Hi, nurse here. Many years ago we did a study in which we spoke to the patients as if they were awake, told them all about the procedure and played their favorite music throughout the procedure. We found those patients woke up easier, had less pain and then an easier recovery.
I had a mastectomy November 2022 and asked the nurses at 7 pm when I would be having surgery. I'd been in the hospital since 6 am the same day. She looked at me incredulously and said " It was done 8 hours ago"....I had no recollection of the surgery or anaesthesia whatsoever! Recovery is taking more time though ! 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
@@dianeohara3900 Thankyou for the information. I thought that I may be going a little bit weird. The last thing I could remember was sitting bolt upright talking to a nurse. Then I was in a ward with 3 other ladies who'd all had their ops. Realisation slowly dawned. I looked down my front....my right breast had gone! I was discharged the following morning with a " drip pipe" in my side. I can't recall ANY operation AT ALL! So very strange 🤔😱
My Mom has the doctor talk to or call me because she takes a long time to come out of it. I'm just the opposite. As soon as the "happy juice" is turned off, I'm awake and want a cold glass of apple juice!
I know right I mean that is so crazy why do doctors do that I mean do they really expect you to remember what they told you right after you wake up from anesthesia that's absolutely crazy
I have Alzheimer big time in my family and have asked not to have gas during surgery. It has been a big help and they keep gas close in case I need it. After 20 surgeries I am doing ok and learning as I go on. At 85 I take only vitamins and do everything to keep going. Thanks to a generation of new Doctors who listen to their patients. Believe me, coming from Europe it is nice to talk to Doctors who know that patients have a brain also.
@@muchasalud2011eally??!! She's 85, whatever she's doing, she's doing it right, for her!!! My parents are 87 and at this point they're basically healthy, independent and everything they're doing is right for them. I don't tell them what to eat or if they should take vitamins or not, they've made it to 87 without me telling them what to do. Remember, just because people get older, doesn't mean they revert back to children, unless there's a medical reason. Nothing bothers me more than when young people think they know more than someone with so much life experience, just because they've aged, age is a virtue, not a disability!
You are ABSOLUTELY RIGHT!! Everyone could learn something from you! I worked in a Alz Dementia unit for 15 years. We had young healthy people come in for procedures all the time. So many of those went into surgery being of sounds mind. But came out being in full blown alzheimers. Refuse the head yall. She is trying to tell you!!
@@muchasalud2011why go to the animal that eats the grass when we can go directly to the grass? I'd actually just rather go straight to the food. Not what ate something that ate the original source. I understand sometimes this Jeffers but if someone's taking herbs and vitamins that I always tell them go straight to the source if possible. I made toss my dog in the frying pan is economy ever hits dirt😢😅
I went through 9 hours of surgery in January to remove a section of my colon that had been damaged by cancer and chemo - as well as correcting the resultant passageway from the colon into my bladder (i.e . A slight, but continual leak between the two). I was told by the surgeon two days later that as I went 'out' I said to everyone present that "I miss the beach." I moved from Southern California (LA and San Diego areas- where I'd lived for 30 years) in *1992* - for Western Washington and, now, Alaska. I do miss warm California beaches, but hadn't been dwelling on that for the last 30 years. But, apparently, my mind had a secret:)
@@MedicalSecrets Is there a clear explanation for what causes this? ... My friend has bad reactions to General Anastasia. While the anesthesiologist says he doesn't have an allergy to it, he couldn't give an answer to his reactions (basically extreme dehydration for weeks along with unable to digest food can only sip water or else it comes back up, has to get an IV every time)
Kooky; I left SoCal after 10 years moving back home to Texas. I certainly miss the beach; but the mass of people all in a hurry to get to, they don't know where or why, not so much. Move forward to 8 years ago going from the high plains of Texas to the foothills of the Smokies; the horizon, I miss seeing for miles and miles. ✌️
I’ve only been under 2x in my life and what really made a difference was the night before the surgery, the anesthesiologist called to tell me to have a restful nights sleep. He had a very calming and reassuring voice. Just a small thing can make all the difference.
Had a terrible experience two years ago waking up in the recovery room after gallbladder surgery. Hour surgery went by in 3 seconds. Woke up crying and hyperventilating from massive pain. Two two shots of Dilaudid to calm me. Actually had a nurse verbally tell me to calm down. Turns out I carry a redhead gene who metabolizes pain meds faster. A year later I had stomach wrap reflux surgery but told the anesthesiologist what happened a year before. This time they filled me up full of pain meds before I came off the table so I didn't wake up in dire pain.
I had nose reconstrution after cancer surgery. I was a long surgery and i was very annoyed by hearing the beatles over and over again. The anesthesia had me paralyzed so i was very frustrated. Later, i spoke to the plastic surgeon, told him about it. He was surprised; said it was his favorite group, and told me whether its death, or anesthesia, HEARING is the last sense to go.
I had same experience, not only was it the coldest I've ever felt, but I was flopping around on the table, and it took over 5 nurses to hold me down. When I woke up again and asked about it they lied to me and said it was a dream.
I had a knee replacement in February '24. I woke up literally shaking from the cold and my teeth were chattering, it was awful. The Recovery nurse, female, said you poor thing, I'm so sorry you're so cold. Makes me want to just hug you to warm you up. Next thing I knew, I was in my room perfectly warm.this is the only thing I dread when I have to do the other knee.
@@Melindaeeyore1966I am from India and here anesthesiologists don't make you asleep by giving anesthesia if it is not a major surgery. During knee surgery in India you will be completely awake but unable to feel pain or move because of anesthesia. I had a surgery done 2 months ago. I was chatting with the surgeons the whole time. 🥴
The last time I had surgery I was napping in pre-op. The nurse who came around to calm down the worried patients had to wake me up to see if I was worried about my surgery. It appeared to surprise her. I never worry about my surgery because if the surgery doesn't work out and I die I was already essentially brain-dead from the anesthesia, so I'd never know. When they hit you with the anesthesia your mind is shut down. You have no dreams, no memory of the surgery, nothing. You fall asleep, then seem to wake up the very next moment, but it's 8 hours later. I know. I've had 6 major surgeries on my spinal cord. One of them was for nearly 9 hours. And again, to me it was as if they just put the mask on me then took it off and said , "OK, we're done." Kind of amazing process. But for a few months afterward you may find you seem to have forgotten some things that you should know quite well. In my case it always seems to return, but for a while, some things will just disappear from your memory. Shrug it off, look it up, and carry on.
I was down for 12 hours for quadruple bypass surgery. Right after the put me out, one of the crew members spotted a fly in the OR.😱 That delayed the start of work for over 2 hours for cleaning and new instruments! I knew nothing of course. But, as you described, no dreams, no conciseness whatsoever, you are gone, dead. The next thing you know, you’re starting come out of it, and hear someone say “Ok, we’re going to take the tube out now” that’s when you get a small sample of what it’s like to be waterboarded. In the aftermath, I had drop foot and tingling in my left leg. The drop foot eventually went away but the nerve damage (tingling) did not. That adventure was in 2017 and I certainly do not care to repeat it.
It’s wild how different everyone’s anesthesia stories are. I had surgery last month on my ears and nose. I was in pre op for about an hour-hour 1/2. Even though I’ve had 14 ear surgeries already, it still makes me very very nervous. I remember going back and because I have glasses I’ve never seen the OR itself, only a very hazy and blurry version of it so I got to wear my glasses back there. It was awesome and very reassuring to see the people and the instruments/anesthesia cart. They put me to sleep and once I was in recovery (surgery was about 2 hours) it’s like I forgot how to breathe without a tube. I’ve never had a breathing tube places before because my previous ear surgeries were putting tubes in which literally takes 10 minutes. Once i came to, it felt like I was “asleep” FOREVER. It was like I had just woken up from a 10 hour sleep. I was so incredibly refreshed and pain free thanks to fentanyl. Recovery was a breeze and thankfully no complications because there was a 50/50 chance this surgery would work, and it did!
I've been put to sleep for over 50 times. Several major surgeries, including not kidneys.Thecrest were minor surgeries or procedures. In the early '80's when I wasn't comfortable about what was going on,I'd wake up ,upset,stirring around in the bed and they'd have to give me something to calm me down. When I had the first kidney surgery in 1987,I didn't recall anything for three days 15 months later,surgery was done on the other kidney and I recalled almost everything right after surgery. A nurse said they didn't keep anyone out for three days.I said," Well,they said me!!!". They went to get me up in the afternoon and the nurse who was trying to lift me on surgery side pulled too hard and I yelled.Shectaidcthey had to get me up.zi said," Not that way!!!" I had a horizontal incision with 33 staples & it felt like she was pulling me apart .I recall nothing from the first kidney surgery except a little with visitors that evening.
I have a tumor in my spinal cord, (it is called Brown Se'qaurd Sydrome) ,I was under for 9 hours to. And I loss some memories. And would not realize that I lost anything until someone would bring it up. It took me awhile. But I have that Dr. For my pain management.
I underwent the gastric sleeve surgery for weight loss in 2019, I was surprised how things have changed as I was told that I was allowed to have clear liquids until I arrived at the hospital, the anesthesiologist explained everything that was happening until I went under. When I remember waking up, I asked the nurse if I was in recovery, she told me there had been no complications. After my vitals had been checked I was offered ice chips. When I was taken back to my room a nurse brought in 2-bathroom cups of water that the surgeon's instructions were I could go home if I was able to drink these. To make a long story short, I was taken to the operating room at 12 noon that day and was on my way home by 6 that evening.
I've had really BAD experiences with anesthesia.. I suffer from pernicious anemia and I told the surgeon I would need extra oxygen because of the blood disorder etc. He didnt listen and I almost died. People with pernicious anemia have abnormal blood cells that have very little oxygen. I really hope this is a very valuable lesson and it helps other sufferers with this disease.
That might be because you told the surgeon, not the anesthesiologist, the guy who actually would be giving the oxygen to you. The surgeon doesn’t know much at all about anesthesia. Although, any anesthesiologist worth his salt, would be familiar with your medical history, and shouldn’t need to be told to give good amounts of oxygen.
I was anesthetized three times in my life, twice for colonoscopies and once for a hernia operation. All I have to say is I am thankful for anesthesiologists. It is literally like being turned off during something I don't want to experience. I only had a little bit of memory loss the first time and the next two times I had no memory loss at all.
The last colonoscopy I had was approximately 35 minutes long,I was asleep for only 10 minutes of it but the rest of it I was watching on the monitor. You just become a relaxed observer.
Do you know what anesthetic caused you a bit of memory loss afterward? I have a hernia operation coming up and I would like to avoid anything like that. I also had a colonoscopy and they used propofol and it was indeed like turning off a switch with no memory loss or even brain fog afterward. Thanks
I have just discovered your videos. First, I’d like to tell you that I think that the way you connect with your viewers, and I would say with your patients too, is phenomenal! You are so knowledgeable and also personable… You combine the absolutely necessary seriousness with just the right amount of humor, making listening to you a great learning experience! I have subscribed to your channel so I can continue watching your videos but also so I can recommend them to anyone I know who might need to have any kind of surgery, so they can learn what to expect. Thank you for educating people and hopefully alleviating the fears that many of us have about anesthesia. Of course, like everyone, I hope to not have to undergo surgery, but if I do, your videos have greatly informed me! Thank you! 😷👏
Thank you for the kind comments! 🙏The elegance of this knowledge of the human body is that it's highly applicable outside the operating room, too! These same techniques can help overcome depression, anxiety, and reduce medication requirements regardless of surgery
@MedicalSecrets Great video for public although I think it can be confusing to talk about memory turned off without explaining what is consciousness. Penrose-Hameroffs Theory is nearing to explain it at last. Working perfectly well. Wherever consciousness is anesthesia turns it off. But that's why it biggest mystery in the Universe
I had major surgery about 40 years ago, and I apparently started thrashing and grunting. The anaesthetist upped my anaesthetic, and after I was wheeled back to my bed, (obviously after first being woken immediately after surgery), my surgeon was beside my bed and woke me with questions about what I remembered. I told him "nothing Doctor." He told me that I had thrashed about and grunted, and he said that I need a higher dose of Aenaethesia. He made note on my chart for further surgery that I had a resistance to being put under. I've since had 5 other major operations and have never had an issue since. I thoroughly enjoyed your presentation. Thank you, regards, Cecilia Hyde, Australia.
OMG....Never Again! After my last anesthesiologist experience, I swore I would never have surgery again! He was mean and totally stressed me out. Then he told his assistant to put something in the bag that I was hooked up. She looked at him with dismay and he said sharply "Just do it!" Before I had the chance to question any of it, I was out-this was before going into the OR. When I came to after surgery, I vomited violently for hours ( this after one of the nurses reassured me prior that that would not happen!). I feel like this anesthesiologist was not at all on my side. And I had multiple dental problems post surgery!!! Ugh, ugh, and triple ugh! I appreciate you explaining what transpires, but unless the anesthesiologist is a decent, caring, and considerate being the patient is screwed. I still have PTSD from this traumatic experience which happened over a decade ago! I also do not like that the surgeon and the anesthesiologist are strangers to one another. The whole thing gives me the creeps!
Dr. K do you have any idea what might have been added to my bag that the assistant was dismayed by? I think it was why I went out so fast and threw up so much after
Excellent video! You described what I experienced when I was 13 and had surgery to remove my tonsils and adenoids. According to the nurse afterwards, it took two male orderlies to control me as I was exiting anesthesia. While in my thirties I had my gall bladder removed and vividly remembering fighting my way out and thinking I had died. When I needed knee surgery I had a long discussion with the anesthesiologist and he thanked me and reassured me that the new medication they were using would prevent having an issue. And he was correct.
@@ladyofthecreek279 yes I’ve had many surges at age 70. All went great except my last one at 63. I woke up fighting like I was trying to escape from something above me. It was a horrible feeling.
