What patients tell me under anesthesia
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- Опубликовано: 7 сен 2024
- Patients can say many things under anesthesia, more typically under sedation anesthesia than under general anesthesia, and of course depending on the type of surgery. I share a particularly funny case of a patient under sedation for their total hip replacement. anesthesia humor certainly has no boundaries, and I actually didn't realize just how funny what they said was until I recorded this video 🤦
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I woke up too, I asked how much longer cuz it was really starting to hurt. Scared the heck of them all. Anesthesiologist looked me in the eye and said nite nite.
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"Ugh..., doc how much loner? The medicine is wearing off..."
"Night night :)"
@@ThisIsLin138 yes. Under monitored anesthesia care. MAC. for foot surgery. Taking longer than expected, my neuroma was hiding. Doc said he was going to incise deeper. It was massive. A few seconds later I asked how much longer cuz it hurt, but was thinking I could deal if it was only a couple more min....I asked how much longer, and they all freaked out lmao. Lesson for them, we can hear them and sometimes remember.
oh my gosh that was funny. 😂🤣
I woke up during my first colonoscopy, and said, “Is that my colon??Wow!!” They gave me more sedation and out I went!!
😂
I don't use sedation during colonoscopy because it makes me nauseous and also, I need to drive myself home after. It's ok.
Isabell4318 that's crazy how the heck do you not feel any thing
I have to get a lot of scopes and colonoscopies. This is my biggest fear. I never woken up though and the last few surgeries Dave letting me sleep with my shoes on pretty weird but whatever.😂
Didn't get sedated for my colonoscopy either, and they even lanced off a polyp lol. I didn't feel any pain, just rly weird pressure.
I woke up 18yrs ago during a total colectomy.
Paralyzed, tubes, and my eyes taped shut but I could feel a cold biting sensation in my abdomen like a frost bitten wind was sawing at my guts . I heard the music playing and listened to their conversation while freaking out as sensation became more acute until I hear “I think she’s waking up…”
Surgeon didn’t believe me until I recounted his music choice and conversation . Funny enough those memories faded quickly within days and now I only know it happened and can feel the sensations
So much stories like this but luckily most of them end in being knocked out again before the pain becomes too severe
😮
The brain forgets but the body remembers
That sounds scary.
Yeah when you start to blink the tape comes loose. I've pulled my off and made some comments asking whats in my eye as it flaps tape. Need less to say, I've had to have arms and legs strapped down during procedures or I fight back? haha
I woke up during a colonoscopy when I was 20. I remember looking at the monitor and asking if everything looked good and then they told me go to back to sleep.
Good job
I just had double cervical disc replacement surgery, when they wheeled me into the OR I said “ this looks pretty involved for an ingrown toenail”. They all stopped and looked at me while on of the nurses checked my arm band, and said “ that’s not funny, ok it is a little funny”.😊
That's hilarious
Had major knee surgery and while in bed waiting the surgeon came in and wrote on one leg "not this leg" and " this leg" on my legs. His way of making sure he did the correct leg.
That’s awesome
@@almiroff6949I hear this is pretty common(no experience) which is pretty funny
@@burritoornot856It's not so funny -- it's necessary to prevent surgery on the wrong leg -- it's never happened to me, but I know it has happened to others -- nasty when the wrong leg got amputated! 😵💫
I woke up in the middle of surgery (melanoma on my ankle). They were talking about their plans for July 4th holiday. Someone said they were going to Cape Cod. I said i practically ate my way through the state of MA with all the seafood. I saw 6 masked faces turn and look at me in horror!
Lmaooo idk why the comment you made when you woke up is so funny
😂😂😂😂
This cracked me up
They never put me to sleep.
The sedation failed.
So when they stuck the tube down my throat, I was still awake.
I couldn't breathe. They were holding me down. They had already tried twice and the tube would go so far and then I'd fight them off because I felt suffocated.
I begged them to knock me out and they said, "We've given you everything we can!"
I said, "Then I changed my mind! I refuse to have this procedure!"
They did it anyway.
I'm an RN. So I'm well aware of how illegal this is. I should have sued and taught them a lesson. Because I've been traumatized by it ever since.
Now when I get anxious at all, I do this weird, gaspy thing. And I have a fear of being unable to breathe or having anything over my mouth. 😢
@@inthelandofmorethansmall7582oh😰
Woke up during an appendectomy... Honestly? I think my anesthesiologist was more traumatized than I was. I found it morbidly interesting
I woke up two hours into my heart surgery, and I yelled God dammit that hurts! My anesthesiologist and the doctors eyes almost came out of their head and I can sue the shock in their eyes! The anesthesiologist slammed the magic mill in me. After that I was in surgery for two more hours, and when I woke up in the recovery room, I saw him and I told him man you should’ve seen the look on your face when I screamed out that shit hurts! He said, do you remember that I said oh yes, I told you
Oh yea? While intubated with a tube through your vocal cords you “yelled god dammit”? You see how one might say you are, what do they call it? Full of crap? Yup that’s it.
