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- nepidae, on 04/04/2009, -0/+33Better than seeing the doctor zip up.
- JamesBondJr, on 04/03/2009, -1/+21Thank god I didn't come across this earlier, I just had surgery with general anesthesia today and I'm always afraid something like this will happen. I thought the chances would have been much slimmer though.
- kplo, on 04/03/2009, -0/+19"Yawn. I sure feel refreshed...oh wait. What are you doing in there?"
- charmaniac, on 04/04/2009, -0/+14When I had my wisdom teeth taken out, I remember purposefully trying to resist the anesthesia, but I guess I failed because the next thing I knew I woke up during the middle of the surgery. I started asking the dentist to save my teeth for me to keep after surgery and then they must have turned on the gas because I woke up after surgery.
Never did get those teeth though.... - DoogieHowitzer, on 04/04/2009, -0/+130.2%...?
- dolby71, on 04/03/2009, -0/+13They had a movie about that. it sucked.
- wreckosaurus, on 04/04/2009, -1/+11I woke up during oral surgery, I tried to kick the nurse and called her a bitch for trying to steal my teeth.
- jasdf, on 04/04/2009, -0/+10Dollars or cents?
- JosephShell, on 04/04/2009, -3/+12***** THAT.
- N1tro, on 04/03/2009, -6/+14... 1 in 500 is not common, but for that 0.02% its very common i guess.
- dzhastin, on 04/04/2009, -0/+8When I woke up during my impacted wisdom teeth removal the last thing on my mind was keeping them for posterity - I was more concerned about the intense pounding the dentist was doing on my jaw. I managed a gurgle and when the dentist saw my wide open eyes he laughed, said "whoops" and turned something before it all went black again.
- inactive, on 04/04/2009, -2/+9You wake up during surgery and their making fun of your peanut :(
- macattak420, on 04/04/2009, -1/+8Manswers did a clip on this that I think is worth noting.
http://www.spike.com/video/how-many-patients/30655 ... - lemayo, on 04/04/2009, -1/+8Or your grammar, whichever.
- MacroDaemon, on 04/04/2009, -0/+7Endoscopies are done without any anaesthesia. That's how mine was done. It's a minor procedure.
- BigVi, on 04/04/2009, -0/+7I love the smart ass doctor that's asks you to count down from 100 knowing you will be lucky to make it to 95.
- telepwn, on 04/04/2009, -0/+6oh my god that clip is so extreme!
- headlessclown, on 04/04/2009, -0/+6when i was 13, i woke up during surgery. i remember thinking "go to sleep! go to sleep!" and the nurse saying "he's waking up" while the doctor was sewing me up. it was quite scary.
- piznut, on 04/04/2009, -0/+6I can see why they'd do this. If their options are to kill you by over-anesthetizing you or having you see yourself splayed...then please, err on the side of me staying alive.
Id rather live with that image than not live at all. - inactive, on 04/04/2009, -0/+6I had this happen during a four hour surgery (aftermath of a nasty accident). Luckily, I couldn't feel the pain, but I was aware of my surroundings and could not move a single muscle voluntarily. It was bizarre.
- scarlettletter, on 04/03/2009, -1/+7I might consider asking for a second dose just in case!
- freshyill, on 04/04/2009, -0/+6It's their job to give you the bare minimum to get the job done. Waking up isn't going to kill you.
- anonymousmedic, on 04/04/2009, -1/+7In other news, 1 in 500 people have really incompetant Anesthesiologists or CRNAs handling their sedations.
- piznut, on 04/04/2009, -0/+6Make sure you keep on dreaming, Bro...
WTF is that *****? - piznut, on 04/04/2009, -0/+6If you just had nitrous, they must not have been severely impacted.
I really dont think i would like to have been awake during the 90 minute bone digging that was my wisdom tooth removal.
Second on the comment about being lucky to make it to 95. That hot feeling you get before you say 96 and then go under is freaking weird. - badalchemist, on 04/04/2009, -1/+6So you're basically saying that one personal experience negates the validity of another? Cool.
- freshyill, on 04/04/2009, -0/+5Waking up? ***** that. Try not having surgery performed on you without general anesthetic.
When I was 10, my appendix burst, and it was a few days before my parents realized what was up. I went into surgery the day I finally went to the doctor. I was in the hospital for a few days after that, and then I got really sick after I went home again, because the surgeon apparently hadn't gotten all the nasty appendix juice out. So back to the hospital I went. With only a local anesthetic, the surgeon (same guy from the initial surgery) cut open my sutures and dug around and used a suction device to get whatever was left out. Needless to say, the scar is much worse than it would have been. They had to cut some nerves to get through the abdominal wall, so the scar is numb, which is a really weird feeling. The emergency surgery itself was extremely uncomfortable, but not necessarily painful. - piznut, on 04/04/2009, -1/+6That's a pretty unfair statement. Becoming a specialist is hard work. Go through med school, your PGYs and a fellowship then come back and say that.
