I can soooo see myself saying the craziest, most unhinged and horniest shit under anesthesia 😂
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Can confirm that Fentanyl feels far too good. Chronic pain patient, they started with tramadol, then dilaudid, and then fentanyl patches.
Was already hooked on the opiates by the time they gave me the patches (this was right at the beginning of covid to boot, meaning no real medical oversight was done after starting me on them), started abusing them, after a while my usage exceeded the amount i could score by visiting multiple doctors for scripts with all of the tolerance i had built up. Withdrawal was hell, both mentally and physically - fentanyl doesn’t last very long. Still on Buprenorphine as substitution for the last 2 years now, but at least i have my life back and don’t permanently swing between being either in heaven or in hell.
Don’t give chronically depressed people opiates if you can help it, docs.
Edit: wanted to add: what really freed me from my constant pain (i’ve had back problems since i was 13 with severe pain in my legs and back for most of my life) was a shitton of physiotherapy, which also helped me to lose the fear of causing more pain by movement - at some point you are so conditioned to feel pain associated with specific movements that you feel the pain even if you wouldn’t normally. Pain is a strange thing in the brain.
After my cycling accident the ambulance gave me fentanyl. Damn, did I feel horrible. Still in a lot of pain, it didn’t help with that in any way, and it made me feel so insanely bad. Same with morphine and other opiods. They are not for me. They give me very realistic nightmares. And I don’t know how to describe the bad feeling, but it’s both mentally and physically.
I’m in the same boat. Had a surgery years ago where they tried giving me fentanyl, dilaudid, and tramadol at different points and they all just made me incredibly nauseous with no noticeable pain relief. I still remember the nurse in the PACU being really confused that my pain was still an 8/10 despite being on the max dose of tramadol.
I woke up screaming after surgery.
I had the max allowed dosis of oxicontin, oxicodone, ketamine, paracetamol, ibuprofen and a nerve blocker yet my pain was a 9/10. Doctor: “sorry mate, can’t do anything else for ya, you’ve got the max allowed. Good luck! Oh, we can’t let you go home anymore, you’ve had too much stuff for that.”
Later I needed to pee but I was connected to loads of tubes and such. The nurse put the machines on my bed so I could turn to the side to pee in a cardboard container. I got out of bed, standing up without issue. She jumped from the other side to catch me, which was totally not necessary. She said: “But you can’t stand on your own legs with what you’ve had. I’ve never seen this before, how!”
This is unrelated to anesthesia but one of the people that I get recommended shorts for has a connective tissue disorder that caused her to have like all her bowels removed along with her asshole, uterus, and other stuff.
One of her shorts in the last few months she was going to a surgery consultation and she made a joke in the short about bringing her boyfriend/fiance to the appointment because “she likes to have all the people that rearrange her guts in the same room”.
Getting your asshole removed sounds wild. Do they close it up after removing the colon? The logistics beside a stohmi bag are baffling to me
I’ve had general anesthesia twice and you don’t say anything, you kinda just extremely quickly fade out and then wake up once it’s done. I’m always super wired right after I wake up but it affects everyone differently.
I’ve had so many surgeries now that I’ve lost count. I obviously don’t know what happens when I’m all the way under, but I do know that when I’m on the sedatives before and after, I’m very talkative.
Yeah, memory fades out, but i’ve heard of some people being quite talkactive for a while after starting anesthesia. Probably depends on what you get.
I meant post-anesthesia, I’m bad at words. No idea how it’d affect me, but I’m kinda curious lol
When I got Implantable Collamer Lens placed in my eyeballs and I talked to the doc afterwards for follow up appointments and after care apparently. I had a moment of memory loss and forgot even talking to him at all afterwards. By all accounts I behaved sober. Lucky I took my mother with me or I wouldn’t have known anything lol. She mentioned something he said in passing and I drew a complete blank the next day.
It probably really depends on the type. Post anesthesia you’re probably just going to be tired or wired depending on how it affects you.