How did you wake up in a heart surgery?
@@leahra6920 Basically anesthesia can wear off faster than anticipated. There are obviously machines monitoring for any signs of you waking up and usually, they'll adjust before you can actually talk and be conscious, but for some people it can happen faster, I guess.
I read a while ago that some ORs employ machines that monitor brain activity, which are supposed to detect the patient's level of consciousness. They're specially useful to prevent cases of people regaining consciousness but not motor skills (basically trapped awake while they cut you open, which is a nightmare).
They're always praying you don't remember...
It’s something you will never forget…..
I challenged my surgeon to drop the drape so I could watch. He said no and looked at the anesthesiologist with a nod. I like waking up and remembering. It’s happened twice.
Wow! Twice! You should let your anesthesiologist know if you have more surgery. Are you a red head?
@@angleblu7327 I always tell them I am very sensitive to the drugs. I request that they don’t use valium because it does not wear off for a couple weeks with me. I wonder how much I talk under anesthesia that I don’t remember. 😂
@@angleblu7327or hypermobile in the joints and stuff because EDS can also cause it.
@@angleblu7327yes, you should give them a heads up! Plus, not only redheads have that gene mutation, it's just that there's only information on redheads having experiences like that. I'm native and have had full awareness double tooth removal even though they dosed me up, weirdly I remember doing my best at attempting to remain polite while being in horrible agony and hearing tiny saws in my mouth😂😂 I don't have trauma from that, even weirder😂
I felt tugging on my groin during my hernia repair. I woke up and asked what they were doing. The surgeon yelled something, and then I woke up in the recovery room.
@pythagoras3910 I wasn't molested. I woke up when they were operating on me.
@@paulovinanti9187Why were they tugging your meat
@@Popcorx No, tugging on my guts to put them back in.
@@Clownk1llerI'd assume they'd have to move his privates to get everything done
@@paulovinanti9187 I know, it was just a little joke
I use to mass produce kidney stones (to the point they eventually killed my left kidney) and I woke up in the middle of a lithotripsy. I yelled, “IM AWAKE!! IM AWAKE!!” And the anesthesiologist responded with, “Not for long.” And then I was back out. Hahahaha!! It was SO LOUD and it felt like a million needles were being jabbed into my left side.
My mom woke up in her hip replacement surgery, too. She just remembers saying, “Ow!” And then they gave her anesthesia to completely knock her out.
She had a spinal and sedation. Happens all the time. Nothing off.
I had my replaced 8 weeks after my left in 1995. I had signed papers that it was ok with me to have visiting Dr's from Holland in the room I'm in Iowa. I woke up during the surgery and I asked if the visiting Dr.'s were there, my Dr. Said yes and then I asked if they brought me a pair of wooden shoes. Then I heard, laughter and my doctor saying, put her back under quickly 😂
The wooden shoes really kept you busy😁
That’s amazing 😂😂😂
😂😂😂😂😂😂 Thank you for the best laugh I've had today!!❤
Hip...knee? What was replaced?
@@101doreen, sorry.
1995 was knees
I woke up in the middle of surgery trying to get the heck outta there and someone shouted ‘Oh, shit, she’s awake!’. It was painful and only a brief blip.
Omg that sounds so scary! Were you conscious and do you remeber it all? That would be worst nightmare lol
did you sue?
@@triforce7464for what?😅
@@diva5998 waking up in the middle of surgery
Same. Mine was twds the end, but I felt everything they were doing.
Don't think I've woken up but I do know I talk while under anesthesia. I woke up twice with the Dr and nurses laughing about it. God knows what I said, kinda afraid to ask!😂
You're not the only one!
Same!! And then the same time, I was coming out and said my gastro doc looked like Donald Duck.
Ya I never saw him again.
After my last surgery, I remember being in the recovery room, and talking to the nurse, who was sitting there doing paperwork. Wish I could remember what we talked about!
Nobody “talks while under anesthesia”. It’s literally impossible. General anesthesia is an inducible coma. Under sedation you can talk if the sedation is light. You can also talk once you’ve awaken from general anesthesia and you’re still in the transitional period. People often mistaken this time as being “under anesthesia”.
@@edwardherrera846 ever heard of sleep talking?
The number of 'I woke up' stories here are seriously concerning and also freaking me out.. and they call it a rare occurence
So you know about the redhead thing?!! It’s real.. I’m a natural redhead and I’m super hard to knock out and stay out!! Then hard to wake up because I have to have extra meds!!! I tell all doc and dentist because I’ll flat out carry a conversation …. And tell you knock me out!
Ive heard this about redheads being hard to sedate..
