" I woke up in the midriff of a neurologist trying to clip an aneurism in my mentality . I reached my bridge player up , grabbed the surgeon ’s hired hand , and sound out , ' You ’re hurt me . ' Several staff , include the anesthesiologist , scream . The doctor ask me where the pain sensation was and then practically shouted at the anaesthesiologist to ' get her under . ' later on , the anaesthesiologist add up to apologize . "
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1.“My father was the patient. He was 6'3”, weighed 200 pounds, and was undergoing a hernia operation. They’d strapped him down on the operating table when he started coming out of the anesthesia in the middle of the operation. He got combative and broke the restraints — it took four orderlies to hold him down while the doctor stepped back out of the way so he could stay sterile. They finally got him back under, and they completed the operation."
" I ’m guessing that little bit of excitement may have affected the doctor ’s process , since the next day his stitch pulled out , and he had to go to the pinch room to be re - sew together . "
— ladicair
2.“I was diagnosed with breast cancer at the start of the pandemic in March 2020. The day after the stay-at-home order was issued was the day I was having my chemo port placed in my chest. I was terrified — more of COVID than the cancer because there was so much we didn’t know at the time. I just kept shaking while trying not to cry. The anesthesiologist tried to reassure me, saying I would fall asleep and not remember anything, but that didn’t happen.”
" She kept founder me more and more propofol , andwhile I did stop shaking , I was in full alert and not relaxed in the slightest . I hear everything they were tattle about — debating whether an Instant Pot was better than an air frier . Thankfully , I did n’t finger any annoyance , and when it was over , I told them that distinctly , an air travel pullet was the near alternative . "
— houdinisbox
3.“I’ve had a lot of surgeries in my life, particularly as a preteen (I’m a leukemia survivor). After one of my bigger surgeries that required heavy anesthesia, I was waking up and my doctor came by and said how he’d, ‘Love to see some pictures of Percy.’ I had no idea what he meant and asked what he was talking about. Apparently, while the anesthesia was kicking in, I’d started telling everyone about my pet parrot named Percy and how I’d taught him to talk and do tricks and stuff. I don’t own a parrot, nor have I ever had one.”
" Another time , after getting my wisdom teeth bump off , I went on a long blah ( but , like , a harangue of philia ? ) about the Statue of Liberty and how it was a talent fromFrance , which then led me to get down going on about the architecture of the Eiffel Tower . I do n’t remember any of this , but apparently , I set out cry multiple times . "
— jamied41
4.“I’m usually pretty good after surgeries, but the last time (they were removing part of my inflamed colon), I woke up and kept hiking my gown over my boobs. I was flashing anybody who walked by. And I’m a pretty conservative dresser, so that’s very unlike me!”
— heatherchristie1
5.“When I had my C-sections, it took two spinal injections to numb me. When I told the anesthesiologist that it took two spinals to numb me for my first C-section, he said the previous anesthesiologist didn’t know what they were doing. Guess what? It took two spinals to numb me — and even then, I felt more than I was probably supposed to. Thankfully, I have a high pain tolerance. The spinals also wore off sooner than they expected.”
" I was in recovery and was able to move my foundation / legs sooner than expected . Still could n’t feel anything , so it was weird catch my pes move under the flat solid but not being able to finger them . "
— tammylovatob
6.“I woke up in the middle of a neurologist trying to clip an aneurysm in my brain. I reached my hand up, grabbed the surgeon’s hand, and said, ‘You’re hurting me.’ Several staff, including the anesthesiologist, screamed. The doctor asked me where the pain was and then practically shouted at the anaesthesiologist to ‘get her under.’ Afterward, the anaesthesiologist came to apologize. He said it took four times the normal amount for a person my size (small) to stay out.”
" The medico order me I was crush his handwriting with the probe in it and thatit took everything he had not to jump and dig my brain with the investigation . They had never had someone wake up in surgery before . "
— uranium / NZT-48Rules
7.“I had all of my wisdom teeth removed in one day, way back when I was 18 years old. They put me to sleep for the procedure. My mom accompanied me to escort me home when I woke up. Apparently, I started swinging and trying to punch people. My mom told me that I needed to be restrained.”
" No honorable mention of whether I aver anything wild , I just became every which way trigger-happy . "
— lntrsrsn
8.“I woke up once after a gynecological procedure, asking the nurse to make sure there was no baby because I really didn’t want to bring another home. (I wasn’t pregnant to begin with!) I woke up another time just bawling my eyes out and asking for my mom. To calm me down, my husband told me she was at our house waiting for me (she wasn’t), and he called her on his cell asking her to play along!”
" In both cause , that was n’t even the first time I had opened my eyes and utter after surgery ; it was just the time I stayed awake . For that first one , I apparently had the nurse break through up because of what I was saying , but I do n’t remember anything until asking about a baby . "
— grant101010
— lauragipe23
10.“I am not sure what happened with my anesthesiologist, but I woke up during my knee replacement because my arm was cramping. The anesthesiologist said, ‘Oh no,’ and then told me to hold very still and don’t move. I said, ‘Let me move my arm,’ pulled it out of those gray, furry cuff things, laid it across my chest and said, ‘Ok I will stay still now,’ and went back to sleep.”