- sealink, on 04/04/2009, -0/+5I was awake and chatty during my wisdom teeth removal. I remember the dentist giving one a hard tug and this bloody bit coming out, and I said, " 'At's a tooth? WOOOW."
Nitrous is great. - jwbales, on 04/04/2009, -0/+5I was given a spinal block for hernia surgery. In pre-op I told them that I still had complete feeling in the area where the incision was to be made. They assured me that it would become numb. I was given verced and valium. I felt the stabbing pain of the incision and woke up screaming on the operating table. There were bruises on both my arms where they grabbed me and pulled me back down on the table. When I woke up later the anesthetist was standing over me. I looked him in the eye and said "I told you I wasn't numb!". He probably wished he had also given me more verced.
- realnebby, on 04/04/2009, -0/+5I would think that not being well rested could cause complications and make it harder to heal afterwards.
- Coinspinner, on 04/04/2009, -0/+4I witnessed it as a pre-medical student observing a procedure. It was really light cosmetic surgery, so they had him under very lightly (no vent needed). He woke up and tried to sit up.
Later in the office he suddenly ask me if he had woken up, I guess thinking I wouldn't know better and admit what happened. I wisely said "I'm not sure what I saw". - hokie47, on 04/04/2009, -1/+5For how much anesthesiologist get paid you should never wake up during surgery. I know their job is more complicated than this but really their job is keep you asleep.
- lukedude, on 04/04/2009, -0/+4My old man is an anesthesiologist. He says it's not uncommon for people to wake up, but when that happens, you just up the dose slightly and they go back to sleep. They rarely remember it. Far safer to underdose rather than overdose.
- paradigmxx, on 04/04/2009, -1/+5That's why if I'm having surgery the next day I just stay up the entire day - figure it helps with sleeping.
I did this twice - both wisdom teeth related. - realnebby, on 04/04/2009, -0/+4I woke up twice while I was having my wisdom teeth out. It was only for a couple seconds each time. I don't know if the doctor noticed that quick and upped the meds, or if the pain just knocked me out.
- glowwyrm, on 04/04/2009, -0/+4They don't give you Versed for nothing
- Duraiden, on 04/04/2009, -0/+4I know what that's like, I had a pilonidal cyst removed without general anesthesia. It was unreal feeling them cut through sheet like muscles or them scraping out the infected area, it doesn't hurt but it's definitely not comfortable to be cut up.
- waydee, on 04/04/2009, -0/+4Yeah I believe they just use sedation.
- foofightrs777, on 04/04/2009, -0/+4I had an endoscopy done w/ anesthesia. So it's not unheard of.
Though, I did not wake up. - ShoujoKakumei, on 04/04/2009, -0/+4I love docs who don't listen to people.. They're pretty much the reason I can't have any medical procedures without being knocked out with double doses of IV sedatives. After an experience similar to what you described, added to pre-existing phobias of medical procedures, I can't even sit through basic, virtually painless ***** anymore.
- dzhastin, on 04/04/2009, -1/+4Nitro and lutiana: you shouldn't be allowed to do math in public. If you don't know how to figure percents you're worse off than the mouth-breathers calculating sales of Cheezits at Wal-Mart. May God have mercy on your souls.
- themastersb, on 04/04/2009, -0/+3I remember reading about this before and thought that I should provide instructions to someone that I be connected to brain activity monitors if I ever go into surgery. I never did. Maybe I should make sure to now.
- NathanielJ, on 04/04/2009, -0/+3How is this news? I remember reading about this on Wikipedia like a year and a half ago, and it was hardly new then. It's not like scientists just realized that this happens, nor that it happens that frequently.
- wreckosaurus, on 04/04/2009, -0/+3That one is ugly, the one with the milkshake shirt is hot.
- Disgod, on 04/04/2009, -0/+3Drugs can have different effects on people and individual tolerances to the drugs vary. Some, possibly most might be caused by incompetence, but to blame all of them on anaesthesiologists is disingenuous to the reality of biology. Medication levels are set for the average tolerances, but some people have higher tolerances, which can cause these type situations.
- timlopez, on 04/04/2009, -1/+4I was thinking of a comment to say, then I saw the snorgtees girl and she completely distracted me. I know I won't Drink and Derive tho...
- Stiverton, on 04/04/2009, -0/+3Calculating derivatives is a dangerous activity when driving.
- Kuvter, on 04/04/2009, -0/+3It happened to me. I had broke my leg skiing and they put me under to pop it back in place. I came too just as the doctor made another twist to snap it back into place. Luckily I was still numb from the waist down. Everyone cringes when I tell them that, but I thought it was the coolest thing ever!
- XenophobicAlien, on 04/04/2009, -0/+3I had this happen to me about 10 years ago. I was having reconstructive hand surgery and woke up in the middle of it. Unfortunately for me the remedy for it was to load me up with more anesthesia and caused stomach problems for me for the rest of my life.
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