Operating Table

[Vsg Doll 5]

So this may be a silly question, but I'm a hefty sized girl so I figured it doesnt hurt to ask. I heard that they wheel you into the operating room and you have to scoot onto a super skinny operating table. Does anyone remember the "waking up" part and having to scoot off of the skinny table back onto the bed, or do they somehow lift you? I dont even know if this question makes sense but in my head it is lol.

[lostalongtheway 5]

I might need to know the answer to this too, lol. It makes sense to me.

[Sleevie WonderLand 41]

Ladies, dont worry about the size of the tables. They are well equipped to lift or move you if they need to. When I went in for my surgery they sedated me right before I got into the operating room, so I have no idea if or how they moved me. Dont be self-conscious, the surgeons and hospital staff know that they are dealing with "healthier" patients, so they are prepared.

Let go, and dont worry about the small stuff like that. You'll be fine once you wake up in your room all comfy and hopefully with access to a morphine pump or some other great pain relieving method!

[emily_0192010 168]

I was completely awake when I was brought into the operating room. I still remember the conversation I had with the anesthesiologist beforehand. I shifted myself over and then scooted around until I was in the right place.

I woke up in recovery, in a completely different bed. I figured they moved me somehow, I even laughed at myself imaging a large crane-like thing being used to shift me LOL (i was post anesthesia...). But I didn't have any bruises or marks and I know that they deal with patients of my size or bigger everyday. I didn't dwell on it and at this point I really don't care. I wondered about it, but it was one of those things that i didn't really want to know the answer to just in case I didn't like it!

[Vsg Doll 5]

I was completely awake when I was brought into the operating room. I still remember the conversation I had with the anesthesiologist beforehand. I shifted myself over and then scooted around until I was in the right place.

I woke up in recovery, in a completely different bed. I figured they moved me somehow, I even laughed at myself imaging a large crane-like thing being used to shift me LOL (i was post anesthesia...). But I didn't have any bruises or marks and I know that they deal with patients of my size or bigger everyday. I didn't dwell on it and at this point I really don't care. I wondered about it, but it was one of those things that i didn't really want to know the answer to just in case I didn't like it!

Hahaha, yeah guess its not something that I NEED to know, i was just curious. I'm 22days away from having surgery and all kinds of wild questions are running through my head so i thought i would just throw it out there. thanks for the reply hopefully i will find out one way or another..lol

[Vsg Doll 5]

Ladies, dont worry about the size of the tables. They are well equipped to lift or move you if they need to. When I went in for my surgery they sedated me right before I got into the operating room, so I have no idea if or how they moved me. Dont be self-conscious, the surgeons and hospital staff know that they are dealing with "healthier" patients, so they are prepared.

Let go, and dont worry about the small stuff like that. You'll be fine once you wake up in your room all comfy and hopefully with access to a morphine pump or some other great pain relieving method!

thank you for the reassuring words of encourangement. I'm not going to worry about it, i'm going to just sit in perfect peace and love the entire process

[amberj 21]

i just had a c-section and if its anything like that O.R. they have you get onto the table for the procedure and afterwards they move you. i remember having an inflatable thing under me that made it easier for them to slide me to a different bed. it may be different for each hospital though. My first c-section i was also slid over from the operating table to a bed. i weighed around 350 when I gave birth, so i wouldn't have any concerns with them being able to be moved, there's always someone to help. on another note, the hard part was me getting onto the OR table because I had to lean over and get my epidural and feeling gets lots REALLY fast which makes it almost impossible to get my legs back on the bed and ready for surgery.

[losetobemeagain 9]

I walked myself to the operating room and then got up on the bed myself.... I have no idea how I got in the bed in the recovery or who put me in it... So as long as I was knocked out and didn't have to hear them grunting to move me I could care less lol

[former_vbg 198]

Yeah, I was lucky. I was by myself when I went to have surgery and waited quite awhile in the area before you go in for surgery. Think they might have been a little behind and so it just gave me more time to think about the "what ifs" and one of the nurses noticed, said something and shortly after that the anisthesiologist came in and gave me my sleepy cocktail. I was so thankful. No idea how they moved me. All I remember is waking up in my room.

[LeahG 16]

I too was awake when I went into the operating room and had to scoot myself onto the table but I wasn't awake for much longer than that! They must have lifted me onto a different bed because I woke up in recovery in a different bed. A few days later I noticed a had a pretty good size bruise right above my left hip that I didn't have before surgery that I'm guessing was from moving me. I'm just glad I wasn't awake to feel how I got that bruise! lol

[thinoneday 445]

good question. . as having worked in the OR I can tell you exactly how that works. . . after they do the surgery, they slide a "slider board" under you and about 4 - 6 folks transfer you onto the "other" stretcher, then off to recovery you go where you recover. . . you are moved by people, you don't do the moving. . .

[Shae 44]

I was awake when they wheeled me into the OR and had to get onto that skinny little table. I had a nurse on the side of me who was a life saver. She told me to look at her and nothing else. I did and she told me exactly what to do and how to do it. She saw that I was kinda panicky because the only IV they could start on me was a pediatric IV that was barely in my vein. They started to strap my arm onto the table and I told her I was severely claustrophobic and was starting to panic. Again she focused me on her and told me everything that was about to happen just before it did. They slowly pushed the "Mai Tai" concoction into the IV (burned a lot). then she said they were going to put a mask on me. My adrenaline kicked in obliterating the effects of the medicine and she assured me that I would be out within seconds. She told me to blow out all my air then breathe in as deep as I could as quickly as possible once they put the mask on me. She counted to three, I let it all out, the mask came, I did the deep breath panic type of inhale and that is the last thing I remember. The next thing I knew, I was being told to blow out as hard as I could and something was being removed from my mouth (I guess the breathing tube). The next thing I remember was holding my husband's hand (actually he was holding mine) and him telling me that everything went great.

Shae

[Lissa 2,631]

Doll, I was 350 and they moved me around for 3 surgeries without a huge hassle. I remember them moving me after the two stent surgeries, but I was out when I came off the operating table onto the recovery bed. I did get up and walk from the recovery bed to the regular hospital bed, although I don't remember it.

You'll do fine. This is one of those don't worry about it things. The hospital is used to moving us big folks around when they need to do so. Besides, you won't be a big folk for long.

Good luck on your journey!!

[circa 333]

about a year ago, I had a tumor removed from my breast and I put myself on the operating table and I didn't feel like I was going to fall off or anything - it didn't seem overly skinny and when my surgery was done, I got to move myself again - but I was awake for my surgery. I don't like anesthesia at all - although I know i"ll have to have it for this surgery. It tends to make me nauseous and well....angry haha.

[M2G 1,836]

I had to scoot myself ON to the OR table and then back OFF the OR table onto a wheeling bed. I remember it all the scooting even though after I was pretty out of it. Good luck with your surgery..you will do fine no matter what they need you to do.