Yep we process pain and pain meds differently. More sensitive to opioids, less sensitive to anesthesias
That’s so funny you say that! I was ginger as a child and I’ve always been very resistant to anaesthesia. I woke up during a tonsillectomy and asked when they were going to finish and they freaked out and knocked me out. Same thing at the dentist. Hahahaha 😂 I am also very sensitive to opioids; but I have brown hair now with a red undertone. So I don’t know if I will still be the same
@@Nerderator having one of the two redhead genes can still have these effects without having fully red hair
@@Alex-fc8xnMakes sense. Red hair runs in my family even though I'm blonde.
I woke in the middle of my hysterectomy saw my Dr between my legs. The stirrups were bright yellow. After I told the nurse I woke up during surgery . She said no you didn't and my Dr walked up and said oh yes she did. I woke up rt at the end of a surgery and tried to rip my breaking tube out also. My 2 open hearts they made sure I did not wake up thank God.
they told me beforehand i could become awake during one surgery, because i had to be flipped onto my stomach with the breathing tube kinked. sure enough, i did wake raising my head up a bit, they panicked trying to reassure me that things are going to be okay. i just huffed a sigh and laid my head down, told the anesthesiologist "yea, i'm okay, let's just get this over with, put me back under please"
What on earth were they doing that they were willing to compromise your airway? Thank goodness during COVID they should have learned to prone patients in the right way...
I had to get eat tubes when I was 2. The surgery before me took so long that by the time it was my surgery, the sedation wore off. I woke up in the middle of my surgery to sharp pain in my ear. It took forever for a nurse to notice I was awake. She told me to go back to sleep. I didn't want to. But then they gave me another dose and I went back under. And that's my earliest memory.
Oh that's an interesting first memory! My first memory is skipping into the Houston Space Centre and playing on the space shuttle shaped playground.
I would have to think what my first memory is! I’ve never really thought about it.
Wow, my earliest memory was waking up on the floor in my house in a pile of vomit and then walking through my house and no one was there then I looking out the window and saw kids walking up our street and I remember falling, nothing more ahaha
My earliest memory was looking at my mothers light blue nightgown on my side in a dark room .. She walked over and picked me up and was talking telling me your dad came .. She put me up to a window where I could see the hospital entrance and a flagpole and my dad and older sister standing in front of the hospital .. The hospital was closed for visiting hours , so my dad stood with my sister holding flowers and my sisters hand .. I knew exactly who they both were to me and that they couldn't come in to visit and why ..
I had just been born and it was very bright in that other room ..
Then I was 3 before my mother and father split .. 💔
I woke up during a double hernia surgery and although I couldn’t feel anything they were doing, I could clearly see what they were doing from the large mirrored light above me as the surgeon was stitching up one side & stated he was cutting into the other side.
As I saw him cutting into me, I then started squirming and nervously moving my leg, they then realised I was awake & asked me what was going on & to stop moving, & I told them I could see what they were doing. They were confused by my comment, till I told them I could see it in the reflection of the light above me. The surgeon called out “move that light and put her back under!”
I once woke up during brain surgery and said "Oh shit this is gonna get me so many updoots" and the anestheisolgist said "r/thathappened" and they timed me out again.
The closest sounds from the repair car shop happens in orthopedic operations, LMAO 🤣🤣🤣
Yes!! I stayed awake for my knee replacement, and people are a bit freaked out. I tell them that it just sounds like a mechanic 's shop.
Yeah and my orthopedic surgery was in a place that was a lot like a garage lol, but I only saw it briefly when I was wheeled in and I was like damn it's like I'm a car.
@@Nodsbane 🤣🤣👏🏼
I woke up while getting my chemo port out. I vaguely remember cussing out the dr to put me back to sleep. Sorry doc! 😅
I've awoken two times in surgery. On separate occasions. One was oral surgery and I was supposed to be completely asleep, I woke up and tried to say ow. The oral surgeon looked very surprised and told the nurse to push more something. I woke up later and the nurse asked if I remembered and I said yes. But I had reminded them repeatedly that I am ultra sensitive in the mouth and my dentist usually had to give me two and a half times the normal dose of numbing medicine in my mouth or I would jump around like I was being electrocuted. So waking up during oral surgery wasn't that big of a surprise especially because they were working on my upper jaw putting in implants. The nerves in the that were still aware let me know they were very unhappy. The second time I was having a twilight procedure. I was having an image guided shots in my spine so I needed to be completely relaxed and asleep. I woke up and heard what the doctor and nurses were talking about and after what seemed like a looooong time added my two cents to the conversation. It was probably 30 seconds max but the doctor and nurses laughed at what I said because it was quite pithy and put me back to sleep.
