How To Calm Anxiety Attacks (Especially Before Surgery)
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- Опубліковано 26 вер 2024
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Anxiety before surgery is very common, same it can lead to a panic attack if it goes untreated! Surgery or not, patients can learn to overcome anxiety and prevent dangerous panic attacks that can lead to the emergency room.
Prevention is key, because it's always easier to quench a small anxiety reaction versus a full blown panic attack. This is where the introspective tricks work! Figuring out where the anxiety is in your body is the first step to controlling it
Expectations and certainty are important antidotes to anxiety, and this is where the anxiety spiral can be aborted.
Curiosity is also powerful to overcome anxiety, and the Yoda humming trick works great with that!
Once a panic attack sets in, patients need more intense interventions, typically. Valsalva, biofeedback, and other tricks can help, but they can be harder to implement when the panic sets in.
I also answer many questions that come in the stream, about reducing fear before surgery, labor and delivery, and much more.
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My first surgery I had a panic attack. I was yelled at to calm down, strapped to the table and had the mask shoved on my face which made it worse. Luckily my second surgery was much better. Much more relaxed. Much more information. The anisteseologist was much more willing to talk. I am so thankful for those of you that are good.
I had that happen too! I am so sorry for what you went through as it is so demoralizing 😢
The extreme ignorance of a doctor responding to you having a panic attack by yelling “Calm down!” and then strapping you to the table and shoving the mask on your face must have been so traumatizing. As a psychotherapist, my heart breaks for you. Fortunately, you have resilience and were able to make sure that when you had surgery again, you advocated for yourself and you had a wonderful anesthesiologist who was willing to listen to you and answer your questions.❤️🧚🏻♀️🩵
I would have left
That is traumatizing
Thank you so much for sharing the knowledge to allay fears. One thing that helps me is Stanford for my surgeries only
Im not scared of the outcome of the surgery it’s the going under that scares me. My brain can’t comprehend what’s going to happen when I go under.
For the record I suffer from the most severe case of medical anxiety aka hypochondriac here. I can’t walk into a hospital without throwing up, yup I know totally crazy. You are seriously the first medical video that I can sit down and watch and not go into a full blown panic attack. Thank you for these videos, helps calm the nerves a bit.
I have surgery tomorrow and I feel nervous as heck
Hope all went well for you I'm having mine 3 weeks time. Speedy recovery for you . Best thing we can do is 🙏 trust & go in as positive as we can that our surgeon & anaesthetist are caring & good will take best care of us.
I having mine next month and I have lost my sleep
I'm only a few minutes into the video but memories are already coming back from going to the emergency room for the first (and only) time. Having to be in a hospital gown and feeling completely exposed, the constant beeping sounds and blood pressure band hurting my arm I was constantly on edge. My heart rate was a resting 160 the whole time. The woman who was going to put my IV in walked in the room and I started sobbing. I've never been more afraid in my entire life.
She was incredibly sweet and got the IV hooked up on the first try which I still thank God for to this day. I eventually want to have children and I know hospital visits will be frequent with that. I'm trying to mentally prepare. Medical anxiety is so surreal
Go through your senses. Look. Name something you see. Smell. Name something you smell. Listen. Name something you can hear. Feel. Name something you can touch.
Focus on the things you name.
Sometimes I repeat “Just wait. Just wait. Don’t do anything. Just wait. I repeat until the chemicals flooding my body have a chance to dissipate.
This is a very common tactic for use with anxiety states outside of an operating room. It will likely not work in an operating room situation. 1) the anxiety Is much greater 2) you will likely be out before you can arrange your brain to do these things. 3) it is simply not useful in a surgical suite.
Great advice going to remember that one. What calms me is saying over & over "All is well" ❤
I have laparoscopic surgery coming up in a few days and have been having debilitating panic attacks and this has helped so much to calm my nerves! Thank you so much!
I go for mine the 27th. I have a 16x12cm cyst. Yesterday is when I calmed down when I saw some video. I was ready to rid myself five nights ago. Ugh
You are much kinder and more caring than this guy was, I won't even call him my anesthesiologist, because he didn't take good care of me throughout everything, lol.
He just didn't care!
