Worst Medical Procedure you've had....

[undeterred]

I was going to make this a poll, but thats too limiting. I nominate: THE LOWER GI SERIES, a.k.a. the Barium Enema.

[TZ]

1. KW beware: The bone marrow biopsy UNDER LOCAL sedation

HOLY CRAP--torture..I had a second one done under general anaesthesia and it was MUCH better....

[undeterred]

4. extreme pain?

[TZ]

8. Oh yes

They are drilling a hole in your bone to get marrow out. The local on the skin isn't bad..but then they have to anesthetize the bone..WHOAH..and even then..It feels like fire when they draw the marrow out..assuming they get it in the first draw, which my hem didn't...:scared:

[KitchenWitch]

7. Hey, at least you had the local sedation

I did not even have NOVACAINE, for the christ's sake.

[LiberalHeart]

17. I had that when I was a teenager. The docs wouldn't let my parents stay in the room....

...because they knew it was going to be hell. They sent in a team of 4 to hold me down.

[KitchenWitch]

32. I think I have PTSD as a result of mine...

[dembotoz]

67. 1st wife had leukemia with the added bonus of compromised lung function

because of her breathing problems they could not snow her which meant local at best.
During the 2 and 1/2 years she survived after initial diagnosis, she had this done to her a number of times.
My job was to hold her hand while she screamed.
and screamed and screamed.
I could only sit there and clinch my teeth.
To this day i have dental problems due to cracked molars and crushed fillings.
Maybe things have improved-this was over 20 years ago but i remember it like yesterday.
Never felt so helpless in my life....

[MountainLaurel]

2. The prep for a colonoscopy n/t

[undeterred]

3. the stuff you have to drink is awful and it takes forever

[BrotherBuzz]

31. Not if you have a fistula that connects your stomach to your large intestine

It goes right through, bypassing the small intestines

I was doped into a wonderful daze during the procedure, but I distinctly remember hearing my doctor say to his assistants, "Oh, WOW, Look at this"! Seems the endoscope and the colonoscope were looking at each other and the small intestines weren't in play.

[undeterred]

60. crohn's disease?

the things docs think are fascinating...

[BrotherBuzz]

69. No

I had a cancer tumor that grew and attached to both my stomach and colon. A fistula (a hole or tunnel) developed between the stomach and colon and the tumor grew to block the entrance to the small intestines so food bypassed them. I was slowly starving to death. The Tumor was removed and chemo treatment has kept it in check, plus I have gained a healthy sixty pounds. I'm clean of cancer for just over a year, quit the smokes, and have a keen interest in what I eat.

[undeterred]

70. Glad to hear it.

I used to work for surgeons as a lab tech, then later as a research tech for a gastroenterologist where I interviewed crohns patients. I am amazed at what the body does to itself and what it can recover from.

[MountainLaurel]

66. So, so miserable

I was on my bed sobbing after about hour 3 of drinking that stuff, and the resulting effects.

[bicentennial_baby]

5. Having a pin inserted through my leg and the ensuing 6 wks of traction

:D

[LeftyMom]

6. Birth defect correction without pain control. You don't even want to know where.

Suffice it to say that I'm very glad people don't remember things from their infancy.

[lightningandsnow]

11. Same one I had?

(see the post below)

[LeftyMom]

12. Nope.

I'll PM.

[lightningandsnow]

9. When I was 2 or 3, I had a bilateral ureteral reimplantation.

http://www.umm.edu/pediatrics/urs.htm

Plus some extra reconstructive surgery on my urinary tract.

I don't actually remember it, but I assume it was shitty.

[hobbit709]

10. Threading the camera up my weewee into my bladder.

[Orrex]

34. Those fraternity hazing rituals can be brutal

Or so I've heard...

[Lyric]

13. The insertion of a biliary drain tube. (warning: graphic)

They needed to put a drain tube into my swollen, infected gallbladder so it could drain over the course of a few weeks, thus reducing the inflammation enough to make surgery safe. I was supposed to be asleep for the procedure, which involved inserting a sharp, hollow, steel "guide" rod into my abdomen, which pierced the gallbladder, so that the drain tube could be fed through it and then the rod itself removed, leaving the drain tube in place.

