during circumcision, do they use anesthetics?

Question

do they use anesthetics, or whatever theyre called that makes you not able to feel any pain or anything, during circumcision? if so, do you feel alot of pain?

Answer 1

Circumcision procedures

For infant circumcision, clamps, such as the Gomco clamp, Plastibell, and Mogen are often used.Clamps are designed to cut the blood supply to the foreskin, stop any bleeding and protect the glans. Before using a clamp, the foreskin and the glans are separated with a blunt probe and/or curved hemostat.
With the Plastibell, the foreskin and the clamp come away in three to seven days.With a Gomco clamp, a section of skin is first crushed with a hemostat then slit with scissors. The foreskin is drawn over the bell shaped portion of the clamp and inserted through a hole in the base of the clamp and the clamp is tightened, "crushing the foreskin between the bell and the base plate." The crushing limits bleeding (provides hemostasis). While the flared bottom of the bell fits tightly against the hole of the base plate, the foreskin is then cut away with a scalpel from above the base plate. The bell prevents the glans being reached by the scalpelWith a Mogen clamp, the foreskin is grabbed dorsally with a straight hemostat, and lifted up. The Mogen clamp is then slid between the glans and hemostat, following the angle of the corona to "avoid removing excess skin ventrally and to obtain a superior cosmetic result," than with Gomco or Plastibell circumcisions. The clamp is locked shut, and a scalpel is used to cut the foreskin from the flat (upper) side of the clamp

Answer 2

For adults, in the US, YES, they do use anesthetics. You have choices. You could have a general anesthetic in which you will be put to sleep with a breathing tube down your throat, you will not feel anything. At the end of the surgery, a numbing medication called Marcaine would be injected. This typically lasts 8-10 hours.

OR

You could have what is called Moderate Sedation. They would give you a drug in your IV (usually Versed) that calms you and gives you an amnesia effect. This could relax you enough to the point of you falling asleep. Before the incision is made, they inject Lidocaine, which is a shorter acting numbing medication. Then, at the end of the surgery, they would inject Marcaine for the longer effects. If you did "feel" any pain during the surgery, which is unlikely, you wouldn't remember it at all because of the Versed.

Both ways, you would be prescribed pain medication to take once the Lidocaine and/ or Marcaine has worn off.

It is different with adults than with babies.

Answer 3

Of course they use anesthetics!
It's another common anti-circumcision lie spread by those groups that are against it. But it's not true. Here's some info:

http://www.news10now.com/content/health/healthy_living/?SecID=101&ArID=75223

According to this article, "ninety-seven percent of all new doctors who deal with babies are now learning pain relief techniques for circumcision. That's up from 71 percent ten years ago".

Answer 4

Depends on what kind of circumcision and who will do it.

If you do it through the hammer method by the local folks, they ask you to chew some herbs, with a chisel hammer onto the foreskin, you spit the herb into it (provided you didn't swallow it when the hammer hits the chisel) and jump into the river.

If you do it at a doc's office, yes. You get anesthesia. And no, you will not feel anything.

And no, I am not joking. Ask any Filipino guy. ^_^

Answer 5

If a new born is having a circ, ask the doc.. some don't use local anesthetics, most do.

For an adult or child, it is usually done under anesthesia.

Answer 6

For adults yes, for babies no. It is thought that babies don't feel pain the way adults do, and there have even been Doctors who perform major surgery on them without anesthetics with no complications.
The surgery hurts much less than all the foreskin infections they will get later on if they are not circumcised!

Answer 7

most doctors will use a local for the surgery, a few use a general and ritual circumcisions done by a religious figure most often use none.

Answer 8

Anesthetics is for whimps! I'd like them to use a meat cleaver without any pain killers!

Answer 9

only local which is injected directly into the testicles . my husband walked like John Wayne for a week.

sorry just re read the question getting mixed up with the chop in adults so i cant answer properly but surely for a baby they must be able to numb the area ,poor little sods

Answer 10

If your circumcised they will more than likely use anesthetics.