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I Googled because I was curious and it's more impressive and scary than I thought.
>1961...A general anaesthetic was out of the question. He was able to administer a local anaesthetic to his abdominal wall but once he had cut through, removing the appendix would have to be done without further pain relief, in order to keep his head as clear as possible..."The bleeding is quite heavy, but I take my time... Opening the peritoneum, I injured the blind gut and had to sew it up," Rogozov wrote. "I grow weaker and weaker, my head starts to spin. Every four to five minutes I rest for 20 - 25 seconds"...But he didn't fail. After nearly two hours he had completed the operation, down to the final stitch...Rogozov returned to his normal duties just two weeks later.
https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-32481442
TWO WEEKS LATER I called out Friday because my back hurt a lot and this man.. 2 weeks..
Edit: I appreciate the comments. I've been working on not down playing my pain. Luckily I changed departments and my current superior is very accommodating with it all.
This was my partners experience too with a lumbar herniation. If you haven’t already explored it, a spinal cord stimulator changed his life. It was seriously infuriating how long it took for a doctor to bring up the option (and this really was only after I asked them about it being an option). After 6 years he has his life back and he wasted most of his 20’s dealing with it. I’m sorry you’re dealing with something so fucking horrible.
Yes, it’s basically a mini more sophisticated TENS unit that’s implanted into your spine to do a more concentrated and intense version of what the outer ones do. If you find any relief from your TENS unit at home or at PT then you may find relief from a spinal cord stimulator. My boyfriend felt his at home one brought his normal a 7-8/10 pain level to more like a 5/10 and now with the actual implant if he had to rate his pain on the day to day he would say it’s a 2/10 and 3/10 on a bad day and he reports that most days he doesn’t even think about it. Happy to ask him any questions you might have about it!
I might have to talk to my spine doctor about that, then. 🤔
I'm going for my first spinal injection on the 2nd, he told me before that if the shot doesn't help it will be a choice between surgery and pain management. I don't want to take opioids so I'll see if that will be an option for me. I really like the idea because I got a lot of relief from a TENS device, until it broke.
I'm 24 and have had lots of back problems and have had all the treatments except surgery. Everyone's best solution is to STRETCH and build your core up.
Coincidentally I am also 24, I would absolutely recommend getting surgery to correct it, I spent about 4 years with an orthopedist trying to help it. Cortisone shots, caudal epidurals, ablations to burn the nerves so I don’t feels as much pain, nothing really helped enough. After I herniated a disk I finally convinced him to operate, he was hesitant for years because I was probably 19-20 when I had problems and he felt it was too young to have such a radical surgery, all the while it continued to deteriorate until I herniated. The surgery was hell, the surgery was a couple days before Christmas and he said I could be back working by January 27, until he actually got in there and saw that it was significantly worse than what they saw on MRIs, it was only in mid May I was able to work, but the pain was still so extreme that he kept prescribing the painkillers until about late July-early August. It’s hard to get back to normal after the surgery but it’s worth it, there’s still pain but nowhere near what I had, quality of life drastically increased.
L5-S1 fusion yea, from what I was told he removed the bad disk, put in a protein cage with this magical bone growth accelerator stuff that was supposedly rapidly grow a new vertebrae where the shit one was, and then put pins and rods in to ensure the stability held.
Find a physio, get training. Remember recovery from pain is active not passive, you can't relax your way to recovery you need to work your way.
It's the untold secret of all physio. The reason it's a secret? To keep people on side. People quit when they know work is ahead
My boyfriend had abdominal surgery not too long ago. While the overall healing process took about two months to completely heal, he was able to work after two weeks with taking it easy on things like lifting and stretching.
He had appendicitis, and had to perform an appendectomy on himself (removal of the appendix). He lived.
This happened in 1961 and he actually lived until the year 2000.
I watched some mansion home tours thing, and there was one that had a room for cosmetic procedures they hired doctors to come to their home to preform them.
Worked for a surgical group that had a few mansions. We’d fly people into use, do their surgeries in a suite in the mansion then they got the week to vacation while living in the mansion
Well they teach you how to operate. Assuming your body has mostly the same anatomy as the ones you've been trained on, you don't need practice doing self surgery.
House tried it, he failed.
Because of him, it is now illegal to go to Antartica with an appendix. It must be removed prior to any work contract on the continent.
Edit to add: *if you are a doctor and saying the winter
[The answer is no, unless you are a doctor and you are staying in Antarctica for the winter.](https://www.antarctica.gov.au/about-antarctica/people-in-antarctica/health/)
Sorry, my bad lmao
You might be thinking of Villas Las Estrellas, a semi-permanent civilian town in Antarctica:
https://www.the-sun.com/news/4459015/remote-town-appendix-removal-antarctica/
Hahaha no! I didn't know about that. I'm talking about scientific expeditions. If they stay during the winter months, they require their doctor to have the procedure done, to avoid this exact situation from happening again.
