To be worried I made a fool of myself?

The staff won’t take any notice believe me. I had a stoma reversal three weeks ago and when I came round after the anaesthetic I kept saying to the nurses in the recovery room over and over and over “Promise me the bag is gone, PROMISE me the bag is gone”.

After a very long ( oh so long labour) I was being examined by a ( male ) doctor who stro gly resembled my dentist.
I was babbling but noone seemed to understand me. It was quite obvious to me that I was saying " I don't want my fanny teeth taken out"

My update - after discussion with my husband - he says I was just really dopey and they wanted him to wake me up. So nothing exciting for me...

I wouldn't worry . You had a reaction to the anethestic given but your reaction was a positive one . You weren't abusive or violent . I bet they have seen this all before .

I don't know if I'm just a weirdo but when I had sedation for a colonoscopy/endoscopy I felt no different, I was having normal conversations with the staff and can remember the entire thing very clearly 😬

I was apparently swearing like a trooper after some dental surgery I was given a strong med for - a fluent stream of fucks, then I threw up all over the dentist. Not my classiest moment, especially as I was 12yrs old and rather quiet normally.

One of my dc tried to do a runner after his operation. Kept squirming down the bed to make a dash back into the operating theatre that he thought was the exit. Telling nurse he needed to go

General anaesthetics are mixtures of drugs, not a single drug. There isn’t a firm boundary between “general anaesthetic” and sedation. You were given a drug that can be used alone for sedation, or as part of a GA formulation.

I had exactly the same as you on Tuesday this week. I don't remember anything at all, thank goodness! I don't think I 'woke up' afterwards in the way you describe - I didn't really wake up properly for a couple of hours afterwards, although I was aware of things around me after about an hour. My husband was with me - I will ask him, and report back if he says I was being overly affectionate or inappropriate in any way.

It's weird how people are so different isn't it.

I had oral sedation for that thing where they put a tube down your throat to sample your stomach. Apparently I was swearing at them! Don't remember that but its pretty funny.

I had major surgery in the summer that meant I had to spend 36 hours in something called 'overnight intensive recovery' - basically, I spent the whole of one day and most of the next in the recovery suite of the operating theatres.

I obviously would not be in a rush to be in that position again, but it did make me REALLY want to go and work there. I honestly could write a short book on some of the things I heard patients say and (attempt to) do. It was hilarious, except I apparently was the only one who thought so, as none of the staff working there took a blind bit of notice of any of the patients' ramblings and wailings! So yes, they are clearly very used to the effects that anaesthetic has on people and I really wouldn't worry what you may or may not have said 😁

Would have been Propofol as others have said but don't worry sounds like a perfectly harmless reaction anyway!!

I came out of an anaesthetic after a D&C for a failed miscarriage asking the nurse if my boobs were bigger. When she said no, I said they performed the wrong surgery because I was in there for implants!
I didn't remember a single word of this. The nurse told me, when I came out of it fully, while laughing and reassuring me it all went well.
They see it all. Please don't worry...

Whatever I had to get appendix out I reacted weirdly. I believe people do and I really wouldn’t worry about it! After a c section and no sleep I was convinced the midwife was a prison wardener when she let me go. Perhaps she shouldn’t have I was back in hospital in under 24 hours. I really wouldn’t worry!

OP, please don't be embarrassed, I had a similar situation when I was in theatre delivering my DS. Until reading this thread, I never knew what they gave me as I completely blacked out and have no memory of my DS being born. They administered something into my cannula, as apparently (DH told me after) I screamed out in pain when forceps were used. I was out within seconds and came round to my DS crying and was so disoriented. My DH also told me I'd told the doctor to fuck off and then delivered a very emotive speech about the wonderful work NHS staff do. I haven't given it a second thought, I'm sure they haven't either!

I'm interested to know that it sounds like I was given propofol though, there was no record in my medical notes of anything being administered!

I understand what you're feeling @Tobeinlondon, the memory blanks, lack of control and your imagination filling in the blanks is horrendous. I had a op a few years back, I remember speaking with the surgeons, a vague memory which feels almost false of someone sat with me telling me I was in a lot of pain and then nothing until I woke naked in my bed bay again. So disorienting, I still have the gut fear of what I said or did in the memory blanks.

But, I do just remind myself that it's just another day for the medical professionals who attended to me and I'm sure I wouldn't have been the worst they had seen or dealt with.

Nurse here. No need to worry at all. We deal with all kinds of behaviour and it wasn't for long. But most importantly, you had been heavily medicated so obviously not your fault if you even were in any way annoying. I think you sounded hilarious!

Honestly, chill, it's all good xx

I had twilight sedation to have wisdom teeth out and I sung like a canary, OP. They discharged me immediately and I broke away from my friend and was galloping free through the wards. Finally she got me to the car park and this creepy bloke spotted me - faced smeared with blood, cackling like a hyena - and tried to get me to go for a drink with him! I remember shrieking at his departing back, "How desperate ARE you??"

I was sober by teatime, he is still a creepy twat no doubt. No shame attached to a little temporary babbling, I expect the nurses find it quite endearing.

I had similar when having a colonoscopy. I can round a bit while the camera was still in me. I could see the monitor in front of me and I wanted very seriously to know what a dark object was that was moving around. The person scanning said it was carrot and I shouldn't have eaten it so late before the scan. I burst into tears and kept sobbing how sorry I was and asking them not to be cross with me.

I was fine once returned to the recovery room and given a biscuit and some squash.

I followed the instructions very carefully after that though!

They've seen hundreds of patients recover from propofol since your visit. The majority of them will have behaved exactly as you did. They haven't given you a second thought

The only thing that would have jumped out at them, if it had happened, is instant recovery of your normal demeanour.

Hope you're feeling better.

It was propofol which is an anaesthetic.
They really won't remember or care.
Please don't worry x

I think it's quite normal with some of those kind of medications - ketamine is another one that has the same effect I think. I'm sure the staff found it nothing but sweet. Who doesn't want to be told that they're the best person ever?

Also I am not sure what they gave you sorry, but after I had a bad experience with Fentanyl I ask them never to give it to me anymore. I got this locked in experience where I could hear and see but not move for hours. I now have morphine even though it makes me itch like crazy. I asked them what it was from my notes and told them I never wanted it again. GA when you wake up you are sleepy and babble but sedation is very much like being very drunk I do think they are a bit different I had different experiences on them both

Honestly dont worry. I once tried to hug my surgeon after I woke up from a GA and told her I loved her. I also got confused after a wisdom tooth extraction and in my sedated mess accused him of extracting a giant 2ft tooth from my mouth without my consent. I remember all of it vaguely. Everyone was so nice to me. You can’t help it, it’s the medication! Not your fault