Would u want to be awake during surgery?

[Jayne]

When I had my wisdom teeth pulled I had the option of being knocked out or semi-conscious. There was no way I wanted to hear the sound of cracking teeth and tugging at my jaw

I'm going to make you wince, cringe & squirm here, I had an accident as a child & smashed every tooth in my head, my bottom set were baby teeth but the adult teeth had already come through. I spent the next few years having regular treatment & developed a phobia of injections so by the time I was 10 I had dental treatment without an injection, fillings, extractions & absesses were no problem.
I'd ask the dentist to put on my choice of relaxing music & let my mind go elsewhere, even dentists would cringe at performing extractions without anesthetic but the body does have the ability to block out a certain amount of pain.

[Monika1223]

I was under general anesthesia on Thursday for the first time and it's way better.
I remember expecting to get sleepy when they told me I will next thing I know I woke up and everything is over.

[ainsley]

I was a corpsman in the Navy.  I have assisted in autopsies, worked 2 years in an emergency room, was an EMT for that same ER, have sutured myself, and many in my family, and participated in 4 natural child births of my kids.  Having said that to explain my lack of squeemishness with medical procedures: Yes, I would not be adverse to being awake and being able to hear the Drs and nurses while the procedure was going on.  I would even like to have mine filmed so I could see exactly what went on. 

[SorchaC]

I have always refused to watch video's of the op because it could get me worried however I would love to get my gopro set up and film my op but I'm not sure Chett would allow me. I intend to ask though  Maybe a timelapse but we'll see, As for being awake? I don't think it would be safe for me because when I'm nervous I cannot be stopped from telling jokes so poor Chett would have to drug me or he'd never get it done 

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Sorcha

[Vanny]

I have been in cases when people have boot wanted to be awake...awoke.  No they did not remember.  Also I have been in cases when the drugs were given to be cognizant of pain but not remember the pain.  I have been in cases when people awoke and asked to take certainty  exits for various reasons.   Fact is that "no" is the answer!   


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[Obfuskatie]

I'd highly prefer to out cold.
I'm not particularly squeamish, and have always made myself watch surgeries being performed so I knew what I was signing up for. This compels me to be thorough when selecting the surgeon I want. The nervousness I've had before a root canal and my FFS was assuaged by knowing the person operating on me was my informed best choice.
I was out for close to 11 hours for my FFS. That whole couple of days is pretty hard to remember, but it was pretty cool how fast it seemed. My anesthesiologist told me to breath in after placing the apparatus over my nose and mouth, and then I was being awoken and congratulated by my surgeon. I bled more than they wanted me to, so I was pretty dehydrated, but I can honestly say the thing I liked least about the surgery was the hormone withdrawal.
I don't imagine SRS is going to be much different. I'm probably going to hate the hormone withdrawal, and not enjoy the pain during recovery. Luckily I usually heal pretty fast, but it's still hard to bounce back from intensive surgery.


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[Eveline]

If you asked me a couple of years ago, I would have said "Are you kidding? Of course I want to be asleep."

However, since then I've had a couple of very scary and uncomfortable experiences waking up from general anesthesia. And some weird, lingering mental effects for a couple of days after. 

So now I'm kind of freaked out by going under. If a nerve or spinal block and light sedation is an option, I'll take it...

[veritatemfurto]

um... let me think...




HELL NO.

I'll look at the photos and video after I recover.

[FinallyMe84]

short answer: No

Long answer: Hell no

[Cynobyte]

If you asked me a couple of years ago, I would have said "Are you kidding? Of course I want to be asleep."

However, since then I've had a couple of very scary and uncomfortable experiences waking up from general anesthesia. And some weird, lingering mental effects for a couple of days after. 

So now I'm kind of freaked out by going under. If a nerve or spinal block and light sedation is an option, I'll take it...

Ever had a spinal block?  I just had one in november for kidney stones.  Somehow I was out of it, later they guaranteed I would be up and walking by 4pm, I couldn't feel/move my legs til after 8pm.  They thought I was joking.  I was freaking out thinking they paralyzed me!  I will never do that again, just knock me out or use a hammer;)  whenever I see a paraplegic,  I have deep sympathy for them.  Just those few hrs were my nightmare!  It wasn't the fact I couldn't move them, it was how it felt and how I felt anchored down and couldn't move.. 
I've had dozens of surgeries where I'm out, and wake up w no problems..  just tell them u wake up nautious, they give you Zofran and everything is good;)

[FrancisAnn]

No, no need. I had a complete facelift last summer & the doc wanted to give me all the details about the surgery. I told him please no, just put me to sleep & do your job. I awoke & was just fine. GRS to me will be the same process I hope. Relax, have a nice sleep & let your surgeon create a nice vagina to enjoy.

