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My stock joke is that if the doctor or nurse says it won’t hurt, it will hurt at least a little. If they say it will hurt a little, it will hurt a lot. If they say it will probably hurt, time for serious anesthesia.

Also, there’s pretty much no such thing as minor surgery except maybe skin tag removal.

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Lucky you, if you dont have genetics were anesthesia do not work properly. Then find a doctor, who accepts that problem and gets it over with painful but fast.

The hardest part is if you have a dentists that insist on anesthesia must work, but it wont, so you must act your ass off to prentend to not be in pain, so he wont push syringe after syringe, doing nothing and waiting for 15 minutes in between while your tooth is already open with the root canal drills in.

So you’re one too. No dental anesthetics work on me. I have to go under general anesthesia, where you’re knocked out so deep a machine has to take over your breathing. So every procedure starts at about $10,000 and that’s not counting the dental work. All out of pocket. No insurance coverage.

Did you try nitrous oxide?

Doesn’t do a damn thing for me.

As someone with very low tolerance for pain, this seems like my worst nightmare. I’m curious though, did your tolerance for pain increase over the years as you had to endure it?

Decreased, if any. I think it’s probably because I know nothing has ever worked. FWIW I am old and get a major operation every two or three years: hernia, cancer, hydrocele, etc. I have no problem dealing with that kind of pain, even when it is considerable, which is often true post-op.

Interesting. Thank you for sharing. Wishing you the best.

"A minor surgury is one that's happening to somebody else."

-unknown

Man, words of wisdom. I’m stealing that one.

The book Enders Game opens with this premise.

Had completely forgotten about it. Rings so true:

https://www.orbitbooks.net/orbit-excerpts/endersgame/

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