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What happened to me for my biopsies

Generally a nurse will take a history and make sure you haven’t eaten and get your consent form signed. The anaesthetist will come along to introduce him/her selves and explain what they are doing. You will see your surgeon or their registrar to go through the procedure. 
After a while you either walk down or get wheeled to the operating theatre prep room. You’ll get hooked up to a blood pressure monitor and have a cannula  placed in your arm. The nurse does the monitor the anaesthetist the cannula. 
if you’re having a biopsy in your throat they spray one nostril with local anaesthetic so that they can put a tube up your nose do you can breath ( the tube goes up after you are asleep) 

you get a premed cocktail in your cannula then the anaesthetic and you don’t know anything till you wake up again. 

I'd not had a general since I was about 12 at the dentist; it was a breeze on the three occasions I needed one, people in the pre-op room were wonderful. They'll talk you through everything and you'll wake up in post-op in no time at all, no matter how long long the operation takes in real terms.

I was chatting with the "anithy - anethis" bloke about football every time because he was a staunch supporter of some club (don't remember which) and my consultant told me I should wind him up about it, given that he'd seen me in my club's colours many a time. 

glad i'll be sleeping. base of tongue and lymph node , and god forbid anything else they will find. still in bit of a shock yet so it hasn't really hit home. it's probably nothing. feel like i'm wasting every bodys time here.

quite right mike0 why should they get to inflict pain on us and not have any repurcusions. lol.

If they are doing a pan endoscopy ( having a good root round) you’ll probably have a bruised tongue where they pull it out (sorry)!

if they offer you pain killers when you wake up say,  “yes please”

Good luck. 

Hi you will be fine , I had mine done at 12 and was home by 1800 tucking into home made soup by 1900 ,Only found  out when consultant rang  me at 1930 saying why did I discharge myself I should have been kept in overnight as he had in his words hacked my tonsil! I replied because your nurses wanted my bed and rang hubby to pick me up ! He wasn’t happy with the ward ,but I was fine ,Sent hime with codeine but to be honest didn’t need anything. although next morn8ng when his secretary rung saying could I go to Leeds cancer hospital following Monday ie 3 days away bug this was serious he had obviously seen something and the rest is history.

Let us know how you get on.

Hazel x

Or stick your thumb up re painkillers  if your tongue' s not working too well

Hi

My hubby had tonsils whipped out and biopsys base of tongue.  Surgeon Mr meung had a right chop around. This was 17th Dec. Hubby had never had a GA ( general anaesthetic  before , so I was very shocked to see him looking really well in Recovery. He said it was the best sleep he's had in ages .

Results were about 5 weeks later , we had Christmas and New year in between- believe they would have been sooner normally. 

Turned out to be base of tongue. With secondary in 1 affected lymph node . He started 6 chemo and 30 radio last week. Also had a Rig feeding tube fitted last week. 

All the very best. Lots of help and support here. These guys/gals have been there , done it and are wearing the T shirt.

Lisa x 

thanks for update lisa,forewarned is forearmed,not that we can do anything about it.as freddie mercury one said " leave it in the lapp of the gods".  i hope hubby is feeling better.