Thank you for the kind comments, but I'm so sorry that you had that experience
@@MedicalSecrets hello sir and anyone who is reading this... my father have compound fracture in his tibia bone for like 7 months now and he is refussing for sugery due to his depression. he is on medication for deprssion from 2005. i don't know what to do i am completely hopeless now can anyone suffest me anything related to it. please
@@MedicalSecrets please reply
@@Whocares1472So sorry to hear this hope all works out for your Dad. All best ❤
@@MedicalSecretsmy last surgery was a cholecystectomy.. I still remember my anesthesiologist trying to wake me up and I woke up screaming "I can't breathe" ..I was given a drop.of.water which pacified me...I have again and upcoming surgery next month and I am freaking out...I have also aged for another 5 years... standing at 45 now..I dont know what's gonna happen this time 😢😢😢😢😢
I taught at a HS that focused on trauma because our kids lived in high poverty, high crime areas. We had one student kill another during passing time. We started to teach breathing to lower anxiety. COVID stopped us from practicing, so we stopped. I don’t have data or more info at this time to tell you how effective it was.
I'm sorry to hear about the crime, but you are right about the breathing
I find that watching on UA-cam the surgery I'm going to have, helps with my anxiety. I know exactly what they will be doing.
I would love to be knocked out to even get to the hospital and stay that way until I came home! I hate hospitals!
I agree
Hate hospitals as well. It’s called morophine
Just found your videos. Have been dealing with some medical anxiety while awaiting test results and possible pending surgery. I've had surgery before-one under general, and one nerve block, but I was much younger. I think my anxiety is from realizing that both these surgeries happened when I was much younger, and before having some struggles with my mental health. I've also trained professionally in a lot of ways somatically, and in breath & mindfulness, and I still have difficulty integrating. Thank you so much for the evidence-based reminder that my years of training will help me through this. It has really helped.
Thank you I am watching this + practicing the breathing to help prepare myself for upcoming surgery
I'm wishing you the best 🙏
Just watching this video brought on anxiety 😢. When I was two in 1957 I stepped on a needle which lodged in the bone and needed hospitalization and surgery with ETHER as the anesthesia. I remember literally everything about it-the hospital stay, the crib, the doctor with the light on his forehead, being wheeled into the OR, the family visitors, how sick I got from the ether. It has traumatized me since to any medical environment or procedure.
Same experience age 5
I had my left eyelid operated on when I was 6. (I had a drooped eyelid. ) took 2- 3 nurses to hold me down just to draw blood. Preop was just as bad.had to drink some God- awful med. which I threw up. After surgery, I vomited all night. I'm nervous about the anesthesia, eventhough they have many options today.
I may know the doctor who is performing the procedure. Knowing the anesthesiologist is another thing. This is what causes much of my anxiety. Thanks for showing me how to better understand and keep my anxiety under control.
Dr. Kaveh, thank you so much ❤ You're my doc👍 Your videos are very helpfull!! I am not an easy patient, if dentist or hospital.., even I've been going through a rough breastcancer battle a few years ago... I get nervous everytime I just think about my next surgery.. even if it's not for the first time. I wish you could be my anesthetist 😊 Best wishes from Germany 🙋♀️
Great live! You explain things so well!! Thankful for anesthesiologists like you.
I woke up one time. And a scale was come towards my eye. I made a noise....the doctor freaked and out I went out again. Boy , I haven't forgotten. That's why I breath deep to over come anxiety
my doctors have always been really helpfull with my procedures/surgerys i am nervous for my up coming procedure but i do deep breathing that helps me im getting upper endoscopy
Getting back surgery next month in October. & I’m watching this video & I am so stressed. I had all kinds of surgeries big surgeries but for some reason here I am crying because I’m so scared the older we get the mire sensitive we get.
Share that fear with your team❤
AWESOME Dr. You are Definitely one of a kind! I Appreciate your time. Please take Care
Thank you! Were these tips helpful for you?
I had a panic attack whilst waiting on biopsy results. I thought I was having a stroke.
Luckily my 8cm hiatal hernia tumour is benign. However, I’m booked for open surgery next week and I’m shitting myself!
I’ve been lucky enough to never have surgery before.
I'm wishing you the best 🙏 if you have anesthesia questions hop on a live stream and I'll prioritize your questions
The anesthesiologist gave me anti-anxiety medication, because I was having major panic attacks before I even got in the room, but those started right after they emptied Cipro into me through IV.
They continued for a month after, but are getting better along with all kinds of other symptoms.
I still get symptoms in my nerves, peripheral neuropathy.
Hope you’re alright now (3 months later). Taking probiotics might help relieve symptoms connected to Cipro or other antibiotics.
Heading to my 3rd hip surgery right now. I have anxiety and panic attacks badly. Hopefully this will help me. Thank you so much!
Wow Hmmm gesture really works after Breathing in and then out. That’s amazing!
Nice to see you again...to share things before surgeries. And yes I've have had my share. How wished I saw you before all the times I've gone under!!
