What Terrifies the Ever-Loving BAJEEZUS out of you?

[cricky101]

Originally Posted by SvilleKid

My older sister is sooooo afraid of spiders, I can draw a dot, put 8 legs on it, and she freaks. Buys spider killer spray, and puts tape over the picture of the spider!

Tape, huh. Brilliant!! Thank your sister for me.

[replicant_argent]

Decaf Coffee.

Wait... that isn't a "fear."

I will get back to you after I finish the contemplation of hosting my Waffle Thread.

[SvilleKid]

Originally Posted by ninjavanish

For me it's General Anesthesia.

I have never had to have it. I know thousands upon thousands of people get GA performed successfully for various operations all over the globe every single day. However, no amount of reassurance from people who have had it done to them personally, even people whose opinions and points of view I trust without question, could break this phobia of mine. I know it's a completely irrational fear.

I know that it is perfectly safe. In fact, I have done enough research on the processes, procedures, drugs, etc in hopes of breaking this fear through education on the subject that I could probably almost perform the procedure myself! Yet, to no avail. My phobia remains intact and as strong as ever.

It's not something I even considered as a kid... or even a young adult... but recently (Over the past couple of years), and for no reason that I can explain I simply "developed" said fear.

I've done all manner of crazy things which would probably scare many people in a stupefied puddle of slobbering goo. But for some reason this simple thing makes me feel like I would literally rather have an operation done Civil War battlefield style than to be put to sleep. I wont say that I'm unafraid of excruciating pain, but I dare say I am less afraid of it than Getting put under.

And the fact that I am in the unfortunate circumstance that I will soon have to face this phobia in the very, very near future for the extraction of some dodgy teeth makes my heart beat quicken and my anxiety muscle start doing jumping jacks in my stomach.

So in light of having to face down my own worst fear... I want to know what it is that Scares the FREAKING CRAP out of some of you BOTL's and SOTL's. And if/how you faced it down.

I'm sorry, son. I fear I may be the source of that fear. Maybe your having to deal with me going under for knee surgeries, and knowing that afterwards, I always puke my toenails up, may have something to do with it! I've never feared the GA, just the after-effects. But, then again, you also know that above ALL, I'm phobic about throwing up! Not much that really bothers me in life, but Throwing up is at the top of the list. LAst knee surgery, they gave me a double dose of the medicine that prevents nausea from the GA. Didn't help! Because of that, when I had my tooth extracted earlier this year, I refused the GA, and went with the local shots. Had to listen to the sound of the extraction, but didn't feel a thing, and avoided the GA. Don't know if they do wisdom tooth extractions without GA! Make sure the GA guy/gal knows about your sometimes rapid heartbeat.

[ninjavanish]

Originally Posted by SvilleKid

I'm sorry, son. I fear I may be the source of that fear. Maybe your having to deal with me going under for knee surgeries, and knowing that afterwards, I always puke my toenails up, may have something to do with it! I've never feared the GA, just the after-effects. But, then again, you also know that above ALL, I'm phobic about throwing up! Not much that really bothers me in life, but Throwing up is at the top of the list. LAst knee surgery, they gave me a double dose of the medicine that prevents nausea from the GA. Didn't help! Because of that, when I had my tooth extracted earlier this year, I refused the GA, and went with the local shots. Had to listen to the sound of the extraction, but didn't feel a thing, and avoided the GA. Don't know if they do wisdom tooth extractions without GA! Make sure the GA guy/gal knows about your sometimes rapid heartbeat.

Nah,

Throwing up doesn't scare me, or even really play into the phobia itself. It really started out as something that I was mildly afraid of and I just kind of got interested in it and thought that if I learned about it then I would see that it is as safe as putting on a bandaid.

But the more I read... the more terrified I became...

It really didn't help any that the first book on Anesthesiology I read was almost begun with these words... almost verbatim:

Though Scientists have yet to fully understand HOW General Anesthesia affects the brain... they have nearly perfected the actual manipulation of the drugs and procedures."

I'm sorry... but I don't care how many doctorates you have... Telling me that you're going to inject me with something that you don't know how it works? I think I'll pass... I dont care if you know exactly how much to use. Do some more research on it and get back to me.

That's kind of like saying... we don't know how this saw that we are going to use to cut open your cranium works... but we know that it does work. And that we are really good at it.

Pardon me for being skeptical but I'm not so convinced... mmmmkay?

And on top of it... I don't like the ieda of relinquishing control of myself to someone I've barely met... If my anesthesiologist was a life long friend whom I trusted with my very life... I probably would have no qualms about it. But what if this guy/girl's wife/husband just got caught sleeping around and the dude's head isn't in the game... I don't want to be a victim if said infidelity. Maybe I'm just not the type of person is trusting of strangers... even strangers with licenses and degrees that say they know what they're doing... but in any case. If I wake up with a leg missing or something like that I swear they better hope they cripple me freakin good otherwise I will literally bite their legs off... assuming they actually fix my tooth.

[68TriShield]

I have had teeth pulled over the years and never once was GA ever suggested.

[Mugen910]

floating out in the open ocean....There is honestly very few things in the world I'm actually scared of except for THAT. I can swim and have done some type of underwater maneuvers where I had to fight my way out but not knowing what's coming up from underneath and just floating... *shivers*

[T.G]

Mean Darrell.

And Gurkha cigars.

[Skywalker]

Originally Posted by T.G

Mean Darrell.

And Gurkha cigars.

For me Werewolves

and

Creepy Dave!

[kelmac07]

Cockroaches!!! I can do spiders, snakes, bugs, bats...but I hate me some cockroaches!!

[shilala]

I tried like heck to think of a fear, couldn't come up with one. I used to be scared to death of needles, but for the last couples years a week hasn't gone by that I don't get a blood draw or a shot. I just simply got used to it.
Maybe "getting in a car wreck"? I was in a really bad wreck 7 or 8 years ago and it haunted me for a long, long time. It still comes to me when I'm sleeping, from time to time.
Aside from that, I'm still scared to death of my ex-wife.

[GolfNut]

Originally Posted by shilala

I tried like heck to think of a fear, couldn't come up with one. I used to be scared to death of needles, but for the last couples years a week hasn't gone by that I don't get a blood draw or a shot. I just simply got used to it.
Maybe "getting in a car wreck"? I was in a really bad wreck 7 or 8 years ago and it haunted me for a long, long time. It still comes to me when I'm sleeping, from time to time.
Aside from that, I'm still scared to death of my ex-wife.

Maybe running completely out of cigars?

[shilala]

Originally Posted by GolfNut

Maybe running completely out of cigars?

Not gonna happen. We can cross that off the list.

[DocLogic77]

My wife.








kidding honey...please don't hit me.

[Mugen910]

Originally Posted by DocLogic77

My wife.








kidding honey...please don't hit me. AGAIN!

Fixed for ya Doc!

[DocLogic77]

Originally Posted by Mugen910

Fixed for ya Doc!

You know my secret shame.

[icehog3]

Being stranded in the ocean. Never been on a cruise. Hated flying over the ocean to Ireland. Won't go out on a saltwater fishing boat to the point where you can't see land in any direction. I swim in the ocean, but afterwards I think I am dumb.

[replicant_argent]

Originally Posted by icehog3

KRYPTONITE.

There ya go, Tom, fixed that for ya.

heights

[icehog3]

Originally Posted by replicant_argent

There ya go, Tom, fixed that for ya.

You crack me up, Brother.

[ninjavanish]

Thought of another thing...

Those slug things that they put in the guy's helmets in Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan.


Those F****** things can go to hell. I would chew my own lips off in hopes that I would bleed to death before they got in my brain.