Getting surgery tomorrow

[Coolone]

I'll just give you the cliff notes since I dont feel like typing out the whole story.

1.painful cyst formed at the base of my finger a year ago
2.Treatments like steroid injections havnt worked
3. Doctor says to cut it out

Now I figured I'd just have a local anasthetic (sp?), and that this would take like an hour or so. WRONG! General anasthetic and I'll be spending 6 hours in the hospital.

Heres the closest thing I can find to the condition for you guys to look at. Text

No more FPS games for me for a while.

Has anyone else ever had one of these things?

Update: Wow, that wasnt so bad, but typing with numb fingers is weird! pic

 

[ShOcKwAvE827]

ahhh i had one of those. But i had the kind that was at the distal interphalangeal joint on the dorsal side of the hand and it was pretty small. They just put lidocaine injection in it and it was out in 15 minutes or so. I was out maybe 6 weeks from sports and stuff because I couldn't bend my finger w/o breaking the stitches.

 

[CRXican]

yikes

I had a cyst in my back removed. Local anasthetic, still felt funky. Took like 30 minutes.

 

[CRXican]

I also think I scared the doctor because he was explaining that some people have a reaction to the anasthetic. I didn't have one but while he was working I asked "What kind of reaction might there be?" He stopped all of a sudden and asked, "Do you think you're having one!?!??"

 

[BrownTown]

lol, not realated to this condition, but when I had surgery for a different thing the doctor comes in and starts talking to me, and while im distracted the resident who is with him sneaks up and puts the anestetic into my IV. I saw him out of the corner of my eye, and was like "why are you sneaking up a nd injecting stuff into me?". Just thought that was weird. OF course then they start wheeling me off and then the next minute im waking up in the recovery room.

On another note, this was for a hyrnia, and hte first think i did when I woke up was essentially do a crunch to sit back up which put like the pull of my abs right on the scar. I didnt feel that at all But then then i got back even remotely flexing them hurt like hell.

 

[FelixDeCat]

UPDATES!

 

[Coolone]

updated

 

[mattpegher]

Since many Ganglion cysts snake around tendons the surgeon needs to desect pretty deep. Local anesthetic will not work to make this type of disection painless, so nerve blocks or general anesthesia is often used.

 

[eits]

sounds like a ganglion cyst