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Operation Awake?
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Can i choose to have an operation awake if i dont want general anaesetic?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.LOL @Kyra 16! Bless you! I had a very personal lady op with a local and although after the initial whince from the injection i didn't feel anything, i saw more than i would ever have wished too, so think carefully before opting to be awake. You can see an awful lot in the reflection off those mirrored lights above!
I had something similar near my 'on button', if that makes any sense? I opted for local after being given the choice. I felt very little, just the tugging sensation from the stitches. But, and it's a very big but, if you are lay on your back in the op, as i suspect you may be, the temptation to look in the light above you is overwhelmind, like rubbernecking at a car crash! And the amount of blood i saw almost made me pass out, so if you think you can be ok with that then go for the local, means you can get away quicker if it's an out-patient op.
LOL Kevo, after all the stuff women have with smear, child birth etc, we have no such shame about baring our bits when we have to!
If the docs will let you have a local then i agree with you, for the 2 seconds that the injections hurts it's far better to know just what's going on with your bits!
Good luck and i hope it all goes well for you hun :o)
If the docs will let you have a local then i agree with you, for the 2 seconds that the injections hurts it's far better to know just what's going on with your bits!
Good luck and i hope it all goes well for you hun :o)
My hubby has had a few operations awake. He had a fistula put in his arm and watched them doing it. He said they gave him a drug that makes you drowsy and gives you the effects of being drunk but you don't remember any of it.
He had themeral (sp?) lines put in his groin and neck when he was awake and all they did was give him lignicain (sp?) which numbs the area but I'm not sure if that would even be a possiblity for your op.
Your best bet is to discuss it with your Doc/consultant and tell them your fears and that you don't want to be put out.
Good luck with your op :o)
He had themeral (sp?) lines put in his groin and neck when he was awake and all they did was give him lignicain (sp?) which numbs the area but I'm not sure if that would even be a possiblity for your op.
Your best bet is to discuss it with your Doc/consultant and tell them your fears and that you don't want to be put out.
Good luck with your op :o)