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10-19-2014, 07:09 PM
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Re: Photos of Subcutaneous Emphysema
I really didnt think so. Its not a fun experience, but its not unbearable. Things could always be worse. |
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10-20-2014, 12:55 PM
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Re: Photos of Subcutaneous Emphysema
I have pretty much ZERO pain tolerance, if ever the need to insert a chest tube came up, and I was conscious, I would tell them to knock me the hell out first, or I wouldn't let them come near me!
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#13
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10-20-2014, 07:51 PM
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Re: Photos of Subcutaneous Emphysema
I'm exactly the same way. I can not handle any kind of pain whatsoever. Heck I can't even get my flu shot without complaining. I hate needles.
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10-21-2014, 12:04 AM
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Re: Photos of Subcutaneous Emphysema
I have to give about 8 tubes of blood per month as part of a clinical trial I'm in right now, I can only tolerate it if I turn away from whatever arm they're draining me from and squeeze my eyes so tight they practically end up glued together.
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10-21-2014, 09:29 PM
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Re: Photos of Subcutaneous Emphysema
But if you have subcutaneous air from your neck to your hip (because you're lying on your side on the OR table and the air rises), and fresh incisions from that surged, the LAST thing you want is a tube. I got my lung back up with hi-flow O2 and incentive spirometry in less than 2 weeks. The surgeon was impressed by that; he said he'd never seen a lung re-expand that quickly. I was only 24 and in much better shape than I am now, and I worked that incentive spirometer like it was my job. I've assisted in far too many chest tube insertions to ever want to subject myself to the things I've witnessed helping with them. When I had the surgery done on the left side a few years later, I begged the surgeon to insert it in the OR. I woke up with a tube -and it still hurt. Felt great when they took it out - like a big, warm wet noodle.
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10-21-2014, 09:34 PM
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Re: Photos of Subcutaneous Emphysema
I told them to give me conscious sedation when they wanted to do a bedside tube on me....I said hell no! They wouldn't, so I refused to have it.
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10-21-2014, 10:57 PM
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Re: Photos of Subcutaneous Emphysema
When the thoracic catheter was inserted, I was in an anatomical position. I didnt move from that position for the remainder of the week. I would much rather have a chest tube than talc pleurodesis, which can cause chronic pain for life.
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