Hi everyone, I'm due to have surgery to address my blocked tear duct; I had an option to have it under general anaesthetic but I chickened out after reading re: risks and asked for sedation instead. Its not a huge surgery, but still - its about an hour long and involves cutting the face and making a hole in my nasal bone, putting a stent it etc.
I was told I will most likely be half asleep anyway, but I cant imagine this? How does it work? Will I feel anything? Anyone had the experience of having an operation under sedation?
I feel almost like chickening out, but it took me absolute ages to get to this point (to get a referral to Moorfields) and this is my second, and I assume the last chance, to address the issue of my tears not draining and causing my eye to itch, get filled with goo, and be wet and runny all the time (( I refused the first offer of surgery a year ago and since them my eye got so bad I now worry I will lose my eye sight.
I cant have general anaesthetic as I'm terrified of not waking up - my mum had routine surgery recently and they really struggled to bring her back, she nearly did not make it. I dont think I would ever agree to general anaesthetic unless it a question of life and death.