Helps to talk the night before to the anthropologist. You build trust.
Anthropologist?
I am one and I am sh**ing myself because I have a surgery on friday for a tumor. :/
In a third world country...
In a public hospital...
Watching again because it is so helpful!
I have Southern Ketamine and Wellness Center in Vestavia, Alabama. You guys are in your right profession, right place in the world and i have a new found respect for those that do have compassion. Sending good vibes for all of your patients you wil be treating.
Im really surprised that I didn't have any anxiety going to surgery lol !! I was really calm and ready
I've been watching your channel and am stoked about applying your suggestions from this video! I like what you said, in part 2, "certainty is an antidote for anxiety.'.
I am so excited that you found that helpful! Though it is antidote, not anecdote!
Haha oops! Thank you! I didn't notice that I'd typed the wrong word 🤣 btw, colonoscopy in 3 days. Mentally preparing 👍
Thank you for mentioning the lavender, I’m going to look up how to make a lavender rice bag so I can have this with me and smell it since we can’t wear any oils etc on us before surgery
That's great to hear! As always, if you are planning on taking any supplements, you want to ask your doctor first
Thankful for anesthesiologist like you doc. It sure calms me down.
I do have HBP, but going through my medical clearance physical exam, I had a high reading. Then doc said he wouldn't be able to clear me for my elective procedure, which made it go higher, then drew blood and guy put on just a Band-Aid, so when I bent my arm blood gushed out and onto the floor all down my arm. BP went even higher. I'm not afraid of the surgery, just getting my BP controlled so not have to cancel surgery. On last hip surgery, I could hear the sawing. I spoke in my mind and cracked some jokes. Don't know if they heard me. Another surgery I prayed as I went under, woke up in the same prayer. Didn't think surgery even started. I'll be rewatching this and your other videos before my surgery in one month.
My timezone is different. I missed it. Watched it now. Really helpful for anxiety person like me. Thank you. Love you. God gifted doctor you are. I really went to teary eyes because I know the pain of anxiety.
I love your videos 💯 I have been watching a lot of them lately because I have to have another cystoscopy done on Monday..I have interstitial cystitis and it has been really painful & keeping me miserable 😔 with frequent urinary tract infections. My mom had all the same problems too.
I experienced a full blown anxiety attack last weekend, I was convinced I was having another pulmonary embolism 😢 It came out of nowhere!! I have upcoming breast surgery next Friday and I'm mentally trying to prepare myself. I have to adjust my blood thinning medication 24 hrs before and 48 hrs after my procedure and this scares me as well. I know that I have to go through this and it's the first of 2 x planned surgeries this year. It will be my fifth op under GA and I honestly don't know how I'm going to react. Praying for peace and calm ❤
I absolutely love you! Luckily, I've had a few problems with surgeries.
How cool!! Now I get it. Recently I went in for lense replacement surgery "I know I know, big deal right".. but unfortunately I had to lay on that bed in the surgery center for like a full hour, waiting and listening to the heart monitor I was on. I noticed how much the beeping fluctuated every time I moved. Didn't matter if I moved my foot, my hand, whatever. Even I noticed it seemed to fluctuate fairly dramatically when I would simply breathe! Lol, I remember laying there thinking " this machine is gonna drive me nuts, lol. However tge simple thought or curiosity "genuine curiosity "or interest I took in the things that were going on around me, seemed to have a calming effect on me! Next thing I know I was being helped into the car by my wife and headed home lol, love the feeling of waking up not knowing ANYTHING that happened, no recollection of the procedure whatsoever.
Thanks for the great tips doc
I hate I missed the live, I wanted to re-ask about the head pressure I felt when going under.
Next time!
Great live stream man! Sorry I missed it! That was awesome! I learned so much! I enjoyed it! I’m glad you’re feeling better, be sure to hock loogies it will help you feel better! I really enjoy donating to the anesthesiologist Foundation, since it was hard for me to go to college to be a anesthesiologist after I graduated high school in 08 because of my cerebral palsy
I was very anxious before my last surgery I was able to calm myself by telling a joke to the surgeon and anesthesiologist when I saw them before surgery.
I let them know I was feeling nervous/anxious before we even went to the OR. I knew it would get worse before it got better. They gave me something through the IV that calmed me. I was alert going to the OR and remember climbing on the table and laying down and that’s it!
