This board seems to be an excellent resource to exchange health info, if for nothing more than to let ourselves know that we don't suffer alone.
So I was wondering what is your surgery/hospital history?
I won't overwhelm you with everyday aches and pains

Age 12 Tonsils out

Age 22 Laser surgery for pre cancerous cells found for during a pap smear

Age 42 Gallbladder removed, planned surgery- laprascopy -EASY way

Age 43 Appendix removed- ER visit- incision -HARD way

Looking at this, Im going to declare myself done! I'm VERY uncomfortable during a hospital stay and tend to get anexity attacks- HATE IT!!

Two vaginal births of 9lb+ babies, I was blessed with no problems. One at age 33 one at age 37

__________________
Love, J.

Guess I've been lucky so far, I'm 32 and have only been in the hospital to have a baby. Then stayed home for the next 2 babies.

I'm 43 and been in the hospital twice - each time to have a baby. I've never had any type of surgery - except to have my wisdom teeth out. And, that was laughing gas at a dental surgery place.

Lisa

__________________
"It's not having what you want,
It's wanting what you've got"

You asked for it!

April 1995 - Gallbladder surgery
March 2005 - Gastric Bypass Surgery
December 2005 - Gastric Bypass revision surgery due to ulcer related to gastric bypass
August 2006 - Partial Bowel Obstruction/Adhesion surgery due to gastric bypass
November 2006 - Another adhesion surgery
February 2007 - surgically implanted hickman catheter for nutrional IV feeding for malnutrition
March 2007 - Staph infection from hickman catheter...PIC Line insertion
March 2007 - Staph infection from PIC line...reinsertion of hickman catheter
April 2007 - hickman pulls out..reinsertion of hickman
May 2007 - staph infection from hickman..reinsertion of hickman..develop pneumothorax during surgery..chest tube placed..5 days in hospital
June 2007 - reversal of gastric bypass surgery

and not been in the hospital since!

__________________
Eileen

**Some people are like Slinky's, not really good for anything, but you can't help laugh when you see one tumble down the stairs**

1974 (2 years of age) 1st surgery, my mom cut the back of my heel off when my heel got caught in the spokes he her bike, while I was on the baby seat in the back. I had a skin graph, they took skin off my butt & graphed over my heel.
1994, 1996, 2000 normal pregnancy's & deliveries
2006 Foot surgery right foot (cut the tendon in your foot that rubs against the heel spur)
2006 Gastric Bypass
2007 same foot surgery on the left foot

__________________
Mommy to Samantha ~ Charles ~ Derrick

1968 - (3 yrs of age) Removal of Tonsils
1999 - Vaginal birth of dd#1, she was a month early and weighed 5lbs, 5.5 ozs
2002 - C-Section dd#2, she was 3 weeks early and weighed 6lbs, 7ozs.

That's it for me, hard to believe in 43 years I've only been in the hospital 3 times.

__________________

Friends are like butt cheeks.
Crap might separate them,
But they always come back together.

Nothing up to this year when I had an ablation(cauterizing the inside of the uterus)to finally rid me of the horrible periods I'd suffered with for years. Got my tubes done at the same time but with Essure(they put a little metal coil in your tubes and tissue grows around it and seals it up)so no incision of any kind. Less than 2 hours in the office from signing it to being sent home. Fine as frog hair the next day.

That procedure was the BEST thing I've ever done for myself. I'm completely period-free after suffering for years with cycles from hell.

Oh, and I'm 37 so I guess I'm doing pretty good.

__________________
Jesus SAVES by shopping smartly and using double coupons!

18- DD#1 7 lbs 14 ozs
18 - Cryosurgery for precancerous cells found during pap smear
19 - removal of a cyst on coccyx bone (butt bone)
26 - DS #1 7 lbs 14 ozs
28 - DS #2 8 lbs 8 ozs (while I was pregnant I was hospitalized for severe dehydration)
31 - again for severe dehydration
33 - DD#2 was 3 weeks early and 7 lbs 4 ozs (during my pregnancy gave myself torticollis it was very painful and had to be on daily PE for 3 weeks)

Not much else , but I think that is enough

4 C-sections in 1986, 1989,1994 and 1999

Surgey to remove thyroid cancer in January 2000

Hysterectomy in March of 2003

Removal of a rare skin cancer in November 2004


I turned 40 this year and I worry about my health all the time.

My dds were 1994 & 1996, too.

March 12, 1994 (5 weeks early)
Sept. 12 1996 (2 1/2 weeks early)

Lisa

__________________
"It's not having what you want,
It's wanting what you've got"

I've made it 43 years without any major issues. I had my first surgery just last Thursday. They removed a big ol' cyst and half of my Thyroid.

