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Medical Forum / Diseases and Disorders / Prostate BPH / April 2006PVP and anesthesia
This board looks really old, but in case anyone is monitoring.............. Is an epidural and a spinal the same thing? I am going to have the PVP and am a little afraid of general. I am trying to explore my options. Thanks I think a spinal and an epidural are the same thing, as opposed to general anesthesia. I had a spinal for my PVP, and had no discomfort. I was in recovery for quite a while, waiting for feeling to return to my feet, probably longer than for general anesthesia, but I felt no grogginess, no hangover. I think I'd do that again. I think a spinal and an epidural are the same thing, as opposed to general anesthesia. I had a spinal for my PVP, and had no discomfort. I was in recovery for quite a while, waiting for feeling to return to my feet, probably longer than for general anesthesia, but I felt no grogginess, no hangover. I think I'd do that again. Sorry about the double post. I'm not sure what happened there I also had a spinal. Recovering from that was the hardest part of the whole thing!! Took me awhile till I could walk, then I snoozed the better part of the afternoon. So I watched on the monitor while the guy did it. Bill Hale > This board looks really old, but in case anyone is > monitoring.............. > > Is an epidural and a spinal the same thing? I am going to have the > PVP and am a little afraid of general. I am trying to explore my > options. Thanks I had severe chills and cold shakes and trembling after the spinal (and yes spinal and epidural are the same). Never again for me - I'll take the general anesthesia any day...Pete >> This board looks really old, but in case anyone is >> monitoring.............. [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > yes spinal and epidural are the same). Never again for me - I'll take the > general anesthesia any day...Pete I had the general anaesthesia, put under at 1.50 and told that I was awake and speaking to the uro at 3.00. But the first thing I remember is being in the recovery room at 3.50 and complaining that I felt cold. The nurse then put a heated sheet over me. Just after 5.00 I was eating my dinner. Derek. Aren't those heated sheets great? Those heated sheets were grear!! Jefe, My anesthetist asked me either general or spinal do I prefer before the surgery. My uro heard that and told her to give me the general because I have a big prostate, 100g, w/median lobe. Everythig, the surgery and results, went well. Don't be afraid. PVP is the best way to treat BPH. Wish you the best. >Aren't those heated sheets great? > Aren't those heated sheets great? How do they actually heat them? I saw the nurse go over to a 'glass fronted cupboard' to get them Derek. >> Aren't those heated sheets great? >> > How do they actually heat them? I saw the nurse go over to a 'glass > fronted cupboard' to get them > Derek. Must be an incubator type cupboard :-) > How do they actually heat them? I saw the nurse go over to a 'glass > fronted cupboard' to get them > Derek. I was a little woozy at the time, but I thought it seemed like mine was inflated with hot air, like if delated just before the nurse took it off. Maybe the hot air keeps the warmth more evenly distributed. |
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