... that's some brutal shit right there.
Just saw a vid of a guy giving himself the FAST-1 IO. Holy crap!
I think my worst experiences with needles haven't even been on myself. Holding my wife's hand during at least three bone marrow biopsies makes me never ever want to see that again. That and having to give her daily injections (I know this is old hat for some people, but I was not very good at it, and I hated hurting her.)
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edited January 2011
I let an ingrown toenail (infected) go so long it had worked its way most of the way into and through my toe. A good centimeter or more
When I got my blood taken for mono tests the nurse hit a valve and I nearly blacked out from nausea
And I wasn't even looking at the thing, I was intentionally averting my gaze
I know it's not her fault but still, that kind of put me off on needles for a while
As a wee lass of nine I had an MRI with contrast done to figure out my headaches
The contrast is this dye that looks a lot like saline solution, so the nurse tries to set me up with an IV in my arm. Key word here is "tries". She missed the vein. Repeatedly. In both arms. And kept yelling at me to sit still so she could get my vein.
Finally the tech comes in to see how far along I am and finds one frustrated nurse and me bawling because OW and calls the doctor and my Mom in. Doc put it in the back of my hand, bandaids the hell out of my arms and tells the nurse to get the fuck out.
By that afternoon I was black and blue like the night sky from above my elbows down almost to my wrists and could barely move my arms
Consequently any time someone tries to give me a shot or take some blood I hyperventilate and pass out. Getting better recently but still gives me the willies thinking about it.
in spring 2008 i found out i had a bad heart valve so that summer i spent a couple weeks in johns hopkins getting it replaced with a mechanical one
every morning i would be awoken at about five by this surly guy with an eastern european accent who would come in to take my blood, which was fine at first because i had an artery tap but that dried up on day three for some reason so they had to keep needling me for the remainder of my stay there, twice a day, every day (the afternoon person was a cheerful lady who was more tolerable if only because she acted somewhat more sympathetic)
i felt sick from all the painkillers which only dulled everything, and i was just generally disoriented the first few days so being stuck with a needle for withdrawal was always a jolt
i was glad when i got out
except i had to go back a month later because the valve came loose, and repeat the whole process
Well, the longest needle I ever got impaled upon was pain medication after I effed up my ankle. Yes, it was long, and yes, it went right into the side of my ass, but goddamn was it the most heavenly flip from misery to calm in my entire life.
Intravenous pain medication is the closest thing to magic that we have in this day and age. One moment you wish you honestly wish to be dead because the pain is unbearable.
Then in just a fraction of a second, it's like a unicorn walked into the room and gave you oral sex. Freaking awesome.
Fantastic. Yes, this is the truest thing. I had to essentially pass out the night before on the couch because just the sheet touching me would send shock waves. After the shot, I was amused by unfunny billboards I'd seen dozes of times on the way back home and slept peacefully on the same couch for eight plus hours. In my memory of the situation, the pain was worth the joy of the relief.
I had a sebaceous cyst on my forehead for the longest time, and I finally got it removed last year
Thankfully neither the surgery nor the recovery were particularly painful
There was a funny moment during the procedure though: I was under local anesthesia and under a little tarp, so I could hear but not see what was going on
At one point I hear the surgeon say to a med student watching in, "Here, check out this guy's skull," at which point they spent a good thirty seconds admiring it
in spring 2008 i found out i had a bad heart valve so that summer i spent a couple weeks in johns hopkins getting it replaced with a mechanical one
every morning i would be awoken at about five by this surly guy with an eastern european accent who would come in to take my blood, which was fine at first because i had an artery tap but that dried up on day three for some reason so they had to keep needling me for the remainder of my stay there, twice a day, every day (the afternoon person was a cheerful lady who was more tolerable if only because she acted somewhat more sympathetic)
i felt sick from all the painkillers which only dulled everything, and i was just generally disoriented the first few days so being stuck with a needle for withdrawal was always a jolt
i was glad when i got out
except i had to go back a month later because the valve came loose, and repeat the whole process
don't like needles
My mouth, she is agape.
