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I had to be operated while conscious but lightly sedated and I remember bits of it. I remember being told that I had to receive an injection around the orbit of
by shaky-carrousel 3y ago
I had to be operated while conscious but lightly sedated and I remember bits of it. I remember being told that I had to receive an injection around the orbit of my eye with anesthesia and that it would be painful. I remember being calm about it. I also remember that it was very painful but I felt ok with that. I was like: "it's true, it's really painful".
So maybe it's like that always, even if you don't remember. You sometimes feel pain, but since you are sedated, you don't feel stressed about the pain.
- cubefox 3y agoA more worrying possibility is that we suffer terribly under anesthesia, but we can't move or scream because our muscles are temporarily paralyzed, and we can't remember the ordeal because our memory gets wiped.
- 2-718-281-828 3y agowell, that's not just a worrying possibility [1]. bears the question what was going wrong? a) that you woke up b) that you remember having woken up 1: https://www.asahq.org/madeforthismoment/preparing-for-surgery/risks/waking-up-during-surgery/ https://www.asahq.org/madeforthismoment/preparing-for-surger...
- cubefox 3y ago> The condition, called anesthesia awareness (waking up) during surgery, means the patient can recall their surroundings, or an event related to the surgery, while under general anesthesia. That's something else though. You could be very aware but forget it.
- 2-718-281-828 3y agoi don't see why this is sth else.
- cubefox 3y agoThe website talks about remembering being conscious. But you could be conscious without remembering it later, which was what I originally talked about.
- throwaway290 3y agoSeverance explores a similar topic.
- cubefox 3y agoJust looked it up, it appears to be a TV show.
- RandallBrown 3y agoYup. The premise is that you can have your work self "severed" from your home self. This means that you've essentially become two different people. It's really good if you're into that sort of dark sci fi stuff.
- throwaway290 3y agoThe premise is that you create a separate person with a separate "memory bank" that lives in your body. That person can suffer a lot but "vanish" after work hours (or in this case surgery with anesthesia) and "you" you may or may not care about their suffering. Should you? That's the question.
- LgWoodenBadger 3y agoWhat's the difference then between "experiencing it but not remembering" and "never experiencing it at all?" Effectively it's the same.
- guythedudebro 3y agoThe experiencing part.
- shaky-carrousel 3y agoNo, that wouldn't usually happen. I've had surgery a few times. What they do is monitor your brain activity and pulse rate to see if your are coming out of anesthesia for some reason. If you were suffering, at the very least your pulse would go up, and they will notice.
- cubefox 3y agoThat sounds reassuring.
- Quinzel 3y agoIndeed there is several monitors that can be used to measure “awareness” including entropy, bi-spectral index, and SEDline to name a few. SEDline is my personal favourite as you can see when a patient has complete “burst suppressions” - this is a total absence of brain activity at all and has been associated with post anesthetic delirium particularly in elderly patients.