Catching cold/flu before op?? Started by: Sophie

@sophiejayne95 I woke up the day before my op feeling rubbish, I absolutely smashed lemsips and loads of water but I was full on the morning of my op and had a massive spot on my chin lol, I never get spots, I felt and looked like crap, and I obviously couldn’t take lemsips as couldn’t drink, when I saw the anesatist he was like are you ill? So I said I just woke up with a cold but I’m fine, The my surgeon came in and again he said are you ill? I said I just woke up with a cold but I’m fine, he was like are you sure as if you don’t feel good we will have to postpone, I was secretly dying haha but I was like no honestly I’m fine, needless to say my op went ahead but I was lousy afterwards xx

I had a slight cold on the day of my op. It was mainly just a tickly cough and I mentioned it to the anaesthetist. He really wasn’t happy about going ahead and said it could lead to a worse cold/chest infection afterwards. He said it was up to me so I said I wanted to go ahead. There’s no way I was cancelling! He assured me that I would be fine during the op and that the only issue was it getting worse afterwards x

I had a sore throat on the day and thought it might be the start of a cold. I didn’t have a temperature so I didn’t mention it in case they cancelled! All went well and I actually woke to no sore throat and didn’t get a cold! X