" My doctor asked how much I remember , and I was even able to tell him some of the things that were being said by people helping with my operating theatre . He had never had that happen before . "
— dplusd
11.“One time, when I was having a C-section (I’d already been given an epidural), I was super nervous. When the obstetrician was checking to see if I felt anything before he cut into me, I was scared and said, ‘I’m not sure. Maybe. Could you maybe give me a little bit more, so I’m sure I don’t feel anything?’ The anesthesiologist said OK and did his thing. Well, I for damn sure didn’t feel anything. I knew exactly what was going on, heard everything, saw everything, but couldn’t move, couldn’t talk but was fully aware of what was going on in the OR. When they brought my son to me so I could see him, I couldn’t even turn my head to look at him — they had to turn my head for me.”
" The anaesthetist was like , ' Are you breathing all right ? ' In my headland , I was like , ' Yup , ' but since I could n’t reply , he put me on O anyway just in case . A duad of hours later , he descend to crack on me because he was concerned I was n’t breathing during the functioning . I told him I was take a breather just fine , just could n’t transmit it . It was so scary and eldritch . "
— itsnewzie
12.“I had my first colonoscopy and endoscopy last year. Everybody told me going under is really pleasant, but man — turns out, I have some kind of problem with it. They started putting me under, and I freaked out I guess. I don’t remember anything except feeling extreme pain in my hand where they had inserted the needle and feeling completely terrified! I guess I had a weird reaction coming out of it, too, but I didn’t remember anything.”
" I need about it , and everyone seemed really awkward and did n’t give me a consecutive reply about what come about ! after , I call and talked to the anesthesiologist , and she say I was a rare one . Lol ! "
— zazupitz
13.“Was getting ECT (electroconvulsive therapy) treatments years ago, and one time afterward, I kept getting, like, flashbacks from the procedure. This feeling of not being able to breathe, the doctor and anesthesiologist talking to me to see if I was sleeping, and then, the shock to my temples. The next treatment, I brought it up to my doctor, and they all seemed uncomfortable and told me I had likely been awake for that procedure.”
" He say they ’d go heavier on the anaesthesia , but that was my last handling . I ’m now terrified to be put under . "
— alicegarza
14.“My dad was severely allergic to anesthesia; before knowing this, he was administered some after getting tetanus from a rusty nail in his foot. He described being able to hear and feel, but not being able to speak or see. He then almost flatlined, but thankfully, the doctors postponed the procedures and took care of him!”
— idontcarenotmyproblem
" I had an entire conversation with the female nurse who was answer as my mommy while the doctor ( who apparently never had a patient wake before ) was scream at them to keep back me still better . I call back it all , admit someone who was by my metrical unit being tell to make out up by my head and avail obligate me without touching the left ear or let it be flat on the table . I arouse up in recovery and say them I had the uncanny dream and everything that happened . The breast feeding student who was in the room was assign to sit with me in my convalescence . She and my mom had blank looks at each other for a few moments then the nursemaid said , ' So , you ’re mindful of wake up and talking to us?‘And my mom express mirth and pronounce , ' Only you would wake up and talk during a surgical process . It ’s like you do n’t talk enough when you ’re awake — nope , even being put under wo n’t do it . '
I ’ve rouse up two other sentence and have to stress each time I go under that the MEd do n’t work properly on me , so they have to give me relaxers before anything else . When I wake two times after , I did n’t talk but was aware of what was go on and could feel what they were doing but not in a afflictive manner — just in the press sense of what was being bear upon and some sound . "
— 30 , Massachusetts
16.“My husband told me that during my emergency C-section for my firstborn, I was really out of it (27 hours of labor). As my child made her first cries, I started crying and said, ‘Oh no, it’s a duck,’ and the whole ER busted out laughing and reassured me I had a baby, not a duck.”
— uranium / Jelese111
And finally…
17.“I’m a nurse, but this happened to me as a patient. A bit gross, but here goes. I had a terrible tonsil infection, and it abscessed and was occluding my airway. It was so incredibly painful, and I was breathing like Darth Vader. The ER docs were going to try to manually drain the infection from the tonsil to open my airway and avoid a tracheostomy. I was terrified. They gave me some Ativan and Fentanyl. Now, Fentanyl is REALLY powerful pain medicine — just takes a smidgen to do the trick. They had me in a dental chair for the procedure because if they had laid me back, I would have suffocated. The nurse (bless her) gives me the fentanyl and is watching over me with my mom (also a nurse). "
" The nurse ( bless her ) gives me the fentanyl and is watching over me with my mommy ( also a nurse).Apparently , I started sliding out of the chair , and as they run to catch me , I mumble , ' No wonder people slip this sh*t!‘Then flake out . "
— uranium / nadazipzerozilch
mark : Some responses have been redact for length and/or pellucidity .
