Has anybody heard of this? My body fights anesthesia. It happened during childbirth, and oral surgery..??
Question: I definately remember hearing talking during my hystorectomy. The doctors end up spending more time keeping me medicated than the actual procedure. As I get older, I have things coming up (colonoscopy, more oral surgery, etc) that I keep putting off because of this issue.
Answers: Without more details it is a little hard to know exactly what happened to you, but if you had awareness during a hysterectomy, then you were given an inadequate amount of anesthetic. That has nothing to do with your body fighting the anesthetic.
As far as oral surgery or childbirth, it depends upon whether you were just given sedation, or if the intent was to give you general anesthesia. Sedated patients may normally have some memory of the event. The incidence of awareness is high in c-sections under general anesthesia because of a reluctance to give much anesthetic until the infant is delivered.
Make absolutely sure that you discuss this issue with your anesthesiologist before any future operations requiring general anesthesia. I believe that the most common cause is when paralytic drugs (that just relax muscles but do not cause unconsciousness) are given without enough anesthetic, so that awareness can occur even when the patient is absolutely not moving.
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Answers: Without more details it is a little hard to know exactly what happened to you, but if you had awareness during a hysterectomy, then you were given an inadequate amount of anesthetic. That has nothing to do with your body fighting the anesthetic.
As far as oral surgery or childbirth, it depends upon whether you were just given sedation, or if the intent was to give you general anesthesia. Sedated patients may normally have some memory of the event. The incidence of awareness is high in c-sections under general anesthesia because of a reluctance to give much anesthetic until the infant is delivered.
Make absolutely sure that you discuss this issue with your anesthesiologist before any future operations requiring general anesthesia. I believe that the most common cause is when paralytic drugs (that just relax muscles but do not cause unconsciousness) are given without enough anesthetic, so that awareness can occur even when the patient is absolutely not moving.
From the sound of your question, it appears that
you need professional medical advice.
Don’t trust a total stranger on Yahoo Answers to analyze your problem.
I’ll assume you are on YA because you don’t want to call your doctor.
But you could ask a nurse for an expert opinion.
There is a website with registered nurses that will answer
your question online for less than $15
Simply go to:
http://www.thenurseschoice.com/tnc/answe...
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