Anesthesia for the 1st Time

[SpaceDust 585]

Yeah' date=' they give you "milk of amnesia", and you don't remember anything. In my job, I administer "light" anesthesia, so I was wanting to experience things, and thought I'd at least notice the burn in the IV when they initially put me under, but nope. I don't know who administered it, because I was helping the anesthetist position my arm (the arm piece wouldn't snap into the table), and then I was waking up in my room.

Perhaps you lose the last few minutes before the med, because memories don't chemically get made? Not really a VSG question, but I think I'll ask an anesthetist the next time I get a chance![/quote']

Funny, I always get the burn, though I'm out before it gets to my shoulder. I call it my Matrix moment.

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[DonRodolfo 1,416]

Can anyone tell me what being under anesthesia is like? Ive never had any kind of surgery, nor have I been 'put under' before so I'm curious to know! Of course I realize I'll be unconscious, BUT do you remember or feel anything at all? And does it kick in immediately and you just fall asleep?

One of the best naps I ever had in my life was when I was put under for an endoscopy. I saw the anesthesiologist inject something into my IV and the next thing I knew I woke up in a recovery room feeling refreshed and ready to go.

Years later i had the funniest experience with being put out. I went to an oral surgeon for a biopsy of my gum. i was laid back in a dental chair, there was a flurry of activity around me with the doctor and assistants, and then I realized that this was taking awhile. I asked "are we going to get started anytime soon" and one of the ladies laughed at me and said "we're done already" - just then i noticed a huge wad of cotton in my jaw. it was like a chunk of time had passed without me knowing!

For my sleeve surgery, the anesthesiologist said he was going to give me something to relax. i didn't see him give me anything - I walked to the surgery room, laughed and talked with the nurses as they got me comfortable on the table, and the next thing I knew I was waking up in the recovery room with this bad gas cramp and feeling groggy. They saw I was in discomfort, offered me pain meds, i said yes and it helped within minutes. By the time they wheeled me to my room I was laughing and joking with people on the way there.

[gaijingal 62]

Now, I've been under "conscious sedation" before (which is NOT what they will be doing for this surgery, so no one freak out that the following will happen to them. IT WILL NOT). I've partially woken up during that, and found it overall a pleasant, if odd, experience.

The dentist used ketamine and propofol, I think. Maybe ketamine and Versed. Either way, the amnesic drug wore off faster, so I was left mainly under the effect of ketamine. I could hear the dentist talking (and beating on my giant molars with a mallet like they stole her wallet), but I couldn't feel anything except a lovely floating feeling, and all I could see was a lovely yellow swirly landscape, like an I Dream of Jeanie dream sequence.

Old hippies love it when that happens in the ER. When they wake up, you can't talk to them about how the procedure went, they just want to talk about the swirls and sparkles and their lovely high, LOL.

It's worth noting, whatever induction agent they give you tends to have anxiolytic properties, so if you do remember anything, it tends to be pleasant and non-stressful.

Better living through chemistry!

[Sydney Susan 333]

Personally I love anaesthesia... I've had to have a number of ops in the last 15 years and it is sheer bliss! Wake up from a dreamless sleep after all the horrible/undignified/really painful stuff is over! Lie in bed and get waited on. People bring you flowers.

Wish I could use it in other parts of my life... laundry, washing up, arguments with the teenager... all gone, flowers arriving.

[gaijingal 62]

Funny, I always get the burn, though I'm out before it gets to my shoulder. I call it my Matrix moment.

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If they use lidocaine in the line before the propofol, you don't get the burn...but then you usually taste the lidocaine.

[DonRodolfo 1,416]

Personally I love anaesthesia... I

Wish I could use it in other parts of my life... laundry, washing up, arguments with the teenager... all gone, flowers arriving.

At work! I could cure cancer myself if I could have this at work!