Surgery anxiety?
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i just had my first surgeory ever. i was completely panicked and a little messed up afterwards and my friend said somthing that snapped everything into focus for me. dunno if it'll work on you but here's for trying. 'strength is somthing you choose. it will almost never be the easy choice, and you are the only one who can make it. only you can choose to be calm and be solid as stone. and its the choice that saves you from your own fears.'
i had a 8 and a half hour surgeory and i almost lost my arm and i have a crap load of metal in it now and i have always feared the idea of being asleep and no matter what anybody does you wont wake up. so it was somthing that really knocked the wind out of me and got me off balance and it takes a lot to get me off balance. but he said that and i stood up straight and kept myself from shaking. every time anything upsets me thats what i think of now.
hope all goes well. ask questions and take deep breaths. it helps not to have your eyes open you cant see all the other patients and people going by.
talk to your surgeon in detail about your concerns BEFORE the surgery.
do not have rigid conditions... and rigid concepts... you should be transparent with your surgeon... do take anaesthesia for your surgery... if the doctor feels so...
If you were talking about brain surgery I would agree that it is game over. Other elective surgery is dangerous and complicated with infections. God I hope you can find some other way. Surgery on toenails seems to be fairly safe nowadays.
What do you mean by "backfire"? Is it mentally or physically?
Mine was both.
Physically because after few weeks the cut was swollen and it was hard for me to pee, as if there was something sharp like razor was going to come out. I was hospitalized again for a night and given pain killer. (The doctor said it was because of lacked of water). Some fluid came out of the cut and it stink!! But then again I was told it was normal and asked to take some more pills.
About the hypnotherapy, actually I thought about that too before. Because I thought the drug wouldn't be sufficient enough for me to get unconscious, you know, I thought I would still feel the pain during the surgery. But the doctor asked me to really take a deep breath. After inhaling the drugs for only three times I collapsed! Until somebody slapped me afterwards of course. I was really scared to move at first. Then the nurse asked me to do it slowly by waving my hands first, by moving my knees a little. Oh another thing, when you think it is time to pee, just take a real deep breath, it is so natural..it comes out with no pain at all, of course the tube is some what irritating. (this is right after the surgery ok. Drink a lot of water. I didn't, so that's why after few weeks I couldn't pee normally.)
Ok, mentally... I was really scared also. As if you want to run, but no where to go. It is in you. So, I said to myself- this is it. I am going to get it removed. What happens afterwards it's the next step I have to do. First thing first.- I was shaking when the nurse pushed the wheelchair to the surgery room. But what I read in an article really helped me. It said that we could minimize our fear by visualizing the event that we thought we going to go through. So I visualized the surgery room, the doctors, the equipment etc. Then what happened in the surgery is history now.
I wish you all the best of health. Have faith.
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