I just had a surgery under general anesthesia and all i want to say was i was extremely worried before like not even caring for the actual surgery itself and all i can say is that it is an extremely easy experience. I got into the operating room very nervous and I remember then telling me to breath from the mask and i just kept repeating the word sleep in my head and the next second im in recovery. They had told me i would have burning in my arm as they were injecting the medication but it wasnt anything like that it was actually a nice feeling sort of like a little buzz going up the arm and then out. Nothing else. So if your going under anesthesia anytime soon trust me, do not worry because it is very easy. I hope this helps!
Alicia West don’t worry, before my surgery I stayed up all night worrying about going under, but that ended up being the easiest part of the surgery, you don’t even remember it, you go into the surgery room and then next thing you know you wake up from a relaxing sleep. I woke up thinking wow, I was overreacting because it really is the easiest part lol! anyways wishing good luck on your surgery!!
So for me I’ve had anesthesia twice. My first experience was actually pretty traumatizing. I was around 9-10 years old getting an MRI, they put the mask over my face and I was breathing normally and then all of the sudden everything just went black but I was still aware of my surroundings and I could still hear everyone speaking in the room (Felt like I was blind) which led to me panicking which lasted around 20 seconds until the anesthesia fully kicked in and I was out like a light. The second time was way much smoother where I learned from my past experience and just relaxed and kept reassuring myself that I’m in great hands and I have people watching over me. With that being said my biggest advice to people who are getting anesthesia for the first time is to not fight it. Fighting it leads to a very strange, weird experience that just isn’t fun. Relax, stay calm, think about what you’re gonna do when you wake up, what you’re gonna have for dinner etc. Lastly, the sleep is great and you wake up surprisingly feeling very refreshed. Hope this can help first timers keep a mental note in their head.
This was my experience for all those who are worried about going under...so after you’re taken to the anaesthetists room they lie you down and insert a cannula, they then give you an initial dose of a sedative and painkiller blend to relax and calm you. Afterwards they commence the introduction of the general anaesthetic through IV AND gaseous means. They tell you to take strong deep breaths and, trust me when I tell you this...it will literally take you 3 puffs and you’re out! It’s so easy I promise! Next thing you know, and it really does feel instantaneous from your perspective, you’re waking up in recovery feeling quite dizzy like your high but not to bad. It’s only at this point where the real challenge starts if I’m honest since you’ll start to realise the post op pain that you get when you move around but your nurses will give you heavy painkillers to help with this. Honestly, I was so scared to go under but it’s a piece of piss. I guarantee that the following day you’ll look back at that part and think “why the hell was I even worried about that” the worse part of having surgery is the aftercare, and even then, it’s not unbeatable! - Hope this helps :)
That was my experience this morning. One of the docs said ,”think of a happy place like the beach” they asked me to breathe in the mask and I was out. When I woke up I was dizzy and incoherent; I was not making any sense! I have this weekend to recover. I liked it lol
When I had my appendix out, they really messed up my throat during intubation. Woke up coughing blood, as they had nicked the inside of my esophagus somehow. It was terrifying to come around that way, because I was very disoriented from the meds, and thought they had caused massive internal bleeding. The nurses couldn't get through to me, I insisted they were lying to cover up their mistake. I was so upset, they had to give me sedatives to calm me down, because my yelling was making the injury worse. EDIT: For anyone concerned, I apologized to the staff after I sobered up enough to understand what had actually happened. They said it was no problem, and that sort of thing was commonplace for general anesthesia. But I still felt super embarrassed. :\
Only surgery I've ever had that I consider surgery is getting an iv sedation for some dental work done and yea I was soo nervous but everything went well I don't remember anything really
I looked at this video two nights ago before my ACL surgery. Yesterday was my surgery and it went well so far. As someone who suffers from severe anxiety, hypochondriac, nervous and was crying cause i was so afraid. Trust me when i say this anesthesia isn’t bad, they put an IV in me and the liquid sting, and then the mask. When i say i don’t remember a thing I really don’t. It was literally the best sleep I ever had!
@@ninin4929 No i didn’t vomit at all, only part i didn’t like was i couldn’t eat the night before. I was really hungry. When i woke up i was a bit groggy and hungry. Also funny part i was being mean to ppl (not the nurses or doctor) lol.
