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Help! i am going in for my gauges to be sewn up and need to be put under a shot of numbing anesthesia. will i be fine?
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Of course!: As long as you are otherwise healthy AND you follow your pre op directions (No eating or drinking 8 hours before the procedure!) you will be fine. You put yourself at greater risk putting those gauges in than you are having them taken care of now! Good luck!
Answered 6/19/2014
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