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To ask if you have any funny/crazy anaesthetic anecdotes?

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BritneyPeedOnALadybug · 11/03/2020 21:56

Just before I went under for an operation I swore I heard a nurse mention a clown. I kept asking “what clown? What clown?” until I went under and the first thing I asked when I woke up was “where’s the clown?” I got told there was no clown.

“Why, has he gone home now?” Confused I don’t even like clowns. Probably would have freaked out if I woke up and actually saw one.

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WeakAsIAm · 11/03/2020 22:03

Around 15 years old I was given had teeth taken out under anaesthetic - olden days before safety was a consideration.

Came round hanging over a sink, crying dribbling everywhere, a boy in my year sat watching me whilst he was having something done in the same room. I knew he was there but didn't have the wherewithal to pull myself together and stop embarrassing myself.

I've never gotten over it as you can see; he however doesn't appear to have told anyone as nobody has ever mentioned this to me. Bless him GrinGrin

MrsGrindah · 11/03/2020 22:09

Went in for an endoscopy..woke up with a black eye! Everyone was baffled

Welshmaenad · 11/03/2020 22:13

I woke up crying because they wouldn't let me have my pony in the hospital with me for comfort. I wailed about how people need their ponies when they've just had an operation and it wasn't fair because ponies are very clean.

I was 36.

I do not have a pony.

Butteredtoast55 · 11/03/2020 22:15

Welsh that has just made me laugh out loud.

CloudsCanLookLikeSheep · 11/03/2020 22:16

Woke up from a dream telling myself as I gained consciousness I MUST tell the nurse my profound dream, which I did (gobbledegook) and came to realising I'd wet myself. Hmmm

Puffalicious · 11/03/2020 22:18

My DS at 14 shouted ' Whoaaaaa, what's happening, man?" as he went under, then when he came round he was singing very enthusiastically to Smooth FM (Toto playing in background at nurse's station). His long, hairy legs were too long for the kids' beds and he was surrounded by 2 and 3 year olds.
When asked to walk down.the corridor to see if he was stable, he walked a little, then shook his bum dancing and repeat all.the way up and down!

He was and is (at 16) quite mature and thinks of himself as quite the cool cat! God, I wish I'd filmed him.

Whatelsecouldibecalled · 11/03/2020 22:21

Coming round from an operation on my leg and inside of my groin. Nurses were trying to get me to roll over to change sheets. I kept saying ‘oh no have I peed? I can’t move I can’t let you see I have peed. I’m so sorry I’ve peed!’ In fact I hadn’t peed at all and there was iodine everywhere and nurse wanted clean sheets on bed 🤦‍♀️

LurkerTurnedPoster · 11/03/2020 22:24

I woke up from my first general, nurse asked how I was and apparently I said I'm starving, I'd like steak and chips now please!

Mollypolly2610 · 11/03/2020 22:28

Years ago I was put under to remove a growth on my neck I had given them a full rendition of South of the Border Down Mexico Way!! I don’t even know the words but seemingly I did then!

EdersonsSmileyTattoo · 11/03/2020 22:31

I had my Gallbladder out five years ago there were complications and I had to have full surgery (sorry, I don’t know the correct medical word Blush) rather than keyhole.

When I came round I was clinging on to my Nurses hand shouting for *Eddie.

I was inconsolable and couldn’t speak properly and they thought *Eddie was my DH.

Nooooooooo, *Eddie is my DS13.

*NC Eddie to protect the innocent! Blush

Aroundtheworldin80moves · 11/03/2020 22:32

Dislocated knee, given gas and air. This caused me to hallucinate. One of which was DH was one of the doctors/medical staff at the first aid post.

I then kept on going on about the snow... It wasn't snowing.

Never liked gas and air. It made me go a bit crazy. One puff in childbirth (for the stitches afterwards) and could feel it start sending me back to the crazy place and refused any more.

TrainspottingWelsh · 11/03/2020 22:33

They seem to make one dc ravenously hungry. It's not related to not eating beforehand, because under normal circumstances she wouldn't be hungry till lunch if she was sitting round in bed, and locals have the same result. She came round once muttering, then saying a long list of food. Which as she properly gained consciousness turned out to be a request of everything she wanted for lunch, rather than a recital of an extensive menu. I swear she dreams of food under anaesthetic, despite having a normal appetite and eating habits the rest of the time.

Not me, but a friend with their dc in the recovery room heard someone informing the hcp they were an alien.