The combination of Versed and Fentanyl that they gave me didn't work. At all. I was wide awake the whole time, I felt everything, and I *remember* everything. Apparently they got the dosage wrong for my weight. I know exactly how it feels to be stabbed slowly, millimeter by millimeter over the course of a half-hour, right into a horrifically painful organ. Oh, and they screwed up and stabbed me in the diaphragm muscle during the process, too, so breathing was difficult and painful for a week afterward.

ThinkBlue1966 was standing outside the door to the radiology room where this was done (on a CT scanner bed) and nearly lost her mind when she heard me crying and telling them that I could feel everything, please, please stop. The doctor's comment? "Oh, you won't remember this later. Just try to be tough."

Fuck. You. Doc. If I hadn't been traumatized to the point of being almost incapable of venturing out of my house when everything was finally over with a month later, I probably would have sued the asshole.

[littlebit]

18. Girlfriend had almost the same experience

last year after a gallbladder surgery gone wrong. She kept telling the doc she could feel everything and he kept telling her she couldn't.

[Celebration]

14. One of my rolfing sessions

Deep massage on the inside of my mouth. I had to call it quits. The rest of the rolfing sessions were AOK.

[undeterred]

15. Wow, I feel like I just asked if anyone has ever been tortured.

I had no idea.

[baldguy]

16. I was 6.

Christmas morning, crawling around on the rug grabbing & opening presents. I felt a sharp pain in my knee. It still bothered me after a few days, so my mom got me to the doctor. After a few Xrays it was determined that I had a sewing needle embedded under my kneecap.

The doc decided to operate in the office then and there. NO anesthesia other than heavy leather straps and a couple nurses to hold me down.

I still remember feeling him lifting up my kneecap and digging around beneath it, and the sound of the *pop* when he let go and it fell back into place. It was too far in & I was squirming around too much for him to be able to remove it, so he just packed it off and got a bed in the hospital for me.

[FloridaJudy]

19. A root canal

I was a penniless grad student at the time, so I had it done at the local dental school. The student who did it hadn't had the anesthesia course yet, so he did it under a local. I later learned that when a tooth is badly infected - as mine was - locals frequently don't work, and mine didn't, It also turned out that my tooth had an extra root growing sideways, so it took a loooong time, and after each step in the procedure we had to wait for the faculty supervisor to check his work before the next step. I'd rather go through major surgery or childbirth (both of which I've experienced) a thousand times before doing that again!

He did an excellent job, though. Every dentist who's seen my X-Rays comments "Wow! That must have been a tricky procedure!" They have no idea how right they are.

Colonoscopies and barium enemas are also not loads of fun, though these days they medicate clients to the max for the former. I had one back in the bad old days though. Miserable, but not nearly as bad as that root canal.

[mnhtnbb]

26. I vote for root canal, too, which I just had two weeks ago. Not fun.

I've had major surgery, C-sections, and although coming out of the anesthesia from my hip replacement
a year ago before the morphine had kicked in wins the "most painful" award, that root canal
was definitely the most uncomfortable medical experience. My tooth was also infected.

[Taverner]

20. I had a chicken shoved up my ass by a man saying he was a doctor

Does that count?

[Orrex]

35. Which came first?

[conscious evolution]

56. LOL!

You owe me for a new keyboard.

[undeterred]

61. Only if you have pictures.

[vard28]

21. myelogram - I've had THREE of these m-fers

A myelogram uses a special dye (contrast material) and X-rays (fluoroscopy) to make pictures of the bones and the fluid-filled space (subarachnoid space) between the bones in your spine (spinal canal). A myelogram may be done to find a tumor, an infection, problems with the spine such as a herniated disc, or narrowing of the spinal canal caused by arthritis.

The spinal canal holds the spinal cord, spinal nerve roots, and the subarachnoid space. A dye is put into the subarachnoid space with a thin needle. The dye moves through the subarachnoid space so the nerve roots and spinal cord can be seen more clearly. Pictures may be taken before and after the dye is used. You are strapped to a table, face down. Turned over and all around to move the dye around.

