Feeling so embarrassed after anaesthesia. Please tell me this has happened to others?

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A week ago, I had a surgery. I was extremely nervous before being put to sleep.

When I came round, I was in a lot of pain but my throat was so dry I couldn’t say “hey, I’m in pain” , so I just started whining “ouch “ “ouch “.

Then I kept taking off the oxygen mask because it was annoying me. I also asked multiple times where my car was and had to be reminded I was in hospital at least twice. I also kept waving to thin air. The nurse was nice enough but I could tell I wasn’t her favourite patient 😳.

Now I remember it, I’m so embarrassed and feel like I was probably a real pain in the arse. Coincidentally, I had to be kept in post op because I was groggier and woozier than expected.

Reassure me please!

I told the nurse she was really fat! She wasn't - I just couldn't see straight! 🙈😂 xx

I guess they have it (and worse!) all the time...

They usually knock me out with something strong straight away 😂

I remember waking up and asking where my dinner was.

Next time I was moaning in pain and shivering and begging to see the surgeon. They knocked me out with some morphine.

Second time I told them I needed to get up and take all the tubes out and started trying to do so. Knocked out with something again.

Last time I was thanking them I was alive despite it being a really minor operation and they were laughing.

I’m sure they see it all.

It’s fine i stroked the drs face and told him i loved him he had just delivered my baby under general

When I came round from anaesthetic after a dental procedure I told the dentist I loved him and wanted to marry him!

I was very very ill having my first child and was given a GA and emergency c section when I came around I was very very disappointed to have a baby as I really wanted….. a puppy according to my consultant. I was pretty inconsolable for about 10 minutes drifted back to sleep and was absolutely fine an hour later and overjoyed to have a baby when I came round the second time, it really tickled him I think! GA have always affected me very very badly and I usually need extra to knock me out.

Had several GAs the most memorable one was when I was brought back up to the ward and just kept flinging myself around on my bed whilst loudly farting. I have to recollection of it but my husband kindly filled me in on the details later

Nurses see and hear all sorts of things from patients after anesthesia. Don't give it another thought.

I sobbed uncontrollably because they wouldn't give me my baby. I'd had an appendectomy and had never been pregnant...

Every single time i get conscious sedation I swear at the staff and argue. I have no idea what I'm doing and I only remember it in small flashbacks a while later. Its one of the drugs they give me but the doctor won't use anything else. I need the procedure every 2 years , so there isn't much I can do and they understand its the drugs as now I warn them beforehand

There a video of a woman in recovery room they give here an ice lolly and she keeps deep throating it

I had an operation under GA a couple of weeks ago, I don't remember what I did or said but the people around me were chuckling, so I'm guessing it was embarrassing 🤦‍♀️

Don’t worry, they will have seen it all before. I’ve worked in recovery as well as theatres and labour ward and nothing you’ve said is unusual. I had someone ring 999 once and tell the operator I was trying to kill her! 🙈. That was more extreme.

I had an operation myself recently and told the recovery nurse her name meant blow job in Greek, in my defence it does! 😆. The other nurses were in hysterics.

I was sick immediately after coming round from a GA once. I then rang my line manager at work () and talked a load of gobbledygook to her.

That reminds me of after I had my daughter (assisted breech, with a tear). Dr was taking so long to sew me back up (I thought) I said “What on earth are you doing down there, embroidering your name?”

I did that! I saw a girl hysterical and they wouldn’t let her leave. So I made sure to not do that.

I was 11 though….

I came round once and asked if anyone had found Nemo yet 🤣

Don't worry, you are just another patient to hospital staff. My SIL was a nurse, she never mentioned any particular cases but laughed her head off when she heard what I'd said. I told the nurse to F off because I had already told them I wasn't going to work that day 😂😂

I have propositioned an anaesthetist in graphic detail.

also tried to get the nurse to sell me the good drugs and when she declined demanded a family sized bag of Doritos.

As soon as I was left alone I starting wandering about the ward, I had on a hospital gown which had the ties cut off the back. So everyone could see my bum. I also insisted I was starving and once the nurse made me toast I could only eat one mouthful.

I woke up and exclaimed ‘hey! That thing in my hand is gone!’ The nurse said in a very disapproving tone ‘yes, you did that yourself and got blood everywhere’. I don’t remember doing it, but when they put it in the doctor doing it pushed it down really hard and as I went to sleep I could still feel the pain, so I think I must’ve been desperate to get it out.
The radio was on in the recovery room and a song from the greatest showman was on, I shouted ‘I love this song!’ and subjected said disapproving and exasperated nurse to a sing along and glowing review of the film. They wheeled me back to my room pretty damn quick after that.

Thank you all for sharing your most intimate and embarrassing moments, I haven't laughed this much in ages 😂

I have a condition that reduces the efficacy of anaesthesia (Ehlers Danlos if anyone's interested) so in small and conservative doses it doesn't put me to sleep as expected - as a result of the same condition I've had a few surgeries and am often counting down to ten only to get to 0 and be sat there fully conversational. It also seems to wear off much quicker and I've often been in the situation where I've come out of a minor procedure and can see the individuals who've gone in before me are still drowsing in their bay while I am back to normal. You often get a nurse pop in not expecting to see you awake and eyeing you very suspiciously. It all depends on how knowledgeable the anaesthetist is with the condition and the link between EDS and the resistance. I get the impression they get a lot of people saying sedation won't do anything for them who just immediately conk out and so are always a bit dubious until they check medical records or have prior understanding that it can affect this.

Anyway, I'm often much more awake in the recovery bay area than the vast majority of the other post op patients and can confirm that all of this is so normal, albeit jarring. I've heard frequent screaming, lots of calling for mums, lots of anger at nurses - "who are you, get off me" a lot of non compliance for obs being taken or medication administered, lots of crying out about being in pain or feeling sick. Quite often you will see the same people in the waiting room once they've left the recovery bay to be collected and they are normal again and having their cup of tea and biscuit. I'm not saying its everyone but it's certainly something I've seen a lot of.

Nursing is a very difficult job and I have so much respect for them.

Agree, it's brillant!

I love this but I have to ask, did she make you bonny? 😂

only sedation, not a GA , for a colonoscopy. Something was wrong, my sedated brain registered pain and I apparently tried to hit the doctor ( lucky he was behind me) and screamed the place down. Awful hospital I would refuse to be taken to under any circumstances, staff were horrible, not just to me but to a patient who was told in a very loud voice his condition was terminal, everyone on the ward could hear. The poor man and his wife looked she’ll shocked, no privacy given. I was then made to sit in a busy corridor and questioned repeatedly if I could be pregnant ( despite me saying no , 100% no chance)