I get those shots in my spine several times a year & twilight does not work for me so The next time they added Benadryl and it still didn't put me to sleep maybe for 2 seconds and that was it now I just go. In with nothing just a numbing around where the shots go. Not good for me 😢
@@dianeratti5644 you're supposed to be asleep or almost so that you don't suddenly move while the doctor is inserting the needles. It's so that your body is completely relaxed not necessarily for sleep. Talk to your physician about what is going on. You're supposed to be getting some pain relief from the procedure but if the procedure itself hurts you're more likely to stay away. Your doctor might have a solution for you. Because benadryl is not it.
Just curious if you are a true red head? True red heads need more pain meds than anyone else.
What is a twilight procedure
Both procedures are under sedation. “Waking up” is normal. People always make it seem like some crazy thing that isn’t supposed to happen, happens. But that’s not true.
I had experience similar during a knee replacement surgery. I heard a snap and some major cussing ensued. Next day I asked the doc what was that cussing you sounded like a garage mechanic.
He explained your past surgery the guy put a bolt in your distal femur I had to remove it and some of it snapped so I was cussing the surgeon before me lolz
I woke up in the middle of my first colonoscopy. I remember thinking, "That's what I look like on the inside!"
I woke up during surgery on my nose. It felt like my brain was being hammered. I said ouch and the doctor told me to go back to sleep and kept going 😂
Nope
That’s me!!! Well I don’t challenge them. But I have been known to talk to the surgery team. I don’t remember a lick of it, but I do get to have some odd conversation after surgery. 😂
I woke up in the middle of my twilight sleep while having a vertebroplasty. I remember saying really loud (at least I think I was loud😂) ow, ow, OWWWW!!! I was either in my late forties or my early fifties. Everybody was constantly asking me you’re so young. What happened? That’s a procedure for old people with multiple tiny fractures. I fell off my horse in a sitting position. Got the wind knocked outa me and then I had a hard time walking after. But I should’ve never had my feet outa my stirrups sitting like I was in a rocking chair with no care in the world. I’m 62 now and still riding the same horse. My sweet boy. Then exactly six weeks later I fell off of a ladder picking plums in my yard. The doctors estimated the fall to be the drop out of a two story house. (We have an upper level patio). On my way down I had time to think…well, there goes my back. I had a seizure and couldn’t hear or talk. I felt bad for my husband and daughter witnessing that. They thought I was dying. Ended up in a county hospital cuz they have an excellent neurology department…laying like some limp doll, while they were asking me questions and then I felt the cold scissors going up my side as they cut my clothes off. Then I started panicking because I was on my period. I wanted to disappear so bad. Me and my clumsy ass! 🙄😬😂😏
My father has woken up during surgery. More than one time. Firstly, he is a physician so he didn't seem as bothered by it as you would expect a human being to be, and secondly, his pain threshold is indescribably high.. he told me he let them know, and then they put him back to sleep. He didn't mention the pain or fear involved in waking up.. granted they didn't have them fully cracked open, but it was a surgery and it has not made him afraid to have another one
Once when I was sedated, they told me I wanted them to go find that yellow nurse that just left me😂
I remember seeing figures thru tape and saying, "orange spongy gingerbread men!"
I watched my elbo surgury from the ceiling, just floating there. I told the surgeon and assisting nurse what they were talking about, to their embarrassment, cuz they mustve been dating. 😊
Define “from the ceiling just floating there”
Imma need you to define that for me as well 😂
@@AlliedBroom9081 I left my physical body and watched my own surgery from above my body. More and more doctors are documenting the out of body experience.
Imma? Why the smiling face?
I watched mine from above too!
Yep I woke up on the table tried to get up… banged my head on this huge light in a dark room 😂😂😂 I recall them freaking out and pushing me back down then… 🤷♀️🤷♀️
In the middle of bladder surgery as a 4 year old, I asked the nurse to move the light back to it's original position because I was watching the surgery.
They put me back to sleep.
In the middle of knee surgery, I asked "is that normal?" as the surgeon was telling the class (teaching hospital) why he was using high oscillation water to remove calcium deposits from my tendons and ligaments.
There were several other incidents, but those 2 were from childhood and the doctors were shocked that I remembered after the anesthesia wore off. (As an adult, surgeons weren't as compassionate and yelled instead of staying calm).
I have been able to hear what was going on once during a colonoscopy and once during another procedure. No one believed me until I told them what they said.
Colonoscopies are done under sedation. So it’s not completely impossible to wake up and go back to sleep or hear talking. Nothing wrong at all.
That’s prob ‘twilight’ sedation. Not quite fully out but not really aware either.
@@edwardherrera846
Alot of misinformation and lack of understanding in the comments for his videos at times. Glad they’re watching.
@@jmc8076 yes, but its unpleasant being able to hear and feel when your not supposed to.
Nothing crazy to believe. These cases are done under sedation. People wake up and go back to sleep every day, during these cases. Nothing wrong happened. But people are uneducated and they spread false narrative that they “woke up” under anesthesia. Simply not true.
