Is it normal to be embarrassing when sedated?

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Is it normal to behave strangely or embarrassingly after being sedated??

about 6 months ago I had a procedure done in a&e which involved having to get sedated, I think I was given ketamine? I remember feeling REALLY drunk, sort of like I was falling back into a hole but I was aware of everything around me? It was actually terrifying and I vaguely remember bits where I was talking but I felt like I had no control over what I was saying😩 I remember sort of wailing out that ‘I want Chris!’ and to call Chris and I wanted Chris to be there, the nurses were lovely and were trying to reassure me and one of them was like ‘is Chris your boyfriend?’ Then I burst into tears and was like ‘no he’s my situationship 😭’ i sort of remember everyone laughing a bit after that then I don’t remember much else haha

just recently I had to go back to a&e and it was the same nurse and she recognised me and she was SO lovely, she was laughing and saying how are things with Chris?! Are you guys still a situationship or are you official now?! 😭😭

Christ knows what else I said when I was under but apparently I gave her ALL the details about how I can’t tell if wants us to be together or if he’s stringing me along and he’s messing me around and we’re on then off then on then off😭 she said I was babbling about it for about 30 mins and telling her everything ah

to be fair everything I told her was true (and Chris and I are absolutely not a thing anymore haha) but it got me wondering what else I said and in case I said anything else embarrassing 😭 Is this normal?! It was my first time getting ketamine and I never want it again bloody hell it was terrifying😩

My friend picked me up after sedation. She still laughs about what I said. But won't tell me what it was.

Very normal. I had pethidine in labour and spent a long time telling a student midwife all about the Roman empire and Elvis Costello.

I don't actually know anything about Elvis Costello.

Oh no I wish I hadn't read this! I'm due to be sedated for a procedure soon and now I'm worried - not so much about embarrassment but more about feeling drunk. Don't drink - hate feeling drunk 😭

Yes, totally normal. My mother worked as a nurse in a recovery ward for a while. She said that people came out with the funniest things at times. She also was proposed to more times than she can count.

Never happened to me (thankfully!), but there are loads of videos on YouTube shorts and tiktok etc with people saying the funniest things or acting in the weirdest ways.

Do not worry, I am sure the nurses are used to this, in fact it is probably the most entertainment they see on a shift.
You are not the first and I believe you will not be the last!

My dad has had multiple sedations. After the last one the doctors came and made us sit with him about an hour earlier than we were meant to because he was boring 😂

If i get sedated with medazolam I get incredibly aggressive , I swear at everyone and refuse to stay in the bed. They were trying to give me a endoscopy and I started pulling the scope . I have no idea im doing it and I usually get flash backs of my behaviour weeks later. Yet these drs still insist in giving me that damn medication to sedate me

That's one of my fears, being drugged for some medical reason and telling my deepest, most private secrets to whoever happens to be in the room. 😰 I'd been trying to hope that some of my natural inhabitions would remain in place to prevent that from happening, but perhaps that's not how it works.

Coming round from GA I was convinced the nurse stroking my hand was my dog licking me. I was telling 'Lucy' to get down and go to her bed.

Very normal! I was sedated and taken down to the OT following childbirth. The sedation was very very welcome but it made all my muscles relax and as they wheeled me down the corridor I did the longest fart. The lovely staff never even blinked an eye 😂. I then was babbling away to the anaesthetist that she sounded like my friend and all sorts of other nonsense. Lord knows what I said but they were all very nice to me 😂

I’m guessing my sedation was morphine based because it was wonderful - like skipping through sunny fields! Honestly, don’t worry about what you said, it’s all in a day’s work to them.

Absolutely normal OP and please don’t worry we hear all sorts, we don’t judge - some people become an exaggeration of their own personality, others become someone entirely different

I had to have a badly broken tooth removed under sedation and local anaesthetic. Apparently I got very cross with the dentist because he wouldn’t let me have the tooth afterwards to put under my pillow for the tooth fairy. I was 25 at the time.

It's not unusual but not inevitable either. In my 30+ years as an anaesthetist I have seen and heard patients doing all kinds of weird things in recovery and I've had several proposals of marriage, but actually most people are transiently a bit disorientated but don't do anything wildly embarrassing or give away their darkest secrets. Apparently the last time I had a GA in a different hospital to the one I was working in I was offering all the recovery staff jobs in our hospital.

Oh bless you OP.

It's normal, doesn't happen to everyone but happens to lots of people.

I think you were just seen by a nurse with a good memory, or she found you a particularly enjoyable patient chatting about Chris! Lots of health care professionals wouldn't remember you or care about what you were saying.

I love this story so much.

I’ve had quite a few sedations and my waking up brain is always trying to prove how awake and aware I am. I started crying thinking the nurse had told me we’d got no eggs (ivf) but I had made it up. I always wake up very extra friendly and with 0 social boundaries that creep back upon me and ‘the fear’ kicks in. Just like my drinking self.

There’s a reason people do ketamine or similar at parties and talk all manner of absolute shite, sharing all their darkest secrets.

These nurses will be more than used to it and it’s perfect normal. You didn’t say anything remotely embarrassing.

When i was coming round from ga i thought that someone was attacking me.

I accompanied my daughter to an appointment a couple of years ago.

I wasn’t in with her while she had the procedure, but they came and got me when she was in recovery as she was ‘having a bit of a moment’

She was convinced she was falling out of bed (the bed sides were up so she wasn’t going anywhere) and then cried a lot (she was in actual floods of tears) about a hamster that she had when she was 5, and then about a stuffed dog that I had put in the washing machine when she was about 3 (she’d been sick on it so I washed it and she was beside herself about Spotty Dog going round the washing machine). Then she kind of snapped out of that and told me in great detail how drunk she’d got at a party the weekend before and that she thought she’d hid it pretty well from her parents when she’d got home that night (she didn’t 😂).

The staff were all very lovely and said it was pretty normal

She felt a little bit groggy the next day but was fine afterwards. I’m not sure what she had.

Mine too. Thankfully I’ve never yet needed it but it does worry me!

I’d have absolutely hated the nurse to reference it the next time I saw her! Shouldn’t they just pretend nothing embarrassing was said - like midwives who never mention if you do a poo during labour.

OP, I worry more about the stupid shit I blurt out when I'm not sedated. At least I can't remember what I've said when I'm under.

My daughter had sedation and her friend was walking her home. They stopped at the pharmacy for a prescription. My daughter spotted a basket of hairbrushes and sat down and rifled through them saying they were so beautiful and dropping them one by one on the floor. Her friend was so embarrassed.

Some of these are so funny
i I had emergency ga in France, when I came round I was chatting away apparently, and then remembered no one could speak English so totted out all my GCSE French
quelle drolle du chapeau?
pour aller a la gare routier s’il vous plait?
embarrasing!

When I was a young teen I needed some teeth out. That was in the days you could have knock out gas at the dentists. I had a bad reaction to it and started getting quite violent as I came round and bit the dentist. Apparently I left a bit of a dent in him! 😬Don't remember a thing!

I think I've proposed to every male anaesthetist I ever met.

After an operation I was bumped a bit as the bed went into the lift (presumably completely unavoidable). I was ranting and shouting about how these pair of bitches did it on purpose and were trying to hurt me, I'd been kidnapped etc etc. I'm so ashamed - these people had literally just saved my life in an emergency op!!!! I wish I'd just babbled on harmlessly!