By the time this post pops up on my blog, I'll be in the doctor's office, waiting with shrinking loins for the nice nurse to tug hard on a string and remove a stent from my kidney, down the internal passage bits, and out of my body. When they tell you, "Don't worry, this won't hurt!" you know they're lying. I've had it done once before. Yeah . . .
Say a prayer for minimal pain, please. I imagine I'll spend the rest of the day recovering from the trauma! Blogging should resume tomorrow.
Thanks.
Peter
I fail to understand why a bit of nitrous oxide isn't employed; it shouldn't have any effect on the procedure other than reducing your anxiety and making you a bit more comfortable
ReplyDeleteyeah. if I had any idea of how bad it was going to be. I would have doped myself up first bigtime. when they pulled the cath out after my trupe (?) or whatever they call it.
ReplyDeleteI was rolling on the floor wishing I was dead. it hurt that bad. and I am no stranger to pain either. more than a few broken bones, stabbed a few times and blew out my back at least twice before getting pain meds.
so. I do hope you feel nothing like I did back then.
just in case, bring a few pills with you and someone to drive you home. forget all that MAN UP bullshit, it hurts like nothing else does.
Been there; done that. I removed mine on my own, sitting on the toilet. Doc suggested doing it in the shower, since it would bleed. I thought it wise to be seated, just in case…
ReplyDeleteThe removal went well but the later spasms had me pacing, gasping and crying in pain; about an hour’s worth. And it bled.
I don’t envy you!
Jon
Yes, that "You may feel a bit of discomfort for a moment ..." nonsense. Be so much better if they said "This is going to hurt but the results will be well worth it".
ReplyDeleteI hope God guides their hands to make it as less troublesome as possible.
^^This.
ReplyDeleteI have prayed to the Father for you, your friends and family, and your doctors and nurses. And for minimal pain.
ReplyDeleteMy wife had her chemo chest port removed in 200. The PA said not much pain and gave her a topical pain shot before cutting a one inch incision in her chest above her remaining breast. My wife came out in a wheelchair, white as a sheet. The surgeon who put the chemo port in had tied it to her collarbone which they found out after several strong tugs.
Owie...
ReplyDeleteBeen there.
ReplyDeleteYeah, been there, too. I'm on chronic pain meds for nerve damage, so I took extra before we went to the doc's place. Took enough that I had to have the wif3e drive. It helped, I think, but it was nevertheless a memorable experience.
ReplyDeleteWhen they did that to me they flooded my bladder 1st to nake it easier to pull the stint. Then just after i had to pee and the micro abbrassions in urethra screamed from the urine. That hurt enough i started to black out, taking the stint itself out not so much.
ReplyDeleteExile1981
On more than one occasion I have injected lidocaine lotion 'up the spout' before attempting any insertions. It might help, a little.
ReplyDeletePrayers sent up, the nurses always lie, and they enjoy doing so. Meh
ReplyDeleteMom was a nurse, can confirm.
DeleteI learned a long time ago that you always hold meds back for the procedure that won't hurt.
ReplyDeleteCue the Four Yorkshiremen:
ReplyDeleteLUXURY!
When I had it done, it was removed by the equivalent of a well-meaning PFC inserting a long mechanical tweezer up the only remaining accessible orifice, no anesthesia, totally unsupervised, getting ahold of said stent, and giving it a good tug, then reeling it all out the way he got in.
And then sharp pain, and peeing bright red blood for the rest of the day.
"Nothing to worry about. It'll stop, eventually."
Thanks a pantload for your kind assurances, PFC Mengele. That the Pentagon gave you your medical license after three whole months of tech school written at the 10th grade level is a special comfort to me.