Anesthesia

Have you read up on anesthesia awareness? :D

On a serious note, for me it was an on/off situation. Though they did tell me I took quite a while to come to. I don't recall anything and the first sign of consciousness returned when I opened my eyes outside the ICU
 
Went into nightmare mode during my last op. Think Inception meets The Conjuring. But under sedation the dream lasts "weeks". The scariest place to live for a few weeks. Anesthetized and inside a never ending nightmare. My ex wasn't happy at being called to the theater 3 times to witness me cr@pping in my theater gown.



Just kidding. Its an awesome experience. Like doing shrooms.
 
Went under within seconds, woke up in the hallway while being wheeled to the ward, can't remember a thing. Trying to pee afterwards was a mission.
 
pinball wizard said:
That would be the morphine based pain meds, not the anesthesia.
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Just had codeine, nothing too hectic. And I've never had that reaction to codeine before or since so I assumed it had something to do with the anaesthesia.
 
Jehosefat said:
Just had codeine, nothing too hectic. And I've never had that reaction to codeine before or since so I assumed it had something to do with the anaesthesia.
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You do know that your body converts codeine into what is essentially a morphine type opiate?
 
I once took forever to come out of anesthesia, but that's probably cause it was emergency surgery and I'd had several beers at the time of the emergency.

The subsequent surgeries to finish fixing my **** up went as per normal.
 
pinball wizard said:
You do know that your body converts codeine into what is essentially a morphine type opiate?
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Yes, I am aware the codeine is an opiate. I was commenting on the fact that I have never had that reaction to it any other time which was why I assumed it was the anaesthesia.
 
It's very different now to how it was 20 years ago. I had a bad experience when I was a child (Wont scare you with that story haha). But recently went for hand surgery and felt zero side effects from the anesthetic when I came to.
 
I went under for my sports modelling. Count back from 10 ... 9 ... 8 .... zzzz .... woke up and it was done. Wife drove me home.
 
Been under a couple of times. you get told to count backwards from ten.. before you hit 1 you are out.

Like everyone mentions it is like off and on. You go under and the next thing you are waking up again feeling like it only has been a minute or two when you have been under for ages.

Best sleep I have ever had
 
Been under general only two times in my life. Once when I was 5 or so. Another when I was about 15.

The first time I got giddy and mischievous. I jumped on my bed and started flashing the other people in the ward.

The second time I got very very angry that I was being woken up by the nurse. Probably because it was a great dream or whatever. But I swore and shouted, "I am ****ing awake!". And I mean really shouted. The nurse backed off because she thought I would try to hit her. Not that I made a move at all.
I blame my mother for the second one though. She had a disgusting and temper flaring way of waking me up all throughout my childhood. Very abrupt and very loud. It has conditioned me to hate being woken up by anything less than a harp and soothing tones from my wife. My wife and kids are basically the only people that can wake me up without me being at least a tiny bit pissed off on some level.
 
HavocXphere said:
huh? Source on said monitors?
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Nope I have no source. One of the doctors at Netcare told me about that when my daughter went in for dental surgery a couple of years ago. So its very possible he might have just said it to calm us down or that someone is actively watching for electrical activity or what have you.
 
I also nearly passed out from local anesthetic in the dentist's chair the once. I think that was due to a hard training session and not eating before going to see him.
 
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