Most painful surgeries/medical procedures

What are they? Cornea transplant?

I had aortic bypass surgery and it was very painful and I have a high tolerance to pain. Was in the hospital for 7 days and it took a good 6 months before I felt better.

Hemorrhoidectomies and hysterectomies are said to be the most painful surgeries.

I had open heart surgery for 2 valve repairs and 2 bypasses. I was 4 days in cardiac care with morphine the first 2 days. I stopped any further pain meds after that. I was home on the fourth day after surgery. It even hurt to breath for that first week. Probably should have continued the pain meds a little longer.

Spinal tap. Thread closed.

I heard that dealing with kidney stones is very, very painful.

Total knee replacement that is faulty. The disc popped out of the tibia insert requiring another surgery 4 months later. I was in debilitating pain for the first few weeks after the first go round. They want to do my other knee-too busy to get it done and I really don’t want to.

R6, I've had a spinal tap, it is not remotely the most painful, though the next day I had a pretty bad backache. Hemorrhoid surgery is excruciating afterwards, a thrombosed hemorrhoid specifically. I had the misfortune of after having this surgery the having the surgeon prescribe narcotic painkillers which effectively shut down your digestive system and gave me impacted bowels. I could go on, but suffice it to say I'd take a spinal tap over hemorrhoid surgery any day.

E coli. Writhing on the floor kind of pain.

R9 I agree. Hemorrhoid surgery is unbelievably painful. They should put people into a medically induced coma afterwards for a week or two afterwards. The pain is that bad.

I think Pain doctor's rate Cluster Headaches that suddenly occur as blinding and explosive pain behind the eye as number one. Still, don't think I'd like to try the hemorrhoid surgeries R3 and R12 are talking about. I am only just now starting to forgive the bitch surgeon who wrongfully performed an open hysterectomy on me and sliced a nerve while at it.

Thanks for the heads up on hemmorhoid surgery. I’ve had bleeding hemmorhoids for the past 2 years. Scares the shit out of me - but not painful. I was pushing to get surgery to correct - but after reading this, I think I’ll just deal with the bleeding. What drove you guys to get hemmorhoid surgery - my doctor discouraged it.

I haven't had the procedure myself, but everyone I've spoken to who's had wisdom teeth out says it's pretty excruciating.

R15 having my wisdom teeth removed was virtually painless for me.

I have had a hemorrhoidectomy and the recovery is incredibly painful. When you have to poop, it is like you are passing glass. And you can't stop your digestive system, so every time you poop, the surgical site gets inflamed and incredibly painful.And then of course you have to sit on your inflamed butt too, which leads to further pain.

I've had abdominal surgery and the hemorrhoidectomy was much more painful.

I heard forcing a baby out of your vagina hurts like fucking hell. And it takes hours and hours. And then you have to take care of it for years.

E. coli, kidney stones, and cluster headaches are not medical procedures.

[quote]Hemorrhoidectomies and hysterectomies are said to be the most painful surgeries.

I had them both doctor! Please gimme more Fentanyl!!!

I remember reading that the most painful plastic surgery recovery is calf implants.

I can't believe people do it, but apparently, the post-surgery pain is like none other.

I just had an epiphany. Melania had a hemorroidectomy when she disappeared for a month.

Next month I shall be having a large kidney stone blasted to bits with sound waves after which I shall hopefully pass the bits. I have passed small stones before. Painful, but not the excruciating pain I’ve been warned about. Perhaps they were too small to really hurt.

Can't they up pain meds if some of you are in that much pain? I had an anal fissure once after being horribly constipated due to pain meds after my wisdom teeth. OMG the pain when trying to poop is unlike anything I have ever felt. It felt like someone was stabbing me with an icepick in my asshole. But they gave me this numbing cream called anamantle and it was fucking heavenly. Completely took the pain away. I was ready to get cocaine to put on my ass to numb it when I had to poop.

I think they are afraid to give too many pain meds. If I am in a lot of pain, they better up my pain meds. No one should be in that much pain with the pain meds we have available. Fuck worrying about addiction.

Total knee replacement is the most painful procedure.

Might be tied with liver transplant.

R7. I’ve had more than 40 kidney stones. You get no sympathy from female nurses who are gleeful cunts when a man shows up with kidney stones. You inevitably get the snarky “Now you KNOW what childbirth is like!”. The last time I got right back in the bitches face “DID YOU HAVE A NON VAGINAL BIRTH THROUGH YOUR URETER CUNT?”

The doctor suddenly appeared with morphine. Good boy.

I would demand my pain meds be upped like dilaudid. Morphine doesn't work on me. If I was in horrible pain and they would not give me more meds, I would tell them I'm going to get someone to shoot me up with Heroin or stronger if they didn't.

No surgery, but I had to swallow a gastro tube for an intestinal blockage. They had to put down my nose then told me to swallow the thing...it was awful.

I had to do it twice. Now I would rather die than ever have to do it again.