Even under 11 mg of versed, I do still remember 😢
Thank you for these awesome videos. This one was especially good. I'm going to try the Yoda sound next time. Comforting to know that anxiety is more common than I think
I need two total wrist fusions and im terrified. I plan on watching all your videos
It's none of what you have demonstrated per se, that causes anxiety in me. Hard to describe, and not sure if this is a memory of a dream, etc., but my fear that would prevent me from sleeping the night before would be fear of feeling as though anesthesia would put me in an "Alice of Wonderland" state in which I could not find my way back through the "looking glass." Rational me knows better, but anxiety can override that.
I'm going to keep saying this: Just talk to your patients, tell them what you're going to do BEFORE you do it in the OR. Never come up behind them and put the mask over their face without letting them know it's what you're going to do. I think women are more uncomfortable with that than men. Do you intubate everyone during surgery?
Thank you so much for all your videos! They have been extremely informative. You are the best on here.
I feel at a HUGE disadvantage not being able to research my anesthesiologist.
Instead, i get a 3 minute pep talk, while in full panic mode.
You can only pray the last mistake he makes before being fired isnt on you.
JFC
But you just relax and let us erase your memory.
Oh and cross your fingers that every single person in that room, with your literal life in their hands, isnt a closet pervert...because for some reason, no medical professional can explain to me why im the only person in the room without underwear.
Bye...thanks for the info
Being excited in a positive way... is it any different from Anxiety for you? Think i was over joking etc before surgery cause of nerves. Wasn't really anxious I think.
Excitement can have positive influences by preparing you mentally for a goal oriented surgery and recovery... It's powerful
I had that needle in my back but never saw it until...NOW😳. If saw that then, I would have never had it! Yikes 😬
I saw it and felt it.
Thank u dr kaveh ur so helpful
Im watching this before my first surgery so my anxiety is really bad. Im calmed down now. But if you have any other tips please tell
my phobia fear of vomiting keeps my anxiety and panic attacks going. 71ys now and at my worse again after cancer out.
I'm so sorry to hear that. Have you found a supportive medical provider for that?
I share this problem as well and have since childhood. Iam 60 year old female it’s rough. In my life I have had 2 C-Sections. One was emergency after being in labor almost all day and baby would not change positions, second was planned and first with epidural and second with spinal . First I felt pushing, pulling, tugging, quite alot. Second with spinal I felt nothing but I was still awake. First I was in alot of pain after and second pain was controlled better
Even though I have worked in the OR fir over 25 years, I panicked with every surgery. I need to be I. Control, but I don’t even want to know anything g from the moment I step into pre op. I know, sounds crazy. I want it both ways. My HR goes up to 120 or higher and my BP goes sky high. Yes, I do have anxiety and depression since I was diagnosed with leukemia 25 years ago. I am facing another knee replacement on two month and am dreading it.
Dr you help me tremendously on all your videos.
lmao first thing I thought of was Michael Jackson. I found out today I will have surgery under GA on Wednesday and I'm bricking it! I'll only be under 40min, minor surgery, so I need to get my anxiety under control aaargh. I've only been in surgery once, EMCS under epidural, but got an infection and nearly died from sepsis afterwards. So I'm not in a hurry to get into a theatre any time soon! I'm enjoying your videos!
Thank you very much
Can't even watch the video fully 🥺 my final step/last surgery coming up n already backing out,,, required in order to complete this process & end my suffering (supposedely) lost hope 💔
Its that u always have a large syringe in your hand that does me in 🥺
I'm ok with the mask, but I can not deal with needles. I panic at a blood test and have to cover my eye's. My PCP has to prescribe some pill for me to relax and calm down just to go to the office for a blood test. At the old movie The Exorsist, when the girl got a needle in her neck I walked out of the movie. I just can't look at a needle 😢
Desensitization might help. Start by just thinking about it. Use the relaxation breathing, that Dr. Kaveh has been talking about. Then, look at the word, needle, then a photo, then a video, a little at a time. Good luck with that. You can get used to it, so it won't bother you, much, anymore.
I had my first surgery ever done and I had a panic attack because I had a very bad time with my surgery
Just seeing all the machines and you holding to stuff makes my daughter panic. It comes on fast too fast to say hmmm as you suggested. She is in a panicked state at the sight of a doctor.
How do you get your scrubs to cover your angel wings? I think they come out of your vagus nerve, but that's because I'm not a scientist. I'm a poet with an as-yet unexplored colon (and, uh, that tube is quivering with a lot more than peristalsis right now).
Hey i m going gallbladder removal and im very nervous , the pain during the surgery, the machines , how will i calm ? Please help !!
I have surgery tomorrow. Afraid of bleeding too much
Great video!!!
My father just went thru total laryngectomy 4 months ago.
