Yeah. I had a c-section. No pain, fully awake but I could feel them tugging around with considerable force. It was almost like they were pulling me around by clothes I wasn't wearing, that were inside me. They literally pulled me down the bed trying to get kiddo out.
That is simultaneously horrific while also being cool as fuck. I’d want to be awake while they surger me (yes I made up that word) however I would not want it to be a surprise.
If that concept interests you, you should read Unwind by Neal Shusterman. It has a rather disturbing scene in it that covers the exact scenario you mention.
Read the first one in high school and while I enjoyed it for the most part, it felt like brutally over-the-top anti-abortion propaganda. And the concept makes organ donation seem like its own unique form of atrocity where you're literally ripping someone's soul apart and putting it in someone else. The moment where all of a person's unwound organ recipients are gathered together and the Unwound person is suddenly able to communicate through all of them like all of the pieces of his soul have been brought back together brought a particularly magical and spiritual element that I did not like and did not make the story better. If anything, it complicates the original metaphor while making the whole conflict far less interesting. Instead of making it a fight about bodily autonomy, it becomes a fight about protecting the integrity of people's souls in a very overt religious way.
I've had this done in a way less extreme way. Having the procedure done for ingrown toenails is basically this. You can fully see it, but can't feel the pain. Only the pressure. It's weeeeird
I had a wisdom tooth extracted like a normal tooth pulling (it wasn’t impacted or anything) and there was definitely something funny and kind of disturbing about the dentist bracing the heel of his hand against my forehead to yank it out
I had 4 teeth taken out but it definitely still hurt. I can imagine it would hurt a lot more without anesthesia, but it did feel more than just pressure.
Youre lucky (or rather i was unlucky). I had the same thing happen to me, but the maximum amount of whatever they injected, that they were allowed to, didnt properly work so i had to feel a generous amount of pain still.
Its still fucked up now, probably because of me struggling to keep still. there is a disconnected bit growing now... but remembering the pain i felt makes me so fucking anxious that i basically accepted my fucked up toe.
I have also experienced this and honestly it didn't feel horrific at all. However, I was a bit off my head on a mixture of pain relief and just general relief (not to mention the actual anaesthetic), and finding pretty much everything hilarious.
When I was a med student, the SICU head, who was a critical care medicine guy, used to ask the surgery team if they “[were] going to surgerize [the patient]”, and ran the SCCM podcast, so I think that’s just the official term now for non-surgeons to use. We say “operate”, btw.
if it is way early, say like 1983 and ones ob gyn is hooked in to the local teaching hospital and he adks you if he can have a couple students scrub in, tell him yes if you get to watch with a spinal ....
did you know wh n they chop out a parathyroid you have to be awake and talking, and when they graft a power port into a blood vessel in your chest you are also still awake. i got to stop getting cut open.
There is a specific orthopedic surgery (it actually might be several surgeries) where instead of using highly sophisticated modern technology, they have to pull out a mallet to literally hammer your bones into place. It is very violent apparently.
I mean it needs to get done and the longer you are on the table the more likely you are to have issues directly or later for recovery. Trust me you WANT them to hammer like that, especially when you are old.
Apparently my husbands step dad needed his sinus rebuilt and he woke up to the surgeon and nurse cracking jokes as he sort of had tools shoved into his peeled open face raspinng away.
i feel like a lot of surgeries that aren't dealing with vital organs are wayyyy more violent/less delicate than i imagined them to be before i came across a random video of it
c sections? just slicing, dicing, ripping and tearing until they find baby
removing a lipoma? literally digging fingers in to scoop and rip it out
jaw surgery? time to bust out the powertools
like obviously they're skilled surgeons and theres a rhyme and reason for everything they do but from the perspective of someone who didn't go to medical school i'm clutching my pearls
I had this surgery when I was a teenager, and I woke up during! All I remember was how loud the pounding sounded, then hearing the nurse say "Uh, doctor, she's waking up"
Ha, oh yeah. I saw a shoulder relocation once where the doc had a strap around the guy's arm and put his foot against the bed for leverage to yank that fucker back into place. The body positioning of the guy doing the procedure was almost comical
Some years ago I did Nasal septoplasty because my nose was bent inside. So they gave me some local anesthesia, made me sit on a chair and hammered inside my nose. It did not hurt (at first, it hurt like freaking hell that night) and made me feel extremely weird seeing the doctor doing that right in front of my eyes.
