Sometimes fear gets in the way of seeing a doctor.
Readers told what medical manipulations they are most afraid of and why. It turned out that from-for of fear somebody postpones dental treatment to the last, and to someone You have to overcome yourself to do a gastroscopy.
This article has collected seven more interventions that may require mental preparation.
These are comments from Community readers. Collected in one material, carefully edited and formatted according to editorial standards
Fear #1
Colonoscopy
Did a colonoscopy. Before the procedure, I read reviews, made sure that there was nothing wrong with it, and went to the clinic, as they say, without a second thought.
In general, I am calm about medical procedures: I rest at the dentist, I endure gastroscopy. But here was stupidly wild pain. A few years earlier, he had encountered kidney stones and experienced renal colic. Here at the colonoscopy the same terrible colic was felt in the whole abdomen. The pain was such that it darkened in the eyes.
At that time, my condition was rather bad, and the doctors could not interrupt the examination in order to do it another time under sedation. So they kept me and continued.
Before the colonoscopy, the clinic reassured me: they said that the doctor had golden hands. But it hurt like hell when the colonoscope fell into the folds of the intestine: it felt like a knife was being inserted into the stomach. And from inflating with air there was a terrible stabbing pain.
She got up from the table in an insane state. At the reception, they were then surprised why I suffered so much.
Fear #2
Narcosis
Medical procedures were always tolerated relatively easily. Hell happened to me only once – during the operation to remove the appendix.
With anesthesia something went wrong. I woke up in the middle of the operation, began to choke and realized that I could not move or even open my eyes. My lungs were on fire, I thought I would suffocate. Gathering the last of her strength, she began to move her fingers, grabbed someone for a bathrobe and did not let go. The doctors realized that I was conscious. They removed the tube from my throat, and I was able to breathe normally.
The surgeon put stitches on the organs, it was tolerable. But when I started stitching the skin, I felt terrible. We agreed with the doctor how we would sew up, because I breathe and my stomach moves. She suggested that I would hold my breath, and at that time he would sew.
The intern almost vomited during the operation. He begged to come out, but they did not let him go. The surgeon was a pro, sewed up quickly and efficiently. And I was not at a loss in a stressful situation, although it was painful and scary.
The anesthesiologist stood by all this time and smiled innocently, what was happening did not soar her at all. When the surgeon began to scold her, she skillfully shifted the blame to the nurse. Allegedly, she injected the wrong dose of the drug. The nurse was indignant that she entered as much as she was told. The anesthesiologist answered her very rudely and continued to clap her eyes with the look of “what happened?”.
Now wildly I am afraid of an anesthesia. To suffocate and die during a routine surgical operation is just awful.
Fear #3
Nail removal
At kindergarten somehow pulled out a burr. Dirt got into the wound, and the finger festered. We went to a pediatric surgeon – so he tore out my nail for profit, without anesthesia. As I yelled, the whole clinic heard.
Fear #4
Sounding of the stomach
In the early 2000s, I, then a child, was given a sadistic procedure called gastric probing. It looked like this: without anesthetics, on your own, with a little help from a doctor, you swallow a soft rubber tube and sit with it for about three hours. Doctors at this time take samples of gastric juice, pour some solution, take samples again. And you continue to sit with a sore throat, crying and occasionally vomiting.
The most persistent reached the end of the procedure, many stopped the torture earlier from-for vomiting. Against this background, gastroscopy looked like a trifling procedure: just five minutes of shame – and home.
Fear #5
Gastric lavage
My scary story is about preparing for the removal of the appendix. One day I felt strange. My stomach almost did not hurt, but I asked the therapist to send me to the surgeon. He determined some an atypical case of appendicitis and scheduled emergency surgery.
The case took place in a state hospital in Yekaterinburg. An elderly nurse from the world of nightmares came to me. She began to lavage her stomach, roughly stuffing a plastic tube through her mouth. While yelling in my ear. And so many times for about half an hour.
Later, when the torture was already over, the doctor said that it was possible not to rinse.
Now every time I panic when I feel sick, I’m afraid, sorry, vomiting. Dentists, gynecologists, ENTs, ophthalmologists, nephrologists and urologists, uzists, fortunately, have always come across empathic and professionally trained. Even gastroscopy with a light sleep went well – not to be compared with an aunt with tubes from the underworld.
Fear #6
Breast puncture
Did a puncture of the mammary gland – a very unpleasant thing. It’s like a dozen wasps are biting you, but you can’t move to drive them away.
But I can’t say that I don’t recommend it. It’s better to do it than to be afraid that you have cancer.
Fear #7
Installation of a dental implant with bone grafting
I need to put a dental implant, but I’m even scared to think about it. In my case, it is necessary to build up bone tissue, since the tooth has been gone for a long time and there is simply nowhere to fix the implant. This extension seems to be a true hell. But I’m not so much afraid of the operation itself – it is performed under anesthesia – but of what will happen after it. mom in same the situation was difficult to endure the postoperative period.
Fears come, of course, from childhood. Now I am watching my seven-year-old daughter – we have been treating her teeth since she was three and a half years old. She tolerates every visit to the dentist normally: she is not afraid, she even gets high. This is what the right approach of a doctor and modern technology means.
2023-04-24 14:00:32
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