Pre-Op Anxiety

[aimee123]

So I am experiencing a lot of anxiety for a few reasons; One I fell and hit my head last night while longboarding and have felt n* since and that was at like 9:45 last night. So now I am up at 5:20 n*. I also had a pre-op for a laporoscopy next Tuesday I am not going to go into detail but it has to do with my female parts. One side affect after is pretty severe pelvic pain, most likely n* and possible v*. She said she has not heard of someone ving* but it could happen so now of course I am nervous for that!!!! I dont know how I am going to react next Tuesday and am so scared that if I v* I might not only have a panic attack that I cannot control and that it will also be traumatic seeing as how I would already be in so much pain as it is.....eeek never been this nervous for a surgery, but then again the last one I had was when I was six!!!!

[misslucy1590]

This isn't the case for all circumstances, but sometimes medical professionals have to say what the possible side affects of something are for legal reasons even if they are very highly unlikely. I wonder if breathing exercises and pain relief could help alleviate your n*?

[staystrongxx]

Yes, what misslucy said. When I was younger, I had to have a cat scan and as my parents & I were reading/signing the papers, I looked at the side effects, and one was v*. I immediately freaked out, but my Mom told me they have to list basically ALL possibly side effects. I wouldn't worry about v*ing. Try to keep yourself calm hun and good luck on your procedure.

[emet-ana]

Hi Aimee,

Sorry you're feeling anxious and sickly!

When I had surgery a few years ago I asked the anaesthetist to give me as much and as many types of anti-emetic as possible! Afterwards I didn't feel at all nauseated so perhaps ask to be drugged up to the eyeballs with anti-emetics!

[jparsons93]

Hello! I have had that surgery twice and it never made me sick. Let them know about your phobia and see if they can give you some additional anti emetics.

[chixy]

Don't forget that they can give you anti emetics at the hospital. And like previous posters have said, if one person gets a side effect from it, they have to list it, of legal reasons. Somebody told me that They can get sued if they don't put it there so that's why they do it, even if one person out of like 10,000 had the side effect.