It hurts like a m-fer. They hit a nerve when I had my second one. It caused a huge muscle spasm that jerked me up off the table even though I was strapped down (upside down and tilted). I hollered obscenities at them and threatened to sue each and every one of them, regardless of the fact that I signed a release before the test, if they fuckin' paralyzed me.

NOT fun. :(

[LeftyMom]

22. My mom had two of those.

On the second one she didn't heal properly, had a spinal fluid leak, and had a spinal headache.

She swears they must have been invented by nazis.

[Lyric]

24. The dreaded spinal headache. I had that after my c-section

which was performed while I was awake, so I was given a "spinal" numbing. Afterward, I had the most excruciating headache of my life. It was fine so long as I was laying down, but the minute I sat up, THUMP THUMP THUMP and back down I'd go. They finally had to do an epidural blood patch to fix it.

[LeftyMom]

27. That's what she had to have, too.

She had c-sections both times but back then I think they always did them under a general. LK's birth was the first she's seen where the mother was conscious and at all aware of anything below her navel, which was, um, interesting. "Honey, you're doing really good. I think. Nurse, she's doing okay, right? I don't know about these things..."

[Generic Brad]

23. That's the only procedure I've ever had

And that is why I have avoided doctors ever since.

[Skittles]

25. mammograms are very painful for me

I'm told my girls are very "dense" :(

[bicentennial_baby]

33. Word!

Having had fibrocystic breasts since age 22, I can vouch for that. I demand ultrasounds only. OW!

:pals:

[Connonym]

28. Barium swallows are no picnic either

Worst thing was "marsupialization" of my Bartholin's gland (see "girlbits") under local. :scared:

[LivinginLA]

57. Bartholin's cyst

I had just moved to a new town, twelve weeks pregnant and hubby was underway (Navy). I couldn't sit, or lay down or move anything. Finally went to the ER for some Vicodin but the excision the following day and recovery OUCH! Imagine meeting your new doctor for the first time "Hi, I'm your new patient and I have something for you to look at and remove."

[Connonym]

92. I can relate

I saw the nurse for mine, my GYN was on vacation. Nurse said she needed to get a doc to look at it. Some doctor I had never met before came in and I have to give him credit -- I was still in the stirrups but he stopped up by my head and introduced himself first and apologized about having to meet under such circumstances. I thought it was really respectful that he took the time to do that instead of just walking to my other end and looking.

Personal question -- do you ever have recurrences? Mine has recurred a couple of times, never as bad as the first but my doctor told me unless they remove the gland (which I'm not in favor of) that it will continue to flare occasionally. :(

[LivinginLA]

95. One recurrence

then I had them remove it. I have other autoimmune issues and had started chemotherapy following my daughter's birth. When my doctor told me it would probably happen again and suggested removal, I told him do it. It was one pain I had control of.....

[Critters2]

29. Endometrial biopsy. Painful is too mild a word. nt

[Lars39]

30. I can vouch for that.

Hurt like hell.

[pokerfan]

36. A testicle biopsy

Thanks for making me remember it. x(

[Starry Messenger]

45. I just twitched...and I'm a female. Yikes.

Hope it wasn't bad news anyway. Scary.

MPK

[pokerfan]

46. Naw, it was benign

But it was uncomfortable and painful for quite some time. But at least it wasn't cancer.

[JeanGrey]

86. A liver biopsy. A large needle is stuck through your ribs into

your liver where they yank a piece of it out. I have one every year sometimes two. But I've also had a liver transplant, they open you up like an autopsy for that one. Endoscopy, that is where they put a bit in your mouth like a horse and sneak up behind you and whip out a tube they shove down your throat. Fun. I've had every orifice violated in one way or another.

I also had a collapsed lung and they shoved two tubes into it to drain blood for ten days. Thank god I had a compassionate nurse who shot me up with a huge speedball beforehand.

[Shakespeare]

37. Colposcopy.

"Oh, you won't need any anesthetic, local or otherwise--no nerve endings in the cervix."

Bull-fucking-SHIT.

I had to endure TWO of these about 9 years ago for a cervical biopsy. The cryosurgery I had afterwards--also with no anesthetic--wasn't as bad as the colposcopy (but it sucked, too). They're going to have to knock me out if I ever need another one.