BIWI · 11/03/2020 22:34

After a missed miscarriage I had to have a D&C (also romantically known as an ERPC - Evacuation of Retained Products of Conception). I don't react well to GA, so had to be brought round after the very short period under anaesthetic.

The surgeon/consultant (not sure, but someone medical!) was there when I was brought round, to tell me that all had gone well.

I asked him whether or not they had found Lord Lucas Blush

He very kindly said that they hadn't, before he left my bedside Grin

ClientQueen · 11/03/2020 22:37

I'm a complete weirdo with anaesthetic. Need loads and loads of local
GA I ping awake, demand food and then don't sleep for 24hrs. Last one was a spinal op and I did 6000 steps around the hospital until the surgeon declared me wilful and confined me to only walking to a&e and back. Was still awake at 3am happily watching Netflix while the staff looked bemused Grin
Apparently I woke up, asked for my glasses and then asked what time I could get up and eat
I had a side room, I wasn't torturing others in the ward with Netflix!

PineappleDanish · 11/03/2020 22:38

I don't react well to anaesthesia. I had an abdominal hysterectomy a few years ago and vomited all over the recovery nurses. They were lovely about it but I'm sure they'd had better days.

ultrablue · 11/03/2020 22:40

My first GA, someone called Charlie tried to bring me round. I asked for Charlie to be told there isn't a Charlie on the dept.

My second I could hear one nurse ask the other is she an extreme athlete as she should be waking now but her resting rate is so low.. haha walking is my extreme I remember thinking go away I am enjoying this sleep too much to wake.

My last GA they had to give me a sedative to bring my BP down despite me feeling calm and chatting away to the staff... What a let down

GinandGingerBeer · 11/03/2020 22:43

I had a minor op when I was in my early twenties, I must have ticked 'Roman Catholic' at some point when I signed the consent forms (they used to ask your religion, not sure if they still do) anyway I came round from the anaesthetic on the ward to find a bloody nun staring down at me. I started to wail, "I'm dead I'm dead omg I died" I thought I'd gone to heaven. HaloHaloHalo
Poor Sister Mary was just passing through visiting a good catholic and they must have told her ginbadcatholic needed her prayers.

Beckyboom · 11/03/2020 22:44

I had day surgery following a miscarriage and seemed fine but on the way home my DH stopped to get various things I was insisting I needed from the supermarket and when he stopped the car I got out and took off at a run across the car park. He had to chase me and physically restrain me and get me back to the car whilst I shouted ‘Help! Help!’

I have a very hazy recollection of this but thought it was a dream until he enlightened me!

CloudsCanLookLikeSheep · 11/03/2020 22:52

Whilst on diamorphine after c section , newborn daughter started winking at me. Obviously not! But it was very strange, total hallucination.

I also thought my legs were up in the air when they weren't (spinal) and kept asking the nurse to put them down.

5LeafClover · 11/03/2020 22:56

One of my DC came home from an appendectomy with an enormous bruise on the upper arm after they'd woken up from the anaesthetic, said 'I'm going home now ' then tried to jump up and make a run for it.

PenguinsOnParade · 11/03/2020 23:02

After having DD1 I had to have a few stitches so was given gas and air and the midwives were doing the checks on DD in the same room.

I could hear the lights humming above me and a monkey in the room. Yup, that was my newborn baby, not a monkey. Blush

Yabadee · 11/03/2020 23:02

I get GA every year or 2, for about the past 10 years, and every single time I wake up asking for a peece and corned beef (corned beef sandwich for non Scots) no idea why

Also, I have a very high tolerance to morphine, and am allergic to codeine so I need to have fentanyl. My last GA, I can remember saying before I drifted off, ‘ahhhh I love fentanyl’ and the surgeon telling me off for saying it.

I love a general anaesthetic sleep!

StillMedusa · 11/03/2020 23:03

When I was 12 I had to have a load of teeth out (to make room).
My Mum is not good with the sight of blood...

They brought me out, all wobbly from the gas, with what looked like blood soaked tampons hanging from my mouth.. Mum took one look, said 'can you take Medusa please I think Im going to....'

And slid down the wall, shopping nags in hand, legs akimbo, into a dead faint in front of the whole waiting room.

She made Dad take me next time...

MonsterRehab23 · 11/03/2020 23:09

I was 8 and had to have an op under GA to fix a broken bone. No recollection of this but I was apparently very distressed after coming round and was trying to hit the staff- I was quickly sedated...

Lifeasweknow · 11/03/2020 23:10

@Puffalicious please tell me he was singing Africa. This would make my day.

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