@beancat425 Don't forget to breathe. Long slow deep breaths will help lower blood pressure and think happy thoughts. Relaxing music helps too as you can escape in it. You can even bring pictures of things you love to look at. Fear makes pain worse, so anything you can do to relax will help.

After my cervical surgery, I didn't use my pain medicine. It just nauseated me, and I could handle the pain without it. At that point it is healing pain, so think of it differently. Before surgery you tend to think about pain as holding you captive. After surgery, pain is to heal the incision. I don't know what your procedure is, but I do know what anxiety feels like. I was having panic attacks every day for 4 months until I decided to try to deprogram them and figure out why it was happening.

Good luck!