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Have you ever been under general anesthesia? What was it like? Did anything strange happen? (sopuli.xyz)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
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As a compliment to the thread about near death experiences I'd really like hearing people's experiences of losing consciousness under general anesthesia and what's it like coming back.

Also interested of things anesthetists may have noticed about this during their career.

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[–] 8 points 2 years ago (1 child)

I had general anesthesia, some kind of pretty strong opioid. "10... 9... 8...", then the room felt like it was spinning very briefly before everything went black. Only thing I remember about coming out of it was a sore throat due to intubation.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Ah yes, I also remember having a sore throat after, but I don’t recall them telling me beforehand that they would intubate me.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I don't think you can have general without intubation. To protect against aspiration or something, if not actually to breathe for you.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    Yeah that makes sense. It wasn’t something I had considered before the op.

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