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Oh, I've had 3.

Yea, I've had 3 ACL surgeries. Got damn shitty knees and sports.

Jupiter posted...

Yea, I've had 3 ACL surgeries. Got damn shitty knees and sports.

I had an appendectomy, and 2 surgeries to repair a broken ankle.

A couple of times when I was young to put in/remove a port and a couple years ago for a hernia repair.

SparkMark1 posted...

A couple of times when I was young to put in/remove a port and a couple years ago for a hernia repair.

Does a hernia hurt?

Repair a torn labrum in my right shoulder.

Just once from a tooth extraction.

Noope never

3.

One with 6 or 7. Had do get a tooth removed, because I had some chicken pox (not sure if translated correctly), and that caused some bad infection with pus UNDER a teeth. Full general anastesia, I was out completly.

One with 13. Appendix. Full general anastesia. I was full out completly.

One with 32. Circumcision. local anastesia. I got a needle pushed into my **** and was fully awake during the surgery.

Unless dental counts, no.

I'm 3 weeks post op from a shoulder arthroscopy from a large labral tear.

Many, many times.

Once as an infant. Then another when I was 9 to remove some damaged intestines.

Yes. About a 1/2" of my finger "popped" off. So had micro surgery some type of flap over the remaining of the finger. Fun times.

Only local anesthesia and nitrous oxide surgeries. Never completely under

Turbinate reduction
Colonoscopy

I've been extremely lucky the only surgery I've ever had was Wisdom Teeth removal and not something worse

Just to get a couple of wisdom teeth removed.

3 or 4 times

Twice. Wisdom teeth removal and a tightrope surgery on my ankle.

Just wisdom teeth which barely counts.

Three times:
Wisdom teeth removal
Getting a screw put in my hip.
Getting a screw taken out of my hip.

Mechu posted...

Unless dental counts, no.

Ditto!

Same here.

4 pacemaker surgeries. I got the first one in 2017, and got it replaced in 2020, needed a more advanced model. It became infected so I had to go back i and have 2 more surgeries. Minor surgery for a broken hand in 2021. Outpatient. They gave me a nerve block. My entire arm was paralyzed most of the day. Lastly I was put under to get my wisdom teeth removed. I dont know if that counts, though.
So, 5 or 6 times.

The only one that felt like a real surgery at a hospital was hernia surgery when I was 12. I remember freaking out when they were trying to put me under and they had to hold me down until I fell asleep. The oral surgeries felt more like advanced dentist visits.

ACL

Yep. TLIF at the L4-L5 vertebra.

Yes. Adnoids, tonsils, wisdom teeth removal, cystoscopy, endoscopy.

Karovorak posted...

3.

One with 6 or 7. Had do get a tooth removed, because I had some chicken pox (not sure if translated correctly), and that caused some bad infection with pus UNDER a teeth. Full general anastesia, I was out completly.

One with 13. Appendix. Full general anastesia. I was full out completly.

One with 32. Circumcision. local anastesia. I got a needle pushed into my **** and was fully awake during the surgery.

W H A T.

Yes. Stitches just require local anaesthetic but for the wisdom teeth I remember nothing between "let's do it" and being helped to the car.

coyot posted...

Did they return your teeth? They stole mine.

They chopped mine up into little pieces.

Servera surgeries overr many years

Only times I've been put under is for my Strabismus (eye surgery) and wisdom teeth removal.

Other than that, the only other surgery I've had is laser eye surgery (PRK) which isn't really a surgery as much as they just brush off part of your cornea and shoot a laser in.

Tonsils removed when I was maybe 3 years old, all 4 wisdom teeth removed when I was 19 or 20. There may be others, but I can remember only those two.

In 2016 after breaking both of my hips.

Cocytus posted...

Does a hernia hurt?

The hernia itself caused me no pain. A little discomfort as I could feel my innards popping out.
Surgery was a bit painful but I didn't need any pain meds myself.

Just wisdom teeth.

Three knee surgeries. A shoulder surgery.

I had to get out under anesthesia three times for some cortisone injections into my spine just so that I could have the shoulder surgery.

So put under 7 times in my life.

Edit: forgot wisdom teeth, so 8 times

No, just stitches and bone setting, pretty sure.

4 in the past 3 years. A handful before that.

Technically yes I was under general anesthesia, but it was just for wisdom teeth so my experience has been that most people dont count that as a real surgery

Benign growth in my neck. I was nine.

MrResetti posted...

Benign growth in my neck. I was nine.

Sheesh, how did your parents respond to that discovery?

do skin grafts count?

viewmaster_pi posted...

do skin grafts count?

Yes. Burns?

Only once. They had to remove a huge ass cyst in my back. Was giving me a lot of back problems.

no, i guess they were worried i had a receding gumline when i was younger, so they grafted skin from the top of my mouth to my lower gumline. i wish i was put under for it, but it was what it was

viewmaster_pi posted...

no, i guess they were worried i had a receding gumline when i was younger, so they grafted skin from the top of my mouth to my lower gumline. i wish i was put under for it, but it was what it was

I didn't know that was a thing, and oh god.