I just woke up during surgery this week. I have so much gratitude for my doctor. During surgery some of the nurses were teasing my doctor and I woke up and said "don't say bad things about my doctor! He's a great guy!" My doctor looked at me and said "Thanks. Especially because you're under anesthesia" I didn't feel any pain. I defended him and went right back to sleep. lol
@@bnkz"Thank you, God! Oh My baby, your going to live!"-mum, maybe *the doctor in the corner filing paper work so they can get off their impromptu 12 hour shift.*
My mother didn't wake up in surgery, she was never asleep. She couldn't move, couldn't talk. She was having gallbladder surgery. I was with her after the surgery when she told the doctor, word for word, everything that was said and done during the entire surgery. He turned white as a sheet! For some reason my mother didn't react to the anesthesia the way she was supposed to. Only part of it worked. Interesting point: my mother's sister, my aunt, had the same thing happen to her.
I woke up at the end of my surgery still intubated and the fight was on. I remember someone yelling to put my ass back under and a few seconds later it was lights out. I remember the OR suite, 2 docs, 4 nurses and the sleepy time doc. I saw the tube, the OR was light blue and their gowns were yellow. I remember it well 23 years later.
Ehlers Danlos is a trip, because laughing gas doesn't affect me AT ALL, and I need more anesthesia to get the same effect. Before my EDS diagnosis I've woken up early in recovery from 2 surgeries now in EXCRUCIATING pain, both of which were traumatic. (Appendectomy at age 7 and jaw surgery at 23), and I was fully aware and started feeling pain during my wisdom tooth removal, as well as hangnail removal surgery. They didn't believe me, saying "you've had the max amount of novacaine we can give... There's no way you're feeling it." Yeah, well, a normal person definitely wouldn't, but with EDS you metabolize anesthesia rapidly, so I definitely did feel it. Thankfully that's a well documented symptom now, so during both C-sections and other dental work I've had done since my diagnosis , I've had adequate anesthesia to not have any pain.
I had a traumatic experience with a pregnancy and was air lifted to another hospital, a few hours away, which had advanced equipment to help me when I experienced a placental abruption. Basically I had an emergency c-section, but it was too soon for the baby. I told my surgeon that I was awake during the initial cut, but I couldn’t speak to tell him. After the surgery I told him I felt everything. He didn’t believe me. But when I told my nurse, she said it was to make sure that my baby did not get anesthesia. It was traumatic, and I didn’t know I had EDS at that time. My surgeon then advised not to have anymore children because my uterus was too thin? I didn’t understand that, but I had one more child after that and I had to have another c-section because apparently my uterus was about to rupture. My child is now finishing her fully funded scholarship paid university degree in neurology and psychology. Every anesthesiologists I had after that were advised.
I had eye lid surgery under twilight sleep and the surgeon told me if I needed more just to make a sound and I did and they didn’t do anything to put me under more It was crazy and unbelievable !!
i like to wake up and crack jokes with the surgeon mid-surgery. during foot surgery i woke up and asked my doctor if she wanted me to try to wiggle my toes. i heard at least 3 people in unison yell "noo!". i laughed and they knocked me out again. i didn't feel any pain, i had a spinal block but i was fully conscious for a minute-ish.
@@queenwein16 too drugged to be scared bu not drugged enough to shut me up. i'vealways been hard to knock out and fast to start yapping as soon as anesthesia stops. last fall i broke my hip and woke up immediately and started blabbing to the surgical staff about the psychadelic technicolour roller coaster we'd all just been riding together, which was a new experience for me. someone asked me if i'd died in sugery b/c what i experienced sunded like a dmt trip? i don't think so, i'm sure they'd tell me if i did. but they must have given me some kind of different drugs that time!
