outpatient surgery expectations

[banderoo 0]

How many people stayed overnight with complications? I'm scheduled for tomorrow and I don't have any health issues and usually do well with anethstesia. I was wondering how long you're actually at the hospital for. I go in at 10:45.

[TQUAD64 9]

I ended up staying 2.5 days with complications. I was sheculed to stay just over night.

All is well now!

[RestlessMonkey 7]

My doc usually keeps patients overnight but let me go...even for my 2nd surgery in under 3 weeks! I had delays with my barium xray too but all told it was pretty quick....6-7 hours or so.

[buzzby315 0]

Banded Jan 20. Reported to same day surgery (connected to the hospital) at 8am for a 9:00 surgery. Finally went in OR at 9:30a. Was out of recovery room by noon, talking with doc at 4 pm about how well I was doing (even with a hiatal hernia repair) and was out the door by 5pm. You'll do fine. Just take it slow getting in/out of the car on the way home. You'll be sore, but feel OK.

[crzytchr 3]

I had surgery at 11:30am and was home by 4:30pm.

[Libbyjane1976 1]

I went into the hospital at 6 a.m. my surgery was scheduled for 7:30, due to the bad weather we had I didn't go in until 9:30, was home by 2. That's even with a hiatal hernia repair.

[SueAZ 3]

I was only in the hospital for 10 hours. I probably could have left earlier if the doctor had written his orders sooner. Most insurance will allow overnight stays if the patient or doctors request it.

[Headhunter 6]

I would request the overnight stay if your insurance allows it.

I would also NOT be having surgery by a doctor that did NOT want to keep me overnight.

Just a personal preference. It is a foreign object, going inside your body, being sewn to an organ. Just to be safe, stay overnight....hey, the food is AWESOME! :party:

[elle8106 0]

I had to be there at 7:30 for 9:00 surgery. I was home by 3 pm. I did NOT want to stay overnight and was determined to get out asap. I could've stayed overnight if I wanted and would've if there had been any problems.

I am pretty healthy and recover pretty quickly.

I think it was easier than my gallbladder surgery 2 years ago. I did stay overnight for that one.