In the middle of my c- section (unplanned) the doctor announced “it’s a girl!” But , at my ultrasound (back in 1990 they said it was a boy) I asked, “But what did I have?” as if there was somebody else in theater. The anesthesiologist assured me that it was a girl and it was mine. I was very confused. I guess US was less precise back then. To make matter worse, she was whisked off to the NICU so I didn’t get to see her or hold her until much later. 😢
I was told back in 1994 when I was pregnant with my second that I was having a boy, I was blessed with a wonderful baby girl.
Oh wow! We can tell gender now at 9 weeks with a little bit of blood from mom! It’s so cool!
I woke up during surgery once too. I remember hearing a few voices then a lady asked me what drugs I was on😮 I started listing my prescriptions then faded back out...
I wasn't on drugs that weren't prescribed.🤷🏻♀️
I woke up and heard the old Coca Cola song playing in operating room. Then YMCA song playing (was in a military operating room and could hear staff talking) I started moving my right hand/fingers, trying to make the letters, YMCA. One nurse spoke out, "she's moving!" At that point, I could feel pinching in my left wrist (scar revision surgery from a prior ganglion cyst surgery). In a firm voice I hear my surgeon say, "MORE LOCAL!!"
The power of ymca!
I woke up towards the end of my hernia repair surgery. I try not to think about it. They did give me more anesthesia, which, made me the last patient to leave the recovery room.
I had asked my ortho if there was any way I could watch my knee surgery. Of course he said, "No. That really isn't a good idea." During surgery I woke up and remember the Dr saying, "Well, you got your wish! There's the monitor where you can see what I'm doing." I remember seeing the monitor for about 5 seconds and I was out again! Lol!
I remember waking up and looking and going " oh yo what's up cool you're fixing stuff thanks so much you guys are really great 😃"
My father woke up in the middle of hand surgery after a car accident and he still has nightmares about it.
I had a spinal during a knee replacement, woke up and was talking to the anesthesiologist. Surgeon was like "why is she talking?" Gone again. I thought it was the coolest thing. Having my knee banged on and feeling nothing.
I was talking during sedation for a second eye surgery. I remembered the former in detail. The last thing I remember from the second is my surgeon saying "Out! Now!".
I think I fell off the operating table when they turned me over for back surgery. I have some fogy memory of it, and a bilateral sacrum fracture that no one could explain after surgery. I never brought it up because I don't know if the fall was a dream or not.
I feel like either way you should bring it up with your doctor.
Holy shit 😴
Doctor - "Oh you think I'm going soft? Okay!" (Breaks femur with a baseball bat)
I’ve woken up from sedation several times. Apparently I metabolize those drugs pretty quickly. It’s now in my chart that I require more anesthesia than average. Definitely not fun to wake up in the middle of having my wisdom teeth chiseled out of my head or during hand surgery… twice.
Was more or less awake for my wisdom teeth as well very unpleasant but it was over quick guess time moves different when on drugs
I woke up when they took my appendix out. I was 18 and it was traumatic for me. I was kind enough to pull out the intubation tube and choke blood on the surgical field. Next thing I remember is them talking shit about how bad a patient I was in post op.
The first time I witnessed an orthopedic surgery on my rotation in the 80's, I was shocked to see instruments that looked like they came from the hardware store!
Woke up at the local VA hospital and heard stuff about staples before I went back to sleep
I woke up during my knee replacement! While he was pounding on my knee. I tried to pull the sheet down to watch ! The doc just said calmly, put her out please😅
I always wake up durning surgeries.I figure its the hidden natural red in hair.
You probably have an enzyme deficiency..that makes your bodys metabolism to go faster.
I have opposite..they cant wake me up..
Red heads have a hard time with anesthesia, but we have a high pain threshold. I woke up during dental surgery. It was twilight anesthesia, so I wasn't completely under, but I asked the assistant about the guy she was dating. And with general anesthesia I will chat about the most ridiculous things while waking up.
Everyone working in surgery then the dad just says That's not my problem 😂
I was having a large and tortuous cavernous hemangioma removed from my right inner thigh. I woke up and said, “I can feel that.” 😂
I was in the hospital for partial hysterectomy, had been given the pre op meds and I was being wheeled into the surgery suite I heard somebody say oh yeah she’s a keeper!!!
had epidural during csection, it didn't work like it was suppose to, I felt everything, when they started cutting zi let ob know he said I feel something not pain, as the tears were rolling down cheeks and then sobs, then screaming I looked at husband and said make them stop I don't want the baby. I woke up in recovery 5 hours later, the epidural kicked in that night, my legs abdomen and feet were numb, no feeling, they had me get up to walk I hit the floor and popped out 4 staples. 10 months later I was laying in delivery they asked every 30 seconds if I felt anything, thank God it was just pressure
What a disgusting person he was. How can someone cut into someone that's crying and screaming in agony and just tell them they aren't feeling pain. I would have gone into full on fight mode and gone for the scalpel. I would make them knock me out. I hope you sued! Hope he isn't still operating.