I woke up during my knee reconstruction surgery and I remember seeing the surgeon drilling and hammering on my knee. I asked what was going on and he quickly told the anesthesiologist I was awake. I said something to them when I was in the recovery room and they said it didn’t happen and I was imagining it. I don’t think so I still remember it happening twenty five years later.
happened during my wisdom tooth extraction. Came to but drowsy. I felt heat and pressure on my gums. But it was oddly pleasant. In my impaired state it felt like i was chewing on a hot spoon after a nice bowl of hot soup. doctor notice seemingly right away, put his hand on my shoulder as they gave me more meds to knock me out for the rest of the surgery. Im grateful for numbing meds they gave too
I woke up during ankle surgery. My mouth was full of blood, and it was running down my throat. I was trying to move so I could turn my head. The doctor yelled she's waking up, what are you doing? I'm already in the middle of the surgery. The reply was that there was something in my mouth, and he couldn't get the breathing tube in. They eventually put me back to sleep, but not before I re gained enough consciousness to feel the surgeon working on my foot. Turns out I have Tori on the roof of my mouth, and he was chipping away at it. 20 years later, I still have grooves across the roof of my mouth where he chipped away the bone. Another surgery I woke up while I was still intubated they didn't put me back to sleep, just took the breathing tube out, and that was awful.
I felt the tugging and smelled my flesh burning from the cauterizing knife they were using. I heard the music ( country) ....I was under conscious sedation!! Haha!..( I purposely asked for it and it wasn't major major surgery)
I know everyone wakes up in the OR in the end and is not supposed to remember anything. Well I remember everything including the breathing tube shoved down my throat and couldn't tell anyone. I couldn't see anything without my glasses. Yes, that did suck and I do have PTSD from it. Fortunately that has never happened again since. They had some dumb excuse for me remembering, but I know it wasn't supposed to happen. My last surgery was Nov. 20, 2024 for a hiatal hernia repair. I was listening to Adele in the OR and the next thing I remember was waking up in the recovery room NOT the OR. 3 hours passed and it felt like a minute.
They should really only be saying necessary things, not having a whole conversation about other things. You may be asleep, but your subconscious mind is hearing everything.
Yeah, I want the maximum combination of everything, and then as I'm waking up I want the process to not take too long in the groggy/confusion stage. Go ahead and help me wake up a bit.
my friend did wake up and said she felt extreme pain during splenectomy. I was never afraid to have surgery before then ....now I worry each time this will happen to me
I was getting an ERCP for a restricted Pancreatic duct. When I became aware of what the doctor was doing. I looked at him and he at me . Then he nodded at the anesthesiologist and I was out again. Very weird .
I became aware during Twilight Sedation for the removal of facial skin cancer. The pain was unbelievable. I said I could feel pain, only to be told by the surgeon that 'No, you are feeling pressure.' BS! The anaesthetist was MIA. I went into shock. It took nearly an hour plus in recovery to get my pain under control. The anaesthetist just said,'sorry'. In the space of thirty minutes, while the surgeon operated and flirted with the intern, my self-confidence was destroyed by a clumsy, ugly graft on my face. Next facial surgery, I insisted on a general anaesthetic (ketamine included) plus extra local anaesthetic, and I had a miraculous experience of two days without pain or depression, both of which I suffer from daily. Thank god, I managed to advocate for myself to medical staff who were open-minded and willing to help.
It was a routine lap chole ( elective ) I was taken in the OR at 9:00 am . My surgery started at 9:20 am and ended at 10:45 am ( what papers states) moved to the surg ICU at 12:00 pm ( mom told me) woke up for a while had a sentence or few and went back to sleep ( 4:00 pm ) that too by the constant rounds of dr thinking why wasn't I waking up. I wonder how people stay up or stay aware or hear things out in the OR cause in my case mom told me the dr would keep patting my face to wake up lady wake up .... next day 8:00 am i was alert awake and taking
I recall waking up, unable to move or speak, I couldn’t feel pain but I was freaked out-dr had his back to me gossiping to the surgeon about sex, I recall every word & it took a bit for the surgeon to realize I was awake & started explaining to me the procedure she was doing while the anesthesiologist whipped back around to face me & put me out quickly but unfortunately when I woke up, I remembered all of it verbatim & still do.
