Most feared medical procedure

I have to say, being intubated and tied down , unable to communicate, in extream pain and the last is vomiting intubated! Been there ,done that, FUCK that! Never again! Have some PTSD from that shit, oh and the same shitty hospital/ nurse dropped me on the floor 6 hours after open heart surgery, yeah not trusting anyone to do that ever again!

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When I had skin tags cut off my eyelids was really freaky. I got a shot a novocaine in every eyelid as well as around my eyes. Then they cut every skin tag off with a pair of surgical scissors. Then they burned each spot from the skin tag with a soldering iron from RadioShack oh my God I was freaked out

Having had some experiences working in hospital years ago and with some close members of family I would say:

Bone marrow tap. (Usually done in hip)

Prostate needle biopsy

Chest tube cutdown for collapsed lung

Lots of fear seem present about catheters - not too bad but I think the psych based pain in anticipation is much worse than actual foley insertions itself. Actually can be pleasurable.

Brain extraction!

Brain extraction!

Fortunately, I’m not a candidate for that one! 😀

The medical predicament of having the bladder and kidneys completely fill with blood from a massive post operative bleed, is an event to avoid if impossible. Once the bleeding is stopped the problem is the blood starts to form. Large clots which effectively block the flow of urine. Simply put you can't pee and even catheters become blocked.A creative urologist came up with the idea to get largest foley catheter the hospital had ,a 30Fr. and a 60 cc catheter syringe. Getting the 30 fr. catheter in was excruciating . Then the good news comes. The Doc attaches the 60cc syringe to the catheter, assumes a very stable position over me and says he is going to piston the syringe plunger back and forth rapidly to break up the clots. Then start sucking the clots out. If you can imagine someone rapidly sucking out 2oz of urine, then forcing it back in the bladder about 20 times. Then start filling the syringe with blood ,urine, and clots emptying the bladder, done repeatedly over several days. The urinary tract was then irrigated, while no activity was occurring. Forgot to tell you, prior to the bleed ,kidney surgery occurred and a drain tube was was inserted through the back, which you laid on. The surgical pain was off the charts . This was the situation at the time the bleeding started. This is a unique procedure , one you never want to have.

Heart transplant. why? what if there is rejection afterwards? The recovery time. Why not an artificial heart. Can we clone me a new heart?

The medical predicament of having the bladder and kidneys completely fill with blood from a massive post operative bleed, is an event to avoid if impossible.................

Explorer902,

I'm a retired doctor, so just curious. What was your original kidney operation for which led to the large bleed in your GU tract? I used to give anesthesia to patients with the large kidney tube exiting through their back which was sometimes also used for letting the urologist pass an endoscope through it to view the kidney interior.

Hope things are better for you now.

All the best,

Etic

Being "out" and having some genius Doctor cutting into my skinny body with a gull dang scalpel. The other worst case scenario would be trapped in a hospital for 2-3 days for "tests". Most hospitals have the thermostats set @ 50° and I don't like anything below 65°. I would escape the "polar cold" some way somehow. I get chills just thinking about it. I dread either/both of the above nightmare situations...

@ericmacson; the original operation was to stop the urine function of a diverticula in a kidney which would close periodically and fill with urine and calcium. It was quite painful and subject to infection. It was fulgerated and a drain was placed in the kidney. After 4 days the drain was taken out and in the process a vien /artery was nicked. Bleeding was massive and came out of the tube hole in my back and both kidneys and bladder filled with blood. The first big task was to stop bleeding and then determine that I was not still being filled with new blood. Within hours clots were formed enmass and were blocking unination with and without a catheter. Thus the 2 oz syringe and 30 fr catheter and bouts of pistoning the syringe with the urine /blood mixture in the bladder and withdrawing the mixture followed by lots of irrigation. Open heart surgery was no where near as bad as this kidney surgery. I was minutes from death as I was getting dressed to leave the hospital. 5 minutes later I would have been out of my hospital room and in city traffic with no chance of the rapid response that saved me. I passed out and fell to floor before a flood of Docs, and Nurses surrounded me and stuck a lot of 14 g needles in me for Saline and eventually blood.It was my lucky day.

The whole cracking my chest to drain the tension hemothorax and placement of a temporary pacemaker ,without anesthesia isn’t high on my list of things to do ,it’s 40 years ago but I can remember it like it was just done .

the experience left me with PTSD and an completely unhinged reaction to paralysis .

