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Sorry I am posting this so late but I just came over and saw your post. I had answered a post on the VIP side last week which involves your question...
Here is the post:
I had to have a hysterectomy when I was 30 (16 years ago) and I was taking a lot of Valium at the time for anxiety. I told the surgeon this and spoke to the anesthesiologist to discuss how they were going to put me under while I had this much Valium in my system. (I had already booked me into rehab 12 days following the surgery....) I was taking 7 10 ml a day, (way more than was prescribed), for a few years already so the docs told me they would do a spinal and I would be semi awake for the surgery... He told me I would be able to talk to him if I wanted to... For some reason this did not frighten me and since they were taking things out vaginally I thought ok... well I remember waking up during the surgery and it seemed like I was having a baby... I heard the doc say here it is and he laughed and so on...I tried to say something ... tried and tried but I was unable to move and unable to talk. I did not feel any pain but I knew something was terribly wrong.
The next thing I knew I was in my hospital room with the most extreme pain in my back and I remember the nurses coming in and staring at my stomach for long periods of time... I found out later they were coming in to watch me breath. I had stopped breathing on the operating table and they were given orders to give me NO pain meds for the next 18 hours...I was furious and scared and in pain... they did give me Tylenol which did nothing. A few hours later as the pain crept up my back towards my head, I remembered I had the script for Valium. I asked the nurses to ask the doc if I could at least have that... He said ok... The pain was from my spinal and never did I notice any pain from the hysterectomy. When my surgeon arrived later I asked him what the heck happened and he said he did not know but confirmed I stopped breathing. He thinks the anesthesiologist doc made a mistake and put morphine in my spinal. He told me he had never ordered anything that would have put me all the way under like that. When I talked with the Aneths... He said no he did not put it in but my doctor sticks to what he believes to this day..
If all of this happened today you can bet I would have every medical record, pathology report, etc. ..but back then I was so "do what you are told and don't make waves" type of person. I never questioned it again... and that killer pain lasted a week in my head. The only relief was when I put my head down on the floor and that was with strong pain meds too. Never will I go through that again. I know ... weird huh...
So find out just what all they will be putting in the spinal...
Kipskid
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