[daniellahaumono]

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Welcome aboard.  To post; go to an appropriate section in the forums and hit the NEW TOPIC button

[Snöfrost]

I've been thinking about it sometimes. But I think that it could do more "harm" if you are awake than under anesthesia. I mean if you start to panic and moving your body in the middle of the procedure. My SRS took 3 hours, and I highly doubt that I wouldn't stand 30 min awake. I know that some surgeries can be done if you are heavily sedated.

[veritatemfurto]

I've been thinking about it sometimes. But I think that it could do more "harm" if you are awake than under anesthesia. I mean if you start to panic and moving your body in the middle of the procedure. My SRS took 3 hours, and I highly doubt that I wouldn't stand 30 min awake. I know that some surgeries can be done if you are heavily sedated.

indeed. I have to ask if I can get gassed first just to keep from flailing around to get the darn IV put into me for my GRS. starting the procedure would need to be out or the body is going to shut down from shock anyways. But midway through when everything is getting cauterized and stitched in place, it may be possible. I know that its not unheard of for someone to get semi-conscious midway through a surgery.

[mac1]

Would be nice to be able to watch.

[2cherry]

For SRS? No, not really... I was gone for 6 hours.

Can't imagine being awake for that long staring at such bright lights and hearing all the cutlery! 

But... I must say that being under for 6 hours is some very strange experience. Still to this day I struggle with "lost time". 6 hours were gone and I did not know anything until I was in my room. It's not anything like sleep... it's more a like a complete coma or death. It's a very strange experience that you never seem to experience the actual transition, the actual surgery, it's just like someone flips a switch on and off and it's done. You never experience it this way.... it's strange in a sense. So I do understand the "need" to be "there" and witness the operation... so that you experience the transition. Right now it feels if someone stole my memory of it, I don't know, I cannot explain the feeling...

I think if I had to do it again (theoretically) I would have asked to videotape it. Just to be sure it actually happened... and so that I can experience the change. Right now it's a done deal and I have to accept it without any memory of it. I know that sounds weird, but as I said I cannot explain my feelings adequate enough.

Best described as: someone threw a party, and you missed it.

[Aazhie]

NOOOOOO. Never if I could help it and only if it was the only way to get it done.  If it wasn't an awful pain to ask them to record it I would like that as a trophy of sorts, but don't know if I'd be able to watch it...

I work at a hospital and I've seen all kinds of crazy sx.  They don't do trans-related stuff because they are a Catholic hospital, which is too bad I'd be interested to see, I guess?  But I've witnessed all kinds of other stuff and I hate the feeling of dentists rummaging around in my mouth- I can't imagine how strange it would feel to get a chest reduction done!  As much as I want it, I want to be out and numb the whole time, regardless of how bad it is waking up.  There's even a song by the Laryngospasms called "Waking Up is Hard to Do" as a spoof on the classic "Breaking Up is Hard to Do" by various artists...  It sucks but I hate sitting around waiting on someone else to do stuff before I can do my own thing.  Aside from the awful sounds and weird feelings, the worst part of being awake during wisdom tooth surgery was being bored and not wanting to mess the Doc up by moving around!

Seeing how much my coworkers have to lift and move patients I'd be kind of overly stiff trying to not bother the staff and probably making it all worse.  Dead weight is annoying but at least with enough people and the right equipment you can get them positioned.  Wakeful people tend to fight or figit even when they don't mean to!

[Muffinheart]

Wow, cannot imagine being out for six hours.
Lol, my surgery was at 8:10am, I was on Facebook by 11

[Lady Smith]

If you asked me a couple of years ago, I would have said "Are you kidding? Of course I want to be asleep."

However, since then I've had a couple of very scary and uncomfortable experiences waking up from general anesthesia. And some weird, lingering mental effects for a couple of days after. 

So now I'm kind of freaked out by going under. If a nerve or spinal block and light sedation is an option, I'll take it...

When I had my orchi done the sense of termporal dislocation when I woke up in the recovery room really scared me.  Somehow I had a blank space of time in my memory without sensation of any kind as well as total absence of self.  Fortunately the sensation wore off about a half an hour later, but it has really put me off the idea of having a general anesthetic at any time in the future.