I had a surgery like a year ago and when they turned in the anesthesia, one breath and I passed out and for me it felt like 5 seconds of darkness I feel my self wake up and my eyes start to open. To me it feels very relaxing.
@@DinRosen2015 yah it’s like sleeping, you don’t know you feel asleep until you woke up, which feels like seconds went by. The surgery was like an 1 hour
Good video! I was put to sleep once for a smaller procedure and it felt super weird but it wasn't a scary experience for me. I remember my forehead started feeling suuuuuper hot like the seconds before I fell asleep. So odd! I woke up like half an hour later. I'm so glad my experience was fine and not very scary. xoxo
Very interesting video. When I was a child, I needed a surgery and a general anesthesia. I remember I was afraid about everything: the operating room, the doctors, the nurses. And the anesthesia was like... dying. My mind was turned off in seconds. Ciao
I got put under anaesthesia on saturday for my first time in my life! Having learned extensively about anaesthesia, i was so afraid from Rocuronium messing my muscles, propofol, opioids...the fact they will intubate etc...complications The really abnormal thing though; I remember EVERY single thing before and after the surgery. I have no memory gaps.
@@its.chummy what did you get to put you under? iv or gass? I got the gass first so they could do iv while i was passed out. I was looping for ethernety and i am thraumatised 😅
I've had in hospital dental surgery and a couple shoulder surgeries. I woke up so sick to my stomach after my dental ones and my first shoulder surgery. Now when I go in I make sure I tell my anesthesiologist that I get sick and they give me meds to counteract that side affect! It really helps. My last surgery I got a nerve block prior to being put under so I didn't need as many meds afterwards, it was a lot better than waking up groggy and confused
Amber Mosher Yes I usually feel nauseous after anesthesia too. Common side effect but if you ask for anti-nausea medicine it does make a difference. Thanks for sharing your experience! 😊
I'm having general anasthesia tomorrow. I'm watching a lot of experience videos to reassure me. I'm going to Spire Murrayfield Hospital NHS. Hopefully they're a great place, never been before!
Wow your a strong 💪 brave young pretty lady you have been through a lot and still stand tall what a warrior! I after have the camera down my throat and up my back passage for the 1st time I am getting put to sleep. I have multiple sclerosis, fibromyalgia, ectopic beats, arthritis, hyperhidrosis, and lots of problems they create there just labels if the names and you get so much with them going on... from bladder and bowels problems to vision and pain, muscle spasms, spasticity, ect ect... I am worried because I panic with anxiety and depression 🫥 I take my hat off to you love going through all that god bless you ❤️
The frenulum situation must have been caused by a tool called the laryngoscope. This is a dull meatal blade with a light on the end that the anesthesiologist uses to open your jaw and guide the tracheal catheter (breathing tube) down into your throat.
i remember when i was little and idk what was happening but i was being put under anesthesia and i had a tingling everywhere and i woke up laughing and i heard the doctor laugh back but i hate the feeling of being like drowsy or whateva
Thank you sooooo much! I’m getting an operation to make my bent eye straight and I was soooo worried and now I’m really not that scared about it! This is my first ever operation so I’ve never experienced anything like this!
@@aaribhasan hi! I literally forgot I ever commented this lmao but ah yeah the operation went down pretty smoothly. When I was around five my eye just suddenly became bent and to this day I still have no idea how it happened but after a few years of visiting different eye doctors for check ups, one recommended getting an operation to fix my bent eye. I was paranoid at first and said no, but a year later I decided to undergo it when I was like 12 I think. I’m turning 14 now and I still have to wear glasses because I’m long sighted, but my eye isn’t bent anymore. As for your other question, I never actually had a squint, it was just a bent eye!
Ive had general anesthesia about 3 times. I have a dental reconstruction next week and I'm going under general anesthesia and I'm scared but after watching this video, im now less scared. Its just the anesthesia has a weard smell, but you only smell it for like 2 seconds and then in a blink of an eye your awake. I don't remember anything from my spinal fusion surgery, I remember getting the medication to relax and a little of them putting the anesthesia mask on and a second later I remember waking up in recovery.
Hey girl do you know anything about having gerd (acid reflux) & going under anesthesia? I am so scared because online sources say you have a higher risk of aspiration!
