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Head staples
Thu, 02/08/2007 - 19:15Topic: Surgery and Devices
Well, I finally had my head staples removed. It wasnt a pleasant experience, but Im glad theyre out. No matter how much of that numbing stuff he put on my head, it still kinda hurt when he pulled them out with a plyer. Ew.
Yeah....anyone else with head staple removal experience
Comments
Re: Head staples
Submitted by aussie2006 on Fri, 2007-02-09 - 05:48
I had left temporal lobe / hippocampus surgery in March 2006 ,I had 50 staples in my head and these were removed 7 days after surgery, I cant complain about the method used in removing my staples, it felt like a pin prick as each one was removed. On March 1 it will be 1 year since my surgery, and all has gone well for me, and I will be able to start slowly reducing medications. I hope you go well .
aussie
Re: Re: Head staples
Submitted by forestams on Sat, 2007-02-10 - 15:08
So you guys felt your heads? I'm about to have a RTL in a few weeks but I have already had one surgery before to remove a brain tumor- when that guy took those staples out I couldn't feel a thing! Hell I could barely feel my scalp for like a year after that surgery!
This is good news!- maybe this next guy will leave me with some sensation in my head so I don't bang it around by accident ;)
Good to hear you are all doing well!
Re: Head staples
Submitted by csantana on Fri, 2009-01-16 - 16:56
Just had staples removed after an invasive eeg. It was quite painful for me. I read about the procedure online before I went in for the Dr. visit. I was under the impression that a spray-on anesthetic was common practice. But instead I had a nurse come in and remove the staples as though I was a packet of dittoes lying there in her office. Brutal, I cried the whole while. Man, epilepsy is definitely a character builder.