Ptosis Operation

[barry1010]

If you've had the muscle in your eyelid shortened to help with drooping lids please share your experience.
I am having the first one done on Thursday and I'm getting queasy about it. It will be done under local anaesthetic so I will be home the same day.
It's the thought of seeing and hearing what they are doing that is turning me in to a quivering wreck.
Help and advice, please

[Old_Geezer]

Not had it done, but these ops tend to be far less a trial than you imagine. Try whatever relaxes you. Meditate perhaps. Get a mantra you can think about during the process maybe. Imagine being somewhere you feel great. Whatever chills you out.

[Old_Geezer]

Ah, just seen I'm too late. How did it go ?

[THECORBYLOON]

The operation is this Thursday, it hasn't happened yet.

[Aircooledfool]

Every day is a school day, I now know what ptosis is.
Not on the nhs I would guess, so that’s a good start
Good luck on Thursday

[Old_Geezer]

Ah, right. That explains the lack of answers then.

[barry1010]

It is on the NHS, both eyes one at a time.

[SlackAlice]

Having had a few ops under local anaesthetic, I can understand where your coming from. Relax and please make them aware your feeling nervy. You will get sympathy and assurance.

I needed a lot of re-assurance at my last two local ops, carried out at Barts hospital for emergency fitment of a Pacemaker and later the next day for an angiogram, just afew days ago :)

[jno]

I had my cataracts done on the NHS and explained that I was nervous about local anaesthetics (I blink a lot); so they did it under a general anaesthetic. Apparently quite a few people go for this: they bunched us up, either at the begining or the end of the day. Have you asked if GA is available?

[Giggsie]

I’m just a week home from total knee replacement surgery. I had a spinal injection so paralysed from the waste down. Like you I dreaded seeing inside the theatre scared me also hearing what was going on around me. But done and dusted I would do it again.

[barry1010]

I don't want GA, really.
No sympathy from my wife who was awake and aware for her caesarians, she tells me to wear my big boy pants.

OG, I'll try meditation, imagine I'm in the Bahamas on a yacht.

Alice, hope you are recovering well and feeling chipper

[The Builder]

Barry, you know what they say... 'it's all in the mind.'
Not the same as yours, but I've had 'entropion' treated surgically three times. (Lower eyelid turning in on the eyeball.)

Most recently, the theatre nurse was sitting beside me and we spent the whole procedure talking about jazz.

The trick is to completely ignore what's going on. You don't feel a thing. You just need to distract your mind.
You'll be fine :o)

[barry1010]

Hope you are making a good recovery and doing your exercises, giggsie.

Thanks, builder

[ladybirder]

When I had my first cataract done I found it amazing that I could actually see the instrument lifting the cataract off my eye. No pain at all.

[Giggsie]

Yes thanks Barry trying to do what I’m told. Find it a lot harder than I did 5 years ago. But that bit older I suppose.

[barry1010]

That's good to know, thank you, LB. I think that what bothers me most is that I will find it such an ordeal I won't want to get the other eye done then I'll look even wonkier than I do now.

Keep at it, Giggsie :)

[ladybirder]

Best not mention anything about having the second eye done then;-)

[barry1010]

If this surgery doesn't solve the problem I'll have to have a brow lift as well.

[pastafreak]

There was a series being advertised for the Discovery channel I think, called Awake Surgery. Maybe you should watch it... ;)

[barry1010]

I would be awake if I watched that. I'd never sleep again.

I was there at the pretty end of the bed when my wife had her C-Sections. I was a hero and coped very well until the surgeon started swearing. It was okay - her wellies had filled up with amniotic fluid

[pastafreak]

Lol...I had an emergency c section...under in a matter of minutes. Husband apparently needed the doorway to prop himself up. My Dr later said he was a bit on the pale side.