The last experience you explained where you felt like dying, the glitchy repeating og the ceiling is kinda what happened to me going into general anesthesia last time, getting my jaw and Wisdom teeth removal surgery. I have very bad experience with IVs being put, i didn't sleep the night before and wasn't allowed to bring anyone with me because of covid, and also not having any anxiety meds before the surgery made my Anxiety over the roof, so they said that i could get a sleeping gass before they put the IV in so i wouldn't feel the IVs being put in.... I regret that. I remember breathing the gass trough the mask sitting on the surgery bed, i said it smelled/tasted sweet i remember, and the nurses was like "that's weird", and then the next moment i remember a loop of me falling back and multiple people holding me as i suddenly had to lie down, the loop reminded me of when i get really high on edibles and i freak out because of the glitchy repeating world that all my senses get dragged into, the last thing i remember during this loop was saying that "i don't like this, this feels like the traumatic time where i got too high on edibles". I felt like i was trapped in the falling back loop until i halfway woke up again when they rolled the bed out of the surgery room and the anesthesiologist said to the nurse that he gave me something so i wouldn't wake up too quickly, and i tried to say that ey yo, im awake already tho, but i don't remember too clearly what happened right after because i was in so much pain and was told not to talk. I still had flashbacks or delirium of some kind for weeks after that, and it was SCARY! It triggers my anxiety so much. I'm having breast surgery in 3 weeks and i hope that the appointment with the anesthesiologist will prevent the last experience from happening. I'll ask the hospital for both of the times i was under general anesthesia, if they have records of what kind they used so i can bring to the appointment. Since my first surgery was fine, i was just angry while waking up because i got out under before getting asked to count (after watching others go under on video to "prep" myself for the experience) and i didn't even finish my sentence while talking to the doc when he put in my IV and also the meds apparently.
I hate this part. I unfortunately have a 7th tummy surgery because my wound re opened even after a month of a wound vac. This part scares me & I've had at least 18 surgeries. So I ask to have something before the operation room, because my anxiety goes so far up the roof. I usually get to knock myself out, unless I'm too nervous. I get so nervous & scared. I am nervous for my surgery coming up probably next week. I've also had 5 hip surgeries, 31 kidney stones & 3 surgeries, stage 2 endometriosis, a painful colonoscopy, minor back procedures, right inner elbow benign lump surgically removed, minor collarbone procedure, Bell's palsy, & a few more. I'm nervous for my tummy surgery coming up very soon.
I just had a pretty big abscess in a weird place removed and they had to give me anesthetics. It wasn't terrible at all i just felt a bit of like pinching in my arms and then i felt really tired but when i woke up for some reason i didn't have a sore throat at all🤔
@@tylermassey412 it went smooth . the first 3 days were the hardest for me . I was on a liquid food diet for one week then soft foods the next . Im doing light cardio now since its week 3 going on week 4 . 💜 best surgery i ever had . i had a 7cm hole in my diaphragm for the stomach herniated through too .
I just went under anesthesia for the first time it felt alienatic There were illusion shapes spinning around in my head could here them repeating the same thing I knew they were moving me my shoulder was dislocated and I felt so weird nothing hurt doctors spent 1 hour fixing me felt dizzy waking up lol but the agonizing pain was gone from when I first walked in I was in screaming pain
@@candywilson3884 I didn't really get a direct answer but looking through comments put me at ease and when I went to actually get it removed the only thing that really was uncomfortable was the laughing gas at first. It felt like taking a quick nap and when I woke up I was just confused and kept asking why my bed was so hard when I was actually in the recovery room 😂. The most difficult part, I'd say, is the braces and not the wisdom teeth removal at all.