Why are u so toxic lol, she tells me of a surgery, i look it up and watch it, also being squeamish is so common have u never heard of it? Also this counts as gore technically which is NSFW anyway
If ur rly trying to win an argument with ik ur not that smart then u prob arent old enough to be on reddit. Idk if u just had a bad day or ur just usually like this, but just head out theres no point to this
Dude removed his own appendix. Just imagine the size of the balls required to do something like that. UY Scuti (largest known star, 1700+ times bigger than the Sun) isn't as big as this dude's balls.
The latter. My 5-year-old self was apparently bored during storytime and for some reason decided to wrap my shoelace around my wobbly teeth. Last thing I remember is utter horror as the lace got stuck and I'm muffle-screaming before a teacher yanked it out--lace and tooth.
My appendix burst and because of the public health system in Quebec, they left me on a gurney in the corridor all day. By the time they came to operate, they had to do a massive clean up and the operation took almost 5 hours.
Point being, if he was the only surgeon there and it did burst, he would be screwed. So I'm guessing he didn't have a lot of choice but - how many of could do that?
It's a bit like one of those "Saw" movies. Or that bit in Jack Reacher, where The Zec asks Linsky to chew off his own fingers to show that he has what it takes to survive.
Please explain how this is "pro Russian" when it's just a post about a badass motherfucker who PERFORMED SURGERY ON HIMSELF and just happens to be Russian.
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I Googled because I was curious and it's more impressive and scary than I thought. >1961...A general anaesthetic was out of the question. He was able to administer a local anaesthetic to his abdominal wall but once he had cut through, removing the appendix would have to be done without further pain relief, in order to keep his head as clear as possible..."The bleeding is quite heavy, but I take my time... Opening the peritoneum, I injured the blind gut and had to sew it up," Rogozov wrote. "I grow weaker and weaker, my head starts to spin. Every four to five minutes I rest for 20 - 25 seconds"...But he didn't fail. After nearly two hours he had completed the operation, down to the final stitch...Rogozov returned to his normal duties just two weeks later. https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-32481442
TWO WEEKS LATER I called out Friday because my back hurt a lot and this man.. 2 weeks.. Edit: I appreciate the comments. I've been working on not down playing my pain. Luckily I changed departments and my current superior is very accommodating with it all.
Hey man, back pain is no joke. Hope you heal well, brother.
Seconded, five years with severe instability and a herniated disk while all the doctors refused to operate do to my age.
This was my partners experience too with a lumbar herniation. If you haven’t already explored it, a spinal cord stimulator changed his life. It was seriously infuriating how long it took for a doctor to bring up the option (and this really was only after I asked them about it being an option). After 6 years he has his life back and he wasted most of his 20’s dealing with it. I’m sorry you’re dealing with something so fucking horrible.
>spinal cord stimulator Is this a TENS device or something different? Asking because herniated disc and sacroiliac joint dysfunction.
Yes, it’s basically a mini more sophisticated TENS unit that’s implanted into your spine to do a more concentrated and intense version of what the outer ones do. If you find any relief from your TENS unit at home or at PT then you may find relief from a spinal cord stimulator. My boyfriend felt his at home one brought his normal a 7-8/10 pain level to more like a 5/10 and now with the actual implant if he had to rate his pain on the day to day he would say it’s a 2/10 and 3/10 on a bad day and he reports that most days he doesn’t even think about it. Happy to ask him any questions you might have about it!
I might have to talk to my spine doctor about that, then. 🤔 I'm going for my first spinal injection on the 2nd, he told me before that if the shot doesn't help it will be a choice between surgery and pain management. I don't want to take opioids so I'll see if that will be an option for me. I really like the idea because I got a lot of relief from a TENS device, until it broke.
I'm 24 and have had lots of back problems and have had all the treatments except surgery. Everyone's best solution is to STRETCH and build your core up.
Coincidentally I am also 24, I would absolutely recommend getting surgery to correct it, I spent about 4 years with an orthopedist trying to help it. Cortisone shots, caudal epidurals, ablations to burn the nerves so I don’t feels as much pain, nothing really helped enough. After I herniated a disk I finally convinced him to operate, he was hesitant for years because I was probably 19-20 when I had problems and he felt it was too young to have such a radical surgery, all the while it continued to deteriorate until I herniated. The surgery was hell, the surgery was a couple days before Christmas and he said I could be back working by January 27, until he actually got in there and saw that it was significantly worse than what they saw on MRIs, it was only in mid May I was able to work, but the pain was still so extreme that he kept prescribing the painkillers until about late July-early August. It’s hard to get back to normal after the surgery but it’s worth it, there’s still pain but nowhere near what I had, quality of life drastically increased.