Clark: I have been wondering why I never hear of anyone having tonsils or adenoids removed anymore. Knew of one with infected appendix. That's in last 60 years.....
Some people like me have reactions to different types of anesthesias. It's important to let your doctors know (and to get the info into your medical charts) if you end up having a bad reaction to a certain anesthesia. I cannot tolerate succinylcholine- and after a surgery I woke up with EVERY single muscle in my body hurting at the same time. The pain was so bad, that the actual surgical site didn't hurt! It's what's known as succinylcholine myalgia. Now that I know this, the anesthesiologist can make an informed decision on how to prevent this.
I'm 72 and I have been "friends" with the medical field starting at 7 years old with my first hernia operation. Since then, I've had 3 more hernia operations, 1 toncilictomy, 3 colonoscopies, and their counter parts(down the throat), 2 heart caths, and recently, a thriple bypass, topped of by COVID. And I've watched how things progressed in the operating room. How they use to use ether for everything and now a variety of medicines to put you to sleep. The one thing I learned early on and I tell my friends, never lie to your doctor OR your anesteiologist. Not if you want to come out right and alive. And because I've been fortunate or lucky, I did that, and I've never had a bad operating room experience or recovery room problem; except when I tried to sit up after my toncillectomy and vomitted all over. I'm not perfect!!
Interesting reading your experience...and good you included the tip about not lying to the drs! I remember ether and the crazy cartoon I "saw" while having my tonsils removed over 6 decades ago.
My husband has been dodging his hernia surgery for 63 years because of the fear of what happened to me that's going to kill him I told him he probably would happen to him. My daughter's been to a lot of heart caths I always feared for her when she was little. My grandson actually had a surgery when he was an infant. Now that he's 10 years old he's in the spectrum of autism and he has savant so he remembers everything he remembers being born he remembers his surgery it didn't put his mind to sleep I don't think I think it put his whole self to sleep but he just remembers everything he hears everything is amazing and scary
In August 20 20 I had a quadruple bypass. When I was in anesthesia I had a dream. I may have met Peter. He and I had a discussion. I was not happy but he sent me back. I woke up in a dark room, not knowing where I was at, not knowing that I had open heart surgery. I was in no pain. The nurses, thank God for the nurses, help me in the ICU when I woke up. They filled me in on what happened. They told me I had a quadruple pass and I was in a coma for nine days. I look back after two years in a maze, and wondering what happened prior to my surgery till I remember being in the emergency room. I was checked via EKG and I believe the doctor panicked little bit when he saw my EKG and rush me into the emergency room. They're the rest is history.
Having surgery next week to have my medical implant replaced. I'm so mellow about it. 15 surgeries in my life. Six were sinus. Never had a problem with anesthesia.
Very informative. I came out a bit combative. My surgery was at a level 1 trauma hospital. So no planning ahead. I’d fainted which broke my jaw in three places. Spit pieces of 10 teeth in the sink. I will say I was in good hands once I arrived at the final facility. I learned a lot. Had never heard of a maxillofacial surgeon before and I know what a mandible is now! I’ll never be as I was before, but I’m grateful. Could have been a lot worse.
I underwent surgery yesterday - my first cancer surgery - and my mindset going in was terrible. I’ve had more than a dozen surgeries under general anesthesia throughout my life, including several when I was a child. I have bad PTSD from those experiences. Just walking into a hospital can trigger a panic attack. Anyway, between my recent cancer diagnosis and the need for surgery so soon after the diagnosis, I’ve been in a state of extreme anxiety. I’ve had trouble sleeping and haven’t slept well even when I do sleep because I awaken about once every hour due to nightmares. I discussed this with my doctor when she was going over the details of my surgery, and the response I got from her was, "Oh, you’ll be fine!" That was it. I had surgery on Tuesday and I didn’t sleep at all on Sunday or Monday. I went to the hospital utterly exhausted and in a state of complete anxiety. When I came out of surgery, all I remember telling the nurse was to let me sleep. I just wanted to stay asleep. Once I was out of recovery, all I did was sleep except when they’d wake me up - which was frequently. I came home today in terrible pain (I have a five-inch incision with a whole bunch of stitches) which I feel certain is being heightened by my lack of rest and overall sense of anxiety. I slept for about 14 hours and now I’m awake at midnight. No pain meds; I was told that Tylenol would be all I needed. Tylenol helps a little, but the pain is still quite significant. My question is about communicating this sort of thing to my doctor. I told the doctor about my anxiety and lack of sleep. She appeared unconcerned. One of the things I hate most in life is the feeling that I’m not being heard (or understood) when I’m trying to communicate something, especially when it’s someone I don’t know well. I have ASD, so my communication skills aren’t good to begin with, but they get worse and I get frustrated when I’m stressed and I feel like people aren’t understanding me. It’s bad to the point that I don’t want to see this doctor again. I have to go back to get stitches removed in a couple of weeks, plus it’ll be about a week before we get pathology reports that will indicate if my cancer has metastasized or if the doctor removed all of it. If I need further treatment, I’m not sure I’ll be able to do it. I’ve tried all sorts of things to reduce anxiety, but nothing I do on my own helps. Supplements and aromatherapy/acupuncture/meditation all do nothing at all to reduce anxiety. Music helps to an extent, but only for a limited amount of time and then the anxiety returns. I guess my whole point here is that the tips in this video might be great, but they’re easier said than done.
Do this , set down and type a letter on whatever format best fits you. Explain all your concerns , your fears, and your expectations you would like met. Now certify it to the doc , signature only.
My mom had a similar situation with her cancer surgery her mindset was just crazy she's scared and the doctor told her that they had to reschedule because she was so upset and he said that when you're upset that the surgery doesn't go well so you have to be in control of your mind and your feelings I guess I mean I'm always nervous and if I have to go I mean they should give you some kind of exercises mentally or sometime breathing focuses or something to maybe help stabilize your mentality to go see such a thing. I'm sorry you had cancer or you were going through cancer surgeries and that's horrific it is very scary but I hope you have a very good support system because that's very important
You need to have a talk with your doctor and let him or her know you're all to hell with having cancer and surgery and having a hard time sleeping. Let them know this is not easy on you and you need something to help calm & relax you. Tell them you're going to need a referral to another doctor that can help if this one can't." Good luck and I hope you make a full recovery. I know the anxiety that a person gets when having to go through an elective surgery so going through one with something like cancer has to be a nightmare on a person. I have ask my doctor for something one time and he gave it to me. I was all to hell and needed it. Once I didn't need it I didn't use it anymore.Tell the doc you need it and you wouldn't be asking if you didn't. Again I hope everything goes well for you.
I am ASD and have gone thru 16 surgeries since my 1st cancer dx. I have cPTSD as well. Get in therapy, of course. Meds for anxiety, panic attacks. I also recommend bringing someone with you to all appointments. I had a meltdown at an oncology appt after 7 years of seeing them every 3 months and I was alone. They made false accusations. You need to protect yourself in case of meltdowns. They won’t see it as a meltdown but as you reacting/behaving badly. You will not want the ASD to get in the way of getting treated properly by your doctors. I now have to go to another state for oncology appointments.
I've had several surgeries and have had memory problems after each one that never got better, until the last one. The anesthesiologist tried not giving me the med that starts making you loopy before they wheel you to the surgery room and I could definitely tell a difference afterwards. I didn't have any additional memory loss! Also, the last few times I've been put under, I wake up having a lot of problems breathing, like I have to force myself to remember to breathe.
The breathing issue is because you aren't breathing on your own while you are under. The anesthetist is there giving you oxygen, breathing for you. Your lungs are paralyzed when you are under.
I had some cognitive *issues* as well as some fatigue after a surgery. Did a deep dive learning about medicinal mushrooms and adaptogens. Anywho, I tried MudWater and it helped me feel like myself again.
I have that breathing problem too! The nurses in post op are always yelling (not really yelling, but they talk loud to get your attention) at me to breathe because my blood oxygen is always so low my monitor goes off. Once I'm fully awake I don't have the problem.
In 2009, l had a procedure to remove gallstones and after waking up from the surgery, l felt the same as l did before the procedure. Tests were done and it was discovered that my bile duct was knicked and my whole abdominal cavity was filling with bile. I was rushed into emergency surgery and it took seven hours to repair the damage and my gallbladder was removed because it was gangrenous. I was on a ventilator and in an induced coma for four days. My family was told l might not make it. After being taken off the ventilator and was brought out of the induced coma, l had a lot of anxiety and didn't even feel like l was the same person. I had three tubes with drainage bags for weeks after. To make matters worse they told me l had to undergo another procedure to remove stones that were still in the bile duct. It was a long road to recovery but l made it through. Then in 2015 l had to have a heart valve replaced and after waking up from that surgery l once again didn't feel like myself and was anxious for weeks and could not sleep much at all for two weeks. For months after both surgeries my sense of taste and smell was affected. Even Jello tasted bad and the smell of coffee which l love turned my stomach. It was probably two months before my senses recovered. I hope l never have to have another major surgery.
What a nitemare for you ! I had gallbladder removed and went home with drains for 2 weeks and they found they had left gallstones in , so I had to wait 2 more weeks and they went down my throat to remove the stones , I remember everything and had to be held down and the pain was horrible and I’m still traumatised , and I had a procedure the other week and told them what I’d experienced and I needed more anesthesia , I’m from the uk
9 spine surgeries later, I get worried more each time. Idk if this helped me or made it worse. I was a combat medic in the Army and this is scary stuff about the heart. Thanks for saying what you could. "This we will defend".
I’ve had too many surgeries and each has lead to a different mood outcome. However, the knee arthroscopy was amazing. I woke up in the operating room just as they were finishing stitching. Everyone was clapping. It seems I was giving my acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize in both Peace & Physics😂 No grandiosity here, folks. I’m prett sure they told me the anaesthesia used was Ketamine but I could be wrong
@@MedicalSecrets Best recovery from a knee surgery ever. I could walk without pain immediately and within the week I left on a planned 3 month solo cross country drive, still in a good mood and contemplating the likelihood of that Nobel 🤔
Just had my first surgery last May. It was to repair an 80+% tear of a tendon in my arm. I was really anxious going in, especially about going under anesthesia, but I was pleasantly surprised by the experience. The last thing I remembered was being in the surgery room and the nurses asking me to move from the gurney to the operating table, and moving. Then I woke up in recovery, and a nurse brought me a coke. I was really tired and slept for most of the day at home. My throat was mildly sore from the breathing tube for about a day. Overall, it was a pleasant experience.
I am fascinated by anaesthesia. I quite like the bit where I'm asked to count backwards from 10. It's always instant blackout. The bit I struggle with, literally, is coming round afterwards. Although I can hear voices telling me to wake up, I can never respond. Last time it happened I heard a loud conversation right by my head and it was annoying the hell out of me. I just wanted peace, but a nurse was loudly telling a colleague how much she is paid. I desperately wanted her to stop yelling but I couldn't speak or move. This was interspersed with "It's time to wake up now" before she'd continue braying to her colleague. Eventually I managed a huge groan of frustration and burst into loud sobbing. I wan't in pain, but I could not stop crying. The after effects of anaesthesia stay with me for days. I just want to sleep all the time. What an incredible field of science though.
You describe an unpleasant experience during the emergence phase of a general anesthetic, and I am saddened that this preventable event happened to you at all. Somehow, the OR team attends to the emergence phase with less than a minimum of concern, even though potentially significant and dangerous events can occur as much as in any other phase of general anesthesia (induction = first phase; maintenance = second phase; emergence = third phase)
I've had 8 surgeries that I can recall off hand, but the last, a total knee replacement, the doctor asked if he could pray for me. I said yes, he could, but I never heard one word of that prayer. The next I knew was when I woke up in recovery.
In two separate but related surgerys years ago, I was totally awake & screaming in my head. Each surgery was 5-6 hours putting in then taking out a Medtronic Infusion pump. I can't begin to express what I went through. And yes, PTSD from it.
Thank you so much. I'm learning so much from your information. I have a yearly surgery, I'm up to 47. I used to have panic attacks and can attest to breathing exercises to overcome fear.
I'm 67 years old and have had 23 surgeries in 21 years and have NEVER had a problem with anesthesia. I will be having total hip replacement in May and I hope my luck continues.
I had my left arm twisted while being moved off of or onto the operating table during a full mesh repair hernia surgery. Permanent nerve damage for life. Yet the hernia repair was great.Surgeoun even admitted it was one of the persons fault in the operating room.
Hip replacement went very well. No after affects. Knee replacement was very different. Woke up with anxiety and restlessness in recovery room. Couldn’t keep still. Up in chair back in bed up in chair every 15 minutes switching. After release would panic when riding in a car. I would need wife to pull over and let me out. The thought of having to remain sitting in the car until we arrived at our destination was horrific. Panic..let me out. Never experienced claustrophobic thoughts before. I wonder if I was conscious during part of the surgery but couldn’t move or let anyone know. Does my mind remember this subconsciously but I don’t remember consciously.
Agreed. You were conscious. There is a UA-cam channel called Mr. Ballen and an episode called the Worst Medical Mishap in History. The man was conscious for 17 minutes, no one told him, he started having flashbacks and panic and didn’t know why. Awful story
I heard about all this so when I had leg surgery I opted out of general anesthesia. It was interesting being awake. A couple of times I almost passed out as things they did in my leg changed my blood pressure rapidly.. my breathing and heart rate were affected at times too.
A year and a half ago I had triple bypass surgery and when they wheeled me in the OR they had Pink Floyd playing and the song Comfortably Numb. Last thing I remember I was asked how I was feeling…I replied I was comfortably numb, and heard laughter.😅
I deal with UAB - University of Alabama in Birmingham & i must say they are absolutely phenomenal.... Having had quiet a few procedures ive always been made to feel comfortable before every procedure and everything has always been explained very well ... Never been nervous once in the OR room ...but it aleays silences me in an odd way as you see everyone so casual and relaxed .... I remind myself they do this all day everyday & that explains the relaxed environment ive always been in at UAB . I guess because i still have my Australian accent after 30 years in America it always gets a lot of questions....
