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I chuckled while reading this one. “Good” is a relative term.

Talk with your doctors before surgery to help all parties level set expectations.

1 posted on 04/25/2022 7:58:33 AM PDT by ConservativeMind
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2 posted on 04/25/2022 7:59:03 AM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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3 posted on 04/25/2022 8:00:17 AM PDT by PGR88
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I’ve had cataract surgery twice.

I say a big.

So ! No story here, just diarrhea from the MSM.


4 posted on 04/25/2022 8:01:19 AM PDT by George from New England
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I went with complete lack of awareness on my cataract surgery. 😂


5 posted on 04/25/2022 8:02:07 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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The doctors are OK. They don’t feel pain.


6 posted on 04/25/2022 8:03:23 AM PDT by HighSierra5 (The only way you know a commiraspute is lying is when they open their pieholes.p)
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The correlation of patient to surgeon satisfaction was 0.333 on a scale of 0 to 1, indicating a moderately weak correlation.


surveys never tell you much. Maybe suggest a different measurement?


8 posted on 04/25/2022 8:08:40 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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I have had 6 or 7 eye surgeries for Thyroid Eye Disease. Most of them were done with an anesthesia called MAC (Monitored Anesthesia Care). If they needed me to do something, like look at an "X" on the ceiling to see if my double vision was getting better while they adjusted eye muscles, the MAC anesthesia was the best option. I was in a twilight state and could hear the doctors and hear music (they let me choose the type of music), but I was still sort of asleep. I have had general anesthesia 4 times and it is much more difficult to wake up from general than a MAC.

I remember once I was being prepped for a MAC eye surgery and I could hear a lady a couple of stalls over arguing with the anesthesiologist that she only wanted General Anesthesia. She did not want to be awake at all. She was having a minor Glaucoma surgery to relieve intraocular pressure and a MAC would have been perfect. They wheeled me out before I could find out what they decided.

9 posted on 04/25/2022 8:09:39 AM PDT by Sans-Culotte (11/3-11/4/2020 - The USA became a banana republic.)
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Now do colonoscopies.


10 posted on 04/25/2022 8:11:15 AM PDT by Pollard (Who stole my tagline?)
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I could very well be luckier than most but the six times I’ve been under anesthesia (hip replacements,hand surgery and colonoscopies) I’ve had one problem that wasn’t really a problem.At the end of one of the colonoscopies I partially woke up before they were done. No pain at all...and I got to look at my colon on the TV screen that was next to the table.


13 posted on 04/25/2022 8:18:21 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Covid Is All About Mail In Ballots)
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Eyes of Texas Laser Center in Austin is EXCELLENT. Doctor is strict, no-nonsense, but very good at what he does.


14 posted on 04/25/2022 8:19:55 AM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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The WORST pain I’ve ever experienced was during my cataract surgery...and I was told I would feel nothing...after the first shot in the eye, I loudly but very controllably proclaimed for all patients nearby to hear, “that was the worst pain ever” (I wanted to scream, actually). The doc looked at the anesthesiologist and said “this next one won’t hurt” and it did not. But, sheesh...I was very unhappy. I had an IV of something and obviously the level was incorrect.


15 posted on 04/25/2022 8:34:16 AM PDT by goodnesswins (....pervert Biden & O Cabal are destroying America, as planned.)
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I’ve had a corneal transplant, which requires general anesthesia , I have to fight for my life, as they can easily kill me with too much.

Head of internal medicine at UC San Francisco did endoscopy. I told him to only give me half the amount he wanted to. The minute the needle hit my arm, I knew it was too much, said “You son of a..
and woke up three hours later with two nurses shouting at me, slapping my hands and feet. As I came to, I finished the sentience: ...bitch.” That was decades ago. You can imagine how sensitive I am now.

I need a new cornea desperately and have appointments set up for June. My MD who knows me well has sent authorization to the eye place and I still have prove I’m eligible. I’m 85 and this is my ONLY HEALTH PROBLEM. All of it caused by the stupid medical profession. I am not a fan.


21 posted on 04/25/2022 9:16:18 AM PDT by Veto! (Political correctness offends me)
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I had two cataract surgeries recently. I don’know what they did but I was awake, watched the procedure, and had no pain during or after. So whatever it is, they can just keep it up!😀


22 posted on 04/25/2022 9:23:25 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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Just had cataract surgery in 1 eye 2 weeks ago. I was awake through it all but juiced up with some good stuff and didn’t care or fret. It was like watching a fireworks show. I’ve had no pain or floaters or secretion or any other negative reaction, and I can see with both eyes again. So count me as satisfied.


27 posted on 04/25/2022 7:59:58 PM PDT by Some Fat Guy in L.A. (Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite its unfashionability)
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During 2020 I had a half-dozen or more injections in one eye to address Diabetic Retinopathy. They numbed the eye first, but it was at the least uncomfortable and at the worst it did hurt a bit.

Last month I had cataract surgery in the same eye. I was unconscious briefly while they prepped it and immobilized it, but awake for the actual surgery. I couldn’t see out of it, which was a good thing. It didn’t hurt a bit, and aside from the part where they thought my heart might stop, there were no issues.

For a few weeks afterwards, if I moved my eye too far in either direction it was a bit sore. Yesterday’s checkup went well. I have a prescription for new glasses and another checkup due next April.


30 posted on 04/26/2022 8:09:25 AM PDT by PLMerite ("They say that we were Cold Warriors. Yes, and a bloody good show, too." - Robert Conquest )
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