I've got to have surgery

About 10 years ago I broke my clavicle, had surgery to stitch the bones back together, apparently I was young enough that they were still soft and able to do that. Ugly 5 inch scar is the only evidence left, but took months to feel 'right'. I vommed after surgery and felt much better for it :D was kept in for 72 hours as I had a slight fever. Can't say I'd be in a rush to do it all over again :P
 
Freefaller said:
I've had GA before - I hated being on nil by mouth, and felt rotten the next day - I was almost green I was so unwell owing to the GA (I think they gave me too much!).

However, it's amazing what surgery can do.
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Me too, I felt as sick as the proverbial afterwards. Was dosed up to the eyeballs on painkilers but still hurt like hell. Spent 6 weeks off work which sounds like fun but really it wasn't as i was pretty much incapacitated for the first couple weeks at the very least

probably not what the OP wants to hear though lol

Glad I had it done though was causing so much trouble before
 
robfosters said:
18hrs wow!

My heart op was very complex and that was only 8 hours. I take it something went wrong?
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Yes, the op was to reconstruct my ear drum with skin grafts etc, but the conducting bones within the inner ear had all but disintegrated due to the frequent ear infections I had as a child.


As a result they repaired what they could and the result is a 3% restoration in sound in my right ear. At the time I know my parents feared the worst considering the length of time spent under the knife. I've been meaning to see if anything can be done to improve on this (being that it was almost 20 years ago).

Nice to see that the OP is doing good though :cool:
 
I had 2 knee surgery in a year. Both was in for 7am. Then home by dinner. 2nd one I was home by about 3pm.

Its a really odd feeling tbh. Just one moment remember being there next wake up in a random ward.

Best thing to do, when you come round, complain about pain and get more pain killers :D When I went back to the ward to my Mum I has so high on them I was just dribbling.
 
A week ago on Wednesday I saw my surgeon for my 4 week post op check up and the recovery is going perfectly, he couldn't be happier. Yay for me :)

I get to take my surgical wrap off in another week and a bit and then can resume exercising 2 weeks after that.

You'll be fine. :)
 
NoNameNoNumber said:
Pain setting in now, been on a heavenly concoction of paracetamol, ibuprofen, tramadol and morphine though so feeling goooooooood :)
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My experience with morphine made me wonder...heroin is a modified form of morphine that puts morphine into the body far more quickly, so it's essentially morphine but much more potent. So how the hell does anyone break a heroin addiction? Morphine is far too good by itself, even in medicinal doses. I can very easily understand addiction to that. Jack it up to recreational doses of heroin and I don't see how anyone could stop before they die.
 
Yeah I totally agree, the only negatives for me have been not having pooh since Wednesday and lots of NARBys. My dad had scar accident years ago and ended up literally addicted to it. Was taking around 130mg of the stuff 3-4 times a dat as his body had become that resilient to it. He's pretty much off it now but only just.

I can seriously see how much a problem like this actually is though.
 
Surgery went well and now I've cut the tramadol and morphine right down I've become coherent again...

Slowly getting movement back in my arm but I've lost a lot a muscle mass and got a very limited range of movement.

Back to the consultant again on Wednesday then physio so I guess things are getting better :)
 
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Hmmm, I've just stumbled across this thread, and I'm glad to hear the operation went well.

After dislocating my shoulder for the sixth time last week I've now been told that I'll have to have surgery to pin it in place as it won't stabilise on its own, so it's very comforting to hear from various people in this thread that their shoulder surgery was a success.

My shoulder seems to be getting weaker and weaker, hence the need for surgery, initially the first dislocation (a year ago) was from me slipping in the shower and landing on it, pushing the shoulder out of place, last weeks dislocation was from me reaching up to get a folder off a shelf in the office I work in!
 
Wowsers that's rough, the shoulder is one of the least stable joints in the body though apparently and quite complicated too. I guess we really had ought to work out a little and get some muscle round there to help out a bit...
 
Jamauk said:
Hmmm, I've just stumbled across this thread, and I'm glad to hear the operation went well.

After dislocating my shoulder for the sixth time last week I've now been told that I'll have to have surgery to pin it in place as it won't stabilise on its own, so it's very comforting to hear from various people in this thread that their shoulder surgery was a success.

My shoulder seems to be getting weaker and weaker, hence the need for surgery, initially the first dislocation (a year ago) was from me slipping in the shower and landing on it, pushing the shoulder out of place, last weeks dislocation was from me reaching up to get a folder off a shelf in the office I work in!
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Pretty much have the same as you only I had an operation 4 years ago which worked fine until I fell awkwardly on it. Have had around 8 dislocations in the past year and have an operation in June. I see you're from Bicester - where are you going for yours?
 
NoNameNoNumber said:
Surgery went well and now I've cut the tramadol and morphine right down I've become coherent again...

Slowly getting movement back in my arm but I've lost a lot a muscle mass and got a very limited range of movement.

Back to the consultant again on Wednesday then physio so I guess things are getting better :)
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That's good news!

How are you finding the Tramadol? It did nothing for me.
 
I think it's brilliant. Blocks me up a bit and I'm yet to find a good balance of laxatives :D

I find within 30 minutes or so it almost completely removes the pain. If in the night it gets more painful I take 10ml of morphine and that zonks me out till the am.

I did have 2 days last week of feeling really ill, vomiting/dizziness/headaches but other that that I'm really happy with it, kind of odd when the only 2 people I've known to have had it really didn't get on well at all.
 
Is there a reason why you're in so much pain to need the huge pile of drugs?

I had Tramadol and Ketoprofen after I busted it, didn't finish either packet as I couldn't poo so went to normal ibuprofen, and after the op I had Codeine pills, again didn't finish the packet as I didn't need them. Went to Cocodamol for a bit then just ibuprofen as and when.

Seems crazy that you're on so many painkillers for recovering from the same op?
 
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