I’ve had multiple surgeries with a general anesthesia. I only woke up combative one time. It was when I had a hysterectomy for cancer. I was told that it took 4 people to hold me down even though I was a small out of shape 70 year old!
After several surgeries, I finally figured out how most anesthesiologists get you into a conversation and put your lights out in mid sentence. What I do is tell them a joke, but tell them they'll get the punchline IF I wake up better looking than when they put me under. This is my small extra incentive to have them do their best. My last anesthesiologists told me during chit chat that they play the violin, so before they could put me out, I said: Know this one? What's the difference between a violin and a viola? Sure enough, she came by my bed after my surgery for the punchline.... a viola will burn longer! The surgery before that, I said to the anesthesiologists: Did you hear about the guy that fell into the upholstery machine? He comes by after surgery and I say... He's all recovered now! I also tell them I left my car running. Humor is a way to not wake up all groggy and hopefully get some of the staff to like you, which "may" just help with things. They are people too.
I too woke up early during gallbladder surgery. I have heart disease and feel they may not have given me enough to keep me out to balance out effect on my heart. It was the most terrifying experience of my life. I remember coming up and trying to see and scream, but heard a male voice to my right saying "Oh no, she's awake" and then blackness a second or two later. A second time I must have been in recovery, when I started coming up and shrieking in pain, I saw a woman in scrubs running towards me telling me I'd just had surgery, and someone came up again from the right and and said something about getting me out, then blackness again. I wound up having reactions to too much anesthesia, so I had to be medicated for that. I was shaken awake every few seconds for what seemed like a long time and told I needed to breath. I have been physically assaulted before, but nothing has psychologically traumatized me the way that surgery did. It took me a long time to recuperate from that surgery trauma.
I've been in surgery 53 times. Almost once a year. Only once did I have a bad reaction. My first time with pentolol was having my wisdom teeth pulled at 18. I woke up tearing at my mouth and pulled several stitches. Apparently the extractions were 𝒑𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒊𝒄𝒖𝒍𝒂𝒓𝒍𝒚 difficult so none of the staff were really surprised.
You were put under for your wisdom teeth getting pulled? My daughter had every single one of her teeth pulled in her mouth in one sitting and she was only lightly sedated. Can you believe that? And she gets panic attacks!
When I had a bowel resection I was gifted with an endotracheal for a 14 hour procedure and then for 28 hours thereafter due to the risk of aspiration. I woke up after they lightened my sedation and since I wasn’t lucid and they didn’t have me in restraints I pulled the endotracheal out... with the balloon still inflated. In addition I had a new NG tube in the size of my finger which I didn’t pull out (they really had that puppy anchored in there) which was subsequently in place for three weeks (most of my remaining hospital stay). I literally had a sore throat for six weeks after that, not exaggerating at all. Fun times.
I’ve had about 26 surgeries needing general anesthesia, and a some using only nerve block. But, the very first surgery I had was November 1974. I was 24, excellent health, working on a fire department. Had office visit with my primary doc who examined my right leg and discovered I has severe varicose veins. At age 16 I was trapped in a car wreck and my leg was shoved under the front seat needing extraction, and that’s what my doctor felt caused the varicosities. So he set me up with a general surgeon to have them removed via a “ vein ligation and stripping”,and I had no idea what he was taking about nor was anything explained to me. Being the first time in an OR I didn’t know what to expect but figured the surgeon and his team would treat me right. When I woke up in recovery the horrible pain from what the did hit and I started screaming trying to get you and out of the bed, pulling the IV’s out and screaming I was going to kill that damn doctor. Everyone came in..but the surgeon never got close, and one other doctor who I assumed was the anesthesiologist gave me an injection and I passed out. I woke up in a hospital room with a nurse checking vitals, in the worst pain I’ve ever had. She explained what they did and I wanted to kill someone. They kept giving me Demerol every 4 hours and I hallucinated severely. They kept me in the hospital for 8 days, getting me up to walk and Demerol every 4 hours. The surgeon only came in a couple of times because I still wanted to hurt him. It took over a year to fully heal, and he had made a mistake in the ligating/stripping procedure in my right groin femoral vein. Over a few years I started having severe pain in right groin, some docs thought was a hernia, but it wasn’t. In the meantime, I had moved to another city and got connected with another doctor who sent me to a neurosurgeon. I related to him what I had gone through and he collaborated with a cardiovascular surgeon and planned a procedure. They discovered the original surgeon had tied off the femoral vein around the the femoral nerve which caused large scarring which tightened around the nerve and caused the pain. In recovery, the surgeons came in and I said to them “ you got it!” Which surprised them that I could feel the change. I had to have that procedure 3 more times because the scarring was so bad. The last time was in 2004. I’ve never had another bad experience. I don’t know what kind of anesthesia they used in 1974, but they certainly didn’t do much pain control. Now before I have any procedure, I research it until I know everything. I discuss with the anesthesiologist every drug they’re going to use, how pain management will be handled. I make sure the surgeon is well aware that I know exactly what he/she is planning and how they’re going to accomplish it. I leave nothing to chance. That way, knowledge is power and certainly helps recovery.
I've been under more times that I want to remember. Usually am quite relaxed going into the OR as I know how to "self-hynotize" myself. This time, as I was rolling toward the operating room, I actually felt a bit panicked. I woke up to the surprise of an extra cut on my abdomen that I didn't expect...when I read the report, I was staggered....that little femoral hernia was not as easy as it seemed it would be!! And after that surgery which lasted a couple of hours, I've had trouble focusing on my writing/videoing for my channel (see that pic?) and my thyroid was thrown off and I needed a bump up in T3 and my focus is improving. I'm 72 now and the effects are getting more pronounced, I guess.
@@matildagreene1744 No, he's great. He explained it all to me. It was actually very small and awkward..but he found a way to do it, it just took more time than expected because he was being careful in that tricky area! The report detailed all the nerves, etc. he saw...and some things that he weren't readily apparent. ple on the wrong thing in my body!
I was out for 45 minutes for my procedure. When I came too, I felt so refreshed. Best sleep I’ve ever had. No dreaming, nothing I just ceased to exist for 45 minutes. It was bliss.
I sure wish you were my dr and anesthesiologist. You are so compassionate and caring. I got the endocracial tube and i had a bad sore throat. It was so painful after surgery when i got home so i took the Norco when i got home. My ear throat and head hurt from surgery on my right ear. The name for the surgery was tympanoplasty.
Once when I went into surgery for my spine. I had blood pressure cuff on and I’ve installed on same arm bc I hv no lymph nodes in my left arm bc of breast cancer. While going under my arm began burning beyond belief and I wasn’t able to express my discomfort. At the administration of anesthesia my blood pressure cup begin to inflate it was so painful. I heard the doctor tell the anesthesiologist that I would go completely under before I felt a thing. So instead of stopping it, he continued bc he assumed I wouldn’t be able to feel it. After my surgery when I was in recovery I told the doctor that I was aware of what was happening and I was in unbelievable pain and that I heard him instruct his staff to ignore it bc I wouldn’t remember it. I said I just wanted you to know I felt it and I heard him. He just looked at me and said “no such thing ever took place.” 😢🥺
I’ve had lots of surgeries including the removal of three organs. I’m one of the lucky ones who wake up from anaesthesia feeling like I’ve had a nice long sleep. I don’t feel sick or have a headache. I have always trusted both my surgeon (who was also my boss) and the theatre clinicians to take the best care of me. Maybe that’s why I wake so well?
While “under” I aspirated, when I came out of it I sat up straight in my bed very alarmed, my throat was closed and I couldn’t breathe. Very scary. It lasted for a few days, felt like my throat was burned, every once in a while I couldn’t draw breath, I had to take hold of myself and concentrate on relaxing so I could breathe again. The greatest concern I had when it first happened, none of the hospital staff around me at that time seemed to worried and kept on whatever they were doing, ignoring my distress.
Only memory I have of anesthesia was from a few months ago, where I had my wisdom teeth removed under full sedation. I remember them putting in the IV and reclining the chair (dental office), and starting to feel a touch euphoric. The next thing I remember, my wife is there talking with the nurse about post-op care and there's an ice pack around my head. I don't even remember falling asleep! It's like someone pushed stop on the recorder of my memory, then started it again. There was nothing there. No blackness, no closing my eyes - just nothing. One minute I was looking at the light above me, the next I was awake looking at my wife. Trippiest experience I can remember.
I have regular surgeries for different afflictions, I find that having a good relationship with the surgical staff makes the whole thing go so much more smoothly. I have had to have my heart restarted twice, no long term after affects.
I have gratefully and lovingly trusted you all with my life 25 times CA.surgery Heart mitral valve repair and 2 ,A.fib surgeries...I wouldn't be here if it were not ❤❤for my great Dr's and my pro active knowledge of my body. .my awesome loving experiences were surgical. After my Bilateral Mastectomy I wanted to dance I was so happy ......n❤❤egative nodes...I was ready to dance ...happy ..my mom said you look great I'm going home you don't need me ...I said oh yes I do I love you and you've never seen my home or spent night.❤ so I got her to spend night first time ever....❤❤❤❤thank you so very much
I was under a couple times for surgery. It took a few seconds to go a very deeply sleep. The first one was on my left ankle that I did woke up in the OR after surgery and thought it went quickly. The 2nd time I was rolled into the OR and put on the table. Once I was under again. I woke up in the recovering room and I was surprised where I was after waking up. A nurse was there,too. I don’t remembered what tube they used during my surgery. The second one was removing my appendix when it is gangrene inside of me. I did bounce back from that one surgery. My doctor thought that I will be out for some time after surgery. I was out just after a couple of weeks after surgery. I was so bored at home and I need to go back to the Y but, I did do one class till early next month. After that surgery that I felt liked my old self coming back. My mood changed from being in pain and sick. I was a little bit weaker and my personality was back. That next morning that I don’t want to do is exercise just after having surgery. I did do it in the room. I did walked the hallway for the exercise 3 times a day with another gown to covered my back side. I used a walker because I was a little bit weak of not eating for 3 days. I had a couple of stomach growls on Friday for food. I remembered seeing bags of Sun Chips and Doritos and even bananas in this little snack room in the hospital. One nurse did covered my eyes for the snacks.
I worked many years ago for an oral surgeon. His anesthesiologist gave sodium pentathol as a rule. One patient had a violent reaction while waking up. Almost broke the side rails off the gurney. They sent him to the hospital for further evaluation after he woke up.
I underwent Cardiac Arterial Bypass Graft surgery. I had knowledge of what was going to happen because my mother has gone through the same surgery. I rapidly went to sleep when the anesthesia was administered. I don't remember a thing until briefly awakening a couple times that evening, then I was out until about 2:30 AM the next morning. I was asleep about 16 and a half hours. Funny thing is, although in incredible pain, the one thing that really bothered me was my right eye was hurting. They somehow scratched my cornea, a little salve and back to sleep. The pain in my chest didn't bother me, the ventilator didn't bother me, the tube running in and out didn't bother me. Just my eye. I will admit to still being kind of out of it when they finally woke me about 5:30 AM so the ventilation therapist could remove the ventilation tube. They asked me my name, if I knew where I was and what had happened to me. They got 3 one word answers from me, my first name, hospital, surgery. That was satisfactory answered, told them my mind was still working and beginning to wake up. Went back to sleep for a while, that day was mostly a blur, I recall them getting me up, walking a short distance and sitting in a chair for a while. But most of the day was a blur. Was fed some flavored ices during the day but mostly slept w/o dreaming. I had actually walked into the hospital, I really didn't expect to be left so weak from the surgery. That was a surprise, although I'm sure they had me on some really powerful pain medication. Couldn't imagine how much pain a person would be in without those medications.
This is a great video, thank you for posting. I've had 3 major surgeries to biopsy and remove huge amount of fluids in pericardial and lungs, and a mediastinal teratoma from my heart / lungs late Jan to mid March. My biolsy and fluid drain was 4+hr, Resection of tumor lasted 13hrs. Then a 4+hr VATS surgery to remove a chest tube that broke off inside of me. I was TERRIFIED going into that last surgery, because after the resection surgery, I awoke on a ventilator and that whole deal was a literal terrifying experience. I was afraid of it happening again. So in a months time, I was under heavy general anesthesia for roughly 21hrs. I'm seriously suffering mentally as I dont have the attention span, or short term memory that I did prior to my surgeries and its incredibly frustrating. Im glad to hear im not the only one. But I really need to get back to the same cognitive capacity as I was before
I am living proof that how you go under is how you'll come out, which is always amused at the loss of time! My Dad used to call anesthesia 'his favorite nap!'
I don’t remember waking up from my 1st mastectomy. I was having a bad reaction to morphine or so they say. All my other surgeries, I remember. When waking me up, they would tell me to breathe because I would stop breathing, so with more surgeries when they would wake me up, I would tell them to watch my breathing because I will stop breathing. Also, there are natural lollipops for children that help sore throats called loll-eeze. They help tremendously with the sore throat from the breathing tube.
It takes me a long time to wake up and I am a weeper after anesthesia. One nurse was so frustrated with me and I remember hearing her tell me to stop crying. I couldn't. I warn them now.
I thought in recovery I was dying. I asked a nurse that question in which she said no. I still insisted I be told the truth. I could hear conversations before waking up completely. One said, they gave her too much and why do they bring patients to us too soon. I also heard, no one mentioned she was allergic to Iodine. I remember the tube being pulled and the gagging during it. I also heard that I needed Benadryl IV. Really important, the patient can hear.
Had a knee replacement a year ago and my anesthesiologist was fully aware of my anxiety beforehand. She definitely gave me the right mix of juice because I woke up in a dreamy wonderful relaxed state. I no longer have fear of surgery
Had awareness during a hysterectomy 30 years ago. Felt paralyzed and couldn't speak. I was finally able to make a noise without moving my lips and was given something. The anesthesiologist called me a few days after I was released to ask what I recalled. At that moment I didn't have any memories. The operation memory came to me about 2 wks after the surgery!