He's getting some panic or anxiety attacks during day. Like loosing oxygen but I check oxygen and is all good. Any suggestions please.....
Thank you Dr so good
I know rationally I am fine and I won't die or anything but I have surgery in about an hour to remove an ovarian cyst and I'm terrified. I'm 16 and I'm crying my eyes out like a baby and I'm doing that annoying breathing thing where you gasp while you cry.
This is crazy but for me it's a bowel movement combined w an increase in heart rate. 200/185 at one time.
I fear Friday is going to be a nightmare. I have severe gymnophobia, but have to go through a pantsless procedure.... I'm already getting anxiety attacks that feel almost as bad as you do while having a heart attack... I am a nightmare for anesthesia too probably ASA3 or 4, heart disease/failure/COPD/ apnea..... and I use your friend THC for managing many of my medical problems making me restant to drugs... Like (I've been at is so long, Snoop Dog couldn't put me to shame). I've had many surgeries when I was younger, but always with underpants... I already see myself running out of the room with my gown flapping open behind me... I'm afraid I can't do hhhmmmmmmppp while knowing nothing is changing. I feel so trapped. PS, just press volume down on ringing phone to mute the ringtone for that call.
Always with a big Smile.
🤔
I think trying to activate your vagus nerve when you have autonomic neuropathy has the opposite effect though.
I'm eleven years old I've never got a surgery before hopefully I'm calm
My hmmmmm is when I run out of my benzo meds . Will I be ok? I'm also on bupenoraphine.
nerve block needle😮 wowza....and 😫😣
Thank you!
hello sir and anyone who is reading this... my father have compound fracture in his tibia bone for like 7 months now and he is refussing for sugery due to his depression. he is on medication for deprssion from 2005. i don't know what to do i am completely hopeless now can anyone suffest me anything related to it. please
I have extreme COPD, and am terrified about being sedated at ALL......afraid I won't wake up! I am already a nervous wreck.....how do I keep from freaking totally out????
And the surgeries were 14 eye...then I got into an autoimmune disease. So alot was to follow.
Why can't we be set up with IV in pre op room so actual surgeon doeyget pissy about time schedule being messed up for not being able to access a vein?
thank you i need this
If You got a thoracic aneurysm I heard you're not supposed to bear down and blow to put pressure on your chest so what do you do then?
I'm having surgery in 3 days, I'm sooo afraid of IV's what can I do ?
Any way to avoid a bad ketamine reaction upon awakening?
I am anxious about pain after surgery that won't be handled. This happen in previous surgery
Is there anything I can do?
I'm so sorry you had that experience, but I greatly admire your vulnerability in sharing that. I hope you feel empowered to speak up and ask your doctors about the pain plan for after your surgery
Oh gee that needle!
I’m having surgery on Tuesday so I’m kinda nervous
Ok doc I am freaking out . Every time before surgery I have had full blown panic attacks , I cannot control it so why can't you ( docs) rx something to calm down ?
First op i was ok 6 hour surgery .second op was total nervous wreck .had big buttterflies before had a temp before op was sweary started yo hyperbentale before i was in the op thearte nurse got doc told him hiw nervous i was .in the op theatre tried to fight airwauy guy swiping the mask hot growled at felt warm blanket being placed on me can recall the sound if the heart moniter surgeon said pethadine knocked me out staff tried ti calm me down was wriggling around on op table before being knocked out .yrs ago iv line was stuffed up arm was as black as cried for ages caused me pstd had a flashback that morning of 6he surgery .woke up trying ti bat off the mask but staff beat me too it .woke up grumpy but ok .
Sugery for broken ulna and radius two plates one removed and screws left in
Why doesnt dr. Kava explain that some of the different needles and drugs,he shows depends on WHAT KIND OF SURGERY A PERSON IS HAVING!!. In all of his vidioes that he's shown, he's never explained this.
Can I have epidural only during my surgery process? I don't want to be put to sleep. Please advise
Can I take Xanax 0.25 tablete before anesthesia?
I have mave massive panic and anxiety😢 does my oxycodone help with that?😢
Always ask for God or Jesus's help ( pray for anxiety help). Philipians 4: 6,7.
As the anesthesiologist started to cover my face with the mask he said relax and breathe the oxygen. I knew full well what was coming and it didn't smell like any oxygen I have ever smelled. I wonder why he didn't just tell me the truth because I told him that's not oxygen, that stinks. His reply was that it was because it was a new kind of mask. 🤥😴
Howdy
That is the first time I've heard the term "Michael Jackson Juice"... yikes
Hes cute as a button