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This is what it’s like to wake up during surgery
Posted on 3/24/19 at 10:14 am
Posted on 3/24/19 at 10:14 am
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It should have been a routine procedure, but, for reasons that are far from clear, the general anaesthetic failed. Rather than lying in peaceful oblivion, she woke up just before the surgeon made the first cut into her abdomen. With her body still paralysed by the anaesthetic drugs, she was unable to signal that anything was wrong.
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So she remained frozen and helpless on the operating table as the surgeon probed her body, while she experienced indescribable agony. “I thought, ‘This is it, this is how I’m going to die, right here on the table, and my family will never know what my last few hours were like because no one’s even noticing what’s going on.’”
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For years, anaesthesia awareness has been shrouded in mystery. Although extreme experiences like Donna’s are rare, there is now evidence that around 5% of people may wake up on the operating table—and possibly many more.
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Posted on 3/24/19 at 10:17 am to Lincoln Dawson
I just woke up, turned my head, said “wow”, then the anesthesiologist popped the mask back on and I was out like a light again.
Posted on 3/24/19 at 10:17 am to Lincoln Dawson
Yep I’m never getting surgery
Posted on 3/24/19 at 10:20 am to Lincoln Dawson
I woke up during a minor foot surgery. I recall the assistants trying to hold me down.
I didn't feel any pain,just felt loony from the anesthesia.
I didn't feel any pain,just felt loony from the anesthesia.
Posted on 3/24/19 at 10:20 am to Lincoln Dawson
One of my biggest fears. Holy frick that would be a terrible thing to live through.
Posted on 3/24/19 at 10:21 am to Lincoln Dawson
I woke up briefly during wisdom teeth extraction, the only time I've ever been under. I don't remember anything hurting, but I do remember crying.
Posted on 3/24/19 at 10:21 am to Lincoln Dawson
I woke up in the middle of an Oral Surgeon extracting my impacted Wisdom Teeth.
Not Good.
Not Good.
Posted on 3/24/19 at 10:22 am to pkloa
Hey, are you me?
Posted on 3/24/19 at 10:22 am to Lincoln Dawson
Posted on 3/24/19 at 10:22 am to sta4ever
I've never woken up during any of the 7 surgeries I've had over the years, and for that I'm very thankful.
I've read similar stories and that has to be one hell of a miserable experience to go through. I can't imagine feeling all that pain and not being able to notify anyone in the OR that I'm suffering so badly.
I've read similar stories and that has to be one hell of a miserable experience to go through. I can't imagine feeling all that pain and not being able to notify anyone in the OR that I'm suffering so badly.
Posted on 3/24/19 at 10:34 am to Lincoln Dawson
This is so odd. I'm in a recovery room with my elderly mother right now waiting for her to come around after a hip replacement. She fell picking up twigs in the yard of all things. Before the surgery this morning she was explaining how she has woken up twice during surgery before. Once during a hand reconstruction and the other an ankle and leg procedure. The story in the OP is some scary sounding stuff
Posted on 3/24/19 at 10:35 am to Lincoln Dawson
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but, for reasons that are far from clear, the general anaesthetic failed
Can they be a little more specific on how it failed? Was the gas not turned on? If a patient is paralyzed and can’t move there are other ways to determine if a patient is in pain during surgery. Such has the heart rate increasing or Blood pressure increasing. If either happens more narcotics are given and the gas is increased before a beta blocker is given.
Millions of anesthestic cases are done as MAC cases each year. During all of these cases the patient might hear talking in the room during surgery or they might not. Either way it is normal because it is just a twilight sleep just like a colonoscopy. Many of these patients say they wake up during surgery and they probably did but it is normal. They should have been told before hand it might happen but they will be put back to sleep quickly and they will be comfortable the entire time of the procedure.
Posted on 3/24/19 at 10:39 am to Lincoln Dawson
I have had oral surgery where they semi knock you out. You are awake enough to respond to answers but don’t really remember much. I would imagine it would be something like that. I have also experienced sleep paralysis and that is scary as frick, I hope that never happens to me again.
Posted on 3/24/19 at 10:41 am to Lincoln Dawson
There is a movie called Awake that showed this very same thing
Posted on 3/24/19 at 10:49 am to Lincoln Dawson
Why this thread? Why? I have major surgery in a couple of months. I am horrified.
Posted on 3/24/19 at 10:51 am to LSUsmartass
I woke up DEEP into a colonoscopy. I remember the pain, the doctor saying "more fentanyl" and then the nurse trying to pry the I.V out of my clenched fist. The I.V line was all there was to grab so I had a GI Joe kung fu grip on that sucker.
Posted on 3/24/19 at 10:52 am to LSU Wayne
Learn morse code, Wayne. If you wake up, blink the letters W T F until they catch on.
Posted on 3/24/19 at 11:17 am to pkloa
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woke up briefly during wisdom teeth extraction, the only time I've ever been under. I don't remember anything hurting, but I do remember crying.
Same here, minus the crying.
It was a military dentist and was training another one. I remember the chose being in my mouth and the trainer yelling at the trainer for not hitting it hard enough. She hit it twice more then I knocked back out.
Posted on 3/24/19 at 11:19 am to Lincoln Dawson
I pray I never wake up durin surgery. That is some scary shite right there
Posted on 3/24/19 at 11:20 am to Lincoln Dawson
False. This is what it’s like to wake up during surgery, and it rules.
ETA: dammit Hawg
ETA: dammit Hawg
This post was edited on 3/24/19 at 11:21 am
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