oh dude their the worst things ever. i had open heart 3 months ago and man their unplesent i pretty sure i said the same thing haha.

ahh man i remember those, i had lung surgery like 4 years ago, and i had 1 in each side in me to help my lungs with air pockets in my lungs?? from what the doctor said, it felt so weird having those pulled out, and getting your cathador(tube up your private part) pulled out burns, anyways when you get this surgery you don't crap for like a week and a half, seriously cause your lying in bed for like 2 weeks and the chemicals make you constipated

AHHH I remember that feeling!! unfortunatly every time one of mine came out....my lung filled up with fluid again and i ended up having about 8 damn they cane

That's GOT TO HURT. I KNOW IT DOES. GET WELL SOON!

the funny thing is with all the pain of the chest drains and lack of sleep as well i was glad of the OP to get some rest lol but when i woke up it was a different matter..anyhow that was a couple of years ago and im doing fine..

i had a few chest drains.. 5 in all in the space of two years and a OP even had a chest drain inserted in the back as well over the lung area that was swine.. had my OP on cardiff on right lung to remove some cysts on lungs, as that was the worse they would burst one of those cysts and lung would collapse

Same here....feels like crap.

dude i had a lung surgery...and i had a catheter up my wiener...but trust the worst was when they removed the chest tube

Wow...My husband is a cardiopulmonary surgeon and I hear him talk about this sort of thing all the time, but it's really something else to see the tube removal from an actual person.

i have had 2 chest tubes and 2 chest drains the ones in your gut the go up into your chest they don't hurt coming out the only thing that hurt was when they pinched the skin after it came out.

i had 2 drains on my right side and an op der bout 2 months ago. first time jus got local anisthecic fr initial cut...sore as fuck when tryin to push the tube through rib cage!!!!! surgery grand tho,was asleep fr in,jacked up on painkillers when i woke.happy days...

Coming out isn't bad, it's when they put one in while you're awake that hurts like a futhermucker. (I had 2 spontaneous pneumo's, and a surgery on each lung in 2 months & they didn't put me under when they put the first tube in) Needless to say, that wasn't a good start to that year

I had 6 chest drains in all , and even a OP on the lung no fun at at all. two on the left side and four on the right, in the space of a four years.

Yeah, it's not that bad coming out. I had one on each lung.

Damn man I had one too, a few weeks ago. My goddamn doctor jerked mine out, VERY quick.... I had it in for 5 days..

that sucks dude.. where the hell does all that tube go?

yep, those things are not fun. I had one for 9 days after I had a spontanious pnemo from coughing too hard during a asthma attack. not only the pain of the tube, but then the dumbass surgon left a stitch in and i got a secondary infection. dumb doctor..how big is your scar? mine is HUGE