About to go under the knife...

[Big Wall]

Good luck.

[Bailey Guns]

Good thoughts and wishes for you.

[coop68]

Any surgery sucks i have a scope on my left knee due to high school football injury junior year. Go to get an MRI day later found out i need surgery next day 10am surgery and one week off from school! the part i hated was the wake up felt like i got hit in the head with a bat from the drugs than they tried to make me eat crackers and apple juice than randomly having your position coach there when you wake up and knowing that your recovery nurse is his wife!

yeah good times!

best of luck to you hope all goes well and you are better off when you come out of it.

coop

[rondog]

Piece o' cake, I had it done in '99. The deviated septum thing that is. They also removed some screwed-up turbinate tissue. You'll wake up with some hollow plastic "splints" in your beak, they'll be tacked in with a couple of stitches. They'll also be full of goo, and you won't be able to breathe through your nose for a few days. This part will be miserable.

When they take them out, you'll be sucking air through your schnozz like a Shop Vac! I swear to God, my first breath through my nose, the airflow through there nearly knocked me over. It'll make a helluva difference, but over time it'll close back up some, you won't always breathe like a Hoover.

But, whatever you do, DO NOT get the surgery for sleep apnea where they lop off your uvula and blow off the rear shelf of your upper palate with a laser! I had that done at the same time, and Sweet Mother O' God, I've NEVER been so miserable in my life.

I've had a broken neck, a broken back, broken leg, broken arm, snapped the ACL in my right knee, and two severe tears in the meniscus of the left knee. But that surgery beat 'em all painwise. Think about a severe sore throat for 3+ months, I had to use an atomizer with a high-powered liquid pain killer/numbing solution directly on the area. It was awful. And it screwed up my swallowing for about 3 years. Every time I'd try to eat something, bits of the first bite would go into my windpipe and I'd go into choking and coughing fits. That finally went away, but the healing took years.

So, deviated septum surgery, good! Sleep apnea surgery, BAD!

[ghettodub]

Awesome, thanks for the info and all the wishes, folks. It is for a deviated septum and turbinates, so it sounds exactly like what you had done. I'm super excited to have it done; i'm just more nervous because I've never had surgery before, and I watch too many damn doctor TV shows .

I'm sure you'll see a bunch of posts from me by the end of the week, because I"ll be out of work and bored on the couch, heh

[rondog]

Yeah, I was addicted to 4-Way nasal spray for many years, I HAD to have a bottle of it with me at all times just to breathe. If I didn't have one, my nose would swell shut and I might as well try to breathe through my ass. I had to suffer a few weeks without it to let the tissues heal before surgery, but I haven't had a snort since. My turbinates looked like hemhorroids.

[porfiriozg]

good luck
wish you the best

[Irving]

Brandon on HAI got this done last year. If you still post on there, ask him about it.

[alxone]

i have been under more than a few times and it suck each and every time , but at least your not awake for most if it .although i never had my head worked on (ok just stitches and staples ) sounds scary . you are a far braver man than myself.

[Elhuero]

good luck on Wednesday