[RobiJo]

Originally Posted by xMenace

Interesting I was awake for most of mine, including another shot to the back of the eye socket. Mind you I was heavily sedated, so it barely bothered me.

I did see the procedure. The assistant didn't believe me, but I accurately described the vacuum cutter in action to him.

Scary! I would have never made it. Glad I was knocked out!!!!!

[belyro]

Originally Posted by RobiJo

Scary! I would have never made it. Glad I was knocked out!!!!!

Are you and XMenace perhaps both talking about that stuff they use to drug you up REALLY good so that you're not supposed to remember anything, but maybe it worked better on RobiJo than on XMenace? I had that stuff when I got my wisdom teeth out. All I remember is when they asked me to get off the table and onto the stretcher when they were done. Or, RobiJo, did they actually give you general anaesthetic?

[noonegetsme]

Im not sure what you mean by not likely. I assure you that was the case.

No bedside manner at all. I have this very strange doctor who has these weird procedures and I swear to you he has to be announced when he walks in a room. I think I have even seen some bowing going on.

Unfortunatly he is the only option I have. The second doctor was great and very good bedside manner. The Vitrectomy seems to have worked . My vision hasnt gotten better at all in either eye. I have very little vision in my right eye .

[noonegetsme]

You know what gets me? I spend all day with my sunglasses on trying to keep the light out of my eyes,they are very sensitive. And as soon as I get to the doctors office they shine the sun in my eyes.

[Mich]

I don't know if any of you read my blow-by-blow of my Avastin injection or my vitrectomies, but I have to tell you my imagination had made everything much worse than it really was.

For the Avastin injection, I couldn't possibly think of anything in the world worse, and I've had several surgeries and a couple of broken bones. WELL, my doc used some kind of numbing drops in my eye. He knew how nervous I was and thought I'd never stand for it. He kids around a lot. He said "put your head like this, look at the wall and pretend this isn't happening." Yeah, right. I did though and it was over pretty quickly and painlessly though I did feel the sensation, I breathed deeply, then held it.

For the vitrectomies, all three, they gave me a local anesthetic and also an intravenous sedative that made me REALLY NOT CARE. I was completely there, just DIDN'T CARE. I chatted with them the whole time, remembered it all afterward, including a few comments my doc made that he swore me not to repeat the next day in his office. At the end of the surgery, they gave me an antidote to the sedative and I got up off the table and sat down in the wheelchair. I left for home 20 minutes later.

My daughter the nurse knew exactly what the sedative was, so it is pretty widely known.

I guess my point is that we all can do things we thought we couldn't and modern medicine sure makes it easier.

Mich

[RobiJo]

Originally Posted by belyro

Are you and XMenace perhaps both talking about that stuff they use to drug you up REALLY good so that you're not supposed to remember anything, but maybe it worked better on RobiJo than on XMenace? I had that stuff when I got my wisdom teeth out. All I remember is when they asked me to get off the table and onto the stretcher when they were done. Or, RobiJo, did they actually give you general anaesthetic?

Yes. I had general anthesia (sp). for both eyes. I had the retina doc, an anathealogist, another doc, and a surgical nurse. I was hooked up to an IV, and wheeled away. They never even asked me to count backwards...I was out. I woke up in the recovery room with a patch on my eye. I had it done at the Kellogg Eye Center in Ann Arbor, which to my knowledge is one of the leading eye hospitals in the country. I had no idea this is not how this procedure is performed elsewhere. It was nothing like getting my wisdom teeth out, which I do remember being in the room, them in my mouth, but unable to do anthing etc.

[Georgia]

Thanks for the explanation