Just had surgery....

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On a lipoma removal from my forehead. Surgery went well today but boy does it hurt even with pain meds. So, has anyone else had an procedures that went well, went bad or thought was going to be easy recovery and actually hurt horribly?
 
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Yeah. Had an epidural with my first son and it worked great while I was in labor. Came time to push, and after the first one he didn't move a bit and I felt everything. Pushed for four hours, hurting like hell, but they finally moved me to an OR table for c-section, and it moved him enough to let the epidural work again. Pushed twice and out came a perfect baby boy.

Hope your head feels better soon.
 
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vollygirl said:
Yeah. Had an epidural with my first son and it worked great while I was in labor. Came time to push, and after the first one he didn't move a bit and I felt everything. Pushed for four hours, hurting like hell, but they finally moved me to an OR table for c-section, and it moved him enough to let the epidural work again. Pushed twice and out came a perfect baby boy.

Hope your head feels better soon.
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Perfect babies are what it's about!
 
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I had two tibial osteotomies (basically cut wedges out of my tibia to reset my knees) and it was the most painful thing I have ever experienced. After waking up from surgery, there wasn't enough pain medication in the world to numb the excruciating pain.
 
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I had two from a wreck right after I moved to Georgia. One on my knee and one on my nose. They had to reset my nose and I woke up feeling like a truck had hit my face.
 
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I've had 2 acl surgeries and it was the worst pain in my lifetime. Woke up from surgery sooner than expected before they put any morphine in me. Literally felt like my leg had been sawed off. Then they shot me with so much pain medicine I didn't wake up for another 4 hours.
 
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barknoxbrawler said:
On a lipoma removal from my forehead. Surgery went well today but boy does it hurt even with pain meds. So, has anyone else had an procedures that went well, went bad or thought was going to be easy recovery and actually hurt horribly?
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Give it 24 hours and it'll probably be significantly better pain wise. Not gone but better.
 
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I pulled a hang nail, off my little toe, putting on socks one day...it brought me down :)

srs, OP hope you feel better
 
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It is better today. He said the lipoma was attached to the skull and not the muscle so he had to scrape (and I heard it) the lipoma off my skull. I was suppose to work today but he told me not too when he had to go deeper to get it all. Pain is tolerable but I can't sleep at all. The pain meds are suppose to make me drowsy and they do. But I can't sleep and it's annoying! But I would rather not sleep and have not pain then not sleep because of the pain so it's cool. Thanks!
 
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barknoxbrawler said:
It is better today. He said the lipoma was attached to the skull and not the muscle so he had to scrape (and I heard it) the lipoma off my skull. I was suppose to work today but he told me not too when he had to go deeper to get it all. Pain is tolerable but I can't sleep at all. The pain meds are suppose to make me drowsy and they do. But I can't sleep and it's annoying! But I would rather not sleep and have not pain then not sleep because of the pain so it's cool. Thanks!
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You heard them scraping something off your skull? Yeah, you just beat anything I've been through giving birth twice. Kudos. And prayers.
 
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barknoxbrawler said:
It is better today. He said the lipoma was attached to the skull and not the muscle so he had to scrape (and I heard it) the lipoma off my skull. I was suppose to work today but he told me not too when he had to go deeper to get it all. Pain is tolerable but I can't sleep at all. The pain meds are suppose to make me drowsy and they do. But I can't sleep and it's annoying! But I would rather not sleep and have not pain then not sleep because of the pain so it's cool. Thanks!
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that's rough...they didn't put you under for that
 
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Had 2 back surgeries. First one wasn't too bad.

2nd one, they added titanium rods and screws at the first 3 vertebrae above my tailbone. Cutting through the muscle wasn't all that bad but the damage that the bone fragments had done to the sciatic nerve running down my left leg took weeks to start to heal even after surgery. I call it being struck by lightning, seemingly every nerve from my lower back all the way to my heel would fire sharp sharp pain at the same time. I couldn't walk. I would scream because I couldn't help it when i.was struck, and I am a grown man.

