Me and my Magic Pill*
Today I am having a 90 minute vein surgery while I lie there awake. AWAKE, people! The doctor recommended taking Xanax, and while I've never tried it, and am not a huge fan of taking any kinds of drugs, I think I will acquiesce to his superior medical knowledge and down this bad boy 30 minutes before the surgery.
*This is my debut for the "Me and Monday" group. And, yes, I'm a day late.
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but if i were having some sort of surgery, i'd want some serious drugs. hehe.
i really liked xanax. ;P it totally knocked me out!
I've heard wonderful things about Xanax from someone I know that has major anxiety disorder.
Are you having the kind of vein surgery where they make the visible ones in your legs invisible? If so, I'm insanely jealous!
As a duly appointed representative of the pharmaceutical industry, I say: YAAYY FOR DRUGS!!!
And you know how people who work in the restaurant business say they don't like to eat out... that goes double for people in the pharma business.
Awake and surgery are two things that should never, I mean NEVER, go together. I've done it once. It's not enjoyable. Of course, I didn't have Xanax.
Yeah for little pills!
Now I'm wondering if I could get some of those little pills for when I fly since I'm a freaking nervous wreck. But I also like to be in control just in case, say, the plane takes a burning nosedive. I want to be able to see the illuminated walkway and be able to get my seat out and use it as a floatation device.
Hope your surgery went well and that you were as relaxed as possible!
And, uh, vein surgery? On your legs? If so, I'd love to hear about it - I have some really ugly veins on my legs courtesy of pregnancy with The Daughter.
Yeah, if you are having spider/varicose veins removed I'm insanely jealous, even if you were wide awake! Hope everything went well.
Hello..that's a big deal. Didn't know you had any veins that needed fixing. Wonder if you can ask for more Xanax once you are at the surgery center????
I've never taken it either, so I hope it works. I think you still may need a little dose of bravery, though.
Thanks! It did work, nicely! I told the doctor that while it was my first Xanax experience, it wouldn't be my last.
It's a good thing you don't get paid a commission based on perscriptions written I guess :)
So, is this a case of knowing all the horrible behind-the-scenes stuff (like what it's really doing to your body) and consequently avoiding it? As someone who threatens to get on medication every other day, I must know!
Well, if you had had Xanax it would probably have been much better because it wasn't bad at all.
It just occured to me what surgery you're talking about and if I'm right, then I think Todd would concur. He said there's nothing quite as disgusting as smelling your own flesh burning.
I'm sure you could walk into just about any doctor in America and get them to prescribe you just about anything. That's my experience anyway, so go for it!
I felt totally in control -- not sleepy, completely coherant, just relaxed.
Yep, varicose veins (well, vein singular) on my leg. Also courtesy of pregnancy. I'll probably blog about it, but if you have any questions let me know!
I'm sure you've seen the varicose vein on my calf before. It's not big, but I've lived with it for ten years and it was starting to hurt.
And I'm seriously thinking I'm NOT going to make it through graduate school without meds, so why not start now and make life easier on everyone?
But I think many folks too easily turn to an Rx -- and too many Drs. that will prescribe them too readily. Drugs are made and rigorously tested (I was going to say its not like finding rats in a restaurant, but we have rats on purpose...) -- to be as safe as we can possibly figure out how to make them, but what you do learn -- and I what I find personally daunting -- is how much about biology we still don't know.
Sometimes I don't think folks get (or don't hear) the whole risk-reward story when they get a script filled.