Have you had surgery?

[Integral]

Retinal detachment surgery last October.

 

[classical_hero]

I had my two of my teeth removed when I was a child but I wasn't even put under I just had a local anasthetic. Does that really count as surgery? A tad dramatic isn't it? I went in lied on a chair for 30 minutes and then I went home with a numbed lower face. You Americans and your OTTness.../much finger wagging.

So it is true that the British have bad teeth.

 

[PlutonianEmpire]

Retinal detachment surgery last October.

How did the retinal detachment happen?

I vaguely recall that physical over-exertion can sometimes cause it.

 

[Tahuti]

So it is true that the British have bad teeth.

You see? Free market solves everything! Even bad teeth!

Especially bad teeth!

 

[Incodcito]

I had a septoplasty in 2009.

 

[Zelig]

Retinal detachment surgery last October.

Why would you want to surgically detach your retinas?

 

[Narz]

Was there any therapy for the first one?

What kind of therapy?

I had an overbite & for almost a year wore this horrorshow of a device called a bionator, so ugly & awkward that it makes retainers look sexy but it didn't help. My orthodontist recommend I get jaw surgery & I was just a teenager so I was like, whatev. I thought it might improve my looks too & I guess it did (strong jawline & all that) but I would never have chosen it had I the choice now.

"While they were in there" they took out my wisdom teeth & put a post in my gums to hold a false tooth. My face was all swollen up like a 300 pound man (on a skinny 140 pound kid's body), I reminded my self of the dancing Kool-Aid jug. My jaw was snitched up & I couldn't eat for about four or five weeks, IIRC (had I to suffer this fate now I'd drink all sorts of smoothies & whatnot but at the time I mostly had ice-cream milkshakes with weigh-gainer powder and soup).

I don't remember much beforehand. Just getting put up & waking up feeling pretty pissed off. Also before surgery they were like "remove all your clothes before the operation" and I was "whatev, I'm keeping my boxers on" and they when I woke up they were off. Damn pervert surgeons! (it was probably the nurses actually )

 

[classical_hero]

Well it corrects the problem of Retinal Detachment.

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

I had an overbite & for almost a year wore this horrorshow of a device called a bionator, so ugly & awkward that it makes retainers look sexy but it didn't help. My orthodontist recommend I get jaw surgery & I was just a teenager so I was like, whatev. I thought it might improve my looks too & I guess it did (strong jawline & all that) but I would never have chosen it had I the choice now.

"While they were in there" they took out my wisdom teeth & put a post in my gums to hold a false tooth. My face was all swollen up like a 300 pound man (on a skinny 140 pound kid's body), I reminded my self of the dancing Kool-Aid jug. My jaw was snitched up & I couldn't eat for about four or five weeks, IIRC (had I to suffer this fate now I'd drink all sorts of smoothies & whatnot but at the time I mostly had ice-cream milkshakes with weigh-gainer powder and soup).

Alright, that answers my question, thanks.

I don't remember much beforehand. Just getting put up & waking up feeling pretty pissed off. Also before surgery they were like "remove all your clothes before the operation" and I was "whatev, I'm keeping my boxers on" and they when I woke up they were off. Damn pervert surgeons! (it was probably the nurses actually )

Hey, they're just doing their job. Gotta keep everything sterile.

 

[Loppan Torkel]

I had my two of my teeth removed when I was a child but I wasn't even put under I just had a local anasthetic. Does that really count as surgery? A tad dramatic isn't it? I went in lied on a chair for 30 minutes and then I went home with a numbed lower face. You Americans and your OTTness.../much finger wagging.

Removing wisdom teeth surgically is pretty different from pulling out children's teeth that are on their way out anyway.

 

[Mbest95]

I had a hernia operation when I was about 7 and a quadruple bypass done in 2007. I am doing ok.

 

[bathsheba666]

Removing teeth when I was 5, filling cavities when I was 7, removing a molar when I was 12, testicular surgery when I was 17.

This have anything to do with your avatar ?

Tonsillectomy at age 10 or so.

Fine until they gave me ice cream to cheer me up and cool me down after the op.
Then I gave my best Linda Blair impression.

 

[Quintillus]

I have not ever had surgery. However, I go by Zelig's definition of whether tooth removal is surgery. When I was 14, a dentist removed two of my teeth with pliers just like they did in the Middle Ages, except with local anaesthetic, but that certainly wasn't surgery. A bit closer was when the same dentist rebuild chipped portions of two of my teeth four years later, but I didn't consider that surgery, either - just a long dental procedure. I also got stitches when I was one, but I don't think that counts, either. I don't remember the details, though.

I'll probably have to have my wisdom teeth removed at some point, but I hope it is simple enough that it can't count as surgery.

 

[Pacioli]

On Tuesday I am going into for surgery to have a Tube put in my stomach for a [wiki]Peritoneal_dialysis[/wiki]

Good luck tomorrow and best wishes for a speedy recovery!!!

 

[Synobun]

This have anything to do with your avatar ?

Nah. Cavities were from pieces being chipped off since they were baby teeth, pulling out the tooth at age five was due to the tooth being rotten, and the molar getting removed was because I had two teeth growing in the same spot, and had to get one removed or else I'd lose both.

edit: also I'm allergic to cherries

 

[Josu]

Ive had over 8 surgeries on my eyes, and 4 on my ears. The eye ones where to try and straighten out my eyes, as the muscles were severely weak, which made me severely cross eyed, but they worked pretty well. My ears were also defective, although I don't know much about those surgeries... they were all done between me being 10 months old and 4 years old.

I had same problem in my left eye, but got surgery being adult. Now is much better but still a bit lazy.

Two years ago I avoided another surgery on my knee.
I have a cyst in meniscus and the doctor told me that it had two options: Surgery or rehabilitation in order to strengthen the muscles in my leg, it worked.