They've gotten so crazy with withholding pain meds it is ridiculous. They are so afraid of you becoming addicted they are ok with you writhing in pain which means you can't sleep which means you don't heal as fast. Fucking stupid. I took Norco for 5 straight years due to pinched nerve that turned out to be a severe disc bulge which required immediate surgery. I was losing the use of my arms. Old football injuries. When it was time to taper off, I did not have withdrawls and was not addicted.

I read an article recently about the new govt guidelines on pain meds. It is nuts. One nursing home told a terminally ill man's daughter who was in horrible pain she couldn't give any more pain meds due to addiction risk. HE HAD WEEKS TO LIVE.

I'm afraid if I ever need surgery I won't have the pain relief I need and I will make that clear. I won't live in pain even if for a few weeks/months.

Removing an ingrown toenail. Even under anesthesia, I thought I would die.

Ureteral stent. You’ll wish you were dead. Daily. No, hourly. Ok, every single second that fucker is in there. I have had ten.

I didn’t have hemorrhoids surgery but had a polyp removed. In addition to my polyp I also had anal fissures. I released a few hours after my surgery. The pain was so terrible that when I woke up after surgery, with the entire area numb I still felt a throbbing. When the numbing agent wore off I was total tears from the pain. I was afraid to even pee let alone do a bowel movement.

For months I had to take a Vicodin to even poop. You’re constantly constipated with what feels like a rock up your rectum. Finally when you do poop your in sweat and tears from the pain.

[quote] Melania had a hemorroidectomy when she disappeared for a month.

Apparently not, because she's still stuck with him-- he's still in office.

[quote]No surgery, but I had to swallow a gastro tube for an intestinal blockage. They had to put down my nose then told me to swallow the thing...it was awful.

Usually they give you that medicine that makes you forget everything afterwards. That's what they did for my two endoscopes.

I had to do the tube-swallowing thing too, as a pre-op swallow test for a hiatal hernia surgery. One of the most traumatic experiences of my life.

I have to have my appendix removed laparoscopically on December 4th due to a polyp. Has anyone had that done? How was the recovery? How about the pain level?

Hemmorhoid surgery was most painful. Ever. But I would do it again. No more bleeding or pain

The abortion r4's mother didn't have.

[quote]I have to have my appendix removed laparoscopically on December 4th due to a polyp. Has anyone had that done? How was the recovery? How about the pain level?

As painless as an operation can be. I was shocked. I was back to normal in two days IIRC.

Any procedure that requires the bone(s) to be cut or broken.

I second knee replacement. Absolute agony.

I had 11 teeth pulled at one time. 4 wisdom teeth and seven others as my mouth was too crowded with teeth. I was 19 and had it done at UC San Francisco under local anesthesia. I was enrolled in a pain study as I had no money to pay for the surgery. It went really well and I felt nothing. Even after, unless I ate which they told me not to for the first few days. If you live in the Bay Area I would recommend any of their clinics for your medical/dental care. They are excellent.

r15, they told you wrong, I had all four extracted at once and didn't feel anything

R46 How did you replace those teeth?

R39 Super easy. It was my first surgery, and I was really nervous; but I had zero pain. They gave a script for two weeks of Percocet, but I took a Tylenol the first day home and that was it.

You all have me terrified of a hemmorhoidectomy . R40 seems to be the only one who has anything positive to say about it. Based on the extreme pain you all describe, I don’t know why I would do it. The hemmorhoids aren’t that painful - just tons of blood that makes me terrified I have cancer that is not being diagnosed.

Appendectomy was not bad at all. Hard to sit up - or any movement that involved stomach muscles - for a little while. But nothing like the extreme pain being described for hemmohoidectomy.

Kidney stone surgery with a stent in your dick for 7 days was no walk in the park. It was like pissing hot glass shards every time you had to pee.

R25 Goodluck with your procedure as that didn’t work for me. In hindsight, I should have taken the advice of the doctor and gotten the surgery over worth.

Throwing up after a laparotomy because I couldn't stand the painkillers. Each time your stomach contracts it pulls on the stitches holding your belly together. I was in tears. But the hemoroidectomy posters actually sound worse. I hope I never get hemorroids but if I do I'm no letting any surgeon close to me.

R48. I apparently had a mouth smaller than my teeth and a few that were baby teeth that never fell out. 7 total and then my wisdom. I didn't need to replace them. Not sure if you were being factitious but there's your answer.

OP, are you some kind of sadist? Are you fapping to these replies?

R50 I chose to have a hemorrhoidectomy because I was in constant pain when passing stool. It wasn't a matter of blood alone, it was the pain. I would wake up every morning and quickly take 600 mg of Ibuprofen before I hit the toilet.

I am glad I went through it, as the pain was eliminated for the most part.

I still think the hemmorhoidectomy surgery people could have had their pain meds upped or stronger ones and that would have helped, no? You must take stool softeners with them or, yes, you will be constipated as hell which will make things worse.

R57 In the post op area I was given a bolus of morphine. I was given a 4 day supply of oxcycodone (the ingredient in oxycontin) - I basically laid in my bed in a narcotic haze watching reruns of Let's Make a Deal. I initially threw up too; I had not taken an opiate in many years. Don't get me wrong, there was pain, but I got used to it. Then I started taking a prescription NSAID for a few more days. I also took stool softeners.

