To look forward to surgery under GA?

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Am awaiting Doctor's appointment but am pretty convinced after extensive research (Dr Google) that this will lead to a referral and the need for surgery.
The surgeon will probably be the one that did an original op on the site. He's lovely, such a nice guy so I'm looking forward to seeing him again. I also understand that it will probably involve an overnight stay in hospital, so a decent night's kip away from the children and the chance to read m book, watch some telly and do some knitting in peace. And now cooking to do for bastard ingrates.
So AIBU, or even just plain weird to be quite excite at the prospect?

It's gone a bit Valley of the Dolls around here hasn't it.

Yeah, they slept for a few weeks though, didn't they?

YANBU. I had an emergency major op last year. Agonising pain, pregnant so rubbish painkillers, catheters, indignity, infections, etc. I'd do it all again for the week in bed, though.

So the consensus appears to be IANBU . I'll let you all know what the doc says. I so hope it is the lovely consultant, I offered to marry him last timed if ever I were widowed. Every cloud etc.

I've been under 3 times, each time I came round throwing my guts up and pissing myself, but I get you, it's the really peaceful sleep you get afterwards.

Mmm I remember my GA... best of all the few following days I would get so sleepy and just sleep the deepest most lovely sleep. It was like being a baby, after a few hours I'd be ready for another sleep.
I'm at the point - with a 7mo baby that wakes every 1-2 hours - that I don't even enjoy sleep anymore because I drift off knowing I'll be woken up again so soon. I dream of a GA.

I often daydream about needing a hospital stay just so I can have a break from home.

I'm currently pregndnt with DC2 and suffering with hyperemesis to the point I was nearly admitted to hospital on Thursday night and amongst the vomiting I was secretly hoping I would be

datingbarb I always used to think that, but when it happened I felt far too ill to appreciate it!

Hmm. I had a nasty experience with a GA a couple of years ago so not 100% sure about that, but I do understand the appeal of an overnight in hospital for the peace and quiet and basically being obliged to do sweet fa for a couple of days.

I had an ovary removed 18 months ago. Was assured it would be a minimum 1 night stay. They were asking me if I felt well enough to leave whilst I was still in post op recovery room and I was packed off home 3 hours later!

I used to dream of a nice routine hospital stay and surgery when the kids were younger. Something with a dihydrocodeine prescription on discharge preferably. I was angling for getting in for a sterilisation but DH won that argument through basically being so horrified at the thought of having to look after our twins solo for a week that he went and got the snip done privately before I could get an NHS referral for getting my tubes tied.

Haven't RTFT but the other great thing is when someone wakes in the night, needs a drink or wets the bed, you don't have to deal with it

Enjoy the GA, the rest, the peace and hopefully the oral morph 😂

Sad memories of the night I woke around 1am in agonising pain and thought I was having a heart attack. DH called 999 and a lovely kind paramedic appeared almost immediately. He reassured me I wasn't dying but as gas and air wasn't touching the pain and I told him it was worse than labour, he summoned two wonderful paramedics with an ambulance to take me to hospital. They gave me oramorph (someone did at some point anyway) and we popped off to A&E. I threw up and fell asleep almost immediately while waiting to see the doctor and woke up an hour later to find the pain had gone. I was discharged around 5am, went home on the bus in my pyjamas, and DH went to work a few hours later, leaving me with the kids for the day. Never have I dreamt more of a nice hospital admission for a day.

YABU and weird! I had GA in June to have my gallbladder out. Grogginess and nausea, pain and discomfort from the surgery even though it was keyhole and routine. Slept worse than usual for a few days because of not being able to get comfortable. And hospitals are horrible places.

I wasn't in this position recently. Knew I needed surgery and was really looking forward to the GA and an overnight stay in hospital. I'm a career so was looking forward to someone having to care for me for a change. Anyway, the GA was pretty disappointing. In the past, I've always had that lovely fuzzy feeling of sinking into a deep sleep but this time, the instant the needle went in I was asleep! I missed out on that fuzzy feeling :( Having said that, the tamazepam they gave me pre-op was fab, first time I'd had it.

I ended up staying in for three nights and as others have said, it was far from quiet and the constant obs do disturb you but it was lovely having other people to wait on me hand and foot for those three days, to not have to sort out dinner, cook it, clear up, look after someone else etc and to be able to laze around in pjs all day reading books or watching films was bliss. Our hospital is amazing, free wifi and television and food is very good and staff are amazing. Obviously I was concerned about my husband but he was fine and being looked after by others.

It's better than a health farm!

Obviously that should read I WAS in this position recently!

I've only had GA once but it was lovely.

My son had a small op last year and then had to have another 6 months later. He'd enjoyed the experience so much the first time - he was really excited about the second!

I had to have a GA for egg collection for IVF. Drifting, drifting, starting to count, AAAGH this is what happens with death by lethal injection, you're trying to kill me, help help HEEELLLPP...
Apparently.

Lol, OP!

Yanbu!

I had GA in November. I came around from the op 45 minutes after the needle went in. First words I uttered? "Is that it?! I wanted to sleep for longer!" And then I laid there with my eyes closed and a big smile on my face (oral surgery too so not easy to smile!)
I had dihydracodeine given to me on discharge and a week off work. Child at nursery. It was bliss. Apart from the horrific pain, of course!

Oh and husband slept in the spare room. I had my bed to myself. Happy days.

Quite enjoyed having flu too. Bed to myself, food and drink brought up to me. Slept on and off all day. Lovely.

I am so jealous of all you lot who've had lovely, fuzzy GAs.

I've had 6 GAs and after each one of them I've spent two days being horrendously sick. I've told the anaesthetist every time about my previous problems and they've all said they'll give me something to stop me vomiting and it's never worked. I hate the feeling of going under as well - it feels like I'm being swallowed. Bloody horrible things, I absolutely dread the thought of needing more surgery under GA. I'm also sick on codeine and gas & air.

However, I've also had two surgeries with local anaesthetic and midazolam. Now that stuff is THE SHIT!

Rest in hospital, you must be joking! Last set of obs after handover at 11pm, woken up for first set of morning obs at 5am, boiling hot ward, ancient uncomfortable mattress, searing pain from the procedure that the shitty drugs don't touch, people yelling and calling and buzzing for the nursed all night long, I was bloody exhausted by the morning after my last stay!

OK, I only want to hear positive stories please stop with horror stories you're ruining my fantasies.

Sorry!!! Your time will be different! I was pregnant hence shit painkillers and had a badly broken leg which is probably more painful than your surgery (I hope for you) and I didn't get a GA, just a boring old spinal block. You will sleep wonderfully :)

Last GA I had, back in Novemberish, I was grey, exhausted, dehydrated and wrinkled

I joked that I'd feel 100% better after a proper sleep

When I came round I felt like a new woman!! I'd had steroids and a lovely deep relaxing sleep so I GET YOU op
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Ta! The only other time I've had a GA (for original procedure) it was lovely. Day surgery in a little cottage hospital by the sea and a lovely woozy nap for a few hours afterwards. Spinal blocks are fucking awful, my BP always dips and I throw up and once they couldn't site the needle and had to get someone more senior along to do the job. Not a relaxing experience.