Wow, I never had an anesthesiologist do any of that! I didn't even see them until they stuck the needle in and told me to count down from 10. They didn't talk to me about anything except one Dr. I was having gallbladder surgery (the old kind) and he noticed how torn up my arms and legs were. I told him that the nurses had trouble finding a vein. He said, "no, they didn't know what they were doing". And he told me to call him if they needed to take blood again. Of course I did and those nurses got so mad at me that they withheld my pain meds and made me get up and do things so I would hurt more. That last part is not relevant to your video but I felt I needed to add it for info. He said I was an easy stick. My veins feel deeper than they are and next time tell them they only get one stick. He's the only one that was friendly and nice. First time I didn't feel like a slab of meat. Thanks for your videos! 💖
I just went through that and you feel like a million dollars after you are relieved from that. I thank all of the good Doctors now I wonder how long it takes to heal from it .. How long should start regular behavior. How long will you be sore and not do any walking ?
I always make friends with the anesthesiologist. I then feel comfortable telling him/her to give me meds that won’t make me anxious…makes all the difference
Between the time I was given general anesthesia in my right arm and nerve block in the left side of my neck, I pooped my drawers. I discovered it after getting home and using the bathroom. I was very embarrassed!! If I go for surgery again, I’m wearing pull-ups. It’s bad enough the staff has to smell this!
No one ever did anything different or special for me during all my surgeries. But I’m a happy person and woke up happy anyways, except when I had a bad reaction to morphine for pain.
I had my surgery 4 days ago and was very scared. I asked when i was lying down «what if i resist?» They said i could resist all i want but they will always win. Dont remember anything past that. Woke up with little no no pain. Nothing ti be affraid of!
January 2022 I had my prostate removed from cancer and that night I became very sick and they did a emergency surgery to repair a torn place on my small intestine the very next day. I'm still recovering today from the 2 surgeries. I'm better fiscally but I do have memory problems and my balance isn't as good as it was before my surgeries.
Had surgeries twice for hip replacements, They knock me out with anesthesia, and when I came to I remembered absolutely nothing except for the directions they gave me when I was a child. I had some other surgery and woke up vomiting. Never had anything where I experience having it done live, but in a couple weeks, I have cataract surgery scheduled and that is something they do with you fully awake. Yeah, I’m nervous
Just because someone is unconscious doesn't mean they dont know what is going on in the OR or Cath lab or ICU, etc. Thank you, doctor, for giving us good insight on what we should be doing...
I have had 5 surgeries and the after care from my hysterectomy was the worst thing I’ve EVER went through and I’ve delivered a almost 11 pound baby ALL NATURAL but the pain and lack of aftercare from hysterectomy gave me ptsd and never met my surgeon at all through my experience
I've never been contacted by anesthesia before a surgery. I have had bad reactions to anesthesia I am now trying to get an order placed for no versed and a request to speak to anesthesia ahead of any surgery before anesthesia is given. Have been gaslighted by medical staff for asking more questions than they wanted to answer.
Prior to my small bowel surgery for bowel obstruction, adhesions and a hernia, I three very lucid dreams, were I actually acted out and woke on the floor. Something happened during surgery (don't know what) that caused me to end up in ICU after surgery, still intubated. I had a dream were I was fighting someone with my fists. Next thing I know a nurse had woken me up. Apparently I was fighting with them and pulled my arts intubation tube completely out!
Gosh when i had my gall bladder out and was put under i turned into a real horible nasty person. I apparently was throwing punches and trying to fight it. I felt so bad afrer when they told me as i am not the kind of person who would harm a fly. When i had my knee done i remember balling my eyes out and was scared because i thought i may die and leave my husband and son alone when exactly a year before that we lost our youngest son to cancer. Thank you for explaining this
10-6-2023 - I am going in for an operation next week on the 12th to have some kidney stones removed! I will be put under anesthesia for that and will be staying overnight. I am glad I saw this video! It really helps me to know how to prepare mostly my mind before my procedure. Thanks doc!
I had 13 ops after a motorcycle accident and I used to joke with the anesthesiologist that I could get to one before I passed out counting back from 10 , never ever got there 😊
A friend underwent knee replacememt some yeaes ago, and as an experiment, he decided to resist the anethesia by telling the operating room staff a joke. So....he starts the joke, and halfway through, everybody started laughing. He asked why they laughing, he hadn't reached the punchline yet. They told him when he was telling the joke as he went under the anethesia, the knee was replaced, and he started back into the joke at the same place as he regained consciousness! True story.
I have been under twice in 77 years, it's a wonderful feeling, one that should be given to terminal people, peaceful and with dignity, Like my poor late husband who had none of the dignity when they allow people to suffer, when there is no hope left.
@@Sangfroid2 There is nothing uplifting, purifying, or holy that comes from people suffering until their death. There is nothing spiritual or inspiring watching your loved ones suffer and die. When good people are begging to die in agony, it wrecks your belief system. We can be more humane to our pets then our family in the worst moments on earth. It doesn't make sense.
@dfgivens Christ gave value to human suffering when He suffered and died on the cross. Anyone who joins their suffering to His does purify and uplift it, and can use it to atone for their own sins or the sins of others. It might not look that way or feel that way to an onlooker. Pain is still gonna hurt. But the pain on earth hurts a lot less than the pain in the next life. Animals don't have a soul or a will to give value to their sufferings, so it is a mercy to put them out of their misery.
I woke up during a 10 hour cancer surgery at age 14. Terrifying. I was gaslighted, told my memories were just a dream, by physicians, nurses, even my own parents. Suffered with devastating PTSD for 37 years until knee replacement surgery last year. Based on my history, my anesthesiologist agreed to use unusually heavy doses and I was fully unconscious throughout. Most fascinating is that once I regained consciousness I felt an intense relief and sense of inner peace. My PTSD symptoms were gone and I remain free of them to this day. The mind is a fascinating and poorly understood phenomenon.
That is horrible! I always have to tell them I’m high tolerance, I just had surgery two days ago, it was such a rejuvenating sleep I was wired awake the next 24 hours + High tolerance to everything runs in my family, except, our skin, we all have sensitive skin! But if you are high tolerance you wouldn’t of known so young probably!
Thanks for sharing this. I too have woken up part way through a surgery and have been severely traumatized by it. That was about 25 years ago and I learned a couple weeks ago that I need surgery again. I’m absolutely terrified to the point that it is nearly debilitating. I hope I can have the same outcome as you.
I've had multiple surgeries & have no fears or anxiety about anesthesia.. i actually enjoy the peacefulness. Modern medicine is amazing when politics stay out of patient care...
I woke completely up during two separate knee replacements. I could smell the cauterization, feel the vibration when they sawed off my bone, heard the staff and music in the OR…..finally, although I felt NO pain and couldn’t move I was fully awake and started to cry . When the Dr heard me moan he looked down and saw my eyes looking right at him , crying…..he said “Oh my God” and that was the last thing I remembered. It was AWFUL. I am not afraid of surgery …..I am afraid of waking up in the OR again.
I had a not too invasive operation on my leg. I woke up when they cut into my ankle. It didnt hurt, I could just feel it. I remember that I wanted to say something and realised I couldn't, then I thought I raise my hand and realised I couldn't, then I thought I would move my foot so they noticed I was awake. I couldn't. Then, the anaesthetics kicked in. It was a horrifying experience. Recently I had a 3-4 hour operation (mastectomy). I woke up after the operation, fully aware of everything and I felt like I just had a great night's sleep.
I had wisdom teeth removed I think was about 17 and woke up asking for my dad who had died a year earlier and the nurse said she would go get him, my mum came in after a little while saying they had come out and said I was asking for my dad when she told them he had died a year ago she said the nurse started to cry and didn’t want to come back to tell me he wasn’t there. Some people are the nicest people
When I had my wisdom teeth removed they gave me a shot of something , I'm thinking to my self that it's not working . To me it had only been a few minutes when the nurse pulled bloody gauze out of my mouth
Here in Sweden it's super rare to be put under anesthesia during wisdom teeth removals. It's a bit of a gnarly feeling them cracking and pulling, i also once had a titanium screw inserted in my jawbone - that was intense! 😅 I have Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, a connective tissue disorder, and often we need LOTS of numbing shots. I didn't know I had EDS back then, unfortunately.... Now when I go to the dentist I make sure they know beforehand I have EDS, and they've switched to another kind of liquid numbing shots.
I’ve had numerous surgeries, with different experiences in recovery room. Then on my 9th surgery which was for a Lung resection surgery, my anesthesiologist talked to me prior to surgery and told me that if I go to my “Happy Place”, such as a vacation spot, or something that brings happiness or joy. He talked to me about my “Happy Place” while putting me under. I woke up in such a wonderful, carefree mood. So I utilize that method every time I am being put under. It works great and I recommend it to everyone I know that is going to have surgery.
When ever I have to have a MRI I try to relax and imagine laying on a beach and feeling the warmth of the sun, to keep calm and not get anxious.🤗💕works for me. I do the same before surgery, I have had 11 surgeries in the last 10 years.
I was put under for a cardioversion but sat bolt upright when they hit the button and was aware that a crowd of young people stood around my bed wearing shocked expressions. I dropped immediately back down and was out again. When I fully came out from under i asked my nurse who all the people were in the room with me when i was cardioverted. She looked shocked. "there were five or six, I said, "all young..." wondering if maybe i was crazy. she swallowed and admitted that they had invited a bunch of interns and some EMT trainees into the room to witness the cardioversion. i told her that was fine but that I charged admission, especially since i gave them a great show, and figured two bucks a piece would be suitable. I got a ginger ale.
@@brendawaggoner7555 I have been in on many cardioversions as an echo tech. Outcomes vary depending on the condition of your heart and body. Eventually people may not respond to cardioversions and that option is not available to them. Many people stay in permanent A. Fib.
Medical ‘professionals’ use our bodies like we are unclaimed cadavers when we are under GA. Just goes to show how unscrupulous many of them - and the hospital administration are!
Whenever I've been under anesthesia, I was extremely suprised that the surgery was actually over. And I always feel a wonderful sense of joy bordering on euphoria, when I am awakend and realize I'm ok and that I made it.
Hi, nurse here. Many years ago we did a study in which we spoke to the patients as if they were awake, told them all about the procedure and played their favorite music throughout the procedure. We found those patients woke up easier, had less pain and then an easier recovery.
This should be a baseline standard of care. Bless you.
At least some of you are nice!
Yesss I wish more were like you and did play our favorite music… God Bless you
Compassionate, forward-thinking medical team! 💕
@@tarynrowe5067 Lol!
I had a mastectomy November 2022 and asked the nurses at 7 pm when I would be having surgery. I'd been in the hospital since 6 am the same day. She looked at me incredulously and said " It was done 8 hours ago"....I had no recollection of the surgery or anaesthesia whatsoever! Recovery is taking more time though ! 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
They do use a drug that causes amnesia-my brother was an anesthesiologist-told me
@@dianeohara3900 Thankyou for the information. I thought that I may be going a little bit weird. The last thing I could remember was sitting bolt upright talking to a nurse. Then I was in a ward with 3 other ladies who'd all had their ops. Realisation slowly dawned. I looked down my front....my right breast had gone! I was discharged the following morning with a " drip pipe" in my side. I can't recall ANY operation AT ALL! So very strange 🤔😱
@@judithrichards6085 hope you are beginning to recover well
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Everyone has different responses to different stimula.I hope your recovery and health are rapid.
Why do surgeons come in and discuss the operation just after you wake up nd expect you to remember or answer questions coherently!!!!!
My Mom has the doctor talk to or call me because she takes a long time to come out of it.
I'm just the opposite. As soon as the "happy juice" is turned off, I'm awake and want a cold glass of apple juice!
I know right I mean that is so crazy why do doctors do that I mean do they really expect you to remember what they told you right after you wake up from anesthesia that's absolutely crazy
They mostly tell you how the surgery went or if they found any issues etc
They just want to check off the visit it would be inconvenient to have to come back for the surgeon
Absolutely!!! I have had this happen 5 times!!😢
I have Alzheimer big time in my family and have asked not to have gas during surgery. It has been a big help and they keep gas close in case I need it. After 20 surgeries I am doing ok and learning as I go on. At 85 I take only vitamins and do everything to keep going. Thanks to a generation of new Doctors who listen to their patients. Believe me, coming from Europe it is nice to talk to Doctors who know that patients have a brain also.
@@muchasalud2011eally??!! She's 85, whatever she's doing, she's doing it right, for her!!! My parents are 87 and at this point they're basically healthy, independent and everything they're doing is right for them. I don't tell them what to eat or if they should take vitamins or not, they've made it to 87 without me telling them what to do. Remember, just because people get older, doesn't mean they revert back to children, unless there's a medical reason. Nothing bothers me more than when young people think they know more than someone with so much life experience, just because they've aged, age is a virtue, not a disability!
@@julietteoscaralphanovember2223 I agree wholeheartedly!
You are ABSOLUTELY RIGHT!! Everyone could learn something from you! I worked in a Alz Dementia unit for 15 years. We had young healthy people come in for procedures all the time. So many of those went into surgery being of sounds mind. But came out being in full blown alzheimers. Refuse the head yall. She is trying to tell you!!
@@julietteoscaralphanovember2223 I could have written that myself. People who treat older folks like theyre stupid simply bc theyre old
@@muchasalud2011why go to the animal that eats the grass when we can go directly to the grass? I'd actually just rather go straight to the food. Not what ate something that ate the original source. I understand sometimes this Jeffers but if someone's taking herbs and vitamins that I always tell them go straight to the source if possible. I made toss my dog in the frying pan is economy ever hits dirt😢😅
I went through 9 hours of surgery in January to remove a section of my colon that had been damaged by cancer and chemo - as well as correcting the resultant passageway from the colon into my bladder (i.e . A slight, but continual leak between the two). I was told by the surgeon two days later that as I went 'out' I said to everyone present that "I miss the beach." I moved from Southern California (LA and San Diego areas- where I'd lived for 30 years) in *1992* - for Western Washington and, now, Alaska.
