Erection During Surgery

I was wheeled into the operating theatre on a hospital trolley dressed in my best hospital back-to-front gown for my second Inguinal Hernia operation. Theatre staff got me onto the op table and made me comfortable, having first loosened the ties down the back of the gown. The Anaesthetist was just starting to put me under when the Surgeon marched in with four med students and pulled back my gown up to my chest to expose everything and proceeded to tell them the procedure. Thankfully I was soon asleep.

Throughout the rest of the day, while recovering in my hospital bed, I was visited by every nurse and med student in that wing of the hospital to check on my dressing (I didn't know it then but I had had a 4 inch incision). Of course every time they looked they had to raise my gown and expose my genitals.

Next day I went home and a District Nurse popped in every day to check on me. By the second day I had very bad bruising at the base of my penis and some wheals diagonally across the shaft of my penis. The Nurse called my Doctor to examine me and he told me that sometimes male patients become erect during operations and they have to strap down the erect member with surgical tape. The wheals were a reaction to the tape and the bruising was due to the fact that they probably forced my (strong) erection down my leg!(out of the way). As my erect penis is one that stands vertical to the floor when I am standing, it is virtually impossible to bend it down like that without pain. Eventually everything returned to normal. Is there a nurse out there who can confirm that this can happen in the operating theatre?

I am bot a nurse, but I have seen it on videos of real procedures done under anesthesia.

Wow, interesting story. i personally have never heard or seen anything like that before

I read on another web page, that they sometimes cool down the penis to get rid of an erection during surgery.

Some degree of penile engorgement following epidural anesthesia is not uncommon because of vasodilata- tion and pooling of blood in the venous sinuses of the penis. However, penile tumescence resulting in partial or total erection at the time of cystoscopy or transurethral surgery is a relatively infrequent phenomenon (Walther et al, 1987). It is very troublesome to perform the procedure during penile erection because attempts to do so will lead to complications, such as excessive bleeding and urethral trauma, and surgery has to be delayed or postponed as a result. At our institution, during the last 16 years (1988–2004), of 2867 patients who received epidural anesthesia while undergoing different transurethral pro- cedures, such as transurethral resection of the prostate (TUR-P), transurethral resection of bladder tumors, transurethral incision of the prostate, or optical internal urethrotomy, intraoperative penile erection was only encountered in 3. The management of these cases, along with a review of the literature, is presented

Prior to one of my surgeries I recall starting to become aroused while the pubic area and genitalia were being swabbed with antiseptic. But not during surgery, as far as I know.

I was recently in the hospital for a kidney infection. My partner and I got to talking with the male nurse who had been assigned to me on the night shift, and the conversation wandered in quite a few directions. I don't know how we ever got to THIS topic, but the nurse mentioned that he had once been hospitalized and, while receiving nitrous oxide prior to a surgical procedure, he quite unexpectedly became fully erect. Another male patient in the prep area had the same response. It was quite obvious due to the thin, light gowns they were wearing. They just looked at each other and laughed. (I'm sure the nitrous probably contributed to the laughter, too!) He said they told him later that this is a common reaction in males to nitrous oxide. He said it worked even better than Viagra, but it certainly was not as convenient!