most serious operation/medical thing you've had done

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Originally Posted by Samanfa

Went under general anaesthetic when I had 4 teeth and a cyst removed from my mouth, had a cannula in, but they also used gas and air to help as well. I took a week off school to recover, but the stiches in my mouth took around a month to dissolve - I was meant to get braces after it, but they told me I didn't need them anymore, so it was pointless me having the teeth out.

Another one was having my crown caps removed from my mouth - as they kept coming out I had to have the teeth on a palette/denture instead, they could have done it at the dentist, but at that age I was extremely scared so I had local anaesthetic at the hospital. It was a horrible experience as they couldn't find a vein, every time they stuck the needle in for the cannula I screamed and my mum could hear every time, she was a wreck in the waiting room crying so much. They had the nerve to say "Do you want us just to numb your mouth instead?" Please if I wanted that I would have asked my normal, better dentist to do it; luckily on their last attempt they found a vein!

I didn't have an operation for this, but last May I started having chest pains and ended up in hospital - the emergency response took an ecg at home and said it might be nothing, but there's a small block in one of my vessels to my heart. Luckily the hospital ecg said it was fine and wasn't there anymore, it was probably due to being nervous. They took my blood and found a vein fine. However, I had chest pains again 2 days later and ended up at the closer hospital, had to have an ecg at work and then my blood taken at the hospital - the nurse refused to take mine as I had small veins so a doctor had to, which he didn't do well and found a vein, but the needle fell out and I bled over the bed, luckily he then found it again, but nothing was seriously wrong aka they had no idea.

Aside from that the only other time I've ended up in hospital is when I stuck a travel chess piece up my nose (A).

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Originally Posted by Absently

I cracked my skull open when I was younger after I got knocked down, I generally don't know very much about it as I think it still frightens my mother. I did have to get stitches but I'm not sure if there was anything else that had to be done. I only found out a few weeks ago I actually ended up a bit damaged from it, super fun times :P

I've had surgery on my cheek to remove a mole they thought was cancerous. I was awake for it and the most painful bit was getting injections in my face without numbing it first as they were too late with the surgery. I felt them tugging at my cheek and when they got close to my eye that bit wasn't as numb as the rest and was not very nice. Then feeling them tug away and then stitch my face back together was a really weird sensation.

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Originally Posted by Empired

An operation on my knee (cringe warning soz) to remove a needle that had been accidentally and unknowingly embedded in there for a few days. Also had to do some fancy stuff with the cartilage because I know it had been damaged by the needle scraping at it but I don't actually know what happened there because a bit under TEN YEARS ON my mum is still too upset to talk about it so she won't tell me.

Then I had to have a second operation because it was dirty or had gotten infected or something but again I don't know.

Wish she'd tell me because I'm actually really interested but every time I try to bring it up she really does burst into tears and tell me I'm just tormenting her which is very annoying.

your poor mums :(

nothing major and and not at all jealous of any of your cool stories because i HATE seeing injuries and would react like the parents mentioned above. i was in hospital when i was young because of ear pain which must have been really bad as i was there for a week and had some issues with my lungs (prob cause of my dads 40 a day habit) but that's about it.