Did you wake up during surgery? I did. It's not that uncommon actually. It didn't really hit me as reality until I seen an episode on dateline.
It's common for the patient to think it was all a dream, and even more common for NO ONE to talk about it or ask you any questions about it as far as the staff go.
Clues that you actually woke up:
1- When you get put under your so far under that you do NOT dream.
2- If your under or dreaming for that matter you do NOT feel pain.
3- You shouldn't have any memories of the surgery room except them putting you under and you waking up in recovery.
4- It's okay if you don't see anything, they actually put tape over your eyes (want to guess why they do that?)
Out of my experience I remember not being able to see but I could hear everything, I heard a nurse say "she's comming to" then a doctor say "no she's not" I remember pain like no other. I remember me screaming in pain, a muffled scream with a tube in my mouth then the doctor yelling "get anesthesia in here NOW!"
The doctor never seen me again until he came in to release me 4 days later.
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That is creepy! When I was having my breast augmentation surgery, I started coming to while they were sewing me up, before I was taken to the recovery room. The nurses and doctors were chatting, and one of them was eating chips! They were talking about what they were going to eat for lunch that day... It's scary that the doctors kinda "guess" at how much anesthesia to give their patients...
That's really scary!
http://www.progressiveu.org/162529-man-missing-from-a-cruise-ship
Wow. You'd think that a person's body would just stay unconscious when the pain reaches a certain level. This was very interesting to read...thanks for posting it.
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I woke up during an anterior lumbar decompression and fusion, in lamens terms I have a scar 11" long on my left side stomach where they went in to screw my spine together ,I belive they were just putting the plate between my discs when I came too.Your eyes are taped for a reason. I remember trying to say "did any one get the plate #".Somebody said "what", then I said "off the truck that just ran me over",the wave of pain that followed lasted long enogh that I remember my arms were restrained by someone till I finally passed out. I didn't wake up for 14 hours after. come to find out 2 weeks later they broke my jaw and it became infected.My dentist pulled out 3 pieces of bone one the size of a nickle.It's funny how I requested the operative report and it reflects none of this,and no body is saying anything. I remember there being at least 4 people in the OR that day maybe more, You would think that the anisthesialogist would have to fill out a report as well but I never recieved one.
Wow. That's scary. Imagine waking up in the middle of it.
Wow. I cannot even imagine that. What surgery were you having? Was it a really bad one because I can't even fathom feeling intense pain that would be present in certain surgeries.
I had to have my apendics removed.
Huh... if no one talks about it to you, then how do you know if you really woke up or not? they tape your eyes so it's not like you can look around and be like "Damn, this place looks an awful lot like the OR." So how would you REALLY know?
Like I said, You don't "dream, or feel pain" while your under.
Wow. that is so scary to me