[amitten]

51. Gynecologists are butchers.

I had a male dermatologist tell me that once. I believed him, based on previous experience.

A bunch of sadistic, chop-happy bastards.

No nerve endings in the CERVIX? Fuck you very much. Now try not to wince as I lance the head of your penis...shouldn't need any meds for THAT...

[Lyric]

64. I truly believe this.

The undervaluing of women has allowed gynecology to get away with horrors that very few male patients ever have to face. Is it any wonder that women often avoid their yearly exams, when physicians don't seem to be interested in finding ways to make them hurt less?

[Shakespeare]

73. This particular procedure was invented by a German, pre-WWII.

'Nuff said.

[BlueIris]

78. Butchers is too kind a term, really. nt

[NNadir]

38. The thoracotomy after my first serious bicycle accident.

I had fifty stitches in my head, several fractured ribs and to top it all off I woke up from my coma with this damn tube sticking out of the side of my chest.

Basically it meant I couldn't turn over for about 5 days and had to either lay my head on my stitches or twist my neck until it cramped.

I got to a point of pleading with them to take that damn tube out. I kept telling them: "I have another lung! I have another lung!"

They gave me lots of morphine, but that was even worse because it made one so sick that one actually wanted to hear the Greatful Dead play out of tune.

[Richard Steele]

39. I once had a root canal without any anaesthetic.

Frankly, from what I've been told about the Barium Enemas,
I think I might rather have that root canal again.

[pokerfan]

47. Why no anesthesia?

Just curious...

[Richard Steele]

50. Random genetic variation. The nerve from that tooth had a non-standard branch...

...and that branch connected it to a major facial nerve that isn't
supposed to have any connection to teeth.

So, the Dentist shot my mouth so full of novocaine that my entire head was numb...
except for that single tooth.

When I could still feel that, he took a second x-ray and showed me how the
nerve branched and attached to a nerve it wasn't supposed to be attached to.
It attached to a facial nerve that runs up alongside the nose- a nerve that
his liability insurance wouldn't cover him to mess with.

So, he said he could either go ahead and do his thing, or he could refer
me to a maxillofacial surgeon who could maybe fit me in next week.

At that point, the tooth had been incredibly painful for a few days, so I
told him to just go ahead and do what he had to do.

As it turned out, what he "had to do" was to take tiny, flexible, needle-sized rotary files
and slowly twist them up into the nerve canal inside that tooth, by hand...
and as each one bottomed out, it was pulled out and the process was repeated
with another file a few thousands larger in diameter.

It was a true EDUCATION into the nature of PAIN, ItellyouWhut!

It probably lasted about 30-40 minutes, but it seemed like months. Years. A LIFETIME of pain.

The most interesting thing about the experience was the end: I was entirely tensed up
during the procedure; my fingers were buried to the metal in the armrests of the chair...
and there came a moment when that last file finally severed the last bit of that nerve,
and all the pain just STOPPED, like it had been turned off with a light switch.

EVERY MUSCLE IN MY BODY had been tense, and they relaxed all at once when the pain stopped,
and I FLOWED out of that chair onto the floor like a boneless amoeba!
I melted out of that chair like 210 pounds of some very thick liquid.

[pokerfan]

52. Holy shit dude

Ever watch Marathon Man?

Is it safe?

[DS1]

77. My God

My nerve branches are a bit out of whack too, and I've certainly had my share of nasty dentistry because of this, but I made the root-canal guy keep going until I was damn well sure he'd got it. I was at the legal limit of anesthetic at that point, and still felt the odd bolt of pain during the 'dig out the nerve' part.

:shudder:

[trackfan]

40. Sigmoidoscopy.

The colonoscopy wasn't nearly as bad due to the drugs.

[Pierre.Suave]

41. Worst sounding one?

or worst one that I actually remember?

I was going to say having my Wisdom teeth removed, but you know, other than looking like a chipmunk for a few days, and being a bit sore, those were the best 3 days of BootCamp ever... I was in BED!

Then, I was going to say that being put back together after wrecking my motorcycle was pretty bad, but I don't really remember much of the early stuff.

learning to walk again pretty much sucked too.

