Is surgery painful

sure it is =-D

Generally, surgery is not painful. Patients feel pain after the surgery is completed.

During most surgical procedures, the patient is under some type of anesthesia. General, local, and regional anesthetics are used by the doctor to either render the patient unconscious or awake, but unable to feel the pain of the procedure.

After the anesthetic wears off, that is when patients usually feel post surgical pain. This pain can be managed by prescribed medications which will be introduced to the patient's body either intravenously or orally.

Depending on the type and duration of the surgery, patients can have post surgical pain ranging from very mild to severe. In most cases though, that pain is effectively managed by the medications given after surgery.