re: I just had a colonoscopy this morning with Propofol, and damn that is one powerful drug

I was cardioverted a while back and they used that stuff to "relax" me.

I remember going in stuck in AFIB with a BPM of 160. They put me in a bed, hooked up the lines and then they injected that stuff into my IV. Took a couple of seconds to hit, but when it did, I was instantly drunk. The nurse said she would be back in about 15 minutes and they would get started.

Well I laid there waiting for them to come back. I watched the heart monitor next to me and I saw my rate slowly come back down to normal. A little after it returned to normal, the nurse showed up and asked me how I felt.

I told her much better and that whatever they gave me lowered my rate and I didn't need to be shocked back into rhythm. She laughed and told me "They all say that, look at your chest."

There was a visible ring where the pad on my chest used to be for the cardiovert machine. She told me they lit me up a few times before my heart returned to a normal BPM. I swore I was awake the entire time and that no one had come by for at least 30 minutes.

Weirdest feeling ever. She told me it has a hypnotic effect and you just forget what happened. I was told that I talked to them and looked at them as they zapped me back to normal rhythm. I don't remember any of that happening. As far as my memory was concerned, all I did was watch the rate drop on the monitor.