@@meganellis3109 the surgeon came to my room that evening, I could tell she was fishing for information so I stopped her in the middle of her sentence and let her know I remembered everything. This was years ago & I was in my early 20’s & on pain meds afterwards so I didn’t report it-now that I’m in my late 40’s, of course I would’ve handled the situation totally different & this is why everyone needs an family member/friend/advocate with them during medical procedures-I can’t believe that happened & I was under medication during the surgery-I don’t recall any pain but I can still feel how freaked out I was even under whatever sedation I was-I could only blink & that was how the surgeon finally noticed I was awake. She apologized & that was that, the surgical site ended up infected but that’s a whole other story. It was a learning hospital (university) but idc where it is, that was negligent & 100% preventable.
I have an important and Germaine question. Most time I get an IV, they need to use US assist. I had brain surgery in March 2024 and somehow the IV came out in the latter part of surgery. I woke up and they were scrambling trying to start a new line. Have 2-3 surgeries in 2025-Q1. What should I be doing beforehand? Definitely now have PTSD. Thank you.
I woke up during surgery and sat up before the nurse anesteist grabbed my forehead and forced me back down. After the procedure, the nurse came into the step down unit visibly shaken by what and happened and started verbally yelling at me. I let him finish and calmly told him that I could not do his job while I was asleep. He turned around and left still pissed and mumbling. I think the surgeon must have had a discussion with him prior to him coming to find me.😂
I just woke up during surgery this week. I have so much gratitude for my doctor. During surgery some of the nurses were teasing my doctor and I woke up and said "don't say bad things about my doctor! He's a great guy!" My doctor looked at me and said "Thanks. Especially because you're under anesthesia" I didn't feel any pain. I defended him and went right back to sleep. lol
It's still so crazy to me that we can even perform surgeries with anesthesia. What an incredible thing.
And then there are people who claim that god helped them afterwards.. like.. thank your doctor.
@@bnkz"Thank you, God! Oh My baby, your going to live!"-mum, maybe
*the doctor in the corner filing paper work so they can get off their impromptu 12 hour shift.*
@@hydriusp.2485 😂😂
My mother didn't wake up in surgery, she was never asleep. She couldn't move, couldn't talk. She was having gallbladder surgery. I was with her after the surgery when she told the doctor, word for word, everything that was said and done during the entire surgery. He turned white as a sheet! For some reason my mother didn't react to the anesthesia the way she was supposed to. Only part of it worked. Interesting point: my mother's sister, my aunt, had the same thing happen to her.
Omg how scary!! I'm so sorry to hear this happened to all of them:(
I woke up at the end of my surgery still intubated and the fight was on. I remember someone yelling to put my ass back under and a few seconds later it was lights out. I remember the OR suite, 2 docs, 4 nurses and the sleepy time doc. I saw the tube, the OR was light blue and their gowns were yellow. I remember it well 23 years later.
Scary stuff. I have been there. That shit stays with you.
Ehlers Danlos is a trip, because laughing gas doesn't affect me AT ALL, and I need more anesthesia to get the same effect. Before my EDS diagnosis I've woken up early in recovery from 2 surgeries now in EXCRUCIATING pain, both of which were traumatic. (Appendectomy at age 7 and jaw surgery at 23), and I was fully aware and started feeling pain during my wisdom tooth removal, as well as hangnail removal surgery. They didn't believe me, saying "you've had the max amount of novacaine we can give... There's no way you're feeling it." Yeah, well, a normal person definitely wouldn't, but with EDS you metabolize anesthesia rapidly, so I definitely did feel it.
Thankfully that's a well documented symptom now, so during both C-sections and other dental work I've had done since my diagnosis , I've had adequate anesthesia to not have any pain.
I had a traumatic experience with a pregnancy and was air lifted to another hospital, a few hours away, which had advanced equipment to help me when I experienced a placental abruption.
Basically I had an emergency c-section, but it was too soon for the baby.
I told my surgeon that I was awake during the initial cut, but I couldn’t speak to tell him. After the surgery I told him I felt everything. He didn’t believe me. But when I told my nurse, she said it was to make sure that my baby did not get anesthesia.
It was traumatic, and I didn’t know I had EDS at that time. My surgeon then advised not to have anymore children because my uterus was too thin?
