Have either of you ever been under anaesthesia?
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Not me
I have many times, it’s a very bizarre experience.
You fall asleep with a second, and it feels like literally a min later they wake you up!
The surgery may have been hours but it feels like a min to you.
Sometimes I have seen things whilst under, other times it’s just blank - nothing.
They always wake you up in theatre to make sure you’re ok, but you don’t remember at all.
Then they wake you in recovery.
Strange
According to Brown, anesthetic drugs cause brain circuits to change their oscillation patterns in particular ways, thereby preventing neurons in different brain regions from communicating with each other. The result is a loss of consciousness—an unnatural state that he compares to a “reversible coma”—that differs from sleep. The oscillations vary, he explains, based on the type and amount of anesthetic used and the age of the patient’s brain (since brains age at different rates).
The EEG of someone under anesthesia looks quite distinct from any of the normal brain states (stage 1, stage 2, REM, or slow wave sleep). If anesthesia is deep enough, you see a pattern on EEG called burst suppression, which means bursts of electrical activity interspersed with periods where activity is almost completely suppressed. If anesthesia is deep enough, the bursts disappear completely.
https://eegatlas-online.com/index.php/en/alphabetical-index/burst-suppression-guest
Yeah it's weird, woozy and strange once you're first awake, like being drunk or on drugs.
Dogs are funny too. Mosha has been under twice. Both times she was quite sleepy & stumbly when I went to pick her up, and she took a poop on the floor as soon as the nurse put her down 😂 It wasn't so funny when she got home and had no bladder control for a few hours 😬
I have & wow.
Best sleep ever hey.
Yes indeed & all it felt like was a quick eye blink. Twice have I gone under & twice I was shocked because it felt like I blinked my eye for a split second & without knowing it 13 hours went by.
Exactly
You know sometimes I think about it & go wow it's actually scary to know it felt like a quick eye blink & no idea someone was cutting into me & cutting my flesh up then sowing me back together. Like when I came out the hospital & it was 3AM I was like so stunned. I was saying it was just broad daylight.
Yeah I have been under many times and it always fascinates me how quickly it feels and that you lose all sense of time.
May I ask what happened to you?
That’s some major surgery for that length of time.
I broke my anke & needed surgery to rebuild it because it broke in the shape of a lightning bolt. My ankle was zapped!
Dude, I broke my ankle too!!
I only did it 8 weeks ago, broke all 3 bones and have a plate and 10 screws in it now!
Still bloody recovering, in a moon boot and using elbow crutches!
That was me 6 months ago 8 screws a bioorganic replacement a bar & a plate. You can say I am augmented & part bionicle.
How long did it take you to fully recover?
And yeah I feel kinda like that now.
3 months till I was out of the boot & i'm still recovering you never feel the same just keep working out & try to make it the best you can. the worst was having a itch in 4 spots & not being able to scratch it because the cast was all the way up my leg. Do you have an itch you can't scratch?
Oh yeah I hear ya!
Luckily I only had a half cast on for 2 weeks, then into the moon boot.
Hmmm yeah not sure if I will ever be back to normal with this, my only concern is that I may not be able to accomplish my ‘gorilla trekking’ in the next couple of years 😩
Lucky I guess you didn't have to go mad. I learned you can really go insane when you can't scratch 4 different spots itching for 3 months. That was brutal!