I do miss warm California beaches, but hadn't been dwelling on that for the last 30 years. But, apparently, my mind had a secret:)
What a fun secret to share! I hope your surgery recovery went well 🙏
Are you going to be moving to the beach?
@@MedicalSecrets Is there a clear explanation for what causes this? ... My friend has bad reactions to General Anastasia. While the anesthesiologist says he doesn't have an allergy to it, he couldn't give an answer to his reactions (basically extreme dehydration for weeks along with unable to digest food can only sip water or else it comes back up, has to get an IV every time)
Kooky; I left SoCal after 10 years moving back home to Texas. I certainly miss the beach; but the mass of people all in a hurry to get to, they don't know where or why, not so much.
Move forward to 8 years ago going from the high plains of Texas to the foothills of the Smokies; the horizon, I miss seeing for miles and miles. ✌️
@@muchasalud2011 Thank you so much for sharing this valuable information! Is there a video that we can watch that explains it more clearly?
I’ve only been under 2x in my life and what really made a difference was the night before the surgery, the anesthesiologist called to tell me to have a restful nights sleep. He had a very calming and reassuring voice. Just a small thing can make all the difference.
Twice, not 2x
Real English
@@CARBON10 It still gets the message across. Do you just go around correcting comments on UA-cam? Dude, get a life.
English noodle
Had a terrible experience two years ago waking up in the recovery room after gallbladder surgery. Hour surgery went by in 3 seconds. Woke up crying and hyperventilating from massive pain. Two two shots of Dilaudid to calm me. Actually had a nurse verbally tell me to calm down. Turns out I carry a redhead gene who metabolizes pain meds faster. A year later I had stomach wrap reflux surgery but told the anesthesiologist what happened a year before. This time they filled me up full of pain meds before I came off the table so I didn't wake up in dire pain.
I had my gallbladder removed...I woke up in recovery...no pain meds but not a minute of pain at all. I went home the same day with no meds.
I am positive that in KY they would have ignored you and you would have woke up in acute pain a second time.
I am a red head and had a very similar experience with my gall bladder removal.
I am a red head and have quite a high tolerance for pain, if I say so myself
I had nose reconstrution after cancer surgery. I was a long surgery and i was very annoyed by hearing the beatles over and over again. The anesthesia had me paralyzed so i was very frustrated. Later, i spoke to the plastic surgeon, told him about it. He was surprised; said it was his favorite group, and told me whether its death, or anesthesia, HEARING is the last sense to go.
I woke up from surgery violently shivering. It was the coldest I have ever felt in my life.
I had same experience, not only was it the coldest I've ever felt, but I was flopping around on the table, and it took over 5 nurses to hold me down. When I woke up again and asked about it they lied to me and said it was a dream.
Yup. They covered me with the warmest blanket ever! Then Zzzzzzzzzzzz
I had a knee replacement in February '24. I woke up literally shaking from the cold and my teeth were chattering, it was awful. The Recovery nurse, female, said you poor thing, I'm so sorry you're so cold. Makes me want to just hug you to warm you up. Next thing I knew, I was in my room perfectly warm.this is the only thing I dread when I have to do the other knee.
@@Melindaeeyore1966I am from India and here anesthesiologists don't make you asleep by giving anesthesia if it is not a major surgery. During knee surgery in India you will be completely awake but unable to feel pain or move because of anesthesia. I had a surgery done 2 months ago. I was chatting with the surgeons the whole time. 🥴
That's because the meds they give you to knock you out lower your body temperature
I've had many surgeries. What relaxes me is prayer before surgery
I'll second this!
Amen to that
Amen 🙏🏽
I always calm my mind with prayer especially during the loud noise inside an MRI machine
Faith in the supernatural wouldn't be relaxing to me. I use my thoughts to relax the body, like mediation does many people.
The last time I had surgery I was napping in pre-op. The nurse who came around to calm down the worried patients had to wake me up to see if I was worried about my surgery. It appeared to surprise her. I never worry about my surgery because if the surgery doesn't work out and I die I was already essentially brain-dead from the anesthesia, so I'd never know. When they hit you with the anesthesia your mind is shut down. You have no dreams, no memory of the surgery, nothing. You fall asleep, then seem to wake up the very next moment, but it's 8 hours later. I know. I've had 6 major surgeries on my spinal cord. One of them was for nearly 9 hours. And again, to me it was as if they just put the mask on me then took it off and said , "OK, we're done." Kind of amazing process. But for a few months afterward you may find you seem to have forgotten some things that you should know quite well. In my case it always seems to return, but for a while, some things will just disappear from your memory. Shrug it off, look it up, and carry on.
I was down for 12 hours for quadruple bypass surgery. Right after the put me out, one of the crew members spotted a fly in the OR.😱 That delayed the start of work for over 2 hours for cleaning and new instruments! I knew nothing of course.
But, as you described, no dreams, no conciseness whatsoever, you are gone, dead. The next thing you know, you’re starting come out of it, and hear someone say “Ok, we’re going to take the tube out now” that’s when you get a small sample of what it’s like to be waterboarded.
In the aftermath, I had drop foot and tingling in my left leg. The drop foot eventually went away but the nerve damage (tingling) did not. That adventure was in 2017 and I certainly do not care to repeat it.
It’s wild how different everyone’s anesthesia stories are. I had surgery last month on my ears and nose. I was in pre op for about an hour-hour 1/2. Even though I’ve had 14 ear surgeries already, it still makes me very very nervous. I remember going back and because I have glasses I’ve never seen the OR itself, only a very hazy and blurry version of it so I got to wear my glasses back there. It was awesome and very reassuring to see the people and the instruments/anesthesia cart. They put me to sleep and once I was in recovery (surgery was about 2 hours) it’s like I forgot how to breathe without a tube. I’ve never had a breathing tube places before because my previous ear surgeries were putting tubes in which literally takes 10 minutes. Once i came to, it felt like I was “asleep” FOREVER. It was like I had just woken up from a 10 hour sleep. I was so incredibly refreshed and pain free thanks to fentanyl. Recovery was a breeze and thankfully no complications because there was a 50/50 chance this surgery would work, and it did!
it that is true, (and I believe the shut-down part), that makes my experience an out of body one, and heaven really is real.
I've been put to sleep for over 50 times.
Several major surgeries, including not kidneys.Thecrest were minor surgeries or procedures.
In the early '80's when I wasn't comfortable about what was going on,I'd wake up ,upset,stirring around in the bed and they'd have to give me something to calm me down.
When I had the first kidney surgery in 1987,I didn't recall anything for three days 15 months later,surgery was done on the other kidney and I recalled almost everything right after surgery.
A nurse said they didn't keep anyone out for three days.I said," Well,they said me!!!".
They went to get me up in the afternoon and the nurse who was trying to lift me on surgery side pulled too hard and I yelled.Shectaidcthey had to get me up.zi said," Not that way!!!"
I had a horizontal incision with 33 staples & it felt like she was pulling me apart .I recall nothing from the first kidney surgery except a little with visitors that evening.
I have a tumor in my spinal cord, (it is called Brown Se'qaurd Sydrome) ,I was under for 9 hours to. And I loss some memories. And would not realize that I lost anything until someone would bring it up. It took me awhile. But I have that Dr. For my pain management.
I underwent the gastric sleeve surgery for weight loss in 2019, I was surprised how things have changed as I was told that I was allowed to have clear liquids until I arrived at the hospital, the anesthesiologist explained everything that was happening until I went under. When I remember waking up, I asked the nurse if I was in recovery, she told me there had been no complications. After my vitals had been checked I was offered ice chips. When I was taken back to my room a nurse brought in 2-bathroom cups of water that the surgeon's instructions were I could go home if I was able to drink these. To make a long story short, I was taken to the operating room at 12 noon that day and was on my way home by 6 that evening.
I've had really BAD experiences with anesthesia..
I suffer from pernicious anemia and I told the surgeon I would need extra oxygen because of the blood disorder etc.
He didnt listen and I almost died.
People with pernicious anemia have abnormal blood cells that have very little oxygen.
I really hope this is a very valuable lesson and it helps other sufferers with this disease.
People with PA should NOT have nitrous oxide too. People with the mthfr gene mutations shouldn't either.
That might be because you told the surgeon, not the anesthesiologist, the guy who actually would be giving the oxygen to you. The surgeon doesn’t know much at all about anesthesia. Although, any anesthesiologist worth his salt, would be familiar with your medical history, and shouldn’t need to be told to give good amounts of oxygen.
I was anesthetized three times in my life, twice for colonoscopies and once for a hernia operation. All I have to say is I am thankful for anesthesiologists. It is literally like being turned off during something I don't want to experience. I only had a little bit of memory loss the first time and the next two times I had no memory loss at all.
The last colonoscopy I had was approximately 35 minutes long,I was asleep for only 10 minutes of it but the rest of it I was watching on the monitor. You just become a relaxed observer.
@@brianritchie6849 Oh wow! Interesting. I was out for the whole thing both times. I woke up back where I was waiting just before the procedure.
I was awake during a colonoscopy! NOT fun! And something I never plan a repeat of.
@@vadore05 I don't blame you. What were they thinking.
Do you know what anesthetic caused you a bit of memory loss afterward? I have a hernia operation coming up and I would like to avoid anything like that. I also had a colonoscopy and they used propofol and it was indeed like turning off a switch with no memory loss or even brain fog afterward. Thanks
I have just discovered your videos. First, I’d like to tell you that I think that the way you connect with your viewers, and I would say with your patients too, is phenomenal! You are so knowledgeable and also personable… You combine the absolutely necessary seriousness with just the right amount of humor, making listening to you a great learning experience!
I have subscribed to your channel so I can continue watching your videos but also so I can recommend them to anyone I know who might need to have any kind of surgery, so they can learn what to expect.
Thank you for educating people and hopefully alleviating the fears that many of us have about anesthesia. Of course, like everyone, I hope to not have to undergo surgery, but if I do, your videos have greatly informed me! Thank you! 😷👏
Thank you for the kind comments! 🙏The elegance of this knowledge of the human body is that it's highly applicable outside the operating room, too! These same techniques can help overcome depression, anxiety, and reduce medication requirements regardless of surgery
@MedicalSecrets Great video for public although I think it can be confusing to talk about memory turned off without explaining what is consciousness.
Penrose-Hameroffs Theory is nearing to explain it at last. Working perfectly well.
Wherever consciousness is anesthesia turns it off. But that's why it biggest mystery in the Universe
I had major surgery about 40 years ago, and I apparently started thrashing and grunting. The anaesthetist upped my anaesthetic, and after I was wheeled back to my bed, (obviously after first being woken immediately after surgery), my surgeon was beside my bed and woke me with questions about what I remembered. I told him "nothing Doctor." He told me that I had thrashed about and grunted, and he said that I need a higher dose of Aenaethesia. He made note on my chart for further surgery that I had a resistance to being put under. I've since had 5 other major operations and have never had an issue since. I thoroughly enjoyed your presentation. Thank you, regards, Cecilia Hyde, Australia.
OMG....Never Again! After my last anesthesiologist experience, I swore I would never have surgery again! He was mean and totally stressed me out. Then he told his assistant to put something in the bag that I was hooked up. She looked at him with dismay and he said sharply "Just do it!" Before I had the chance to question any of it, I was out-this was before going into the OR. When I came to after surgery, I vomited violently for hours ( this after one of the nurses reassured me prior that that would not happen!). I feel like this anesthesiologist was not at all on my side. And I had multiple dental problems post surgery!!! Ugh, ugh, and triple ugh! I appreciate you explaining what transpires, but unless the anesthesiologist is a decent, caring, and considerate being the patient is screwed. I still have PTSD from this traumatic experience which happened over a decade ago! I also do not like that the surgeon and the anesthesiologist are strangers to one another. The whole thing gives me the creeps!
Dr. K do you have any idea what might have been added to my bag that the assistant was dismayed by? I think it was why I went out so fast and threw up so much after
Didn't sound good
Same for me….
Excellent video! You described what I experienced when I was 13 and had surgery to remove my tonsils and adenoids. According to the nurse afterwards, it took two male orderlies to control me as I was exiting anesthesia. While in my thirties I had my gall bladder removed and vividly remembering fighting my way out and thinking I had died. When I needed knee surgery I had a long discussion with the anesthesiologist and he thanked me and reassured me that the new medication they were using would prevent having an issue. And he was correct.
I don't know if it was the anesthesia or the morphine, but my elderly mother thought she was fighting in Iraq.
@@ladyofthecreek279 yes I’ve had many surges at age 70. All went great except my last one at 63. I woke up fighting like I was trying to escape from something above me. It was a horrible feeling.
Clark: I have been wondering why I never hear of anyone having tonsils or adenoids removed anymore. Knew of one with infected appendix. That's in last 60 years.....
Some people like me have reactions to different types of anesthesias. It's important to let your doctors know (and to get the info into your medical charts) if you end up having a bad reaction to a certain anesthesia. I cannot tolerate succinylcholine- and after a surgery I woke up with EVERY single muscle in my body hurting at the same time. The pain was so bad, that the actual surgical site didn't hurt! It's what's known as succinylcholine myalgia. Now that I know this, the anesthesiologist can make an informed decision on how to prevent this.