I didn’t understand that, but I had one more child after that and I had to have another c-section because apparently my uterus was about to rupture. My child is now finishing her fully funded scholarship paid university degree in neurology and psychology.
Every anesthesiologists I had after that were advised.
I had eye lid surgery under twilight sleep and the surgeon told me if I needed more just to make a sound and I did and they didn’t do anything to put me under more It was crazy and unbelievable !!
i like to wake up and crack jokes with the surgeon mid-surgery. during foot surgery i woke up and asked my doctor if she wanted me to try to wiggle my toes. i heard at least 3 people in unison yell "noo!". i laughed and they knocked me out again. i didn't feel any pain, i had a spinal block but i was fully conscious for a minute-ish.
Holy Crap, I would've been scared to death.
@@queenwein16 too drugged to be scared bu not drugged enough to shut me up. i'vealways been hard to knock out and fast to start yapping as soon as anesthesia stops. last fall i broke my hip and woke up immediately and started blabbing to the surgical staff about the psychadelic technicolour roller coaster we'd all just been riding together, which was a new experience for me. someone asked me if i'd died in sugery b/c what i experienced sunded like a dmt trip? i don't think so, i'm sure they'd tell me if i did. but they must have given me some kind of different drugs that time!
Woke up and told the Dr. Was assured that they'd take care of it. And they did.
I woke up during my knee reconstruction surgery and I remember seeing the surgeon drilling and hammering on my knee. I asked what was going on and he quickly told the anesthesiologist I was awake. I said something to them when I was in the recovery room and they said it didn’t happen and I was imagining it. I don’t think so I still remember it happening twenty five years later.
Medical gaslighting is real. I believe every bit of what you said because it happened to me.
I was fortunate to have any idea what was going on during my surgery.
happened during my wisdom tooth extraction. Came to but drowsy. I felt heat and pressure on my gums. But it was oddly pleasant. In my impaired state it felt like i was chewing on a hot spoon after a nice bowl of hot soup.
doctor notice seemingly right away, put his hand on my shoulder as they gave me more meds to knock me out for the rest of the surgery.
Im grateful for numbing meds they gave too
I woke up during ankle surgery. My mouth was full of blood, and it was running down my throat. I was trying to move so I could turn my head. The doctor yelled she's waking up, what are you doing? I'm already in the middle of the surgery. The reply was that there was something in my mouth, and he couldn't get the breathing tube in. They eventually put me back to sleep, but not before I re gained enough consciousness to feel the surgeon working on my foot. Turns out I have Tori on the roof of my mouth, and he was chipping away at it. 20 years later, I still have grooves across the roof of my mouth where he chipped away the bone. Another surgery I woke up while I was still intubated they didn't put me back to sleep, just took the breathing tube out, and that was awful.
I felt the tugging and smelled my flesh burning from the cauterizing knife they were using. I heard the music ( country) ....I was under conscious sedation!! Haha!..( I purposely asked for it and it wasn't major major surgery)
I know everyone wakes up in the OR in the end and is not supposed to remember anything. Well I remember everything including the breathing tube shoved down my throat and couldn't tell anyone. I couldn't see anything without my glasses. Yes, that did suck and I do have PTSD from it. Fortunately that has never happened again since. They had some dumb excuse for me remembering, but I know it wasn't supposed to happen. My last surgery was Nov. 20, 2024 for a hiatal hernia repair. I was listening to Adele in the OR and the next thing I remember was waking up in the recovery room NOT the OR. 3 hours passed and it felt like a minute.
“Gossip you hear during surgery”?? That’s disturbing to know your medical team could be so unprofessional
They should really only be saying necessary things, not having a whole conversation about other things. You may be asleep, but your subconscious mind is hearing everything.
I woke up in the middle of surgery and the instantly put me back out. All i remember was bright lights and the observation windows
Yeah, I want the maximum combination of everything, and then as I'm waking up I want the process to not take too long in the groggy/confusion stage. Go ahead and help me wake up a bit.
my friend did wake up and said she felt extreme pain during splenectomy. I was never afraid to have surgery before then ....now I worry each time this will happen to me
I was getting an ERCP for a restricted Pancreatic duct.