I also have a fake elbow, that was a pain, 5 days in the hospital over Xmas break with an arm that was black and blue from shoulder to wrist and bloated from the surgery, then the months of rehab to ensure it would move and keep moving...

and the best part, I am not done having surgeries yet either...

[XemaSab]

42. More like a non-procedure

Serious asthma attack with a doctor who had his head up his ass.

He didn't believe me when I told him the machine wasn't working right, so he basically let me lay there untreated for hours.

After about 6 hours of me getting increasingly angry with him, he decided I was having an anxiety attack and he gave me ativan.

Under the PDR entry for ativan it says DO NOT GIVE TO PATIENTS WHO ARE IN RESPIRATORY DISTRESS.

In all caps. Just like that.

Immediately after giving me the ativan, Einstein had me admitted and wheeled to a bed.

I remember going down the hallway, and not a whole lot after that.

The nurses in the ward saved my life. :(

(PS When they did an arterial blood gas reading, I was somewhere in the mid-60s. The pulse oximeter had indicated that I was 99% saturated. Those things don't work when you're in REALLY bad shape.)

(And PPS The fucker wouldn't let me have OXYGEN when I was laying there for 6 hours, saying that since I was 99% saturated it wouldn't help anyway. Fucker.)

[mcctatas]

43. Spinal tap...

although, I probably handled it in the best possible way, I passed out cold as soon as the needle went in...

[Red State Rebel]

65. I got lucky - my Spinal Tap was a non-event

I must have had a really good neurologist because I felt absolutely nothing. Unfortunately, it was positive for meningitis....

[momto3]

76. Agree on the spinal tap.

I have had viral meningitis twice. The first time the spinal tap was done by a resident that left me with a dozen little holes in my back. due to the massive screw up the first time around, I now have calcification around my spine. I found this out the second time I had to have a spinal tap performed. It was so bad, that they had to send me to radiology and do it by X-ray. I have decided that if I ever end up with meningitis again, I would prefer to die rather than go through that again.

[mwooldri]

44. Not me, but watching my son go through medical procedures.

A little background: my son was born with his bladder on the outside, with epispadias complex and his hips splayed out like frogs legs: the whole thing is called bladder exstrophy.

Now if you think children don't remember stuff from their childhood let me tell you its one big fat lie. As part of the routine, at about 4-6 months old, we had to catheterize him every two hours. When they reconstructed his urethra it wasn't exactly "straight". Getting a catheter in was always a PITA; for him it literally was. Further complications meant that the catheterization routine got cancelled and things got revised, but sometimes he needs to take tests, which involves catheterization. That poor boy has nightmares just even thinking about the test. He knows he has to take them, and goes, and is willing but boy he really tenses up at even SEEING a catheter, and the tears he has are real ones. Recently he had to go into hospital for a procedure to see into his bladder (what there is of it) for his next "big operation", and even though this was a in-and-out deal, he still had nightmares. Given this, he had to go under a general anasthetic, and they were real good... gave him some pre-anasthesia stuff that made him real woozy and "forgetful", he came out of it OK, because the anasthesiologists were real good at their job and he was drugged enough so that he didn't feel or even remember a thing. It's a shame with the urodynamics test that he has to be conscious for this test otherwise I'd be demanding a general for him for that test.

Sometimes I just wish I could take his place.

Mark.

[undeterred]

71. I am so sorry.

That sounds awful. Is there going to be a time soon when he doesn't have to go through this any more?

[mwooldri]

74. Thankyou.

He goes for his "big operation" on Oct 6th. This is a bladder enlargement procedure. We're hoping that this is his last "biggie" but as for no more surgery ever... given his condition, I highly doubt it. There will always be "some procedure", "some test" that is required.

Again, thanks.

Mark.

[Angel]

48. Open Heart Surgery At The Age Of 5 nt

[HEyHEY]

49. Having the docs search around my chest for a pellet kinda sucked.

Never found it, and the fucker who shot me never DID take me for dinner... I got screwed all round

[JCMach1]

53. Having two impacted pins removed on my reconstructed foot

after it had been crushed in a car accident...

They were going to put me out completely for the procedure, but decided to do it in the office as an outpatient instead. It took almost 2hrs of tugging and repeated shots of local anesthesia (didn't work) to get them out... I get pain flashbacks just thinking about it.