I woke up during my wisdom teeth surgery, gave the surgeon a thumbs up while he looked horrified and passed right back out. Also tried to walk back to the car and that was not very successful
I WOKE UP DURING MINE😂😂😂 briefly! I just remember looking at my leg and have blown up it was😂 I remember my anesthesiologist, saying ,”whoops” …. Yeah I didn’t hurt or anything … but wow.
"woops" indeed 😅
I woke up during sedation and heard the male Dr berating another female doctor, I told him if he didn't show her a little respect i will take my business elsewhere.I was having cancer surgery 😮
I woke up from anesthesia and said “where in the Alice and wonderland fuck am I?!” 😂
As they were putting me out I told them that I could remember everything up to the very moment that I get blacked out and that amnesiacs and opioids don't work on me, so they wanted to test me to see if I remembered the "secret word."
After surgery, the moment I had the trach tube pulled I practically yelled it.
The secret word was "Bangarang."
Favorite thread I've read in a while
Happened to me... But _alhamdulilah_ they managed to "sedate" me back.. I can't forget the experience
This was 20 years ago but I'm still curious what I said because later when I was ready to go home, the doctor saw me and he chuckled right away. I gathered from what he did and didn't say that I said some things while I was under that made people laugh but I was too shy at the time to ask what. If that happened again I would definitely ask.
Omg you should’ve asked whether embarrassing or not 😂
I have so many surgeries, that I've woken up during and funny stories about it. BUT.. The only one I didn't wake up during I had a "little episode" sedated to be wheeled back for an emergency life saving surgery. I was in my 20s my mother went into surgery in a gown up with me, she worked in surgery and wanted to be with me. So they allowed it. I do recall what I did but had hoped it was a dream. My mother verified it was not. So they wheeled me in, drugged up the pain was finally gone. So they go slide me from a guarnie to the operating table. And I heard lift and slide panties off. I stood up on the guarnie a tad off balance and wheels moving like a skate board. At which point people with blue hats or blue hair began trying to grab me. I announced whats with the blue hair get back I got this, I'll be fine it not my first rodeo. Then I proceed to drop my panties, grabbed them swung them around in a circle above my head. And then aimed them at the doctor. At which point I tried launching them like a rubber band at the doctor who had just walked in. And said, "hey doc your a nice looking fellow, that guy out there wants me to marry him. But I think I'll skip it and marry you instead. Especially if you save my life over here. My mother said it was quite the show. And it took them a bit to get me back down. I refused assistance also hit my head on the light above because I insisted I could do it myself. I remember my mom saying, she is going to take a little more hard to knock out. That was pre- surgery, they worked on keeping me under that one. Recovery was pretty harsh. So embarrassing, being so purdent at 20 something to be doing. I really hoped it was a dream. And wondered to myself after, I don't know about this marriage stuff? I think I may have been talked into it? Haha
Another time i tried pulling a stomach scope out. Because I woke and didn't like it. Gave them hell because the arm and leg restraints weren't on. But woke up with them on, had some terrible stomach problems after from it. Having such a flat abdomen, one could look at it and see it just under my ribs balling up about the size of fist and standing out several inches compared to the rest of my abdomen. Just my actual stomach organ was bizarre. When I woke up surgeon said, " I have to keep you here a little longer. You woke up during, and tried removing the scope on your own. You got combative and we struggled with your arms and legs to get them under control and back down. I was still in arm and leg things. I left kept saying I'm so sorry I forgot to tell you. I just assumed that you would before I could do something. My advice if can always tell them before hand. Just in case.
I’m so glad you’re not telling me what I said when I was under. 😂 Thanks for keeping that between y’all’s lips & Gods ears. ❤
I have anesthesia awareness, and it is getting worse as I get older. Most doctors/anesthesiologists don't believe me or think I'm being overly dramatic. I am at the point where it is causing PTSD. I am usually paralyzed but I can feel EVERYTHING! My last procedure was an injection of medication where they threaded a cannula up through my back to my neck to deliver the medication. While I was "under" I was locked in a dream that my back was on fire, but I couldn't say anything, and nobody noticed. Then I woke up screaming and crying in the recovery area. This was after I alerted the surgery center, the doctor, and the staff, and demanded to talk with the anesthesiologist before surgery. The doctor dropped me as a patient after the procedure.
Please, please, what do I need to do or say to get doctors to take me seriously without freaking them out???
You had an epidural. Not general anesthesia. It’s completely possible to hear, talk, remember, have pain, etc. seems like you’re spreading misinformation.
@@edwardherrera846did we read the same comment? Lol they said “it’s getting worse as I get older” as in this has happened more than once..