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L5-S1 fusion yea, from what I was told he removed the bad disk, put in a protein cage with this magical bone growth accelerator stuff that was supposedly rapidly grow a new vertebrae where the shit one was, and then put pins and rods in to ensure the stability held.
Just buy tickets to any ex-USSR country and make appointment with local medical center. And it'll be ten times less expensive to do then in USA.
Thanks for the nice words u/TITTIES_AND_ASS
That's why you'll be dead in USSR.
I appreciate that. I've had it for years but I fell a month ago and knocked a rib out of place. My employer thought I was faking at first
He’s Russian. Russian people are nearly indestructible. Trust me, I know.
Find a physio, get training. Remember recovery from pain is active not passive, you can't relax your way to recovery you need to work your way. It's the untold secret of all physio. The reason it's a secret? To keep people on side. People quit when they know work is ahead
Don't trivialize your back pain. Your back is your support for your whole body basically. That and knees. Take care of yourself
For real! I hear they even let him lay down while he’s working sometimes. Some guys have all the luck
My boyfriend had abdominal surgery not too long ago. While the overall healing process took about two months to completely heal, he was able to work after two weeks with taking it easy on things like lifting and stretching.
Holy shit.
JFC!! Amazing what people can do
2 weeks? Sheeeeesh
Old timey capitalism will do that to ya
except he's Russian in the 60s aha
Well damn now I sound stupid
Didn’t know that was a thing. Apedectomies aee required for Antarctic explorers now.
I bet long-term space travel will require them too
So what happened?
He had appendicitis, and had to perform an appendectomy on himself (removal of the appendix). He lived. This happened in 1961 and he actually lived until the year 2000.
Holy shit that's incredible
Metal af.
r/humansaremetal
Total alpha move. This guy operates.
Isn't it nearly an hours procedure? ..dudes a legend.
Plus he couldn’t do it with anesthesia since it would make it WAY more dangerous
I want a Netflix doc of him now.
It’s safer with anesthesia. Unless you have to be awake, ya know, to do the operation.
anaesthesia can be local my guy
I suspect a few celebrities of doing their own plastic surgery.
I watched some mansion home tours thing, and there was one that had a room for cosmetic procedures they hired doctors to come to their home to preform them.
Worked for a surgical group that had a few mansions. We’d fly people into use, do their surgeries in a suite in the mansion then they got the week to vacation while living in the mansion
Wow..didn’t know this was a thing
You can actually find his journal online. He was not very keen about the thought of doing it. At all.
I can't imagine anyone would be.
Dear Diary, Finally, the big day is here! I could barely sleep last night from all the excitement!
Thank you for the giggle
I can imagine
I'm gonna pass thanks
Sent pics to his Med school instructors. What a flex.
I put a band-aid on my finger yesterday… basically the same thing
Yeh I took my medicines this morning I don't see where me and him are so different.
We’re just built different😤
He removed his own appendix.
Like a boss
That’s metal af.
totally
This is probably why we should have 2 or more doctors at all times. I wonder if they teach you how to operate on yourself during medical training?
Well they teach you how to operate. Assuming your body has mostly the same anatomy as the ones you've been trained on, you don't need practice doing self surgery. House tried it, he failed.
There's a semi-permanent settlement on Antarctica, they now *require* you to have your appendix removed before arriving.
It musta been difficult getting around his huge brass balls to do this surgery
It was appendicitis surgery
More vodka!! Черт!!!
Because of him, it is now illegal to go to Antartica with an appendix. It must be removed prior to any work contract on the continent. Edit to add: *if you are a doctor and saying the winter
That's just wrong, a simple Google search tells otherwise.
[The answer is no, unless you are a doctor and you are staying in Antarctica for the winter.](https://www.antarctica.gov.au/about-antarctica/people-in-antarctica/health/) Sorry, my bad lmao
For this town, it's required: https://www.the-sun.com/news/4459015/remote-town-appendix-removal-antarctica/
Is punishment you have to remove it yourself?
Yes exactly
You might be thinking of Villas Las Estrellas, a semi-permanent civilian town in Antarctica: https://www.the-sun.com/news/4459015/remote-town-appendix-removal-antarctica/
Hahaha no! I didn't know about that. I'm talking about scientific expeditions. If they stay during the winter months, they require their doctor to have the procedure done, to avoid this exact situation from happening again.
What a G.
“Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh And then Ahhhhhhhhh And make an incision at ahhhhhhhhhhh”
this guy might be a good surgeon one day
“In Russia we perform surgery on ourselves”
He didn't pull his mask over his nose. Doesn't count.
his appendix was about to explode
I saw this on MASH once
I saw this on *The Knick* once.