I'm 72 and I have been "friends" with the medical field starting at 7 years old with my first hernia operation. Since then, I've had 3 more hernia operations, 1 toncilictomy, 3 colonoscopies, and their counter parts(down the throat), 2 heart caths, and recently, a thriple bypass, topped of by COVID. And I've watched how things progressed in the operating room. How they use to use ether for everything and now a variety of medicines to put you to sleep. The one thing I learned early on and I tell my friends, never lie to your doctor OR your anesteiologist. Not if you want to come out right and alive. And because I've been fortunate or lucky, I did that, and I've never had a bad operating room experience or recovery room problem; except when I tried to sit up after my toncillectomy and vomitted all over. I'm not perfect!!
Interesting reading your experience...and good you included the tip about not lying to the drs! I remember ether and the crazy cartoon I "saw" while having my tonsils removed over 6 decades ago.
you are saying if you lie to your docktor or the anest. they could decide to kill you or cause damage...that makes me feel warm and fuzzy
My husband has been dodging his hernia surgery for 63 years because of the fear of what happened to me that's going to kill him I told him he probably would happen to him. My daughter's been to a lot of heart caths I always feared for her when she was little. My grandson actually had a surgery when he was an infant. Now that he's 10 years old he's in the spectrum of autism and he has savant so he remembers everything he remembers being born he remembers his surgery it didn't put his mind to sleep I don't think I think it put his whole self to sleep but he just remembers everything he hears everything is amazing and scary
A hernia at 7yrs old, man child labor is so hard on kids’bodies (bad joke)
@@stonemagic540 no g00f-ball, for underlying issues such possible bad reactions or side effects with the anesthesia.
In August 20 20 I had a quadruple bypass. When I was in anesthesia I had a dream. I may have met Peter. He and I had a discussion. I was not happy but he sent me back. I woke up in a dark room, not knowing where I was at, not knowing that I had open heart surgery. I was in no pain. The nurses, thank God for the nurses, help me in the ICU when I woke up. They filled me in on what happened. They told me I had a quadruple pass and I was in a coma for nine days. I look back after two years in a maze, and wondering what happened prior to my surgery till I remember being in the emergency room. I was checked via EKG and I believe the doctor panicked little bit when he saw my EKG and rush me into the emergency room. They're the rest is history.
Having surgery next week to have my medical implant replaced. I'm so mellow about it. 15 surgeries in my life. Six were sinus. Never had a problem with anesthesia.
Very informative.
I came out a bit combative.
My surgery was at a level 1 trauma hospital. So no planning ahead. I’d fainted which broke my jaw in three places. Spit pieces of 10 teeth in the sink.
I will say I was in good hands once I arrived at the final facility. I learned a lot. Had never heard of a maxillofacial surgeon before and I know what a mandible is now! I’ll never be as I was before, but I’m grateful. Could have been a lot worse.
It’s more common for you to combative after a facial surgery
I underwent surgery yesterday - my first cancer surgery - and my mindset going in was terrible. I’ve had more than a dozen surgeries under general anesthesia throughout my life, including several when I was a child. I have bad PTSD from those experiences. Just walking into a hospital can trigger a panic attack.
Anyway, between my recent cancer diagnosis and the need for surgery so soon after the diagnosis, I’ve been in a state of extreme anxiety. I’ve had trouble sleeping and haven’t slept well even when I do sleep because I awaken about once every hour due to nightmares. I discussed this with my doctor when she was going over the details of my surgery, and the response I got from her was, "Oh, you’ll be fine!" That was it.
I had surgery on Tuesday and I didn’t sleep at all on Sunday or Monday. I went to the hospital utterly exhausted and in a state of complete anxiety. When I came out of surgery, all I remember telling the nurse was to let me sleep. I just wanted to stay asleep. Once I was out of recovery, all I did was sleep except when they’d wake me up - which was frequently.
I came home today in terrible pain (I have a five-inch incision with a whole bunch of stitches) which I feel certain is being heightened by my lack of rest and overall sense of anxiety. I slept for about 14 hours and now I’m awake at midnight. No pain meds; I was told that Tylenol would be all I needed. Tylenol helps a little, but the pain is still quite significant.
My question is about communicating this sort of thing to my doctor. I told the doctor about my anxiety and lack of sleep. She appeared unconcerned. One of the things I hate most in life is the feeling that I’m not being heard (or understood) when I’m trying to communicate something, especially when it’s someone I don’t know well. I have ASD, so my communication skills aren’t good to begin with, but they get worse and I get frustrated when I’m stressed and I feel like people aren’t understanding me.
It’s bad to the point that I don’t want to see this doctor again. I have to go back to get stitches removed in a couple of weeks, plus it’ll be about a week before we get pathology reports that will indicate if my cancer has metastasized or if the doctor removed all of it. If I need further treatment, I’m not sure I’ll be able to do it.
I’ve tried all sorts of things to reduce anxiety, but nothing I do on my own helps. Supplements and aromatherapy/acupuncture/meditation all do nothing at all to reduce anxiety. Music helps to an extent, but only for a limited amount of time and then the anxiety returns.
I guess my whole point here is that the tips in this video might be great, but they’re easier said than done.
Do this , set down and type a letter on whatever format best fits you. Explain all your concerns , your fears, and your expectations you would like met. Now certify it to the doc , signature only.
My mom had a similar situation with her cancer surgery her mindset was just crazy she's scared and the doctor told her that they had to reschedule because she was so upset and he said that when you're upset that the surgery doesn't go well so you have to be in control of your mind and your feelings I guess I mean I'm always nervous and if I have to go I mean they should give you some kind of exercises mentally or sometime breathing focuses or something to maybe help stabilize your mentality to go see such a thing. I'm sorry you had cancer or you were going through cancer surgeries and that's horrific it is very scary but I hope you have a very good support system because that's very important
That’s so sad and scary. Sorry you’re going through this.
You need to have a talk with your doctor and let him or her know you're all to hell with having cancer and surgery and having a hard time sleeping. Let them know this is not easy on you and you need something to help calm & relax you. Tell them you're going to need a referral to another doctor that can help if this one can't."
Good luck and I hope you make a full recovery. I know the anxiety that a person gets when having to go through an elective surgery so going through one with something like cancer has to be a nightmare on a person. I have ask my doctor for something one time and he gave it to me. I was all to hell and needed it. Once I didn't need it I didn't use it anymore.Tell the doc you need it and you wouldn't be asking if you didn't.
Again I hope everything goes well for you.
I am ASD and have gone thru 16 surgeries since my 1st cancer dx. I have cPTSD as well. Get in therapy, of course. Meds for anxiety, panic attacks. I also recommend bringing someone with you to all appointments. I had a meltdown at an oncology appt after 7 years of seeing them every 3 months and I was alone. They made false accusations. You need to protect yourself in case of meltdowns. They won’t see it as a meltdown but as you reacting/behaving badly. You will not want the ASD to get in the way of getting treated properly by your doctors. I now have to go to another state for oncology appointments.
I've had several surgeries and have had memory problems after each one that never got better, until the last one. The anesthesiologist tried not giving me the med that starts making you loopy before they wheel you to the surgery room and I could definitely tell a difference afterwards. I didn't have any additional memory loss! Also, the last few times I've been put under, I wake up having a lot of problems breathing, like I have to force myself to remember to breathe.
The breathing issue is because you aren't breathing on your own while you are under. The anesthetist is there giving you oxygen, breathing for you. Your lungs are paralyzed when you are under.
Thats normal. It usual goes away the next day.
I had some cognitive *issues* as well as some fatigue after a surgery. Did a deep dive learning about medicinal mushrooms and adaptogens.
Anywho, I tried MudWater and it helped me feel like myself again.
I have that breathing problem too!
The nurses in post op are always yelling (not really yelling, but they talk loud to get your attention) at me to breathe because my blood oxygen is always so low my monitor goes off. Once I'm fully awake I don't have the problem.
I've had 63 surgeries !
In 2009, l had a procedure to remove gallstones and after waking up from the surgery, l felt the same as l did before the procedure. Tests were done and it was discovered that my bile duct was knicked and my whole abdominal cavity was filling with bile. I was rushed into emergency surgery and it took seven hours to repair the damage and my gallbladder was removed because it was gangrenous. I was on a ventilator and in an induced coma for four days. My family was told l might not make it. After being taken off the ventilator and was brought out of the induced coma, l had a lot of anxiety and didn't even feel like l was the same person. I had three tubes with drainage bags for weeks after. To make matters worse they told me l had to undergo another procedure to remove stones that were still in the bile duct. It was a long road to recovery but l made it through. Then in 2015 l had to have a heart valve replaced and after waking up from that surgery l once again didn't feel like myself and was anxious for weeks and could not sleep much at all for two weeks. For months after both surgeries my sense of taste and smell was affected. Even Jello tasted bad and the smell of coffee which l love turned my stomach. It was probably two months before my senses recovered. I hope l never have to have another major surgery.
What a nitemare for you ! I had gallbladder removed and went home with drains for 2 weeks and they found they had left gallstones in , so I had to wait 2 more weeks and they went down my throat to remove the stones , I remember everything and had to be held down and the pain was horrible and I’m still traumatised , and I had a procedure the other week and told them what I’d experienced and I needed more anesthesia , I’m from the uk
9 spine surgeries later, I get worried more each time. Idk if this helped me or made it worse. I was a combat medic in the Army and this is scary stuff about the heart. Thanks for saying what you could. "This we will defend".
I’ve had too many surgeries and each has lead to a different mood outcome. However, the knee arthroscopy was amazing. I woke up in the operating room just as they were finishing stitching. Everyone was clapping. It seems I was giving my acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize in both Peace & Physics😂 No grandiosity here, folks. I’m prett sure they told me the anaesthesia used was Ketamine but I could be wrong
That’s hilarious 😂
I'm so happy to hear about that experience! How was your surgery recovery afterwards?
I always reject any Ketamine; was told it can cause long-term memory loss, among other things.
I've always had Propofol for general anesthesia. No problems so far. Hee, hee, hee!!!
@@MedicalSecrets Best recovery from a knee surgery ever. I could walk without pain immediately and within the week I left on a planned 3 month solo cross country drive, still in a good mood and contemplating the likelihood of that Nobel 🤔
Just had my first surgery last May.
It was to repair an 80+% tear of a tendon in my arm.
I was really anxious going in, especially about going under anesthesia, but I was pleasantly surprised by the experience.
The last thing I remembered was being in the surgery room and the nurses asking me to move from the gurney to the operating table, and moving.
Then I woke up in recovery, and a nurse brought me a coke.
I was really tired and slept for most of the day at home.
My throat was mildly sore from the breathing tube for about a day.
Overall, it was a pleasant experience.
I am fascinated by anaesthesia. I quite like the bit where I'm asked to count backwards from 10. It's always instant blackout. The bit I struggle with, literally, is coming round afterwards. Although I can hear voices telling me to wake up, I can never respond. Last time it happened I heard a loud conversation right by my head and it was annoying the hell out of me. I just wanted peace, but a nurse was loudly telling a colleague how much she is paid. I desperately wanted her to stop yelling but I couldn't speak or move. This was interspersed with "It's time to wake up now" before she'd continue braying to her colleague. Eventually I managed a huge groan of frustration and burst into loud sobbing. I wan't in pain, but I could not stop crying. The after effects of anaesthesia stay with me for days. I just want to sleep all the time. What an incredible field of science though.
You describe an unpleasant experience during the emergence phase of a general anesthetic, and I am saddened that this preventable event happened to you at all. Somehow, the OR team attends to the emergence phase with less than a minimum of concern, even though potentially significant and dangerous events can occur as much as in any other phase of general anesthesia (induction = first phase; maintenance = second phase; emergence = third phase)
@@dianeridley9804 That's kind. Thanks, Diane.
I've had 8 surgeries that I can recall off hand, but the last, a total knee replacement, the doctor asked if he could pray for me. I said yes, he could, but I never heard one word of that prayer. The next I knew was when I woke up in recovery.
In two separate but related surgerys years ago, I was totally awake & screaming in my head. Each surgery was 5-6 hours putting in then taking out a Medtronic Infusion pump. I can't begin to express what I went through. And yes, PTSD from it.
Doctors are 'practicing' physicians and they're practicing on humans..LOL
OMGOSH what a harrowing experience! Bless your heart.
I understand you, I've had 4 surgeries so far and experience that during my second one. Thankfully not all anesthesias are the same
😢 sorry that happened.
I've had a few surgeries....it doesn't get any less scary laying in that cold OR. Drs, nurses, techs, anesthesiologist are all amazing ppl
Thank you so much. I'm learning so much from your information. I have a yearly surgery, I'm up to 47. I used to have panic attacks and can attest to breathing exercises to overcome fear.
I'm 67 years old and have had 23 surgeries in 21 years and have NEVER had a problem with anesthesia. I will be having total hip replacement in May and I hope my luck continues.
Hope your surgery went well (if you've had it already). If not then best wishes to you. I'm sure you'll be in good hands.
I'm having a total hip in Jan.and I'm scared. 61 years old, and the closer it is, the more that I think something bad is going to go wrong.
I had my left arm twisted while being moved off of or onto the operating table during a full mesh repair hernia surgery. Permanent nerve damage for life. Yet the hernia repair was great.Surgeoun even admitted it was one of the persons fault in the operating room.
Hip replacement went very well. No after affects. Knee replacement was very different. Woke up with anxiety and restlessness in recovery room. Couldn’t keep still. Up in chair back in bed up in chair every 15 minutes switching. After release would panic when riding in a car. I would need wife to pull over and let me out. The thought of having to remain sitting in the car until we arrived at our destination was horrific. Panic..let me out. Never experienced claustrophobic thoughts before. I wonder if I was conscious during part of the surgery but couldn’t move or let anyone know. Does my mind remember this subconsciously but I don’t remember consciously.
You were conscious. This stuff is horrible.
Agreed. You were conscious. There is a UA-cam channel called Mr. Ballen and an episode called the Worst Medical Mishap in History. The man was conscious for 17 minutes, no one told him, he started having flashbacks and panic and didn’t know why. Awful story
Very informative. Finally a doctor willing to share what happens to the body both physically and mentally. Powerful information. Thank you.
