Urgh, that's horrifying! Did they knock you straight out?
I am, in general, very greatful for the NHS, but it does seem you have to know about medicine yourself in order to get what you need sometimes, and frankly I don't know anything about it at all!
I had to have a growth on my skin, which was constantly bleeding, removed. The NHS treated it as a purely cosmetic matter (despite the loss of blood etc...) and therefore didn't remove it. My surgeon yesterday was very angry about the way I'd been misdiagnosed and left to find an alternative.
I was lucky in that my Dad has medical insurance that covers the whole family, though it still might cost me over £200! And the insurance premiums are going to go up so much that he'll probably have to change/cancel the whole policy. Not the best system!
Yeah, that sounds like pretty shoddy work by the NHS and I'm not surprised your doctor is horrifed...hope it's all sorted out now though?
Basically I began to regain consciousness during the operation, and because they were cutting through muscle at the time all I remember was unbelievable pain and that I was screaming - it was pretty brutal really - I think they then gave me more anaesthetic or morphine or something and I either passed out from that or the pain. Still, makes a good story....
Interestingly, I had an operation when I was five or so, and I "remember" waking up from the anaesthetic mid-procedure... except I didn't. Fortunately there was no pain involved because it was just a vivid dream at the higher end of the realism scale - apart from all the people in non-surgical gear that I "remember" wandering in and out of the theatre as though it were less hygienic than a takeaway.
That's truly horrific... waking up mid-way through an anaesthetic is one of my biggest fears. Especially as they also inject you with some kind of muscle paralyzer, so even if you can't even move or speak to let anyone know you *have* woken up..... ugg!
The NHS is rubbish - they managed to let me wake up during an operation once. That was the most intense pain I have ever experienced in my life.
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I am, in general, very greatful for the NHS, but it does seem you have to know about medicine yourself in order to get what you need sometimes, and frankly I don't know anything about it at all!
I had to have a growth on my skin, which was constantly bleeding, removed. The NHS treated it as a purely cosmetic matter (despite the loss of blood etc...) and therefore didn't remove it. My surgeon yesterday was very angry about the way I'd been misdiagnosed and left to find an alternative.
I was lucky in that my Dad has medical insurance that covers the whole family, though it still might cost me over £200! And the insurance premiums are going to go up so much that he'll probably have to change/cancel the whole policy. Not the best system!
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Basically I began to regain consciousness during the operation, and because they were cutting through muscle at the time all I remember was unbelievable pain and that I was screaming - it was pretty brutal really - I think they then gave me more anaesthetic or morphine or something and I either passed out from that or the pain. Still, makes a good story....
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That is the stuff of horror movies, I wonder how often that happens!?
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http://www.news-medical.net/?id=35286
1 or 2 per thousand apparently...i was quite young at the time, 12 or so, so i think they must ave misjudged my dose.
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Tricksy thing, the brain.
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