[REP]

54. Cystoscopy/Ureteroscopy/YAG laser/stenting lower pole left kidney

I had a stone in the lower pole that was thought to be causing recurrent infections; the procedure to remove it took 4 times longer than a normal basketing due to how deep in the kidney the stone was, and my ureter was predictably torn. My husband said I was screaming once the anesthesia wore off; I think I was moaning loudly. I do know that I didn't speak for 5 days afterwards due to the pain.

[REP]

55. Complications from Uterine Ablation

Having the lining of the uterus (endometrium) burnt out with boiling saline sounds pretty bad, but it wasn't that bad. The (very rare) complications were, however. Very bad.

[crim son]

58. I've had an awful lot of stuff done,

some of it painful including biopsies and contrast dye series and MRIs and upper & lower endoscopies etc. but the worst was the manometry test. It measures the peristaltic movement of your esophagus. A tube is stuck down your nose, through your throat and into the esophagus just before the lower esophageal sphincter. Then over the course of just about forty minutes, fluid is poured through the tube and the muscle contractions are measured. I have a gag reflux from hell (my surgeon assures me) and the test was a fraction away from literally unbearable. When it was done, my GI doctor said, "Well, you have just successfully completed the worst test we do at this hospital." Excellent. :eyes:

[terrya]

59. Hip replacement.

I was in an accident in 1997, resulting in getting my right hip replaced. Horrible. The physical therapy was particularly bad.

[C_eh_N_eh_D_eh]

93. When my grandmother had hers RE-done...

the doctors broke one of her bones, and nobody noticed until she went back for more X-rays because the pain wasn't going away on schedule.

[wickerwoman]

62. Can't remember what it's called...

They pump your bladder full of liquid and then take images while you're peeing to see if it's backing up into your kidneys. Anyway, it took the nurse half an hour to get the catheter in. Then they loaded me up for another twenty minutes until I couldn't unclench my toes. And then for some silly reason I just *could not* pee standing up into a dish with five male doctors watching me. Go figure... The worst part was you were supposed to shout out just before you started so they could start taking the x-rays. We had a lot of false alarms.

They told us it would take twenty minutes but it was almost two hours...

The best medical procedure was the sleeping test. I had a couple seizures when I was a teenager so they wanted to test me for epilepsy. You just fall asleep with electrodes on your head and they record your brainwaves. Very peaceful.

[1gobluedem]

63. Brain surgery

11.5 hours of surgery, recovery is slow and not fun.

[sasquatch]

68. Cathater insertion

x(

[zanne]

72. Bypass surgery.

The first week after that surgery was so bad I had to have a morphine pump.

[old mark]

96. Me, too. I had a quad bypass in '03.

The day before the surgery,the damn surgeon said," Let me explain what we will be doing..." I said "Don't tell me, just put me under and bring me back." I woke up with drains coming out of my chest, my rib cage held together with steel wire (still in there) and staples down both legs where they took the good arteries from.
It still hurts 5 years later, and I feel I never fully recovered from it, but I am still here to complain about it, so I guess it's OK.

Zanne, I wish you all the best, and hope you live a long time with it.

mark

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

75. Had several but

By far the worst was a Cathater when I was about 6 or 7. I was under when it was inserted but afterwards it hurt like hell for several days when I peed.

Next was hernia surgery. Couldn't stand upright for about a week.

Had a prostate exam but that was more degrading than painful.

Finally hemerhoid surgery. They used a spinal anesthetic so I was conscious. No pain but I had to be naked from the waiste down in front of a very attractive nurse.

Hope this isn't TMI but you asked.

[BlueIris]

79. Removal of my lingual frenulum. I was fine until the anesthetic wore off.

The dipshit DMD should have told me I would be, you know, in AGONIZING PAIN for a week afterward. It's a good thing I still had most of the Percocet prescription he'd written me for my post wisdom-tooth removal pain the summer before. I was eating those things for two weeks after the procedure, an event which screwed up my ability to complete my senior thesis in college that year.

[tedoll78]

80. Retroperitoneal lymph node dissection

The intubation, the catheter, the NG tube, getting up out of bed for the first time with that huge scar down my belly.. it all sucked. I look back on my 21-year-old self and wonder, "how the hell did I get through that?"