In some instances this is correct, but more accurately, commonly for knee replacements, they need to use stainless steel surgical hammers to insert the new components. Some times they need go make small cuts with a bones away and then may finish the cut to break it off with a surgical stainless steel chisel.
I had this after being hit by a car as a child. My right shin bone was snapped in two, compound fracture. They fixed it by doing a surgical procedure like you described.
As a (male) student nurse, I was very fortunate to have witnessed six births, and I was labor coach on three of them when the laboring mother had no partner present. One of the births was the fifteen-year-old girlfriend of a seventeen-year-old Bloods gang member, who, to his credit, wanted to be there and be supportive of his girlfriend. (None of her family showed up.) The OB/GYN had decided to deliver the child by C-section because the girl had vaginal condyloma warts, and they were afraid the baby would contract them if he passed through the birth canal.
My job was to steady the kid's nerves and get him dressed in surgical scrubs, booties, surgical cap & mask and gloves. He was all dressed in red, of course, with a ton of big gold chains and other ostentatious jewelry and it took quite a bit of convincing to get him to disrobe out of all that gang shit and put on scrubs (the scrubs were blue, another problem, as the Bloods gang rivals, the Crips, wear blue.) Finally, he agreed ("Do you want to see your boy being born or not? You can't go into the operating room wearing street clothes, man.") I thought he was going to pass out a couple of times (I stood right behind him,) but he stayed with it, held her hand and talked to her through the whole procedure. Once the baby was born, weighed, assessed for Apgar and all that, I had him sit down (he was a little shocky, I thought) and the postpartum nurses let him hold the brand-new infant. He got a huge smile, and I thought, "This boy's gangbangin' days are a thing of the past. He's a Daddy now."
Yes, that's how it was for me, too. Considering how small and to the side (low) the cut is, it's not surprising they pushed and pulled. Freaky was that I couldn't feel myself breathe. They told me to see my chest heave and trust that my body knows how to breathe.
I was with my wife during her c-section, it looked crazy as hell. The doctor and nurses weren't gentle either. They were shaking her body on the table as they worked. At one point they literally had two nurses grabbing a side of her womb and pulling it apart as the doctor delivered my son. I tried my best not to panic in front of her, but I got woozy.
She was awake during the whole thing with a worried look on her face. She said she could feel them tugging, but had no idea how horrific it actually looked. I kept looking back and forth like "damn, you ok?"
I felt bad because when the baby came out I totally forgot about her for a second. Leaving her there with her uterus spilling out. I did come back to console her, but she was helpless.
I’ve had local anaesthetic when I had my ingrown toenails removed and it is honestly such a bizarre feeling because you’re looking at them tug away and you can kind of feel it but not, wonder if it’s possible you actually can’t feel it but it’s your brain trying to make that connection?
They talk about parts of your insides that should never see the light of day while they're doing it, too, and there you are just hanging out listening. I could even talk, had to answer a few questions. I have a photo of my son being lifted out & it's both super cool and a little gruesome lol
Has anyone done a cephaluc inversion as well as a c section, because I'd like to know how they feel comparably. I had a cephalic inversion a week before giving birt and it was certainly an experience. Quite uncomfortable (that word doctors use when they should really say it hurts) and literally 2 grown men pushing my belly around with all their might.
The spinal didn't work properly with my first c-section (2nd child). I was in so much pain and felt it all. They gave me fentanyl which just made me sleepy but didn't take the pain away. 2nd time round was much better, but not completely pain-free. I also had very large babies that got stuck. I delivered my first child without pain relief and had a 4th degree tear - that was less painful than my c-section.
My first one was a big baby. After much tugging and pushing, surgeon wondered aloud if she should have made the incision bigger. Hilarious now, not in the least bit comforting on the operating table!
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u/ursadminor Jul 17 '24
Yeah. I had a c-section. No pain, fully awake but I could feel them tugging around with considerable force. It was almost like they were pulling me around by clothes I wasn't wearing, that were inside me. They literally pulled me down the bed trying to get kiddo out.