The surgeon knew what he was doing, as by day 5 I felt considerably better. But it was still painful and I used ibuprofen 600mg three times a day for about 4 weeks.

r58 That doesn't seem like a lot of pain help for such a painful surgery. I had 6 months of narcotics after neck surgery and only felt true pain for 2 days after but I took extra pain meds those days which promptly put me to sleep so really the pain was minimal.

Unless there are unusual circumstances, wisdom teeth are a breeze. I had mine out in 1976 - two lowers at once -and only needed one codeine #3 afterward.

ANY kind of major back surgery or joint replacements are excruciating for the first week. And I do mean excruciating.

I've had a few friends have back surgery. While uncomfortable, they had adequate supplies of pain meds and were never in excruciating pain.

I had my wisdom teeth out in 1976 and was in the hospital for two days. I was really swollen for a long time. The surgeon said he was really glad I had it done in the hospital. About four months later a huge shard of bone worked its way out. It was as sharp as a razor blade.

My brother had his out and went back to work that afternoon.

I've heard a hemorrhoidectomy is one of the most painful procedures ever.

Apparently an endometrial biopsy is horribly painful because it's done in a doctor's office and they don't give you any kind of decent painkillers for it. I know a friend who refused to have it done unless it was under general anaesthesia.

R30- Can't they do that under general anaesthesia? It seems like it would save the doctors a lot of time if they could insert the tube while the patient was asleep instead of trying to insert it while they're awake.

Propofol, R65. I love it.

My lower wisdom teeth were impacted, growing sideways instead of up. That makes a difference in the experience of getting them pulled (more painful). Also, the dentist himself or herself makes a difference. Some have way more finesse than others.

My upper wisdom teeth were growing normally, not so bad getting them pulled. (Got the lowers & uppers removed in separate operations.)

I'm having no surgeries unless I am assured I will have access to enough pain medication to keep me comfortable.

I have the feeling that whole neovagina thing is no fun. Then you have to keep dilating forever...

Open heart surgery has to be the worst. I imagine pain meds can keep you from wanting to die but the soreness and magnitude of the surgery and recovery must be hell.

The thing open heart surgery patients don't know and aren't told is that for months and sometimes years you get depressed even when you've never been depressed before. Your heart is so connected to your brain it's not surprising. I've worked on a heart floor and seen it. I've read several studies on it.

Medical treatment for burn victims must be number one.

These all sound just awful

R71 It has been documented in the scientific literature that depression in patients s/p open heart surgery is a risk factor for recurrent cardiac events. Therefore they should be monitored carefully for symptoms of depression and treated for depression quickly if it arises.

My partner is having the sleep apnea surgery (removal of tonsils, adenoids, tissues shaved down, etc). How bad is it bitches?

I can verify there are issues with the emotional side after open heart surgery. 2 month after my surgery I had constant thoughts about death. I also was constantly thinking about everything I have done in my life and what I should have and/or could have done better. I was feeling a lot of sadness and random episodes of wanting to cry.

^^^^ I always wonder why people get depressed after heart surgery. It's very common and we counsel people to expect it and give them resources to cope with it prior, at the hospital where I work. It's just curious to me that it's a heart operation that causes so much emotional upheaval.

Lots of bottoms with hemorhoids?

I have a high threshold of pain, but I was begging for morphine every few minutes after a hemorrhoidectomy and repair of fistulas and fissures. I hope never to experience that pain again. I recovered fairly quickly, and after the second day, the pain had abated, but the experience resurfaces every time a have to exert myself as a result of constipation.

Well since your asking .....

Serious question: Why do so many posters have all these problems with their assholes? What the hell are they doing with them to cause all these issues? Who knew it was such a war zone down there? I mean just read R81 post, poor guy.

Serious answer: it's you. You're a pain, r83. A pain in our big assholes!

Foot surgery.

Seriously.

Ankle surgery, bunionectomies, removal of hardware .....the feets HURT, plus they use a regional block to numb the area during surgery and when that block wears off — SUDDENLY — the pain level is extraordinary. I used to demand my foot patients in day surgery take Percocet before the block wore off because I hate the sound of screaming.

In regard to swallowing the gastro tube they put down your nose, they did give me dilaudid, but the experience of putting this tube down my nose and then telling me I had to then swallow it was awful...I felt like I was choking on it and couldn't breath. The feeling was awful. I cant explain it. You just have to have it done to know, it's one of the most frightening things they can do to you.

All this, then they had to cut me belly button down twice within three week to fix a blockage...that was no picnic, either...anytime they cut through muscle is agonizing

There must be other ways than swallowing a tube. What if you needed the same procedure but you were unconscious? You couldn't swallow anything then, so doctors would have to find another way.

R64, I've had an endometrial biopsy. They tell you to load up on Ibuprofin in advance, that helps. In my case, the doc had a patient with a medical emergency just before my appointment, so I had to wait way longer than anticipated. By the time I finally got it done, the Ibuprofin had mostly worn off. Hurt? Yeah, but if you've had really bad cramps, it's like that...but the pains goes away a lot faster afterward.

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