But the whole hospital experience got me interested in radiology. Now I'm the one operating the CT and MRI scanners.. :thumbsup:

[Forkboy]

81. Total Thyroidectomy and lymph node dissection

The word dissection makes it sound worse than it is. I had a great surgeon too. I ended up with over 120 stitches in my neck and a year and half later there's just the faintest trace of a scar (though I can feel the tightness of the scar tissue under the skin 24/7, and they had to cut a nerve that makes the top of my shoulder permanently numb, which isn't painful obviously, just...odd).

Years ago I was watching the show Operation and they did "Baby Skull Surgery", and they cut around the baby's face and literally peeled it down under his chin. After seeing that they can do whatever the fuck they want to me and I'm not complaining. :)

[backwoodsbob]

82. 2 things come to mind

imagine laying your left arm on your comp desk palm up.Now imagine about 4 inches below the elbow cutting your arm crosswise as much as the knife will reach all the way to the bone.

The rehab on that was intense.

Setting an ankle broken playing softball hurt like a mofo but was a one second thing...not sure it qualifies

[YellowRubberDuckie]

83. The Prep for my colonoscopy was awful...

And then the doc had to push enough drugs to keep a junkie out to keep me asleep during it. I have always metabolized drugs quickly. :shrug:
Duckie

[Mr. McD]

84. Laser vaporization of the prostate (PVP)

also called light laser prostatectomy Still healing after 2 years. Fortunately I was knocked out for the surgery.

[martymar64]

85. Debridement of my Right Tibia (Staph Infection)

I got a staph infection on my right tibia and it turned into osteomyelitis. I had three debridements of infected flesh and bone, plus a bone graft and a skin graft. After the first one, the nurse tried changing the gauze tape stuffed into the wound and it felt like my foot was being sawn off. Needless to say, I kicked her in the chest with my good foot whilst screaming in agony. She had to sedate me before she could change the dressing. I still have a massive scar down there to remind me of that horrible time.

[OmahaBlueDog]

87. Well...um..when they did my initial circumcision, they left on some of the foreskin

...soooo in 3rd grade, they decided to finish the job.

OWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!

(note -- anesthetic was used, but they put some king of disinfectant around the area, so that when I woke up in recovery, it basically felt like the whole male-part area and it's suburbs were on fire. The nurse, who was the model for Nurse Ratched, basically told me I should shut up and stop crying. Hey -- it was the 70's; boys with flaming privates weren't supposed to cry)

[undeterred]

88. Well at least you're not the guy whose penis was cauterized

during circumcision, so they decided to raise him as a girl- a major sociological experiment which proved that nature does indeed matter.

[OmahaBlueDog]

90. OWWWWWWWWWWW!

Pokerfan, that OWWWWWWWW! goes for you as well.

All you DU ladies... I'd OWWWWWWWW! , but I can't necessarily relate to some of those issues intelligently. Truthfully, they probably hurt more.

[old mark]

97. Reminded me of an occasional result of a motorcycle accident -

the immediate stripping of the skin from the penis caused by going over the handlebars in a colission.

It is called "degloving."

I sold my motorcycle many years ago....
mark

[triguy46]

89. Prostate needle biopsy

So there I am, curled up on my side, and the urologist has an ultrasound probe about 1cm in diameter put up where the sun don't shine, and he begins to inject my prostate with lidocaine which involves poking the needle through the colon, he's telling me to relax and asking how the OSU football team is going to do and tears are rolling down my cheeks. Once that was over the 12 needle samples were easy. But good Lord that was exquisitely uncomfortable.

[Orrex]

94. Those are three words I never want to see or hear in combination again

:scared:

[erinlough]

91. Last Friday..stereotactic biopsy

you hang your breast through a hole in a table and they put it in a vice thing. Then they are supposed to numb it and use a large gauge needle to take multiple core samples. The first two were painless but the third.......I felt like I had been shot! I would have to be sedated to agree to that again. I'm not kidding when i say I would rather have them cut. Worst pain I have ever felt including childbirth.

[trof]

98. Perio disease-gum reduction sugery, full upper and lower.

B-A-D