are you afraid of having surgery?

I've had 2 surgeries. One to have my tosils removed when I was younger. And another 3 months ago - I had a c-section with my daughter.

I am definitely afraid of having surgery. Fortunately I have not had the need for surgery but I know it is a strong possibility at some point in my life, especially knowing my mom needs surgery on her knees and my dad has had some surgeries as well. I hope that they make sure that I am knocked out before they perform surgery on me. :-)

I am scared.I am going for surgery on sunday for the gastric bypass operation and already I am a nervous wreck.LOL

Any type of surgery would scare me. You always have a chance of something going wrong, so that in itself scares me. But, if I truly needed it I would still have it done.

I have not had to have sugery. it would be scary being under the knife.

even though i havent tried to undergo on surgery if i jjust think of it whewww!!! i cant imagine myself im really scred.

i have had surgery 3 times. what was scary for me was being put to sleep. i didn't like that at all it felt like i was dying. but as you can see i'm alive.

I've had surgery a few times in my life, and there's really nothing to be afraid of. The worst one I had was my c-section, but that was almost 25 years ago, and I'm sure the techniques have improved a lot since then. I had LASIK surgery in September, and that did make me nervous since it was risking my eyes, but everything came out fine. Surgery is nothing to worry about today.

Not really, I have had two surgeries in my life. I was a little nervous with the latest one, just 6 months ago but I survived.

I never had any surgery in my life too. I too will be scared if that time comes. gee! I never even slept in the hospital in my entire life. Maybe when I was born? ehhehe. Knock on wood. I want to stay healthy.

I am truly afraid to go through any surgery on me, I pray to God not to give me any ailment which needs a surgery to cure. I feel I will die before being operated upon.

yes

Whoa this one was started 9 months ago, I'll answer it anyways LOL I am always scared to have surgery, the thought of doctors plodding and picking and cutting at my body scares me LOL I have had surgery on my archilles tendon which I tore playing sports, that wasn't so bad, its when I had surgery for a perineal tear (yuck) when I had my son, that really got me LOL made me not want to have any more children haha! I was almost coaxed into having lower back surgery for a herniated disc early this year but i chose not to go that route and found other means of non surgical treatment i.e physio. These days doctors are so quick to offer surgery instead of other means to fix the problem. Glad I didnt' have surgery as I hear it sometimes makes the issue worse.

Not so much. I've only had a minor outpatient operation. Because it wasn't in a critical area and anesthesia is so expensive, I opted out of it; and any topical or local anesthetic just wasn't effective, due to the nature of the wound. I can tell you, it was worse than being in labor for two days. But I'm glad it's done and hopefully I won't need major surgery until many years from now. Blessed Be

nope, im not afraid of pain and im not scared to die...

I hate hospitals, so yes I would be afraid of surgery. I have a few of them and hate the recovery.

I was but then I had to get my gallbladder removed, and it turned out ok.

Yes I am very afraid of it and I hope that I won't ever have to have one again but I think I will in the Future due to my Illness

No, I have had a surgery recently and I had no problems. or inhibitions.

I've had surgery many times and each time they put me to sleep. It is always scary at first but once you go to sleep next thing you know you wake back up and it is already over.