Surgery

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What kind of surgery have you gotten?

How much did it cost?

How successful?

Appendix removed, successfully, though the recovery was surprisingly slow and painful.

Broken leg reset, successful.

Repair to hand tendons after accident with machinery. Mostly successful, though my fingers are still slightly stiff.

None of that cost me anything. National Health Service, UK. Of course I paid compulsory National Insurance contributions while I was working, but if I'd had no job and not paid, they'd still have done the ops.

Three eye surgeries when I was a kid and they made my eyes worse.
I had my appendix out when I was 22, then had peritoneal infection a week later.
When I was 26 I had jaw surgery to correct an overbite. That was successful, I have no complaints.

I'm to have another eye surgery in October to straighten my wandering left eye. I hope with all my being that it's successful.

i had some moles on my skin and i had ingrown toenails which i actually kept hidden until was asked to take off my shoes and socks. the sock was glued to my nail and if i wasn't asked to take my shoes off many socks would have been lost so getting rid of the pain when walking with my shoes was a relief

Unless I'm forgetting something, the only ones that I've had so far are wisdom teeth removal (they were impacted), minor stuff related to childbirth, and a surgical procedure for female issues.

Everything was covered by insurance, and it was all successful. Well, the minor stuff related to childbirth required another small procedure because it didn't heal right, but it wasn't a big deal overall. My biggest issue with surgeries so far is nausea from the anesthesia.

If you're to have another surgery, TwilightPrincess, it's an idea to tell the anaesthetist that general anaesthesia makes you feel sick. That way, they'll give you an anti-emetic.

I have the same issue and made sure when I had jaw surgery that I received an anti-emetic because throwing up with my jaw wired shut would NOT have been pleasant.

Apart from the usual broken bones I've had 53 platinum coils inserted to plug a brain haemorrhage, then a few years later a nickel-titanium stent next to them.
They had to remove my guts temporarily while they replaced all my major arteries south of my heart down to my thighs with Dacron tubing.
In a few weeks they're talking to me about doing my popiteals too, so that will be plastic arteries down to my shins.

All of this was due to a congenital connective tissue disorder that makes fragile collagen.
*Waves to my fellow marfanoids in here... I know there are several*

Thanks Australian Medicare for all the freebies.

Yeah, I told them the last time or two and was given an anti-emetic, but it didn’t help. I think they gave me multiple ones/doses the last time around. My stomach is a bit sensitive. I often get motion sickness on car rides and had morning sickness my entire pregnancy.

In 2021, I had an inguinal hernia repair. I learned the hard way that women can get inguinal hernias, too! Never hold your breath while lifting something very heavy! I opted for an old-school repair: open surgery, no mesh, just stitches.

It cost $5,000, and so far, so good. I'm really happy with how it went, although it was incredibly painful. The first three days were the worst.

When I was 3 years old I had to have a skin graft for third degree burns ( I fell into a campfire and burned my right hand and arm). I don't know what the cost was. Everything went ok. It was very traumatizing. It happens to be my first memory... falling into the fire.

I've had so many I've lost count.
Seriously about 15+.
Some were very complex.

They didn't cost anything.

Success?
It's all relative.

Had a hernia repair a few years ago. Cost around $2000 total. Wasn't too painful and I guess it was a success as I haven't had another hernia since. This was the mesh type repair with the 3 holes and lots of CO2 blown into your abdomen to life up the skin and muscle. Wow do you feel bloated for a couple of days afterwards.

Need to get some sinus surgery at some point in the near future. Been putting that off for a couple of years.

So I've had the surgery on my left eye. It looks to be successful though my cornea is very red almost a week later. The surgeon was very kind when I saw him again on Monday. He said he couldn't adjust the muscle on the outside of my eye due to it being so far back on my eye, so he adjusted the inner muscle and that was all he could do.

I paid $250 when I had my first appointment, the rest has been free. Along with Carbonhalo, I thank Australian Medicare.