Oh my I'm so scared...

Ok, I don't even know where to begin with this... I posted some time ago about my anxiety about anesthesia, the answers that I received definitely have helped me resolve the issues that I had with post op nausea... but now I'm afraid of other things with the anesthesia. It seems that with the surgeries I've had in the past my biggest fear is always with the anesthesia. I work myself up so much, and being unable to take my anti-anxiety meds the morning of the surgery it definitely doesn't do anything to help me through the situation, but I cry almost uncontrollably in the pre-op area. The things that run through my mind are thoughts like "I had such severe nausea last time, what happens if this time the side effect is worse? what if I don't wake up?"... things like that. It's horrible. Any advice anyone can give on how to handle this pre-op anxiety? It's not really bad at the moment, but I get occasional waves of anxiety even now, and I'm 29 days to surgery... so I can only imagine what it's going to be like 29 days from now when I'm in pre-op. Ugh... Help please, if you have some words of wisdom.

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