When I was in the hospital recovering from surgery ,right after I woke up, they decided to use a nurse trainee to give me my morphine..which is a crappy painkiller anyway. She screwed the syringe into my IV improperly and when she squeezed it, the morphine shot down my forearm and onto the bed. She missed. I was mortified. I looked at the head nurse and asked her when she would be back with my pain m3dicine...she said that she didn't see how much was wasted and therefore couldn't give me more. I laid there for 4 hours in the middle of the night with tears rolling silently down my cheeks waiting for my next dose. I never could get caught up to the pain while in the Hospital. It's a maintenance thing, you can't catch up from behind pain because they won't give you enough med to catch up.

36 hours later when I pulled the IV out of my own arm and left the hospital, I got home and ate 6 percoset 10z in about an hour. I slept for the first time in 2 days because I broke the pain. I will never return to that hospital. Ever. That was torture . Sorry for the long post.
 
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I've been lucky regarding injuries or surgeries in my life. About 35 years ago, I broke my neck but the pain meds were helpful for the couple of weeks that I needed them. Some years later, I almost severed the first digit of my index finger. They sewed it back on and had to do some pain meds for a few weeks. I think the next thing was hitting an oak tree dead center with my car. Went through the windshield, but they were able to sew up most of the skin except where there was no skin. Yeah, more pain meds for a week or so. Probably the latest was about 15 years ago. I was doing an engineering project in our steel pipe coating division in Cali. Unfortunately, my hand was caught by a barb on the steel pipe and went through a neoprene roller with the 1000 pound pipe on top of it. It sort of blew out the skin on the side of my hand. The Doc couldn't deaden the hand and had to put the stitches in. It was a bit painful, but I was lucky that I only had 125 fractures in the hand, nothing broken. Pain meds for one day and back to work the next. Now, if you want a really frightening story, I could tell you about my two cataracts surgeries.
 
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governmentmule said:
did they make a song about that Oak Tree Sly ?

was it a brand new car ? :)
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Somebody should have. Car was new to me. Had it for about a week. I was lucky. The lady that lived in the house where it happened was a nurse. I woke up as she was picking glass out of my head.
 
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Slydell said:
I've been lucky regarding injuries or surgeries in my life. About 35 years ago, I broke my neck but the pain meds were helpful for the couple of weeks that I needed them. Some years later, I almost severed the first digit of my index finger. They sewed it back on and had to do some pain meds for a few weeks. I think the next thing was hitting an oak tree dead center with my car. Went through the windshield, but they were able to sew up most of the skin except where there was no skin. Yeah, more pain meds for a week or so. Probably the latest was about 15 years ago. I was doing an engineering project in our steel pipe coating division in Cali. Unfortunately, my hand was caught by a barb on the steel pipe and went through a neoprene roller with the 1000 pound pipe on top of it. It sort of blew out the skin on the side of my hand. The Doc couldn't deaden the hand and had to put the stitches in. It was a bit painful, but I was lucky that I only had 125 fractures in the hand, nothing broken. Pain meds for one day and back to work the next. Now, if you want a really frightening story, I could tell you about my two cataracts surgeries.
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How are you alive man? Lol
 
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vollygirl said:
You heard them scraping something off your skull? Yeah, you just beat anything I've been through giving birth twice. Kudos. And prayers.
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It's nothing really. I heard my skull bounce off a sidewalk at least once during a rollover bike crash. That was followed by a guy near me who proceeded to say in some sort of amazement, "I heard your head hit the pavement."
 
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Coug said:
It's nothing really. I heard my skull bounce off a sidewalk at least once during a rollover bike crash. That was followed by a guy near me who proceeded to say in some sort of amazement, "I heard your head hit the pavement."
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It was something. Since the lipoma was on the skull and not the muscle , they had to cut through the skin, the muscle, and luckily save the nerve. He cut and pulled in the lipoma to dislodge it and once he did, he came back with what looked like a square spoon and scrapped the remaining stuff off my skull before sewing it back up.
 
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barknoxbrawler said:
It was something. Since the lipoma was on the skull and not the muscle , they had to cut through the skin, the muscle, and luckily save the nerve. He cut and pulled in the lipoma to dislodge it and once he did, he came back with what looked like a square spoon and wrapped the remaining stuff off my skull before sewing it back up.
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I always knew you were hard headed but dang man. :p
 
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