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Had to get blood drawn every month when I was on Accutane. That got me used to needles, and was worth it (kinda wish I could go back on Accutane, since some acne has come back, but nope that's not prescribed in the US anymore).
My most recent injections have been when I've had moles removed, and those aren't so bad, except one of the things they inject you with (epinephrine, I think) makes me woozy and I have to lay down.
The most fun injection I've had is the TB test, where they only inject the stuff under a couple layers of skin, making this bubble pop up.
When I got my blood taken for mono tests the nurse hit a valve and I nearly blacked out from nausea
And I wasn't even looking at the thing, I was intentionally averting my gaze
I know it's not her fault but still, that kind of put me off on needles for a while
As a wee lass of nine I had an MRI with contrast done to figure out my headaches
The contrast is this dye that looks a lot like saline solution, so the nurse tries to set me up with an IV in my arm. Key word here is "tries". She missed the vein. Repeatedly. In both arms. And kept yelling at me to sit still so she could get my vein.
Finally the tech comes in to see how far along I am and finds one frustrated nurse and me bawling because OW and calls the doctor and my Mom in. Doc put it in the back of my hand, bandaids the hell out of my arms and tells the nurse to get the fuck out.
By that afternoon I was black and blue like the night sky from above my elbows down almost to my wrists and could barely move my arms
Consequently any time someone tries to give me a shot or take some blood I hyperventilate and pass out. Getting better recently but still gives me the willies thinking about it.
THat's because most fucking nurses can't start an IV to save their lives. A lot of nursing programs don't even teach how to do it - they learn how to do butterflies, but not canulate a vein. Most hospitals have techs that are paramedics or trained phlebotomists that actually do all the IV's for them.
I'll tell you what was bullshit, fuckin' getting tested for hypoglycemia. I had to drink this super sweet orange drink, then got a different finger pricked every hour for eight hours. I'd go to sleep, then wake up and get stabbed, then repeat. Of course, it wasn't until the last one when it REALLY hurt. Figures.
I had a piece of glass stuck in my heel for over a month. I was at our pool and stepped on some glass from a broken bottle near the basketball courts. I got it cleaned up by the onsite staff and rode home on my bike. It healed up fine but the dull pain whenever I put pressure on my heel never went away. One day I was grinding my heel on the floor to see why it was still hurting when I felt something hard under the skin. I got out the scalpel, my pocket knife and a needle and proceeded to pick away at the skin until I revealed an inch long sliver of glass that had been up there the whole time.
I had a piece of glass stuck in my heel for over a month. I was at our pool and stepped on some glass from a broken bottle near the basketball courts. I got it cleaned up by the onsite staff and rode home on my bike. It healed up fine but the dull pain whenever I put pressure on my heel never went away. One day I was grinding my heel on the floor to see why it was still hurting when I felt something hard under the skin. I got out the scalpel, my pocket knife and a needle and proceeded to pick away at the skin until I revealed an inch long sliver of glass that had been up there the whole time.
I've had something similar happen to me before. Glass can be really obnoxious.
And pocket knives are so freaking useful. I rarely go anywhere without one.
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Because that's pussy European bullshit. It makes too much sense.
Who the fuck bases any counting system on base 10?
Ludicrous.
Oh yeah, feet getting all numb, legs all tingly
Only thing that hurt worse than my back at that point was the cortisone shot to fix my back
Fuck that
Also needles really aren't bad (usually) stop being pussies (I've always wanted to say that ='])
What spring does with the cherry trees.
I just don't look.
When my lung collapsed they had to suck all of the nitrogen out of my chest cavity with this MASSIVE fuckin syringe.
oh but they also gave me morphine so that might have helped.
When I came to my senses I noticed that I had squirted blood up and over my shoulder.
Dear satan I wish for this or maybe some of this....oh and I'm a medium or a large.
And I wasn't even looking at the thing, I was intentionally averting my gaze
I know it's not her fault but still, that kind of put me off on needles for a while
I think I'm going to poke some needles into my pupils right now for funsies
I had to have 900 thousand shots in the back of my head when I was a kid because the lady that cut my hair never washed her shears and cut me once. The hair stopped growing there and then started falling out. talk about not at all fun
Well that is kind of horrifying
I got them to gimme more before the pain could get too bad though.
