User blog comment:Spawny0908/OMG/@comment-1265875-20120119172044/@comment-3455248-20120119182525

I'm sorry you had to go through that. I've been there before and for similar procedures - when it first starts, you think "I can feel this, but I'm sure the medicine just hasn't fully kicked in yet" so you don't say anything. Or "this hurts a little, but as long as it doesn't get worse ..." I've learned to definitely speak up right away and to be very clear to differentiate between "pain" vs. "pressure" or "discomfort". Anesthesia reacts differently for different people and even though you may not have looked happy ... well, no one looks happy when they're being cut into, even if they can't feel it, so it can be hard for a doctor or nurse to gauge just how bad it is unless you tell them explicitly. I hope the rest of your visit is less painful or, at the very least, better medicated.