Before someone questions me, this is a phenomenon that has been documented. https://www.sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/news/2022/05/24/during-general-anaesthesia-1-in-10-people-may-be-conscious-follo.html
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20190313-what-happens-when-anaesthesia-fails
Forgive me if this is the wrong place to post; c/mutualaid feels like it would draw attention away from people with more urgent issues, and c/mentalhealth is very inactive and rarely anyone ever sees it.
they layer some pretty potent opioids underneath the anesthesia. i had general for wisdom tooth extraction.
at the time i had a drug tolerance
i was very nervous about this happening. so i’ll explain my experience.
they started with an IV line which had an opioid (likely fentanyl) and propranolol in it. i felt a strong rush like injected opioids and then bam was instantly out. at some point during the procedure i started to wake up, as i remember my eyes fluttering and seeing everything around me but felt very little physically. the opioid was so potent i felt absolutely no pain but did feel pressure. i remember hearing “100 mg (?) ketamine something something”. they used ketamine to place me back into a deeper anesthesia. after that the experience of having my teeth removed was like playing legend of zelda and each tooth was a treasure chest.
i woke up still in a K hole. very numb. so there was no pain at all during the experience it was just very weird. they do monitor all your vitals and have a huge cocktail of different drugs they can use
only other time i just had twilight anesthesia which was more fun then knock out. best high i ever had because i felt so safe with so many professionals and was taken so close to the edge of unsafe
yeah, found out im going to be under twilight anesthesia which is a big relief given this whole thing. but even if it was general i’ve been increasingly getting the vibe that the horrific stories people have reported are a result of careless doctors and nurses, and even if it was something that happened regularly and not just as a result of both incompetence on the part of the doctors and resistance on the part of the patient, it would be pretty easy to point towards it just being another aspect of a dangerously careless and profit driven health care system.