Other than that - two children

On a side note - they used glue instead of stitches to seal my surgical incision. This is the coolest - I was able to shower right away and that area doesn't hurt a bit. I do look like I'm ready for Halloween though with all the bruising and cut showing, lol

__________________
There are so many colors in the rainbow
So many colors in the morning sun
So many colors in the flower and I see every one!
-Harry Chapin

Lets see:

I have had 11 knee surgeries including a quadricept realignment surgery.

Hystorectomy

I have had to have my ears operated on. ( basically they tube my ears every year even at 37 yrs old)

In Dec. of this year I am getting what I lovingly call my jumper cables ( defib/pacemaker combo)

Think that is it for now major ones anyways.

Oh and I did have a 10 lb 13oz baby but that was natural no surgery.

Ouch, 10lb 13oz naturally!!

I have had two children (natural) and tubes in my ears when I was little. I had an elective outpatient procedure about 3 years ago and that is all. With my last child (9 years ago) I asked to go home less than 24 hrs later because I despise being a patient.

March 2007 Had toe beside big toe removed (broke it and it got gangrene..yucks) That was my first surgery and hospital stay. I stayed 12 days!!! But the staff was very nice!

__________________
Support bacteria -- it's the only culture some people have!

If Vegetarians eat Vegetables. Do Humanitarians eat Humans?

'Vegetarian' is an old Native American word for bad hunter.

2 eye surgeries as a kid. Tonsils at age 27 (great way to lose weight fast).
1999 - vaginal birth. 1999 - Umbilical hernia repair.
2003 - D & C for miscarriage - age 42 - who says fertility goes down with age.
2007 - Cardiac ablation for V-tach.
Also have had numerous suspicious moles removed - the possiblilty of melanoma really scares me.

But really, at 47, I feel great. I am on no medications.

Tubes in ears when I was about 8

3 day hospital stay at 13 with scarlet fever

2 vaginal births...one 9lb 5oz no drugs, on 7'13"..couldn't get drugs fast enough

stitches 3 times on various body parts

I have been in the hospital 6 times.

The first 5 were the best times, because I delivered a beautiful baby each time.

The 6th time was to remove 1/3 of my colon ( Everyone please have a colonoscopy)

Next week will be my 7th time.

I am having surgery again , so please pray it goes well!

I have had 2 c-sections-shoulder surgery and wrist surgery. not bad for 58. Now if you were asking about health issues then thats another story!

__________________

When you don`t know what to do-Walk fast and look worried.

I husband is going for this next Thursday! Any comments on it? You can PM me if you don't want to post here.


1970- born with siamese twin sisters, they didn't make it, almost lost Mom, but I was a fighter
1975- tonsils out
2001- C section DS
2003- C section DD

Pretty calm history and most of my family lives to be OLD!

__________________
"A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked." ~ Bernard Meltzer

Gee I feel like I should get a zipper installed.
1980 natural childbirth 7lbs9 oz
1986 natural childbirth 5lbs 3 oz and tubal
1986 gallbladder removal(have a 10 inch scar)
1988 sinus surgery
1994 sinus surgery
1996 total hysterctomy
1998 moles removed
2000 sinus surgery
2006 aug)3 stents
dec 2006 heart bypass 4 days later had another surgery for blood clot on the heart
seems like its all been down hill since the heart surgeries
beginning to wonder if I'll make it to 50

Well right now I am going through some medical problems tomorrow I am going back to the heart doctor to be fitted with a 24 hour heart halter monitor, so far all i have gotten from results were I am almost a diabetic my blood sugar levels were very low when fasting anything below 65 and your a diabetic I was 74 my dh was 105. I am also anemic and have low blood sugar. Now with all that said

I have lived with anxiety and panic attacks my whole life
I had my tonsils out at age 3
Iam 45 and have all dental teeth implants I do not have one single original tooth of mine left
I have had so much dental work done I think I hold the gusiness book of world record, with fillings, caps, extraction, root canals literally 1.000 of needles whatever they can do to your teeth I have had it done. My dentists have told me I was born with bad teeth, omg forget I also wore braces for 4 years, but thanks to modern technology I so have a wonderful smile now and no more dental work at least for a long time.
I had 3 babies all natural no complications
I have the rh factor with all 3 and so had to have these extra needles for the problem
I had my appendix taken out on 5/4/04 the same day 2 years to date my brother Sonny passed away, with this one I firmly believe he was there for me, because I was not in horrible pain, but went to the emergency room and got all the tests and they comfirmed it was slightly irrated and had to go
Finally I have also suffered alot with my period who does not and migraines to me they are far worst then anything else.. Enough said, I feel sick..... But a good post ... Peace CAtherine