To want to experience a general anaesthetic again?

[slightlyovertiredalways]

Or something like it?!

I had a general anaesthetic for the first time a few months ago, and as someone who struggles with sleeping the feeling was unreal. One second I felt a bit drunk, the next I was waking up from the deepest sleep of my life with a warm blanket on me and someone bringing me tea and toast 😂 some nights when I’m extra tired and struggling to sleep I think about that feeling and crave it in a weird way.

Is there anything I can do to help me sleep in that way?!

Funnily enough I often think back to when I had a GA. I wish I could experience again the deep relaxation and sleep that I had just after I came round.

I know exactly what you mean. I suspect the only things that can reproduce the effect are not exactly legal. But I've had to have either full anaesthetic or really deep sedation several times, and have always rather loved that utter surrender to sleep and emerging to somebody looking after you . ...

I’ve had lots of GAs and I do love them.

I like it too👌.

There are sedatives you can knock yourself out with. Unfortunately... they are highly addictive. The withdrawal symptoms from which can be life threatening. 😬

Meditation is the best we can hope for, I think (safely). 🙏

I think the closest I’ve come to it was an accidental nap under my electric blanket, but nothing really compares. I wish there was something on the market (even if it was prescription) that could just knock me out the same way

You’re clearly all better GA subjects than I am! I hate waking up in a different place from the one I went to sleep in, and I tend to feel nauseated afterwards.

Yes! I agree.
I was terrified to have a GA but loved it.
Best sleep ever.
No idea how to legally replicate it at ll

Sleeping pills from the gp girl xx

I agree OP. I felt really rested when I had a GA.

Yes I agree! I’ve had quite a few and always enjoy that warm relaxed feeling afterwards

I had that experience with my first GA, when I was 25, a few hours after I can round I felt good. I had a second a couple of years ago at 44 and I felt terrible for a week afterwards, it was very minor surgery so definitely the GA that made me feel bad. I was really hoping for a similar experience to the first op.

Totally get you. I'm a terrible sleeper and the few times I've had GA I've come out (once the groggy bit passes) of it feeling more refreshed than any nap/overnight could ever do!

And the naps afterwards! Days upon days of just sleeping, when usually I have to fight my body for seven hours a night

i never tend to nap unless I’m really unwell (funnily enough I had a nap tonight with a migraine and it inspired this post), and they always leave me feeling groggy, shaky and awful. But the feeling after the GA was amazing!

Ooooh I agree.....the last time I had a GA was for an impacted wisdom tooth extraction. When I woke up I didn't even know I had had it done ! And I spent a very agreeable sunny afternoon in my garden. With my current sleep patterns I sometimes crave it too. Sigh.

Ha, have you tried to get them recently?
I got 3 when my mum died, I asked who had to die to entitle me to a weeks worth

That's why/how Michael Jackson died - chasing that sensation every day.

Not a judgement on anybody here, it's why drugs are sought illegally and used inappropriately - because they feel good (at least at first, and then they're constantly trying to get that back again).

The thing that put me off trying street stuff more than anything else was having an operation under general anaesthetic (ketamine, to be precise) - the perfect dose, the perfect administration, anti emetics and strong analgesia for afterwards. I'd never, ever get that anywhere else.

The only thing I can compare it to was when I accidentally took two sleeping tablets and just lay on the couch completely unable to resist falling asleep.

No way am I advising that though!!

Definitely-there's nothing quite like it.

I read a lot of Jilly Cooper when I was younger and her characters used to often take one mogodon tablet and sleep like the dead-I presume you can't get those prescribed so easily now!?

My GP doesn’t want to know. They say the first resort would be to go down the route of being signed off work, when it’s just all in my head. I just struggle with sleep and I think I always will

I was sedated for my most recent surgery and it was utterly blissful. I’ve never felt so relaxed and I felt zen for the rest of the day.

With a GA I wake up with a jolt and not as relaxed but it’s still a good sleep.

Christ.

I’m not saying I’d be after pills off the street. Just as someone who struggles to sleep I wish I could experience a really good sleep again!

Really heavy duty exercise. Like a heavy weightlifting session followed by at least 30 minutes intense cardio.

Then spend time streeeetching everything. THEN properly cool down, a gentle walk for 30 mins, eat something nice and filling but not too heavy. A long warm (not hot) shower and in to bed early, no more than about 3 hours after the walk.

And I mean a heavy workout. The type where you cant do a another repetition.

The sleep I get after really focusing on myself like this beats GA hands down.

I agree with exercise. I felt a similar sensation during the week after a very active day.

Oh 🥺

Sorry for your loss xx

Yes I was able to get some without going through that