Thank you so much Doctor for taking the time to share this valuable information with all of us. Much appreciated! :)
I heard about all this so when I had leg surgery I opted out of general anesthesia. It was interesting being awake. A couple of times I almost passed out as things they did in my leg changed my blood pressure rapidly.. my breathing and heart rate were affected at times too.
What kind of leg surgery?
Thanks so much for explaining what happened during my surgery yesterday!
It would be very beneficial to have soft relaxing music in the OR to help the patient, before, during and after surgeries or procedures.great video
A year and a half ago I had triple bypass surgery and when they wheeled me in the OR they had Pink Floyd playing and the song Comfortably Numb. Last thing I remember I was asked how I was feeling…I replied I was comfortably numb, and heard laughter.😅
I deal with UAB - University of Alabama in Birmingham & i must say they are absolutely phenomenal.... Having had quiet a few procedures ive always been made to feel comfortable before every procedure and everything has always been explained very well ... Never been nervous once in the OR room ...but it aleays silences me in an odd way as you see everyone so casual and relaxed .... I remind myself they do this all day everyday & that explains the relaxed environment ive always been in at UAB . I guess because i still have my Australian accent after 30 years in America it always gets a lot of questions....
I’ve had multiple surgeries with a general anesthesia. I only woke up combative one time. It was when I had a hysterectomy for cancer. I was told that it took 4 people to hold me down even though I was a small out of shape 70 year old!
After several surgeries, I finally figured out how most anesthesiologists get you into a conversation and put your lights out in mid sentence. What I do is tell them a joke, but tell them they'll get the punchline IF I wake up better looking than when they put me under. This is my small extra incentive to have them do their best. My last anesthesiologists told me during chit chat that they play the violin, so before they could put me out, I said: Know this one? What's the difference between a violin and a viola? Sure enough, she came by my bed after my surgery for the punchline.... a viola will burn longer! The surgery before that, I said to the anesthesiologists: Did you hear about the guy that fell into the upholstery machine? He comes by after surgery and I say... He's all recovered now! I also tell them I left my car running. Humor is a way to not wake up all groggy and hopefully get some of the staff to like you, which "may" just help with things. They are people too.
I too woke up early during gallbladder surgery. I have heart disease and feel they may not have given me enough to keep me out to balance out effect on my heart. It was the most terrifying experience of my life.
I remember coming up and trying to see and scream, but heard a male voice to my right saying "Oh no, she's awake" and then blackness a second or two later.
A second time I must have been in recovery, when I started coming up and shrieking in pain, I saw a woman in scrubs running towards me telling me I'd just had surgery, and someone came up again from the right and and said something about getting me out, then blackness again.
I wound up having reactions to too much anesthesia, so I had to be medicated for that. I was shaken awake every few seconds for what seemed like a long time and told I needed to breath.
I have been physically assaulted before, but nothing has psychologically traumatized me the way that surgery did. It took me a long time to recuperate from that surgery trauma.
I've been in surgery 53 times. Almost once a year. Only once did I have a bad reaction.
My first time with pentolol was having my wisdom teeth pulled at 18. I woke up tearing at my mouth and pulled several stitches. Apparently the extractions were 𝒑𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒊𝒄𝒖𝒍𝒂𝒓𝒍𝒚 difficult so none of the staff were really surprised.
You were put under for your wisdom teeth getting pulled? My daughter had every single one of her teeth pulled in her mouth in one sitting and she was only lightly sedated. Can you believe that? And she gets panic attacks!
When I had a bowel resection I was gifted with an endotracheal for a 14 hour procedure and then for 28 hours thereafter due to the risk of aspiration. I woke up after they lightened my sedation and since I wasn’t lucid and they didn’t have me in restraints I pulled the endotracheal out... with the balloon still inflated. In addition I had a new NG tube in the size of my finger which I didn’t pull out (they really had that puppy anchored in there) which was subsequently in place for three weeks (most of my remaining hospital stay). I literally had a sore throat for six weeks after that, not exaggerating at all. Fun times.
I’ve had about 26 surgeries needing general anesthesia, and a some using only nerve block. But, the very first surgery I had was November 1974. I was 24, excellent health, working on a fire department. Had office visit with my primary doc who examined my right leg and discovered I has severe varicose veins. At age 16 I was trapped in a car wreck and my leg was shoved under the front seat needing extraction, and that’s what my doctor felt caused the varicosities.
So he set me up with a general surgeon to have them removed via a “ vein ligation and stripping”,and I had no idea what he was taking about nor was anything explained to me. Being the first time in an OR I didn’t know what to expect but figured the surgeon and his team would treat me right.
When I woke up in recovery the horrible pain from what the did hit and I started screaming trying to get you and out of the bed, pulling the IV’s out and screaming I was going to kill that damn doctor. Everyone came in..but the surgeon never got close, and one other doctor who I assumed was the anesthesiologist gave me an injection and I passed out.
I woke up in a hospital room with a nurse checking vitals, in the worst pain I’ve ever had. She explained what they did and I wanted to kill someone. They kept giving me Demerol every 4 hours and I hallucinated severely. They kept me in the hospital for 8 days, getting me up to walk and Demerol every 4 hours. The surgeon only came in a couple of times because I still wanted to hurt him. It took over a year to fully heal, and he had made a mistake in the ligating/stripping procedure in my right groin femoral vein. Over a few years I started having severe pain in right groin, some docs thought was a hernia, but it wasn’t. In the meantime, I had moved to another city and got connected with another doctor who sent me to a neurosurgeon. I related to him what I had gone through and he collaborated with a cardiovascular surgeon and planned a procedure. They discovered the original surgeon had tied off the femoral vein around the the femoral nerve which caused large scarring which tightened around the nerve and caused the pain. In recovery, the surgeons came in and I said to them “ you got it!” Which surprised them that I could feel the change. I had to have that procedure 3 more times because the scarring was so bad. The last time was in 2004.
I’ve never had another bad experience. I don’t know what kind of anesthesia they used in 1974, but they certainly didn’t do much pain control.
Now before I have any procedure, I research it until I know everything. I discuss with the anesthesiologist every drug they’re going to use, how pain management will be handled. I make sure the surgeon is well aware that I know exactly what he/she is planning and how they’re going to accomplish it. I leave nothing to chance.
That way, knowledge is power and certainly helps recovery.
I've been under more times that I want to remember. Usually am quite relaxed going into the OR as I know how to "self-hynotize" myself. This time, as I was rolling toward the operating room, I actually felt a bit panicked. I woke up to the surprise of an extra cut on my abdomen that I didn't expect...when I read the report, I was staggered....that little femoral hernia was not as easy as it seemed it would be!! And after that surgery which lasted a couple of hours, I've had trouble focusing on my writing/videoing for my channel (see that pic?) and my thyroid was thrown off and I needed a bump up in T3 and my focus is improving. I'm 72 now and the effects are getting more pronounced, I guess.
OR you had an aggressive surgeon.
@@matildagreene1744 No, he's great. He explained it all to me. It was actually very small and awkward..but he found a way to do it, it just took more time than expected because he was being careful in that tricky area! The report detailed all the nerves, etc. he saw...and some things that he weren't readily apparent. ple on the wrong thing in my body!
I was out for 45 minutes for my procedure. When I came too, I felt so refreshed. Best sleep I’ve ever had. No dreaming, nothing I just ceased to exist for 45 minutes. It was bliss.
I sure wish you were my dr and anesthesiologist. You are so compassionate and caring. I got the endocracial tube and i had a bad sore throat. It was so painful after surgery when i got home so i took the Norco when i got home. My ear throat and head hurt from surgery on my right ear. The name for the surgery was tympanoplasty.
Once when I went into surgery for my spine. I had blood pressure cuff on and I’ve installed on same arm bc I hv no lymph nodes in my left arm bc of breast cancer. While going under my arm began burning beyond belief and I wasn’t able to express my discomfort. At the administration of anesthesia my blood pressure cup begin to inflate it was so painful. I heard the doctor tell the anesthesiologist that I would go completely under before I felt a thing. So instead of stopping it, he continued bc he assumed I wouldn’t be able to feel it. After my surgery when I was in recovery I told the doctor that I was aware of what was happening and I was in unbelievable pain and that I heard him instruct his staff to ignore it bc I wouldn’t remember it. I said I just wanted you to know I felt it and I heard him. He just looked at me and said “no such thing ever took place.” 😢🥺
I wish I could have you as my anesthesiologist for upcoming surgery.
I’ve had lots of surgeries including the removal of three organs. I’m one of the lucky ones who wake up from anaesthesia feeling like I’ve had a nice long sleep. I don’t feel sick or have a headache. I have always trusted both my surgeon (who was also my boss) and the theatre clinicians to take the best care of me. Maybe that’s why I wake so well?
While “under” I aspirated, when I came out of it I sat up straight in my bed very alarmed, my throat was closed and I couldn’t breathe. Very scary. It lasted for a few days, felt like my throat was burned, every once in a while I couldn’t draw breath, I had to take hold of myself and concentrate on relaxing so I could breathe again. The greatest concern I had when it first happened, none of the hospital staff around me at that time seemed to worried and kept on whatever they were doing, ignoring my distress.
I'm so sorry you had that experience, but I greatly admire your vulnerability in sharing that. How are you doing now?
Every surgery I ever had , I crapped myself to the point of unbelievably.
Only memory I have of anesthesia was from a few months ago, where I had my wisdom teeth removed under full sedation. I remember them putting in the IV and reclining the chair (dental office), and starting to feel a touch euphoric. The next thing I remember, my wife is there talking with the nurse about post-op care and there's an ice pack around my head. I don't even remember falling asleep! It's like someone pushed stop on the recorder of my memory, then started it again. There was nothing there. No blackness, no closing my eyes - just nothing. One minute I was looking at the light above me, the next I was awake looking at my wife. Trippiest experience I can remember.
I have regular surgeries for different afflictions, I find that having a good relationship with the surgical staff makes the whole thing go so much more smoothly.
I have had to have my heart restarted twice, no long term after affects.
I have gratefully and lovingly trusted you all with my life 25 times CA.surgery Heart mitral valve repair and 2 ,A.fib surgeries...I wouldn't be here if it were not ❤❤for my great Dr's and my pro active knowledge of my body.
.my awesome loving experiences were surgical.
After my Bilateral Mastectomy I wanted to dance I was so happy ......n❤❤egative nodes...I was ready to dance ...happy ..my mom said you look great I'm going home you don't need me ...I said oh yes I do I love you and you've never seen my home or spent night.❤ so I got her to spend night first time ever....❤❤❤❤thank you so very much
I was under a couple times for surgery. It took a few seconds to go a very deeply sleep. The first one was on my left ankle that I did woke up in the OR after surgery and thought it went quickly. The 2nd time I was rolled into the OR and put on the table. Once I was under again. I woke up in the recovering room and I was surprised where I was after waking up. A nurse was there,too. I don’t remembered what tube they used during my surgery. The second one was removing my appendix when it is gangrene inside of me. I did bounce back from that one surgery. My doctor thought that I will be out for some time after surgery. I was out just after a couple of weeks after surgery. I was so bored at home and I need to go back to the Y but, I did do one class till early next month. After that surgery that I felt liked my old self coming back. My mood changed from being in pain and sick. I was a little bit weaker and my personality was back. That next morning that I don’t want to do is exercise just after having surgery. I did do it in the room. I did walked the hallway for the exercise 3 times a day with another gown to covered my back side. I used a walker because I was a little bit weak of not eating for 3 days. I had a couple of stomach growls on Friday for food. I remembered seeing bags of Sun Chips and Doritos and even bananas in this little snack room in the hospital. One nurse did covered my eyes for the snacks.
I worked many years ago for an oral surgeon. His anesthesiologist gave sodium pentathol as a rule. One patient had a violent reaction while waking up. Almost broke the side rails off the gurney. They sent him to the hospital for further evaluation after he woke up.
I underwent Cardiac Arterial Bypass Graft surgery. I had knowledge of what was going to happen because my mother has gone through the same surgery. I rapidly went to sleep when the anesthesia was administered. I don't remember a thing until briefly awakening a couple times that evening, then I was out until about 2:30 AM the next morning. I was asleep about 16 and a half hours. Funny thing is, although in incredible pain, the one thing that really bothered me was my right eye was hurting. They somehow scratched my cornea, a little salve and back to sleep. The pain in my chest didn't bother me, the ventilator didn't bother me, the tube running in and out didn't bother me. Just my eye. I will admit to still being kind of out of it when they finally woke me about 5:30 AM so the ventilation therapist could remove the ventilation tube. They asked me my name, if I knew where I was and what had happened to me. They got 3 one word answers from me, my first name, hospital, surgery. That was satisfactory answered, told them my mind was still working and beginning to wake up. Went back to sleep for a while, that day was mostly a blur, I recall them getting me up, walking a short distance and sitting in a chair for a while. But most of the day was a blur. Was fed some flavored ices during the day but mostly slept w/o dreaming. I had actually walked into the hospital, I really didn't expect to be left so weak from the surgery. That was a surprise, although I'm sure they had me on some really powerful pain medication. Couldn't imagine how much pain a person would be in without those medications.
This is a great video, thank you for posting. I've had 3 major surgeries to biopsy and remove huge amount of fluids in pericardial and lungs, and a mediastinal teratoma from my heart / lungs late Jan to mid March. My biolsy and fluid drain was 4+hr, Resection of tumor lasted 13hrs. Then a 4+hr VATS surgery to remove a chest tube that broke off inside of me. I was TERRIFIED going into that last surgery, because after the resection surgery, I awoke on a ventilator and that whole deal was a literal terrifying experience. I was afraid of it happening again.
