Fear of medical procedures

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Which medical procedures have you been afraid of and how did you get over it?

I am afraid of an unsedated Colonoscopy



It has to be unsedated because I don't have a driver

I don't have a lot of fear in medical procedures.

Because my very first thought is the simple certainty that I will survive it.
Will take it, and it will end, with a little bit of curiosity for the extra outcomes, regardless of whatever pain or discomfort that may follow.

Else, it's just a matter of how much present mental and physical stamina I currently have at the time to actually tolerate said pain and discomfort get through with it.
Else, I do not typically end up with fear related associations with the experience, only this perceived more internal work and effort to prepare for.


Well, the only fear I may get is probably the unannounced and unprepared for bills.

And possibly the only thing I'm not confident around such is whatever complexities of navigating the systems and communicating whatever with words.

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I've had two pap smears in my life and both were horrendous experiences.

I recently received a reminder in the mail to have another pap smear. However, there was information about doing the pap smear yourself, i.e., taking a swab from your cooch and giving it to your doctor. I think I'll opt for that.

Last medical procedure I had was having a lump (it wasn't cancer) removed from my hand. The anaesthetic hurt a lot and I got four stitches. There's barely a scar from it.

I had my first colonoscopy two and half years ago, and it was done under conscious sedation. So I was awake but could not feel it.

After previous experiences .....would be frightened of a larger medical procedure . These days .

I had my annual a few days ago and my doctor told me that I could have my first colonoscopy
earlier than expected, at the end of this year or the beginning of next year.

Endoscopies. Nope. Have me sign an advanced directive and knock me out. Might want to give me Prep too.

Surgeries. I woke up during one. It's super scary to be immobilized yet feel a surgery going on inside you. I couldn't screem for a few minutes.

Anything near my groin area makes me very uncomfortable.

Nope , (((Trigger Warning)) did not get over it ...and like above Also woke up during a rather serious surgery .. But the stupid anathesiologist
Apparently thought he had things under control as they drilled the last pin into my leg above the Compound fracture joint fracture . And very much able to be mobile , as the stuff had warn off . And the Surgical Assisting Doctor , told me not to pull the tube out of my throat .As I came too. Looked up to see my leg up on a little table ,set on top of the operating table . Watching a man with a drill going through my upper shin , the last of six pins for a external fixatator devise .
Although much pain . It was easy to see that they were not finished . And you do not want to move your lower limbs
While you can see a drill going through your leg strapped to this little table . The situation was mind numbing .
Instead if trying to put me back under . "Cause it was too close to the end of the surgery". Instead they tried putting injection after injection of morphine into the IV line . Parents did not have enough, guts to challenge these doctors for putting me through that. And my brain has a high pain and drug tolerance . So after blinking in and out of a consious dream . Going from extreme pain to the dream state back and forth and screaming , Each time I came to, for a moment
for a period of over 5 minutes. Third and final IV injection was enough that,I finally went out completely . And woke up in the post surgical suite . Frikken morons . So NO ,i will not even get over that one . But had been through a worse crash many years before,that was not suppose to come back from: And they told my mom , if I did I would be a wheelchair bound veggie . That was a real serious one . A 3/4 crush injury,with head trauma . Bet nobody here knew if they suspect a head injury, they will not administer pain Killers. Got me a big tolerance to pain from that one.After 1/2 my brain came back from coma, with 1/2 of me paralyzed for 3 months after the coma. No one even expressed sympathy or sorrow, was a just deal with it situation. still a paralysis in the lower arm .You can make this stuff up.
Does damage your faith in Doctors and Gawd

I had gall bladder surgery last July.

The scary part was waking up afterwards. They expected me to wake up in something like 45 minutes to an hour, but it took about four or five hours to wake up.

I've had a horror gallbladder surgery, and I'm not going back, not unless I feel like dying.

However, I'm not in the US, so my experience doesn't apply to OP.

I went to the doctor today for what I expected to be a simple visit.

I had an infected cyst a couple of weeks ago and so they put me on antibiotics for a week. I went in this morning expecting the doctor to make sure that the infection was gone and to decide whether or not he needed to remove the cyst. I fully expected that I might need to go back in a week or so from now to have it removed.

Instead, he removed it this morning! He said that I'm going to be very sore in 3 to 4 hours. That was about 2 hours ago and I can already feel it getting sore.

It was kind of nice to discuss world events with him while he removed the cyst.

Ones where they insert instruments up your ass, down your throat, or between your legs. I know these are life-saving procedures but they still cause me massive pain and no logic can make me able to have one. I just have to hope and pray that I get through life without getting cancer or other diseases in those three places (stomach, bowels or cervix).

Even being sedated scares me. I'd rather literally just go under anesthetic while they perform any of those procedures but they won't seem to do that. I'd even PAY them to give me anesthetic.