What does it feel like as you go under in surgery?

When I had general anaesthetics at the age of 8 (gas) I remember the doctor saying that I should count to 10 and by the time I got to 7 I won't remember anything. Funnily enough 7 is where it all goes blank :p And I also remember everything spinning around right before it happened.

Earlier this year I had the other kind of general anaesthetics and all I remember is the guy saying 'feeling sleepy yet?', me saying no and then.. gone! Next thing I woke up in some after op room babbling Norwegian apparently :o
 
Didn't get asked to count to 10 or anything. The anaethetist (sp?) and nurses were just talking and told me I'd feel a slight tingle up my arm then started talking about the weather. Next thing I'm waking up with 2 nurses standing over me.

It's pretty bizarre in a "Where the hell did the time go?" sense but also pretty awesome.
 
Last time i went under i was 5, by injection. Can still see the tiny little scar where the needle went in. Was asked to count to 10, i remember saying 3 :p Woke up to Harry and the Hendersons with my dad next to my bed, seem to remember it felt like just waking up on a morning. Felt fine until i went to stand up to tell the nurse i wasn't feeling well, whereby i promptly vomited all over the floor :D
 
Windle said:
Didn't get asked to count to 10 or anything. The anaethetist (sp?) and nurses were just talking and told me I'd feel a slight tingle up my arm then started talking about the weather. Next thing I'm waking up with 2 nurses standing over me.

It's pretty bizarre in a "Where the hell did the time go?" sense but also pretty awesome.
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That's exactly what I recall of it. Though it was over 14 years ago :eek:
 
Only been under properly once (for what I can remember, I went under before when I was about 6 and can't remember anything).

They got me to lay on the op table myself then wired me up, told me to count down from 10, I got to 9 and there was a weird shooting sensation going up my neck then I was gone before I got to ask what was happening.

Waking up is entirely different , but I had surgery on my mouth and so it was starting to hurt once the drugs wore off.
 
Wait, what's this about after effects :eek: just put me off my next op now (and I was feeling all Marla Singer then)

Forgot to say that the blocker I was given for pain relief by the anaesthetist was the most amazing drug. 8 hours of pain free bliss post op, it is probably the reason I slept for so long after (along with the oxygen which is another great sensation)
 
Dry mouth, Nausea pretty common after effects, Man up
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Must be why I spend so long asleep post op. Sod that! How is the forearm (it was forearm wasn't it) by the way, still full of pins?
 
I don't mind so much going under but it's waking up that is awful for me - I end up so groggy and sick it's not nice. I'm a big chap and apparently they have to give me a higher than normal dosage. I've had about half a dozen ops now. Seems quite a lot :(

Ive often wondered if it's like this when people die - they go to sleep and never wake. In fact, when you are under you don't dream either do you. It's just completely blank for however long you are under (and it feels like its instant!). It's really surreal.
 
I hate the sickness when you wake up from it. However when I was in earlier this year they injected something the second I said I was feeling really sick and it went away within seconds :eek: Wonder how it all works.
 
D1ngd0ng said:
Must be why I spend so long asleep post op. Sod that! How is the forearm (it was forearm wasn't it) by the way, still full of pins?
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That post op sleep is just as bad as going under :D

Yep its still full of pins, had the cast off a few weeks now, go back for X-rays before Christmas and pray to god my bone is fusing this time :D
 
I have been put asleep quite a few times for various things (few sets of gromits, broken nose, broken ankle, removal of metal work from ankle etc...) and it seems there are 2 distinct types of anastetic,
1. Which seems to be most described here, which is pretty much it goes in and next thing you wake up in recovery.

2. The one I have had the last 3 times... Now this is more weird as when it is injected you feel it spread through you (a weird cold/hot tingly sensation) up your arm, across one side, groin and the neck up which the you wake up in recovery. The whole process takes around 2-3 seconds but I panicked a bit the last time I went under as it felt like I couldn't breathe though obviously I could otherwise I would be dead lol

My only other slightly odd/unpleasent experience was waking up in recovery with some tube down my throat (only a breif memory then waking up again in the ward). You don't usualy remember the recovery room aparently and usualy "wake" in the ward.

Oh and if you are going under for a while the sticky tape they put over your eyes leaves an annoying residue and the oxygen tubes up your nose dry it out lol
 
Mostly you will know nothing about it. My g/f had an OP where after she woke up from it the women said to her "are you ok" and my g/f replied "yeah, just a bit nervous about the OP". Then the nurse told her it was over and she was confused. She was like "oh....".
 
I had an OP about 5 years ago. Going under is fine, I counted to about three I think and was gone, wasn't aware of being drowsy just before hand.
 
philstanbridge said:
I don't mind so much going under but it's waking up that is awful for me - I end up so groggy and sick it's not nice. I'm a big chap and apparently they have to give me a higher than normal dosage. I've had about half a dozen ops now. Seems quite a lot :(

Ive often wondered if it's like this when people die - they go to sleep and never wake. In fact, when you are under you don't dream either do you. It's just completely blank for however long you are under (and it feels like its instant!). It's really surreal.
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I also find it all really interesting. I guess it's why I like films like Inception / Matrix / Minority Report to do with the mind.
 
Going under is just like someone flips a switch on your back without you knowing anything. Waking up was just like waking up from a nice sleep for me... no sickness or anything.
 
Dont think its like gently falling asleep.

Perhaps being forced asleep in a way....how it feels kinda. When i woke up from my op in june i was just *THERE* breathing very very ragged and painfully into an oxygen mask in the recovery room. (like i was a computer that is just switched on and switched off) Thats the point i say i was aware but i possibly was conscious in some form before that..just dont remember it. My throat was a bit sore dunno why but i guess according to what some have said here....uhh you get a tube forced down your throat!!??? :eek:
 
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