Amount of Time in Surgery
You probably don't want to hear about my surgery; I was under for 8 1/2 hours, but it took so long because I was a difficult revision and I had adhesion's and scar tissue to beat the band. Then three days later, I had to go into surgery again for another 4 1/2 hours because there was a scar tissue flap in my stomach that Dr. Rabkin didn't see and it was blocking anything from getting through my new stomach / sleeve.
I think the extended time under anesthesia is mostly why my recovery took so long, add to that my age 56 and how out of shape I was....It was not a good situation, but that's all nothing but a distant and fading memory now. I really love my DS; the life is just awesome!
Kerry
I think the extended time under anesthesia is mostly why my recovery took so long, add to that my age 56 and how out of shape I was....It was not a good situation, but that's all nothing but a distant and fading memory now. I really love my DS; the life is just awesome!
Kerry
Nope; anesthesia is complete unconsciousness, you have no sensation of anything. You're awake and freezing (it's usually really cold in the OR) then it's lights out and the next thing you know, you're waking up in pain. You can't tell the difference in being out for 1 hour or 10.
If you have a husband or someone waiting for you to get out of surgery they are the ones who will be sweating the time factor. My poor wife Barb was about to have a nervous breakdown because I was in so long and no one could tell her anything about what was going on.
Since you're not a revision; your surgery should take less than 4 hours, since your a woman it should take less time than it would a man. You have no scar tissue to deal with, no adhesion's and your abdominal muscle wall won't be as thick & tough. I had all those factors working against me that the surgeon had to deal with, your surgeon won't have any of them.
Kerry
If you have a husband or someone waiting for you to get out of surgery they are the ones who will be sweating the time factor. My poor wife Barb was about to have a nervous breakdown because I was in so long and no one could tell her anything about what was going on.
Since you're not a revision; your surgery should take less than 4 hours, since your a woman it should take less time than it would a man. You have no scar tissue to deal with, no adhesion's and your abdominal muscle wall won't be as thick & tough. I had all those factors working against me that the surgeon had to deal with, your surgeon won't have any of them.
Kerry
Your experience of general anesthesia will be: You feel a bit groggy, say goodnight, and immediately people are telling you it's over, to breathe or whatever other instructions they might need to give you in recovery. You will not have any sense of time having passed. It's not like going to sleep.
Now, if you take sedation before you go into the OR, you might have some fuzzy sense of time passing while sedated. And once you are out of anesthesia and recovering, you might also have some awareness of time and place. But while you are anesthetized, your consciousness is completely shut down, so that time just doesn't exist for you.
You'll never be in safer hands than when you are in anesthesia.
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