Surgery split into two parts - is it safe?

[SoSoz]

Some surgeons split the surgery into two days. Is it safe for patient to have so much local anasthesia?

[splitting hairs]

It's completely fine and is normal to have surgery over two days when the graft numbers exceed 1500 to 2000. 

[HappyMan2021]

My surgery in June with Dr. Mwamba was 3 days. He said he sometimes does surgeries that are 4 or even 5 days long. I thought my 3 day surgery was long, cant imagine what situation requires 4-5 days. 

Mwamba did say that anesthesia does lose its effectiveness the more days your surgery is. Apparently people develop rapid tolerances to the lidocaine or whatever. 

This doesn't mean you will be in more pain, just that you will be injected more. 

I myself did notice that towards the end of Day 2, and all of Day 3, I was getting injected much more frequently than I was on Day 1. 

[mister_25]

This is usually standard, however as mentioned above it is quite common for the second day to not go as smoothly due to the anaesthetic

[Doron Harati]

Yes it's normal.

I had 3 hts, my 1st horrific experience was done by Arenamed clinic (hair mill) in Turkey Istanbul and then I had 2 repair procedures at HDC clinic by Dr. Maras, both surgeries took 2 days with no issues, the reason for is because the clinic do roughly around 2500 grafts in 1 day, so the job can be done professionally, repair cases like mine can have less grafts in a day due to the repair complicity, so I had 2 days for 2500 grafts.

Some cases can even have 3 days surgey if there's a beard grafts procedure.

You just need to make sure you don't have medical issues or allergy for local anesthesia.

[NARMAK]

My surgery was split into 2 days after i had a spike in BP and whatnot. 

Tbh, it seems to have turned out fine but you should choose a good doctor and clinic, then let them do their thing regardless of how many days they need to do it properly. 

[Gatsby]

My surgery was split into six days!  🤩😉

[WhereIsMyMind]

its actually beter to split it between days. Classic hair mill does 5k in same sitting with horrible results