So in a months time, I was under heavy general anesthesia for roughly 21hrs. I'm seriously suffering mentally as I dont have the attention span, or short term memory that I did prior to my surgeries and its incredibly frustrating. Im glad to hear im not the only one. But I really need to get back to the same cognitive capacity as I was before
I am living proof that how you go under is how you'll come out, which is always amused at the loss of time! My Dad used to call anesthesia 'his favorite nap!'
I don’t remember waking up from my 1st mastectomy. I was having a bad reaction to morphine or so they say. All my other surgeries, I remember. When waking me up, they would tell me to breathe because I would stop breathing, so with more surgeries when they would wake me up, I would tell them to watch my breathing because I will stop breathing. Also, there are natural lollipops for children that help sore throats called loll-eeze. They help tremendously with the sore throat from the breathing tube.
It takes me a long time to wake up and I am a weeper after anesthesia. One nurse was so frustrated with me and I remember hearing her tell me to stop crying. I couldn't. I warn them now.
I thought in recovery I was dying. I asked a nurse that question in which she said no. I still insisted I be told the truth. I could hear conversations before waking up completely. One said, they gave her too much and why do they bring patients to us too soon. I also heard, no one mentioned she was allergic to Iodine. I remember the tube being pulled and the gagging during it. I also heard that I needed Benadryl IV. Really important, the patient can hear.
Had a knee replacement a year ago and my anesthesiologist was fully aware of my anxiety beforehand. She definitely gave me the right mix of juice because I woke up in a dreamy wonderful relaxed state. I no longer have fear of surgery
Had awareness during a hysterectomy 30 years ago. Felt paralyzed and couldn't speak. I was finally able to make a noise without moving my lips and was given something. The anesthesiologist called me a few days after I was released to ask what I recalled. At that moment I didn't have any memories. The operation memory came to me about 2 wks after the surgery!
Forgot to mention the pain was horrendous.
Thanks for this, I just had surgery and wish I had seen this first
Wow, I never had an anesthesiologist do any of that! I didn't even see them until they stuck the needle in and told me to count down from 10. They didn't talk to me about anything except one Dr. I was having gallbladder surgery (the old kind) and he noticed how torn up my arms and legs were. I told him that the nurses had trouble finding a vein. He said, "no, they didn't know what they were doing". And he told me to call him if they needed to take blood again. Of course I did and those nurses got so mad at me that they withheld my pain meds and made me get up and do things so I would hurt more. That last part is not relevant to your video but I felt I needed to add it for info. He said I was an easy stick. My veins feel deeper than they are and next time tell them they only get one stick. He's the only one that was friendly and nice. First time I didn't feel like a slab of meat.
Thanks for your videos! 💖
After my surgery i had the feeling the doctor and nurses prayed over me before surgery .
I just went through that and you feel like a million dollars after you are relieved from that. I thank all of the good Doctors now I wonder how long it takes to heal from it .. How long should start regular behavior. How long will you be sore and not do any walking ?
I always make friends with the anesthesiologist. I then feel comfortable telling him/her to give me meds that won’t make me anxious…makes all the difference
I never feared anesthesia until I watched your video. I didn't find it comforting, I found it scary.
Between the time I was given general anesthesia in my right arm and nerve block in the left side of my neck, I pooped my drawers. I discovered it after getting home and using the bathroom. I was very embarrassed!!
If I go for surgery again, I’m wearing pull-ups. It’s bad enough the staff has to smell this!
No one ever did anything different or special for me during all my surgeries. But I’m a happy person and woke up happy anyways, except when I had a bad reaction to morphine for pain.
I had my surgery 4 days ago and was very scared. I asked when i was lying down «what if i resist?» They said i could resist all i want but they will always win. Dont remember anything past that. Woke up with little no no pain.
Nothing ti be affraid of!
January 2022 I had my prostate removed from cancer and that night I became very sick and they did a emergency surgery to repair a torn place on my small intestine the very next day. I'm still recovering today from the 2 surgeries. I'm better fiscally but I do have memory problems and my balance isn't as good as it was before my surgeries.
Had surgeries twice for hip replacements, They knock me out with anesthesia, and when I came to I remembered absolutely nothing except for the directions they gave me when I was a child. I had some other surgery and woke up vomiting. Never had anything where I experience having it done live, but in a couple weeks, I have cataract surgery scheduled and that is something they do with you fully awake. Yeah, I’m nervous
Just because someone is unconscious doesn't mean they dont know what is going on in the OR or Cath lab or ICU, etc. Thank you, doctor, for giving us good insight on what we should be doing...
You just scared me ! Normally I slide into a surgery no problem, LOL, but now that I know what's going to happen with my heart etc.. Yikes 😮
My 93 year old grandmother got a type of dementia from being put under 4 times in 10 days. It's a great tool, but boy it can reek havoc on the mind.
I have had 5 surgeries and the after care from my hysterectomy was the worst thing I’ve EVER went through and I’ve delivered a almost 11 pound baby ALL NATURAL but the pain and lack of aftercare from hysterectomy gave me ptsd and never met my surgeon at all through my experience
I've never been contacted by anesthesia before a surgery. I have had bad reactions to anesthesia I am now trying to get an order placed for no versed and a request to speak to anesthesia ahead of any surgery before anesthesia is given. Have been gaslighted by medical staff for asking more questions than they wanted to answer.
Prior to my small bowel surgery for bowel obstruction, adhesions and a hernia, I three very lucid dreams, were I actually acted out and woke on the floor. Something happened during surgery (don't know what) that caused me to end up in ICU after surgery, still intubated.
I had a dream were I was fighting someone with my fists. Next thing I know a nurse had woken me up.
Apparently I was fighting with them and pulled my arts intubation tube completely out!
Gosh when i had my gall bladder out and was put under i turned into a real horible nasty person. I apparently was throwing punches and trying to fight it. I felt so bad afrer when they told me as i am not the kind of person who would harm a fly. When i had my knee done i remember balling my eyes out and was scared because i thought i may die and leave my husband and son alone when exactly a year before that we lost our youngest son to cancer. Thank you for explaining this
Most important person in the operating room the anesthesia ❤
10-6-2023 - I am going in for an operation next week on the 12th to have some kidney stones removed! I will be put under anesthesia for that and will be staying overnight. I am glad I saw this video! It really helps me to know how to prepare mostly my mind before my procedure. Thanks doc!
I had 13 ops after a motorcycle accident and I used to joke with the anesthesiologist that I could get to one before I passed out counting back from 10 , never ever got there 😊
I generally found if I stay awake the night before surgery and am extremely tired it helps me.
A friend underwent knee replacememt some yeaes ago, and as an experiment, he decided to resist the anethesia by telling the operating room staff a joke. So....he starts the joke, and halfway through, everybody started laughing. He asked why they laughing, he hadn't reached the punchline yet. They told him when he was telling the joke as he went under the anethesia, the knee was replaced, and he started back into the joke at the same place as he regained consciousness! True story.
Isn’t that funny.😄
😂
That's pretty cool.👍
I enjoyed that
Wow 😲 wow
I have been under twice in 77 years, it's a wonderful feeling, one that should be
given to terminal people, peaceful and with dignity, Like my poor late husband
who had none of the dignity when they allow people to suffer, when there is no hope
left.
Suffering should be taught it is necessary part of our journey to The Kingdom. I think more about offering oneself to God than losing.
@@Sangfroid2 There is nothing uplifting, purifying, or holy that comes from people suffering until their death. There is nothing spiritual or inspiring watching your loved ones suffer and die. When good people are begging to die in agony, it wrecks your belief system. We can be more humane to our pets then our family in the worst moments on earth. It doesn't make sense.
I was under once for (unnecessary) wisdom teeth extraction. Woke up crying my eyes out.
@@dfgivenscould not agree more.
@dfgivens Christ gave value to human suffering when He suffered and died on the cross. Anyone who joins their suffering to His does purify and uplift it, and can use it to atone for their own sins or the sins of others. It might not look that way or feel that way to an onlooker. Pain is still gonna hurt. But the pain on earth hurts a lot less than the pain in the next life.
Animals don't have a soul or a will to give value to their sufferings, so it is a mercy to put them out of their misery.
I woke up during a 10 hour cancer surgery at age 14. Terrifying. I was gaslighted, told my memories were just a dream, by physicians, nurses, even my own parents. Suffered with devastating PTSD for 37 years until knee replacement surgery last year. Based on my history, my anesthesiologist agreed to use unusually heavy doses and I was fully unconscious throughout. Most fascinating is that once I regained consciousness I felt an intense relief and sense of inner peace. My PTSD symptoms were gone and I remain free of them to this day. The mind is a fascinating and poorly understood phenomenon.
WOW!
That second anesthesiologist was an extremely empathetic person. I'm so glad for you that you had that specific doctor.
I am glad your doctor listened to you. I feel like he prayed for you. It sounds like a miracle to get over the trauma.
That is horrible!
I always have to tell them I’m high tolerance, I just had surgery two days ago, it was such a rejuvenating sleep I was wired awake the next 24 hours +
High tolerance to everything runs in my family, except, our skin, we all have sensitive skin!
But if you are high tolerance you wouldn’t of known so young probably!
Thanks for sharing this. I too have woken up part way through a surgery and have been severely traumatized by it. That was about 25 years ago and I learned a couple weeks ago that I need surgery again. I’m absolutely terrified to the point that it is nearly debilitating. I hope I can have the same outcome as you.
I've had multiple surgeries & have no fears or anxiety about anesthesia.. i actually enjoy the peacefulness. Modern medicine is amazing when politics stay out of patient care...
Me too , I love it.
I woke completely up during two separate knee replacements. I could smell the cauterization, feel the vibration when they sawed off my bone, heard the staff and music in the OR…..finally, although I felt NO pain and couldn’t move I was fully awake and started to cry . When the Dr heard me moan he looked down and saw my eyes looking right at him , crying…..he said “Oh my God” and that was the last thing I remembered. It was AWFUL. I am not afraid of surgery …..I am afraid of waking up in the OR again.
I had a not too invasive operation on my leg. I woke up when they cut into my ankle. It didnt hurt, I could just feel it. I remember that I wanted to say something and realised I couldn't, then I thought I raise my hand and realised I couldn't, then I thought I would move my foot so they noticed I was awake. I couldn't. Then, the anaesthetics kicked in. It was a horrifying experience.
Recently I had a 3-4 hour operation (mastectomy). I woke up after the operation, fully aware of everything and I felt like I just had a great night's sleep.
Oh my God! 😱
Sounds absolutely horrible
That's my worst fear! Pay attention you Doctors!
I hear you. I woke up several times in surgery.
I had wisdom teeth removed I think was about 17 and woke up asking for my dad who had died a year earlier and the nurse said she would go get him, my mum came in after a little while saying they had come out and said I was asking for my dad when she told them he had died a year ago she said the nurse started to cry and didn’t want to come back to tell me he wasn’t there. Some people are the nicest people
🥰 I'm pretty sure your Dad is always with you.
When I had my wisdom teeth removed they gave me a shot of something , I'm thinking to my self that it's not working . To me it had only been a few minutes when the nurse pulled bloody gauze out of my mouth
@@Rocketboy991 same!! I didn’t even remember going to sleep or waking up
@@Rocketboy991 same. i had a black hole in my memory for quite some time afterwards.
Here in Sweden it's super rare to be put under anesthesia during wisdom teeth removals. It's a bit of a gnarly feeling them cracking and pulling, i also once had a titanium screw inserted in my jawbone - that was intense! 😅 I have Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, a connective tissue disorder, and often we need LOTS of numbing shots. I didn't know I had EDS back then, unfortunately.... Now when I go to the dentist I make sure they know beforehand I have EDS, and they've switched to another kind of liquid numbing shots.
I’ve had numerous surgeries, with different experiences in recovery room. Then on my 9th surgery which was for a Lung resection surgery, my anesthesiologist talked to me prior to surgery and told me that if I go to my “Happy Place”, such as a vacation spot, or something that brings happiness or joy. He talked to me about my “Happy Place” while putting me under. I woke up in such a wonderful, carefree mood. So I utilize that method every time I am being put under. It works great and I recommend it to everyone I know that is going to have surgery.
So Hefs Playboy Mansion on Orgy Day?
I'll do that my next surgery, thanks!
When ever I have to have a MRI I try to relax and imagine laying on a beach and feeling the warmth of the sun, to keep calm and not get anxious.🤗💕works for me. I do the same before surgery, I have had 11 surgeries in the last 10 years.
@@ritaosborne9449 loo
That’s great
I was put under for a cardioversion but sat bolt upright when they hit the button and was aware that a crowd of young people stood around my bed wearing shocked expressions. I dropped immediately back down and was out again. When I fully came out from under i asked my nurse who all the people were in the room with me when i was cardioverted. She looked shocked. "there were five or six, I said, "all young..." wondering if maybe i was crazy. she swallowed and admitted that they had invited a bunch of interns and some EMT trainees into the room to witness the cardioversion. i told her that was fine but that I charged admission, especially since i gave them a great show, and figured two bucks a piece would be suitable. I got a ginger ale.
that's another thing we don't know they do to us, after we're out.
😁Great attitude. You should heal well. 🖖🏼
Did your cardioversion work? I had one and the effects lasted for less than a week, now they want me to do it again.
@@brendawaggoner7555 I have been in on many cardioversions as an echo tech. Outcomes vary depending on the condition of your heart and body. Eventually people may not respond to cardioversions and that option is not available to them. Many people stay in permanent A. Fib.
Medical ‘professionals’ use our bodies like we are unclaimed cadavers when we are under GA. Just goes to show how unscrupulous many of them - and the hospital administration are!
Whenever I've been under anesthesia, I was extremely suprised that the surgery was actually over. And I always feel a wonderful sense of joy bordering on euphoria, when I am awakend and realize I'm ok and that I made it.
They gave you the good stuff.
@@hollyperrin7353 I guess so... 😂
oh man, I just get insanely scared when i wake up :')
Same!! I’ve been put under twice and each time I woke up so happy and grateful 😂 I’m ready for my next surgery 😆
Me too.