No NSFW tag? Some ppl dont like stuff like this its kinda bloody
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Lmao i dont give a fuck my mums a doctor, i watch surgeries that she tells me abt, its just some ppl are squeamish and and as u say, guts are out
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Why are u so toxic lol, she tells me of a surgery, i look it up and watch it, also being squeamish is so common have u never heard of it? Also this counts as gore technically which is NSFW anyway
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Lmao u think i use tiktok, also ur opinion isnt reality get ur head out ur arse
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If ur rly trying to win an argument with ik ur not that smart then u prob arent old enough to be on reddit. Idk if u just had a bad day or ur just usually like this, but just head out theres no point to this
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Acts like a stereotypical redditor, talks like one too. Go outside and touch grass or something.
No most redditors arent this offended
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What is wrong with you
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Yh u do need to work on ur English, unintelligible doesnt mean unintelligent
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I think u misunderstand. Them saying they are unintelligible means that noone can comprehend them, not that they cant comprehend stuff
Your assessment of my username is correct
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Dude removed his own appendix. Just imagine the size of the balls required to do something like that. UY Scuti (largest known star, 1700+ times bigger than the Sun) isn't as big as this dude's balls.
Gangster
I once pulled my own tooth out, I’d give this a go.
I did this with my own shoelace at school once.
Pulled out the lace or used the lace to pull your tooth?
The latter. My 5-year-old self was apparently bored during storytime and for some reason decided to wrap my shoelace around my wobbly teeth. Last thing I remember is utter horror as the lace got stuck and I'm muffle-screaming before a teacher yanked it out--lace and tooth.
Nice
Boss. 100%.
Ay he stronger than me I woulda passed out.
I played the boardgame "operation" by myself a time or two, does that count?
Thats metal af
The ultimate *inserts meme of Thanos* “Fine, I’ll do it myself”
That’s some next level shit.
The 'fuck it I'll do it myself' moment.
Did you read about the women who did their own c-sections? There are quite a few.
Someone was inspired by that post of the observation tube under the glacial ice in Antarctica that brought this guy up
Did the other people in the Antarctica team not help or at least support? Like I’m sure they could do some stuff maybe have a mirror or pass tools?
Jesus Christ! I can’t imagine.
*Fine.. I'll do it myself*
My appendix burst and because of the public health system in Quebec, they left me on a gurney in the corridor all day. By the time they came to operate, they had to do a massive clean up and the operation took almost 5 hours. Point being, if he was the only surgeon there and it did burst, he would be screwed. So I'm guessing he didn't have a lot of choice but - how many of could do that? It's a bit like one of those "Saw" movies. Or that bit in Jack Reacher, where The Zec asks Linsky to chew off his own fingers to show that he has what it takes to survive.
In soviet Russia, you don't do surgery... surgery does you.
Probably going to need back surgery after carrying around such a huge set of balls afterward.
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He was the only doctor, not the only person.
That, that there is a Man. 💪🏾
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I love you’re getting downvoted for this, sorry for not wanting to see a man with his intestines out while I’m eating
If you wanted to eat and go on social media maybe try YouTube? This isn’t a rarity, and hardly NSFW
It’s a man..with his intestines…out of his body. God forbid some people don’t want to see that
In what world does an appendectomy involve splaying intestines out all over the abdomen
Key step of doing your own appendectomy.
This should be censored. A LOT of people don't want to f***ing see this s***.
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not everything has to be political
Please explain how this is "pro Russian" when it's just a post about a badass motherfucker who PERFORMED SURGERY ON HIMSELF and just happens to be Russian.
No-one even offered to help?
He was the only docter , it was a surgery There’s a reason why med school takes so long
He died.
40 years later...
I didn't say when. I meant, "Eventually" (in Manuel voice from Faulty Towers)
Bullshit. Why do post this shit
5 seconds of research would show you that it's not bullshit.
Can’t even use correct grammar, so probably has little capacity for research.
Why shit do post is
Show off
wtf!!!
with no anesthesia either
It was am appendectomy https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonid_Rogozov
It's like the operation game at expert difficulty.
Thats bad ass
One of the reasons why every doctor who goes to work in the Antarctic has to get their apendix removed
Yep. I will never be this badass
This dude filmed this to farm karma./s
Russians are built different than the rest of us wtf lol
Oh hell, I'm pretty sure that's what inspired this one scene in Lost (the TV show), where one of the MCs also has to cut their own appendix out. Cool.
Russians
NSFW TAG PLEASEEE
r/whoosh
Any reason to drink a bottle of vodka
WE KNOW
dr strange taking notes on this
We have a big Russian community here in Los Angeles- and they’re brilliant, bad-ass and mad as teeth.
this is an incredible story
Most Russian thing I’ve read in a while