As a wee lass of nine I had an MRI with contrast done to figure out my headaches
The contrast is this dye that looks a lot like saline solution, so the nurse tries to set me up with an IV in my arm. Key word here is "tries". She missed the vein. Repeatedly. In both arms. And kept yelling at me to sit still so she could get my vein.
Finally the tech comes in to see how far along I am and finds one frustrated nurse and me bawling because OW and calls the doctor and my Mom in. Doc put it in the back of my hand, bandaids the hell out of my arms and tells the nurse to get the fuck out.
By that afternoon I was black and blue like the night sky from above my elbows down almost to my wrists and could barely move my arms
Consequently any time someone tries to give me a shot or take some blood I hyperventilate and pass out. Getting better recently but still gives me the willies thinking about it.
bad scene
I got the gas when I got my wisdoms removed. Slept through it rather well though I do recall some pressure towards the beginning.
And I recovered rather quickly as well. Seeing outright HOLES in your gums at the back of your mouth is a trip though. I remember flushing stuff out of 'em and being in a bit of a panic that they're heal right over a piece of corn or something.
Ew.
Edit: When I was four I had Pseudotumor Cerebri Syndrome. I was in and out of the hospital for a span of 6 months to a year. According to my mother I had quite a few spinal taps and injections. The only one I really remember is a needle in my ass but thankfully I was young enough that I don't remember much of it.
Between that and the naturally occurring hernia issue I had when I was 8, I'm not necessarily frightened of hospitals but they do give me an uneasy vibe.
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That's good!
How is her speech?
After my grandmother had a stroke she had trouble with certain words and remembering things for a few months. She was fine but it was very frustrating for her since she was such an intelligent woman and didn't like feeling "stupid" by not being able to communicate as well as she could before.
I think my worst experiences with needles haven't even been on myself. Holding my wife's hand during at least three bone marrow biopsies makes me never ever want to see that again. That and having to give her daily injections (I know this is old hat for some people, but I was not very good at it, and I hated hurting her.)
My big toe-nail once fell off but I don't know why and it grew back so no biggie
But it grew back. I just remember getting blood all over the concrete and it being very painful when he forced my foot in a bucket of ice water.
You win
every morning i would be awoken at about five by this surly guy with an eastern european accent who would come in to take my blood, which was fine at first because i had an artery tap but that dried up on day three for some reason so they had to keep needling me for the remainder of my stay there, twice a day, every day (the afternoon person was a cheerful lady who was more tolerable if only because she acted somewhat more sympathetic)
i felt sick from all the painkillers which only dulled everything, and i was just generally disoriented the first few days so being stuck with a needle for withdrawal was always a jolt
i was glad when i got out
except i had to go back a month later because the valve came loose, and repeat the whole process
don't like needles
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Fantastic. Yes, this is the truest thing. I had to essentially pass out the night before on the couch because just the sheet touching me would send shock waves. After the shot, I was amused by unfunny billboards I'd seen dozes of times on the way back home and slept peacefully on the same couch for eight plus hours. In my memory of the situation, the pain was worth the joy of the relief.
Thankfully neither the surgery nor the recovery were particularly painful
There was a funny moment during the procedure though: I was under local anesthesia and under a little tarp, so I could hear but not see what was going on
At one point I hear the surgeon say to a med student watching in, "Here, check out this guy's skull," at which point they spent a good thirty seconds admiring it
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My mouth, she is agape.
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My most recent injections have been when I've had moles removed, and those aren't so bad, except one of the things they inject you with (epinephrine, I think) makes me woozy and I have to lay down.
The most fun injection I've had is the TB test, where they only inject the stuff under a couple layers of skin, making this bubble pop up.
THat's because most fucking nurses can't start an IV to save their lives. A lot of nursing programs don't even teach how to do it - they learn how to do butterflies, but not canulate a vein. Most hospitals have techs that are paramedics or trained phlebotomists that actually do all the IV's for them.
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I've had something similar happen to me before. Glass can be really obnoxious.
And pocket knives are so freaking useful. I rarely go anywhere without one.