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I had minor surgery today amd the anesthesiologist was going over the procedure and seemed taken aback when I said I'd never had surgery before. Is it really that uncommon?

Yes. I've had two major surgeries and a couple of minor ones.

I went under general for a biopsy, but it wasn't surgery-surgery. I've never actually had one where they cut me open.

I think the medical professionals involved in surgery have a skewed view of how common it is. I had surgery a month ago and it was my first ever (I’m not quite 50 yet). Most people I know have never had surgery and all who have were 55+. But at the surgery center everyone was all, “I can’t believe this is your first surgery.”

Good point. This was an older gent too so he has been doing this forever.

I've had my appendix out, my tubes tied, a tumor the size of a melon on my ovary removed (along with the ovary), a hysterectomy and a knee replacement.

Not thoroughly fact checked but from a quick google, looks like 85% of people need wisdom teeth removed, which I'd guess is the most common surgery. So yeah, if that counts, seems like a majority of people get surgery at SOME point.

Huh, my wisdome teeth were just pulled out, I wouldn't have considered that surgery. But good point.

When filling out medical and insurance forms, everyone will tell you wisdom tooth removal doesn’t count as a surgery. I think because it isn’t invasive and doesn’t contribute to your health history.

Re: Have you had surgery?

(Anonymous) - 2025-09-17 00:40 (UTC) - Expand

Re: Have you had surgery?

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Re: Have you had surgery?

(Anonymous) - 2025-09-17 08:40 (UTC) - Expand

I feel like most people have had their wisdom teeth out, at least? At least virtually everyone I know has, one of my friends was talking about needing to get them out now as an adult and the rest of us were all going "wait, you haven't already had that done???"

I had mine out with novocaine, and they were NOT all erupted. It sucked!

I wasn't put under, though. I'm not sure if that really counts as surgery, though there are surgeries done under local anesthetic that do count.

Didn't have a "real" surgery until I was about 40, and that was with local anesthesia too.

I was gonna say it might depend on your age, but then I remembered the 1980s fad of tonsillectomies.

I'm not sure what classifies as surgery. I've only had one surgery involving general anesthesia and an incision (removal of a bone spur). I've had a needle biopsy without local anesthesia and a colonoscopy with general anesthesia. I've had cervical cryotherapy without a damn thing to numb any of the pain because everyone knows women don't feel ~real actual~ pain when their girl parts are poked, stretched, frozen, scraped, embedded with foreign objects, etc. /s

I have been knocked out for dental stuff and a colonoscopy, but no real surgery. I am in my 40s.

I had my appendix out and my wisdom teeth removed which are two fairly common surgeries.

Yes, I've had two major (one when I was age two, a hysterectomy a few years ago) and a few minor procedures more recently.

Had my tonsils out as a kid, a wisdom tooth removed surgically as a young adult, and a plate put in my arm as a more-adult.

I don't know if it's a "everybody's had surgery before" thing or just that probably everybody at least knows somebody who's had surgery.

I had ENT surgery as a kid due to my syndrome, gallbladder surgery and ovarian cyst surgery in 2017, and a hysteroscopy and d&c a few weeks ago.

No, I never had one.
In my country it isn't customary to get general anaesthetic for a wisdom teeth even for trickier cases

Mine too, to the point I think the US is very strange to do it so willy nilly, but you can still have "surgery" without general anaesthesia. In fact, sometimes you have to (mainly brain stuff)!

Re: Have you had surgery?

(Anonymous) - 2025-09-17 15:20 (UTC) - Expand

ear tubes as a baby, and I was unconscious for my wisdom teeth, not just local anaesthetic

nothing with organs tho

I ALMOST got my tonsils out as a teen but we never got around to it lol

Ha ha SAME with tonsils
I was scared af looking at those machines for removal

Maybe, depending on your age. You've been fairly lucky re: your health, then? I had tubes put in my ears as a child, and outpatient surgery to remove growths. If oral surgery counts (with general anesthetic), then wisdom teeth removal happened, too. But nothing else major.

Re: Have you had surgery?

(Anonymous) - 2025-09-17 11:01 (UTC) - Expand

I've had so many that I've joked that the surgeon ought to just install a zipper in my belly, just to make it quicker for him.

One minor surgery, went back home after I woke up

Almost 40 and never had surgery.

I've had to be put under for a colonoscopy, but that's it.

As a teen, my tonsils would swell up at least once a year, I desperately wanted to get my tonsils removed. Never did. In my late teens, the lymph nodes swelling stopped. They came back in my 30s, but *knocks on wood* I haven't had the swelling issues when I get sick since some time last year.

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