Has anyone had sedation that didn't really do anything?

[PurpleMcPants]

I'm (probably) going to need a tooth out and my dentist said it'd be done under sedation. What worries me is that I've had sedation before for an endoscopy and it seemed to do bugger all. I was entirely aware of what was going on, felt all the gagging/choking and was completely compos mentis when I was wheeled back to the waiting room - my dh even commented that it didn't look like I'd had anything at all.
The only effect it had was I fell asleep a couple of hours later for an hour or so.
I am terrified of having this tooth out, it would be a complicated extraction and I really really would prefer not to know anything about it! I'm worried that the sedation won't work and I'll be aware of what's happening.

I have apparently twice taken a swing for the dentist under sedation.....

All I know is that I've come round with hand prints on my neck and arms where they've pinned me down to stay in the chair. I have no problem with this, as apparently I have a tendency to do it when I have clamps on and am mid treatment so can't just walk off.

I just had IV sedation today for get 4 wisdom teeth out. I have panic attacks at the dentist.

The sedation did absolutely nothing for me. Fentanyl and Midazolam.

I cried and hyperventilated for almost 3 hours. They had no problem charging me $500 for the sedation but apparently had a problem administering appropriately.

I'm beyond angry about my experience. The whole point was to stop my panic attack and make it less traumatic.

For endoscopy procedures and the like, you can ask for heavy sedation, also known as deep sedation. Hospitals don't like to advertise this as the sedative used is Propofol, and requires the presence of an anaesthetist to administer.

I wouldn't have an endoscopy with the standard midazolam/fentanyl, or any benzodiazepine/opioid combination, there's data that a lot of these procedures have to be aborted due to the patient being unable to tolerate.

Do you suffer from any autoimmune diseases like Fibromyalgia ME/CFS? I have both & react weirdly to any anaesthetic or local anaesthetic. If I have a general, I'm 100% awake within seconds, I've woken up before they have taken the tube out of my throat before. I had day surgery a few years ago, was third on the list, we we are all in the same ward, when I came back, I was sat up talking & asking for food as soon as I came back, the two patients who went down before me were still only semi conscious yet I had the longest operation & had more anaesthetic. If I go to the dentist for treatment, I have to have the maximum local anaesthetic or I can still feel everything, when my DS was born by EMCS, I felt most of it, I kept on telling the theatre staff that I could feel it but when they did the pinch & cold spray tests, I was totally numb, they kept on saying I was imagining it, I even told them exactly how many stitches they had put in when they closed my wound, they were astounded that I gave them the right number. I have since found out that autoimmune diseases can cause these reactions.

I recently had a heart ablation done, they gave me a local at the site in my groin, where camera and 2 other things were inserted in incisions, however they gave me sedation, to calm me and ease any pain, when they said we are putting sedation into your drip now, guess what? Didn't do anything at all, I was full on wincing in pain, nurse asks, still a bit sore? YES!! So she says I give you a bit more, did the same as the first lot, NOTHING!! After all was done I told the male nurse, I feel very traumatised, he asked why , I said the sedation didn't work, his response? You should have said something, I said I did twice and was ignored, he then said, it doesn't work on everyone. I'm thinking REALLY!! So what's plan B then, the whole thing frightened me as they had to shock my heart several times, I'd rather go through child birth than go through that again

I'm relieved to hear that I am not the only one! I paid a lot of money to have 'conscious sedation' for an implant removal, but it had little effect, apart from making me feel sick and panicky. I couldn't say anything, being at the dentist where two of them were battling to get the thing out if my gum. I was also blindfold. A terrible experience. Afterwards, no one wanted to know.
Twenty years ago, I had sedation at another dentist's and remembered nothing about the 2-hour procedure. Perhaps they use different drugs now.

I had sedation for an endoscopy at one hospital and was totally out of it, was woken with a cup of tea, collected and driven home, went to bed, out for the count till the following morning.

A week later had a colonoscopy under sedation at a different hospital, wide awake, hurt like blazes, I ended up watching it on the screen as I got so bored, didn't feel remotely sleepy and could have driven home. Had another three years later - exactly the same.

Whereas my son had a colonoscopy at the same place, can't remember any of it and was comically "out of it" afterwards (walked into a wall!).

On my next one I am going to make a point of saying the sedation didn't work the last two times and will ask for an alternative. Would be great if they have the notes saying what they gave me for the endoscopy.