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

My first experience of being put under was when i was around 16 or so. I had acute appendicitis and the doc's decided to operate. Que me heading to theatre on a trolley.

I'll always remember the anesthetist having a joke with me, he bet me that i couldn't count to 10 after he administered the drugs. I think i made it to 6 :D

Roll on a few years (well quite a few) i broke my foot and was again on the trolley heading into theatre. I'd hoped to beat 6 seconds this time but i'm sure it was around the same.

Imo don't worry about going under, it's like the most wonderful feeling of tiredness, you can't fight it for long.

Hope you get your problem sorted.
 
I was 14 when I got a general anaesthetic (broken elbow and needed it breaking into place or something), best nights sleep ever! A year of not sleeping well cured by a day or two in hospital playing nintendo (I was young enough to be in the kids ward to warrant n64 and the star gate film).

Cant recommend it enough! Though the pain in my elbow still haunts me some times...
 
I part woke up during the operation because not only did i remember what they had on my mouth but the two people standing over me. It was like a part dream and i remember coughing blood. Next thing i knew i was in a private hospital bed blood in my mouth and that object that was on my mouth on the side table!. Putting that aside though, you don't remember going to sleep or feel the pain. It's apparantly rare to wake up during an op !

I suffered afterwards though, ended up with over 20 mouth ulcers that lasted ni on two weeks :(
 
just feels like going to sleep.

not like going to sleep because its bed time and you have to be up in x hours but like going to sleep because you have been awake for 3 days/nights
 
Klo said:
I've never had and hopefully never will, and I know it would be no use, but I'd try and resist as much as possible.
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That's what I tried to do, lasted about 4 seconds :p

It felt like becoming instantly hammered and tired, next thing I knew I was waking up (6 hours later)
 
I've had 6 operations. It feels kinda cool going under. You feel the anesthetic crawl up your arm, next thing you know you've woken up and feel really light headed.

I always make a point to ask the staff for a quick tummy tuck or something. Always gets a smile (maybe they are being polite).
 
Last time I had an op was a good 10 years ago to mend my very broken arm, and it was just like being (as someone as already mentioned) VERY drunk, then passing out. I remember swaying around on the bed and the ceiling spinning.

I then woke up up 6 hours later, was sick and passed out again. That wasn't nice, but everything was fine, plus I had a kick ass plaster cast!
 
Anethsetist "Count to ten"
Me "1...2...zzzzzzzzzzzzzz"

Injection, bang, and I was out.

Waking up was another matter, i react badly to going under, and they always end up keeping me in another day. I get very agitated, and delerious. :(
 
I'd agree with what most have already said, but I'd also add that there is a feeling of 'chemical' if that even makes any sense.

When they inject you with the first solution, you can feel it working through your bloodstream I guess and even have a kind of 'chemically' taste in your mouth. Then you will feel like you are very drunk and like everything is kind of shrinking in around you. You start to want to close your eyes, then you just can't stop it and you are gone.

This all happens really quickly and it's not painful or anything to worry about.


The most bizarre experience I ever had with an operation was when I had my wrist put back together while I was living in Canada. As I went to sleep, the antithesist had asked me something and so I was telling him about it, when all of a sudden I was gone.

When I woke up, I was trying to continue the conversation, though he was no longer there! I then became really confused because the only voice I could hear was a British woman. As I came around, I realized the nurse was British and I then thought maybe I was back in the UK. It was only when I'd regained my senses that I was able to ask her!
 
LeJosh said:
Morphine?

Or is that a completely other aneastetic... Can't spell it.
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nah morphines an opiate (analgesic) they use afterwards to control pain, im just interested in what it is they use to actually put you under.

But overall most replies here have reassured me :p Thanks, guess it needs to be done so no point getting anxious about it.
 
I'm totally out of my depth in regards to medicinal practices. :p

Atleast I know what an opiate is... Sort of. :)

Definitely don't get anxious, try and remain calm, listen to a chill out album before?
 
I remember nothing at all from my general anaesthetics...3 in total I think. Every time there were just a few seconds of normal consciousness then the induction drug kicked in and I was out. No sleepy feeling, just gone instantly. Though some of the drugs they use have an amnesic effect, so in reality I probably did drift into unconsciousness over a few seconds but can't remember it. Can't remember much of waking up either due to the same effect.

Pixel said:
Had my tonsils out a couple of years ago, and due to being a type 1 diabetic I was put under general anaesthetic.
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Everyone has it, it's not really an op you can do under a local!
 
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