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😩

Had my gall bladder removed in July, coming round from GA in the recovery room I remember chatting quite happily (and loudly) about Marvel movies to a Filipino boy, don’t know if he was real or not as none of the nurses later on knew who I was talking about 🤷🏼‍♀️ I can remember chatting to the porter on the way back to the ward and him laughing at what I was saying… god I hope it wasn’t anything embarrassing 🙈

I dislocated my shoulder and was given gas and air - I remember telling the doctor that he smelt lovely and babbling on about all sorts of rubbish. It was like being drunk and not caring 🤣 I’m sure they are totally used to it.

I picked my friend up after he had sedation for a procedure. He was very weird, and he even stole from a shop. I was afraid to go back and pay for it, as I didn't want to be seen to handle stolen goods. I didn't think they'd believe me if I was caught.

The next day he was very embarrassed. It seemed like a dream to him. I don't know if he went back to the shop.

Last time I was sedated I kept trying to stroke the doctor mid procedure and told him he was sexy. Once I woke up my husband come to collect me, walking back through hospital I proceeded to fart repeatedly very very loudly and burst out laughing every time. I love being sedated

I saw a lady have £10,000 of titanium ribs inserted after a road traffic accident and when she came round she was accusing the surgeon and kept saying when are you going to tell me the truth. He was just trying to tell her the operation went well. He was like I'll come back later in the end. I felt for him as I think he just wanted a thanks or well done.

I usually wake myself up talking and am vaguely aware I've said something nonsensical but have no idea what.

I once asked if I'd talked while under heavy duty sedation. I deal with confidential information so I was mildly concerned. They told me I hadn't spoken - just snorted.

One of my kids told the doctor how clean and sterile the operating room was. The other just talked and talked. Both were in their twenties

I’ve had this before and I was so worried what I would do. But I was singing to all the surgeons and nurses and saying the weirdest things to them but basically how absolutely wonderful they all were! Apparently they’ve had people swear and get aggressive so they were quite pleased at all the compliments I was singing at them 😂 it just felt easier to sing than to talk for some reason. I’m really not a singer and usually quite shy! I have every recollection of it though, which embarrasses me.

I had to have that procedure where they put a camera down your throat. They sedated me and apparently I tried to punch the nurse when she tried to insert it. I have no memory of this and was so mortified when they told me later.

When I came round I remember being wheeled back to my room and asking for my phone. I sent a message to dh and dd who were waiting to take me home. I wrote that everything was fine, they could probably come in now and please get me a cappuccino with chocolate sprinkles. When they did come in my very worried dh showed me the text he had received and it was just a very long string of random letters with absolutely no meaning😂

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Brilliant

I left my boss an answerphone message to say my surgery had gone well and I was fine.
Boss played it back to me later and what I'd actually done is go on for several minutes about how good the painkillers were and how lovely I was feeling.
Could have been worse!

I still cringe from a procedure 20+ years ago when I came to a bit early and was effing and jeffing and calling the consultant all sorts 😳
I was given more sedation and went under again, and don’t remember coming round afterwards, or coming round from any of the other (several) sedations I’ve had since, but that one haunts me.

Very common; medical staff are totally used to it. Some people can get aggressive, panic, get violent even (my granddad was just sorting of flailing around blindly and whacked a nurse on the arm). If all the patient did was babble about their love life, the nurses will be perfectly happy and unfazed - all in a day's work.

I had sedation when having a colonoscopy, fentanyl and midazalam. The kind nurse that was by my head trying to distract me was foreign and asked me what I was having for dinner (hadn’t eaten for 2 days prior to this)he mentioned steak pie -a Scottish tradition on New Year’s Day. I then proceeded to tell him my husbands steak pie recipe….from where to buy the meat, how long to cook it for and which pastry to use. To be fair my hubbys steak pie is legendary but I do wonder if he ever went and made it. Also when they wheeled me out the Dr doing the procedure said I would get a feedback form in the recovery room and I told them all whilst killing myself laughing that I’d give them all a 5 star review on trip advisor 🤩 I was out of my tree all day….they were good drugs lol

I took a man down for an op and brought him back into recovery and he was telling me I was so much hotter than the nurse that took him down 🤣 must give people beer googles too.

Completely normal, and v entertaining

I expect the nurse has now updated the rest of the team you've dumped Chris!

I spent a good proportion of the 90s telling strangers at parties my darkest secrets 🤣

This thread has cheered my morning up no end 👌🏼💯🤣

Very normal - and often very amusing
As a nurse, I always remember one of my favourites, nothing particularly embarrassing for the patient but I just loved it. She had to go round for x ray after having a procedure done and came back telling anyone who’d listen about the most magical train ride she’d just been on (along the corridor on a trolley). She spent so long thanking the driver (porter) and asking how she booked again because she couldn’t remember how she booked the trip and wanted to bring her friend next time 😁 she had us all in stitches, harmless fun and we’re all very used to it, even if we do remember things like Chris!

Perfectly normal...I once giggled hysterically because one of the nurses had green hair. I'm sure they'd experienced worse.

I seem to turn into an asshole. I once told a very nice anaesthetist he needed to read more Yeats. I think if I hadn’t literally been about to be unconscious for surgery I’d have started compiling him a reading list.

This ended me

They see it every single day in hospitals. The hardcore opiates, the ketamine, the benzos...there's loads of really strong medication used on patients and most people's bodies are naive to that substance.

It's perfectly normal for people to feel or act a bit out of it. Even gas and air makes people act silly.

Some people even get violent when they come round from surgery! So as long as it's not that you've got nothing to be embarrassed about.

Hopefully you can have a laugh about it at some point.