For me I have had two ear surgeries over the last two years. I do not like doctors or hospitals. Thankful we are very close with my ENT as well as a small surgical suite. I was able to bring my iPad with me but due to covid I was not allowed to have anyone come with me. I went in and they got me back right away. I got to my bed then used the restroom and got changed into a hospital gown. For me I was was able to keep my bra and panties on. I had socks that they gave me and a hair net for later. I was then taken back to my room. There I was able to play on my iPad. The nurse came in and introduce herself. She said that she was my nurse for pre -op and post-op. She could tell that I was sacred we did all the normal check in stuff with a lot of questions. Then she told me that there would be some different people that are going to come by and talk to me. The First was the sleep doctor. She came in asked me some questions as well as had me take some breaths as well as opened my mouth. Then the OR nurse came in and then last was my ENT. I was very thankful to see a face that I knew and trusted. We were given the all clear and we where walking back. After getting in to room and on the bed they hooked me up to everything that was kina scary but they told me what each thing was and why we used it. Then the sleep doctor came in and asked me to take some big breaths. Then She put over my mouth and nose a mask that smelled like root-beer. I started to cry and fight it my doctor knew that I would do that so she was right there holding my hand and the other one next to me. She was just asking to me and telling me to just close my eyes that she was right there. I remember the sleep doctor also telling me it was ok and that my doctor was right there. She was stoking my eye brows and check and then I feel asleep. I was not a great person waking up was not much better then the guy next to me cursing out the room. Man that was loud and not called for. I was really sad and could not stop crying. The nurses were super confused and could not get me to stop. They tried everything they could think of. They called the sleep doctor out and ask her what to do? She gave some meds which help my tummy a little. I was still sad and so they called my doctor and she came down. She ask what they had tried and then she came in she sat on my bed and stared to talk to me and then I moved over to see her. She had my lay my head on her lap and she just held me and rubbed my back. I finely stopped crying. I am very much a pedantic patient. I went home and had a hard recovery from the meds but then in about two days I was great.
Ive never had this happen before but I was also theorising that you would feel it as if you just closed your eyes but then it feels like 10 seconds later that you open them because thats what it feels like when I fall asleep normally at night times but I honestly had no idea
When I was a kid we had this candy called pop rocks. A bag of little wee pellets. In your mouth they would crackle and pop and even jump around. When they put the mask on me to put me under, for a couple of seconds it felt like a combination of pop rocks and fireworks going off in my brain.Not painful at all, just very strange. Anyone else experience this?
I have had Local anesthesia And I don’t feel anything and actually I have had loca, anesthesia 7 times and I just feel loopy but then okay and then I had some for my cavities and I kinda of swallowed some
I’m scared I’m going to reveal stuff I know that they didn’t think I knew under anesthesia!!! I have to get 4 teeth pulled and I’m scared there going to put me under anesthesia
Like going to sleep?? When I was put on general anesthesia it was like... My vision slowly faded and then it looked like tv snow, then it went black, THEN i was "unconscious" (don't remember, just felt like I was waking up, next.)
Makayla Tri it only feels like you’re asleep for a couple of seconds; you fall asleep and then wake up. What will you be going under for, and when will that be?
@@neeshantbakshi7562 well they put a mask over your mouth and nose ( oxygen comes out of it ) then they slowly put two medications in your Iv . It felt like my chest was really tight and my arm burned a bit , then I became dizzy. My eyes rolled away and since then I couldn't remember a thing 🙈 . But every time was a little bit different . Sometimes it goes fast and sometimes it takes a bit time until you're a sleep
@@neeshantbakshi7562 you wake up in a room with other people who just had surgery. And yes your throat will hurt a bit , for example when it is a short surgery it won't hurt that much , when it's a longer surgery it will hurt a bit more because the breathing tube is in for a longer time. Sometimes it can happen that you spit out some blood because of the breathing tube but that's nothing dramatic . You will feel like a truck ran over you and the part that got operated will hurt . In some hospitals they give you ice when you wake up , that's really nice
@@ScarlettGreco-i4l I chickened out but been having recent flare ups so I have to reschedule again soon. The more I researched the more I found out that both of those are relatively easy standard procedures and well outweigh the cons
How come when I got it, the whole room started spinning? I didn’t feel tired or just knock out. I closed my eyes on purposed because I was getting dizzy
@@candywilson3884 I was really nervous so they had to occupy me when I was awake they put something in my i v and I started to get tired and they whellled me out and I was smiling they said and they I remembered the one nurse put on ocean waves befor I feel asleep and when I woke up I was in pain and loopy but I was fine after
Sometimes you get conscious sedation, but often people are given General Anesthesia using drugs that knock one out completely, but are distinguished by not involving a tube down one's throat breathing for the patient or the body being paralyzed.