Blood draws. I had to have blood drawn today during my first visit with a new doctor. I haven’t seen a primary care doctor in about five years, and I have some health concerns so the new doctor ordered a bunch of blood tests. Tried to be brave but still wanted to cry. 😅 My arm always bruises a lot when I have blood drawn and the phlebotomist was rather rough on taking the needle out, so I’ve got a few marks already!! I hate the sensation of the needle going in and coming out. I hate the psychological build up waiting for the blood draw. If I never had to see a needle again it would be too soon!!

Ugh, stuff like spinal taps, things with bone marrow, anything with large needles while not put under, or getting holes made for emergency reasons. Shudders

First, in June of 2017 I had open heart surgery. I needed to have a quadruple bypass of my major heart arteries. I was not sure at that time if I really wanted it or not. The alternative was certain death in about a week. At first I debated if I should go through with it or not. To do it won out.

After doing it once, I have made up my mind that I will not do it again should I ever need it again. It was a real experience that I do not want to go through again. I have said that if GOD wants me that bad that I need to be operated on like that again, that GOD can have me. I will not do it a second time.

Now before any of you say anything about that, let me say that to understand just how I feel about it, you must have first had it done to yourself. No one can understand it without having it done once. The feeling that you get after you wake up from it after five days of being kept in a coma that was medically induced, cannot be put into words. The second night after I was woken up from the coma, it was about 8:30 p.m. and my wife had gone home for the night. I was laying on my hospital bed and all the sudden out of the clear blue I started screaming at the top of my lungs. I was not in pain. I had been given enough pain killers that there was no pain. What I was screaming was, "GOD, why did I do this? Why did I not just say no and let YOU have me. Why, Why, Why. I kept repeating and repeating this. A nurse that was walking by my room heard me through the closed door and immediately burst in and tried to calm me down. It took her five minutes to do so. When I did calm down, she told me that it would all be okay and to think of still living. She stayed in the room with me until I fell asleep. NO, she did not get in the bed with me or do anything that could be considered sexual in any way. She was not even the nurse that was assigned to me. When my wife returned the next morning about 9:00 a.m.., I told her about the dream. She gave me a big hug and a big kiss and told me that she loves me. I gave her an even bigger hug and kiss and told her the same thing.

That was over three years ago by one extra month. Today my heart is doing just fine. But, as I said, if I ever need it again, my final answer, as in the newly created TV show, Who Want To Be A Billionaire, my final answer will be NO. And I will be the only ever contestant on that show and the answer of NO for the billion dollar question will be NO. I will get it correct and win the billion dollars. Of course, I will not get to enjoy it. However, my wife will and I know she will understand that she will once again have her chance to be with me when GOD tells her that it is her turn to die.

My most feared medical procedure honestly is anything that has to do with my cervix - pap smears. Etc.

This was posted in another thread - but I would put a lobotomy on the top of my list Of most feared medical procedures, based on the way they used to do it!!

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Hands down having to swallow any kind of liquid. I've got trauma from being forced to finish food as a child and vomiting back up. So things like barium swallows are a hard pass for me. I can do most pills but if I have the option I wrapped them in fruit roll ups if they aren't gel or the slick capsule kind.

I've never been a fan of MRI

I would say prostate removal or a TURP. I have had a cystoscope and urodynamics and the cystoscope was incredibly uncomfortable I can’t imagine a prostate procedure.

Rotator cuff surgery, TERRIBLE! 😳😡

Any type of eye surgery where I am awake.

Any type of eye surgery where I am awake.

Cataract surgery is a breeze. Wide awake, eyes totally numb, they retract your eye open and cut, take out lens, do a little cleanup and slip in a new lens. Easy peasey!

Autopsy . . . especially if overheard from inside a body bag alive . . This actually happened to an aged person at a retirement home when the tending coroners surgeon discovred the error.

Anything that may put me down for any extended time period. With my sub not able to much I fear my cats and chickens would suffer. As well as daily jobs not getting done nor upkeep projects being accomplished. This is a fear that bothers me often. The “what if” you could say.

@Rigel I would put a lobotomy on the top of my list Of most feared medical procedures, based on the way they used to do it!!

My stomach turns to ice when reading how they put an ice-pick into the brain and then wriggled it around a bit.

‘Wriggling': so scientifically precise a term.

@agracier

My stomach turns to ice when reading how they put an ice-pick into the brain and then wriggled it around a bit.

‘Wriggling': so scientifically precise a term.

The true story of Frances Farmer illustrates this & what can happen when there's no protective laws preventing another from controlling a perfectly healthy person. Her blossoming career ruined

Bone marrow biopsies, ABGs, central lines (fear of infection, not the line placement itself), abdominal surgeries, and being anywhere near the 7th floor (ICU) of a certain hospital.

Not good with the blood drawers

Bottom injections. So painful. Followed by a big suppository after.

Hemorrhoid surgery.