by ILoveChristmas » Sun Apr 27, 2014 1:31 pm
As you know I'm a man, so I can't tell you anything about your procedures but I've had anaesthetic many times for various different things, so I can tell you a bit about that aspect of it. I take it you are being given general anaesthetic, i.e. you're being knocked out?
Generally the process I've encountered is always much the same. You'll be taken to a preparation room where you'll have a cannula inserted into the back of your hand. A cannula is basically just a valve attached to a needle, but it stays in your hand for as long as necessary, allowing different drugs to be administered through the valve without each requiring its own injection.
After the cannula is fitted you're sometimes given an initial shot of a drug that helps you relax. It's not enough to knock you out but it makes you much less aware of what's going on around about you and generally makes you feel like you want to fall asleep.
Next comes the actual anaesthetic drug. When this is administered it can be a bit of a funny feeling. It's not bad, just weird. Any time I've had it I've experienced a strange 'buzzing' sensation in my head, my vision starts to go all blurry and then you're gone. The time from them administering the anaesthetic to you being unconscious is less than 10 seconds. The last time I had it done I had time to say "wow this is fast" and that was it, I was out for the count.
When you come around again it's more or less just like waking up after a sleep, only that woozy feeling where you could just drop back off to sleep lasts a bit longer. Generally when you come around you drift in and out again for a few minutes, you're not just suddenly wide awake again. Full and normal consciousness/awareness returns over the course of an hour or so.
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