Woke up during major oral surgery at a dental college clinic. Told anesthesiologist I didn't want to look at his hairy arm pit any longer. He asked if I wanted to be out. After my affirmative he put me out. Woke a few hours later to find that over 30 students had watched me get a new procedure.
In the middle of my 2nd bowel resection and obstruction surgery i had woken up and asked them to stop tickling me. They were literally in my intestines and the sensation made it feel like they were tickling me.😂😂 yeah he didnt jump but the nurses did.😂thank god he didnt that would have been a very crappy situation to find himself in.😅😂
Do people talk a lot while sedated?
Yes, during light sedation and emergence from anesthesia patients do talk a lot 😂. The reason is that the medications used, eg benzodiazepines, propofol, drastically reduce inhibitions, meaning patients are more likely to talk and do things they otherwise wouldn’t.
I always babble like crazy about none-sense while under light sedation 😆.
I woke up during a colonoscopy and told them, "I'm awake."
My mother was under partial anastesia during a c-section, and kept telling them they didn’t sedate her lower extremities correctly; she felt everything (!!) in her left leg, and was in massive amounts of pain. They didn’t check the epidural and refused to believe her 😢
I was asked if my ears still itched. I looked at nurse funny saying no they don't itch. The things we say while still coming of it.
I was under for a hand surgery after an infected cat bite, in the middle of the surgery someone was talking trash about the president and i was listening and then i said "i know right!?" because i agreed... then it got real quiet and i was out again.
They thought they knocked me out but I could still hear, after surgery I told my doctor about the trash talk they were saying about her. Why would they knock me out before surgeon is in room?
I had this doctor stitching a cut on the top of my head and before he started was telling his boss that they were out of lanacane .his boss said he will and chase some up, I said don't worry my head is in enough pain he can stitch it up without any dramas. After a while I asked if he had finished tattooing in name on my scalp.
🤣 I woke up in the morgue and asked the coroner that 🤣
I’ve woken up many times like this and I can’t remember it at all 😂❤😅
My mom awoke during major foot surgery, they were breaking toes, shortening them and reattaching with metal. She was PISSED! They knocked her right fast. 😂
i went under for a simple dental procedure as a child. i can’t recall anything prior to being knocked out. however, i do remember waking up mid-surgery with the dentist prodding around my mouth and the dental assistants chatting. as i woke up i saw the ocean themed room and the dentist and i said to them “what is happening? where’s my mom” and then boom i was out again 😅
🤣🤣🤣 you doctors must laugh so much in the operating room with all the craziness that patients say.
I WAS awake for my hip replacement and almost dozed off until the banging started! Near the end I offered to help. "NO HELPING!"
I woke up once during a colonoscopy. As you can imagine The pain from that... I asked them is that supposed to hurt. They said hurry give her more!! The rest was history.
Really they gave me a colonoscopy with no sedation and I ask for sedation. It wasn’t even an option for me. I was screaming in pain and they said just 10 more seconds. It went on for another couple minutes and I got physical and force them to stop it was horrific. Before my colonoscopy I wasn’t even told or given any choice for sedation, but when I actually went through the procedure, they were stunned, and shocked that I was never given the choice or even told that sedation is a thing for colonoscopies. I still suffer with it to this day.
@@Jcron13 oh my gosh I didn't know it was supposed to be an option?!? That's completely crazy you should have been put under! Most people are! We are not told that it's an option. We are just automatically told we would be getting sedated. Especially if we have an upper and lower at the same time. We are put to sleep because it's going to hurt! That's scary to think that they never gave you sedation! I would never have went to that doctor if he had done that to anybody I knew! Oh my gosh that's scary! I would not blame you if never have one done after that! But there's a difference between a colonoscopy and just a regular scope. The scope is where you drink all that liquid and then they take pictures of your insides. Colonoscopy is where they put the scope with a camera on it through your body. I've had both of them and the other one I do not get sedation for and it's not an option. So sorry for your tragedy! That should never have happened!!
@@Jcron13that’s so scary! I’m so sorry that happened to you! They performed a surgical procedure on you & told you it wasn’t an option?? I don’t get that bc like the other comment said it’s not “an option”, it’s not an option as in you WILL be given it during this whether you want it or not! I am so so sorry!
I wasn't supposed to be out for eye surgery (because it's only eye surgery), but they do give you a sedative and numb the crap out of your eye...or, supposed to. I felt everything. Even after two rounds of the sedative (which was ketamine), and more numbing drops. They actually had to hold my head down because I kept fighting. Thankfully it was a short procedure and I don't have to go through that again ever, but Yeesh. Believe us when we say it hurts and we can feel things.
I woke up in the middle of my c-section...SO painful that I wanted to die! I screamed! It felt like my insides were being ripped out!
