Bird
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I was sick for a week from the anesthesia
People surely do react differently to anesthesia. And of course I don't know why. Our youngest daughter is very slow to get fully awake coming out from under anesthesia. My wife has only been put under twice in her life. She's slow to get fully awake and nauseous when she starts waking up. And I've been put under at least 13 times in my life, the last being 4/16/2010 to remove the wisdom teeth on the right side (only a local for the ones on the left side several years ago) and I don't recall ever being nauseous when I awoke. Anesthesia, whether local or otherwise, has just never really bothered me.
For knees, I wonder why they can't just use a local. In August '97, I had carpal tunnel surgery on the right hand with a local. The doctor said it was the worst he'd ever seen, and he usually waited 3 months to do the other hand, but I talked him into doing it one month later and he had a different anesthesiologist who put me plumb under.
Then in July '98, I had a hernia repaired on the left side with an epidural, so I was able to watch the surgery in a mirror, and visit with the surgeon while he worked. That was interesting.
I'm like you about surgery being the last resort
Bob, I use Orthopedic Associates, a group of 9 orthopedic doctors with different specialties and the one I saw when I had plantar fasciitis, was also one who considered surgery as a last resort. I don't really know what causes the plantar fasciitis, but it was extremely painful and took almost a year to completely recover.