75 Incredibly Bizarre Things Patients Uttered Under Anesthesia That Will Shock You
It is a relatively common side effect in certain people, such as individuals over 60 years old. But not everyone experiences this. Experts point out that the estimated incidence of ED is 4-31% overall but can be as high as 50-80% in children.
Not necessarily what was said, but just post-anesthesia behavior. Young-ish, muscular guy, military background. Wakes up swinging at us; fortunately, we anticipated it might happen and even though precedex we gave before wake up clearly didn’t chill him out enough, there were enough big guys in the room (nurses, device rep etc) to hold him down until we could re-orient him.
Anesthesia here.
Going to sleep? Nothing strange. Usually they are too nervous or sedated to say anything.
waking up? Nothing strange. Usually they are too sleepy to say anything.
Edit: In my 10 plus years of practicing anesthesia, I have never seen any of my patients behaving hysterically or comically, like those in TikTok. What am I doing wrong?
My husband told me I was taking like an Animal Crossing character when I came off conscious sedation from my wisdom teeth removal. Apparently I insisted I still needed to have the procedure done and he needed to wait on the car until I was done.
Symptoms tend to worsen in the evening and at night. These symptoms include feeling confused, not recognizing family, being incoherent, hallucinating, or experiencing emotional changes such as tearfulness, anxiety, anger, or aggression.
When i woke up from anesthesia for a nonserious issue i begged the young medic wheeling me out to my partner to RUN me down the hallway in the wheelchair, fast! He did! I was giggling my head off as he handed me off. Best guy ever. My partner was like “what is going on here”.
Not an anesthesiologist but have undergone a few surgeries. After my last one (bisalp + ablation) I apparently wouldnt stop crying and thanking literally everyone who walked by my bed. I also asked for my phone and apparently sent out mass texts of “I lived b***h” to everyone in my contacts at the time, including my dad, who was seated next to me. Lastly I asked for my purse and scribbled in big letters “I GOT SPAYED LIKE A STRAY CAT” and promptly went back to sleep.
I have no memory of any of this. This was all told to me by the nurses and my dad. 😆.
As soon as I woke up, I kept saying that I was hungry and that I wanted some sourdough toast. The anesthesiologist laughed and said he wished that all of his patients were like me, because so many wake up sick and throwing up.
He explains, “Anesthetic medications cause brain circuits to change their oscillation patterns in particular ways. This prevents neurons in different brain regions from communicating with each other. The result is a loss of consciousness or an unnatural state like a ‘reversible coma,’ that differs from sleep.”
My mother woke up after surgery on her fractured hip and asked the recovery room nurse, “Should I be having chest pain?” Feeling some terror I asked her “Are you having chest pain?” She answered, “No, but I broke my hip. I figure that’s next.”.
My anesthesiologist told me I was funny when I woke up. Apparently at first I was very combative which is opposite of my normal personality. I was “inventing new curse words”. Then they asked me what I wanted and I got obsessed with seeing my husband right that minute. I was threatening them with pulling out all the stuff connected to me and running to find him.
I had just had my leg amputated.
I was putting a gentleman to sleep and he was talking to me about a book he was reading.
At the end as he was waking up he literally picked up his thought like mid sentence as the tube came out. It had been like 5 hours and I was confused what he was talking about at first.
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