• bigfish@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    8 hours ago

    Me during a vasectomy:

    Doc: “We can talk while I’m working if it makes you more comfortable”

    Me: 📱"Nope"

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      7 hours ago

      Anesthesiologist probably took this one.

      This is kinda like the setup when my wife had her Cesarian. Curtain up over the waist, wide awake, anesthesiologist right behind.

      She explained that it felt like rummaging around inside a purse, except she was the purse.

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    Probably murican and the fully sedated option wasn’t covered on their insurance.

    “Are you sure you don’t want to be under?”

    “If it isn’t covered, no. Figure it out.”

    “But the operation is 6 hours–”

    “So like a regular day after work? I’ll just scroll.”

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      If it’s a c-section they don’t sedate the mother if at all possible, because it can sedate the baby too. It takes them a lot longer to recover from, and increases risk a fair bit.

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      Sometimes full sedation is too risky, or at least not worth it for factors other than cost

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        True, there’s always a risk that you don’t wake up from full sedation. For most surgery you’ll also be out of the hospital quicker if you take the epidural.

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          if you take the epidural

          Doesn’t that have like a pretty damn high chance of long term back pain? Because that’s what I’ve heard from my ex (who’s had it twice and claims it messed up her back, but also she just likes not working so she uses anything she can to get sick leave twice or thrice a month) as well as someone who was at the time studying to be a midwife (so a significantly more credible source).

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          Hi, American here who can’t be fully sedated because it’d kill me. It took my doctor a hot minute to find a surgeon who could do what I needed under local anesthesia, because almost everyone did full sedation for that procedure.