When I became aware of what the doctor was doing.
I looked at him and he at me . Then he nodded at the anesthesiologist and I was out again. Very weird .
Im sure I couldve looked it up, but still, happy to hear those horrifying stories ARENT the norm 😅.
I became aware during Twilight Sedation for the removal of facial skin cancer. The pain was unbelievable. I said I could feel pain, only to be told by the surgeon that 'No, you are feeling pressure.' BS! The anaesthetist was MIA. I went into shock. It took nearly an hour plus in recovery to get my pain under control. The anaesthetist just said,'sorry'. In the space of thirty minutes, while the surgeon operated and flirted with the intern, my self-confidence was destroyed by a clumsy, ugly graft on my face. Next facial surgery, I insisted on a general anaesthetic (ketamine included) plus extra local anaesthetic, and I had a miraculous experience of two days without pain or depression, both of which I suffer from daily. Thank god, I managed to advocate for myself to medical staff who were open-minded and willing to help.
I am pretty traumatized from waking up during endoscopy and once bronchoscopy. Both were awful.
I woke up as the doctor was trying to do a nerve block during my knee replacement and it hurt like hell
I became sorta awake during nose surgery while they were doing stuff, but I felt very well and comfy.
It was a routine lap chole ( elective ) I was taken in the OR at 9:00 am . My surgery started at 9:20 am and ended at 10:45 am ( what papers states) moved to the surg ICU at 12:00 pm ( mom told me) woke up for a while had a sentence or few and went back to sleep ( 4:00 pm ) that too by the constant rounds of dr thinking why wasn't I waking up.
I wonder how people stay up or stay aware or hear things out in the OR cause in my case mom told me the dr would keep patting my face to wake up lady wake up .... next day 8:00 am i was alert awake and taking
I heard everything they were saying. I can name the song that was playing. I was able to move to tell them. I was terrified.
I recall waking up, unable to move or speak, I couldn’t feel pain but I was freaked out-dr had his back to me gossiping to the surgeon about sex, I recall every word & it took a bit for the surgeon to realize I was awake & started explaining to me the procedure she was doing while the anesthesiologist whipped back around to face me & put me out quickly but unfortunately when I woke up, I remembered all of it verbatim & still do.
Omg
@@billie381Right! WTH! I would have reported them.
Did you tell them that you knew what they said? Reaction from them?
@@meganellis3109 the surgeon came to my room that evening, I could tell she was fishing for information so I stopped her in the middle of her sentence and let her know I remembered everything. This was years ago & I was in my early 20’s & on pain meds afterwards so I didn’t report it-now that I’m in my late 40’s, of course I would’ve handled the situation totally different & this is why everyone needs an family member/friend/advocate with them during medical procedures-I can’t believe that happened & I was under medication during the surgery-I don’t recall any pain but I can still feel how freaked out I was even under whatever sedation I was-I could only blink & that was how the surgeon finally noticed I was awake. She apologized & that was that, the surgical site ended up infected but that’s a whole other story. It was a learning hospital (university) but idc where it is, that was negligent & 100% preventable.
You were looking a bit guilty when you mentioned the gossiping during surgery.....
I have an important and Germaine question. Most time I get an IV, they need to use US assist. I had brain surgery in March 2024 and somehow the IV came out in the latter part of surgery. I woke up and they were scrambling trying to start a new line. Have 2-3 surgeries in 2025-Q1. What should I be doing beforehand? Definitely now have PTSD. Thank you.
Why would Dr's swear in the operating room just because a patient wakes up too soon?.
I need to root canals i Hurd it hurts
Good morning Dr Kaveh 👋💞✌️
I woke up during surgery and sat up before the nurse anesteist grabbed my forehead and forced me back down. After the procedure, the nurse came into the step down unit visibly shaken by what and happened and started verbally yelling at me. I let him finish and calmly told him that I could not do his job while I was asleep. He turned around and left still pissed and mumbling. I think the surgeon must have had a discussion with him prior to him coming to find me.😂