Would you rather be sliced up or lasered? Or have a frayed braked cable shoved up you?

[winjim]

I find myself in a situation where I am required to make a decision between either being sliced up or having lasers stuck in me. The slicing up option involves being put to sleep and more pain, so probably better drugs and more time off work. The lasering still requires an amount of slicing, but means I get to stay awake and watch, plus it uses lasers which are all futuristic and cool, and I'm hoping the surgeon would be up for reenacting that bit from Goldfinger, even though I bet he's done it a hundred times before.

So which would you choose and why?

 

[Drago]

Off to sleep for me, so knife it is.

 

[welsh dragon]

Laser beam for me. Im not squeamish, and you probably recover faster. Drago is a chicken S**t.

 

[vickster]

Laser but not watching having had my leg sliced open in A&E, I would go through something surgical with an effective local (it wasn't for the leg due to the infection) but I certainly wouldn't want to watch

If the slice option was more effective and no more scarring, I'd go for that, no issue with GA (had enough over the last few years)

 

[Alan O]

Ooh, I'd love to be able to watch!

 

[Cycleops]

The last time I had a GA I felt dreadful for days after.

 

[rugby bloke]

I had a pacemaker fitted under a local anesthetic. I was terrified at the prospect as I am properly squeamish. On the day, I was so spaced by the drugs they gave me to stay calm that I did not mind at all. Even managed to have a random conversion with the surgeon.

 

[swee'pea99]

I had my eyes lazered. That was fun. They take off the middle of your eye with a scalpel and flip it back, then start with the lazer. After a few seconds you can smell that disgusting smell you get when you burn hair or fingernails. What larks, Pip, what larks.

Does that help?

 

[Crackle]

Even managed to have a random conversion with the surgeon

You put him over the posts?

 

[davidphilips]

First of hope its nothing serious and you make a full and speedy recovery no mater which you pick.

Perhaps best to talk over with the doctors as to which is best suited for your self as they hopefully have done both before and can advise on recovery times etc, good luck and fingers,toes and even bikes crossed for a good outcome.

 

[Milkfloat]

No contest - Laser. You get to watch and experience the smell. You probably get to go home sooner too.

 

[RoubaixCube]

 

[I like Skol]

Pardon the pun but 'cutting edge' technology always worries me. New techniques and steps forward in treatment are all well and good but if it is something recent I would always wonder if they had perfected it yet or were still using patients as guinea pigs to master the art?

 

[winjim]

Yes, that's the joke.

 

[midlife]

Just out of curiosity what are you having done?