I just had the procedure yesterday. So I was told not to eat anything after 12 midnight. At 3:30 AM I had a cup of coffee with creamer.
I check in at 5:30 and 6am had some blood work done. 6:15 Then they took me to my bed had me put on the gown and started a IV. The Nurse asked if I had anything to eat or drink. I told her I has some coffee with creamer at 3:30 in the morning. She said didn’t you get instructions to not eat or drink. I said just phone instructions and they said just don’t eat after midnight, I did not hear anything about drinking. She said she will tell the anesthesiologist….
6:45 my doctor came and said we have 2 options. 1. Have just local anesthesia 2. Reschedule
I said I’m scared now.. She said I will get some shots in my sphincter and it will feel like a Bee Sting for about 5 seconds. Since I was there and been through all the pre stuff and hooked up to IV already… I said ok lets go local.
They wheel me in the operating room..have me slide over to the table. The table a two piece table and has a big hole where my butt goes, I try to turn on my side and she says you will be laying on your back. Then I see them affixing stirrups for my feet to go and I’m really scared now!
They try to put my feet in them and I am tense..they said relax and go to your happy place…I said I’m trying but this doesn’t help. Doctor cuts a joke “for some people this is a happy place” ha ha
My feet are in the stirrups and the only thing covered is my chest with 5 people in the room. Now I know what goes on when people are out. I feel a cool breeze on my anal region and I am really scared, what is next!
Anesthesiologist says I can’t give you anything to make you sleepy but would you like some pain medication in your IV, it may help take the edge off. I said definitely YES!
Meanwhile I feel some cleansing and poking going on..I’m thinking to myself hey careful with the scrotum area. Then It Begins…. Needle #1 not outside the anus area but right inside on one side of the sphincter…I came up off the table and the two bright spotlights were going out and coming back on, but no one was at the light switch! They said just breath your doing fine…as they pull it out and stick it back in a little deeper. So that is two pokes on one side. THREE more needles (6 pokes) in other areas. And that was the worst part I was numb in the “Area” The rest was just feeling some pressure no pain.
I went home with a prescription for percocet and I expected when the local wore off I would be in pain. I didn't take anything just so I can see what kind of pain I would be in. I went to bed not in much pain, just discomfort. I woke up and still no pain. I am now 24 hours past the procedure and no real pain yet. I am however dreading the time I need to have a bowel movement.
I just had the procedure yesterday. So I was told not to eat anything after 12 midnight. At 3:30 AM I had a cup of coffee with creamer.
I check in at 5:30 and 6am had some blood work done. 6:15 Then...
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