Have you ever been under general anesthesia? What was it like? Did anything strange happen?
Have you ever been under general anesthesia? What was it like? Did anything strange happen?
As a compliment to the thread about near death experiences I'd really like hearing people's experiences of losing consciousness under general anesthesia and what's it like coming back.
Also interested of things anesthetists may have noticed about this during their career.
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I had general anesthesia, some kind of pretty strong opioid. "10... 9... 8...", then the room felt like it was spinning very briefly before everything went black. Only thing I remember about coming out of it was a sore throat due to intubation.
Ah yes, I also remember having a sore throat after, but I don’t recall them telling me beforehand that they would intubate me.
I don't think you can have general without intubation. To protect against aspiration or something, if not actually to breathe for you.
Yeah that makes sense. It wasn’t something I had considered before the op.
Isn't it because they paralyse you and your lungs stop working?
I don’t know the answer to that.