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I did not get my bad reactions to Versed right away, it was after years of procedures under sedation that I developed my reaction; not during the procedure, but deep depression for the rest of the day after the procedure. Now that I know what it is,...

Well, I would argue with that. What you are smelling are the various amine compounds and various other organic chemicals like skatol.

I can handle the gowns pretty well, but the tray tables...they make these new ambulatory/OR "big wheel" gurneys with the one giant roller in the middle. That's great, until you have a patient who wants to eat and you can't get the tray table under t...

I was helping a friend in her yard a couple years ago and fell, impaling myself on a pair of old rusty hedge clippers right into my rear. I was not in terrible shape, not too much bleeding or anything, but the wound was a bit over 2" deep right throu...

My other issue--silly as it is--is that if I am awake during a colonoscopy, I can control myself and keep from moaning or complaining. Too many times I have come out of the sedation to find myself moaning as they round the turn at the splenic flexur...

I'll tell you from personal experience, it is very degrading to have someone else clean you up after an accident. I had been the care-provider first. I earned an instant good-guy rating with the CCRN's at our hospital because I was willing to jump...

How about using those decent-but-disposable hemostats as bag clips for chips and similar containers?

Point taken...sorry if I was unclear. I can tolerate a colonoscopy awake (had a couple very-undermedicated ones where I just kept my mouth shut) and I would rather remember. A friend pointed out that she suspects this doctor is more worried about pa...

Thanks for the suggestion; I don't really want the Propofol as I really don't care for the amnesic properties of those drugs. I'm just paranoid enough to want to remember that I acted appropriately...this is a hangup of mine after one bad experience...

Oh, and for the record I had Crohn's sx as a child (failed to thrive, etc) and was diagnosed in my 20s after several years of ignoring it. I've worked my way down the list of medications and I am now on high-dose Remicade just to keep me treading wat...

Thanks for the replies, everyone. I don't know what I want to do...it's been a while since I stopped working in medicine, and the end of my medical career was about the same time I ended up being a patient A Whole Lot. Looking back now, reading p...

Ways to Tell if someone is a Nurse: When they use Chux around the house when working on projects, painting a birdhouse, changing their oil...

I think the reason I was able to pretend my first few Crohn's flares were nothing is because I worked in a hospital. I could just go change my scrubs, take a shower in the OR changing room, (we had just remodeled with private showering areas)...we h...

I would rather NOT be sedated; I am allergic to Fentanyl (not a full anaphylactic rxn yet, but I've done vomiting, been told that I am allergic by an anesthesiologist and ended up in the ER twice after procedures on a nebulizer) and I get bad post-pr...

Ugh. Sorry. I am not working in medicine right now; I was pre-med and as part of that, I worked as an OR tech for seven years. After I came down with again with what turned out to be Crohn's dz and finally had to give up on my MD, I left and got my...

That's a really good idea. My suspicion would be that he was not getting enough caring somewhere else in his life.

I can't do the PhosphoSoda prep again. I've done it like 10 times...my bloodwork is messed up for days afterwards, and I can never keep the second dose down, no matter how hard I try or clench my teeth...I just vomit it out my nose. Then I get anot...

I grabbed for the scope once during an EGD. I had been under, then totally woke up and was disoriented. GI chewed me up one side and down the other for not being in total control while on Versed and Fentanyl.

I've been at social events with medical people (that I don't work with), some meeting me for the first time, and they've commented on my good veins.

hahaha...oh, that is a classic "new to microwaves" disaster. like the eastern-european immigrant we had working in our vascular lab in the early 1990s, who "knew" that the popcorn could not really only take 3:30, so put it in for 33:00. she felt so...

A couple of the nurses in one of the units at my hospital (a large University teaching/trauma center) wanted to warm a towel in the microwave. They did not know you had to wet the towels first... So they put a stack of towels in the MegaNuke 9000 th...

Haha! *wiping soda from my monitor* This thread is amazing. I had no idea that the posts on this site went back to the 1930s. But obviously this particular thread must be pre-WWII.

Oh...my...God... How could anyone lie about a thing like that?

This thread is deader than corduroy. Anyone around with CD/UC?

Hi. I would suggest trying Abena. I've used the Abena (both plastic and breathable) to deal with fecal incontinence, and sometimes I've had urinary accidents in the Abena X-Plus when I am rushing somewhere trying to get to a bathroom (like driving ...