My ex was also in the room for my c-section and he said the anesthesiologist was too busy watching my son be born....he wasn't paying attention to the sedation. My ex seen me stirring and he loudly said "hey, HEY!" at the same time I screamed. The anesthesiologist quickly sedated me. I'm still angry about it and have a bit of PTSD from it. 😡
I also woke up during my colonoscopy. WHY aren't they giving me enough sedation? I have a high tolerance and NO! I'm not nor ever have been a 'user'. I just have a high tolerance. I'm petrified to undergo any procedures now!
I woke up during a broncoscopy when the doctor was trying to insert the tube in my left nostril which is smaller due to a previous injury. I told him “why don’t you put it in the other nostril? It should be much easier to get in?” After briefly waking up again I tried to swallow some saliva and ended up aspirating it instead. I couldn’t stop coughing and was looking at everyone with fear because I couldn’t tell them what was wrong. They just told me to stop coughing and got really annoyed when my attempts to stop were unsuccessful. After several minutes they gave me more sedation. Once I woke up again-thankfully in the recovery room this time I found my clothes at the end of my bed and put them on and escaped down the stairwell still well under the influence. My family doctor and I had a good laugh reading the report in his office a few days later.
My husband woke up twice during his hernia repair. Second time they just lefr him awake cause they were finishing up the last sutures. Hes larger person, (6.3 200lbs) and has that gene that makes you harder to keep sedated. He stoppedd saying anything about it to doctors but they just thinl hes after drugs when he does so he stopped and just lets them figure it out now.
I didn't wake up in the middle of my first surgery thank god but I wake up too early and started panicking and tried to rip off my cast. the reason I know I wasn't supposed to wake up yet was the look on the nurses face and when they were trying to get me under control and stop me from ripping my cast I accidentally hit one of them in the face then I saw one of them pushin meds in my iv and then I was out. I still remember this very clearly even tho I was 4 also it took me a while to go under before too. When I had my second surgery they gave me douple dose of some medicine that's not for putting you to sleep but because they gave me more this time I went out from it that time. Probably scared them so much the first time or because it was longer surgery idk. I was 6 almost 7 during my second surgery
My big bro broke his elbow. He needed to have surgery to put metal plates in his elbow. He woke up during it and moaned and the fall asleep again. All he remembers that he was having his elbow bone drilled by the surgeon.
When you come around you don’t feel pain anywhere near as much so yes surgery will hurt but they’ll immediately put you back under and you’ll only feel a fraction of the pain you usually would
😂 all of the stories in these comments; im so happy you’re all here with us today💛
I woke up in my first colonoscopy when they were removing hemorrhoids and I felt the pain. They put my back to sleep quickly 😅
I woke up during a wisedom tooth extraction,
the surgeon said "can they can feel this"
I replied "yes, it hurts"
The *anithesia* guy then "well thanks, but he wasnt asking you"
Then when i was im the recovery room the anithesia guy told me i made him look bad with my talking while i was supposed to be asleep
I woke up while getting my wisdom teeth removed. I remember fighting and seeing this thing that looks like a door wedge and it going towards my mouth. Then I was back out.
My husband woke up during surgery to remove his wisdom teeth. He got up and started fighting the surgical team. He's a big guy with PTSD. They tied him to a chair and wheeled it outside while someone else called 911. I was in the parking lot. Thanks VA!!
I went to have gallbladder surgery an they left me in lil room b4 surgery , they came an got me an told me ITS TIME, I TOLD THEM I HADENT HAD ANY MEDICINE they were like u won't remember being rolled threw these doors. Got in their, big bright lights above me an doc an nurses all above me , telling me ill b asleep in a min. i kept saying i can still c yall an hear yall , theirs a sink right their , i named stuff in the room i could c , so please don't cut me open yet ! They realized id been overlooked an got the anesthesiologist, he was amazing, so calm an helped me feel lil more at ease till it kicked in, then I woke up mid surgery, i could feel everything ! i screamed omgod it hurts ! it hurts ! it hurts ! i feel it ! it was horrifying !!!
Goddamn how many people woke up during a surgery???
Clearly too many, which is why anesthesiology is an own and very complex profession
The only thing i remember is the pain of the breathing tube coming out
My grandmother woke up from some minor surgery and asked if she had a boy or a girl. Lol
I woke up during foot surgery he just said he was Ted me out..NOW ....he's a great dr.its just I had a high tolerance I never moved thank God my door was open
.yes I remember those thirty seconds
For my first colonoscopy back in 1993 (given early because my dad died of colon cancer), the doctor was running late and had a dinner party to go to that evening. So instead of giving me two medications as planned, he only gave me Valium. I woke up mid-procedure, so he had to administer the second drug to put me back under quickly. I only had a vague recollection of waking up. I assumed it was a dream.
The only reason I know this happened is when I went in the following week to get my results, the doctor was VERY apologetic about me waking up, and the nurse explained the specifics to me afterwards.
If I go in for future procedures, do I need to tell the anesthesiologist about this?
Thank you.