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Originally Posted by DejaVu  Hi Everyone, I was just wondering if this has happened to anyone else? Friday I underwent what was suppose to be a minor surgery to remove a pin in my foot, well I ended up waking up during surgery and was very much in pain! I even was able to lift my head enough to see them working on my foot. It took me crying out "ouch" in order for them to give more meds. At first they didnt even say anything to me even though I was moving around, then after letting them know I could feel the doctor chiseling bone away, the anes. dr said "im going to give you more meds now okay?" (i found out after he could not remove the pin, so he chipped some bone away so it would not rub against another bone).
Just wondering if anyone else woke during a surgery and if they were able to feel pain? |
Your anesthesiologists was not watching you. That is the reason you work up. When you have surgery, that is who is in charge of the room and you. The surgeon follows his lead. So you need to ask him why you woke up during your pin removal. Why would you expect the nurse or anyone else in the room to tell you that you started to wake up. Yes it happens but you care comparing all different people, procedures, medical condition, history and concluding this happens all the time. It does not and I have seen thousands of surgeries.
I had MAJOR surgery and you cannot compare having a pin removal to a hysterectomy or open gallbladder or even an etopic pregnancy. Those are all surgeries that you are put into a different type of sleep.
You have every right to be upset, but you need not be upset with me. I am stating what I have seen in the many years I have been working the an OR.