how long after gen anaesthetic until you feel normal

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again?

I honestly felt rubbish for 4 weeks, not progressively improved each day as I had expected. Then one day I woke up and felt fine again.

Go with what your body tells you to do.

i feel a little more human now, hope it lasts

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you have beaten me by 3 1/2 weeks!

it may just be a glitch though and i'll feel awful again in a bit.

4 weeks must have been hellish

wish i'd seen the dr yesterday now thing.

feel giddy and sick again

too me about a week after i was out for 3 hours for a knee op.

took about 5 days after my epidural this time round, BUT i also had some other complications.

Did you have yer polyps seen too?

I had a GA a fortnight ago for varicose veins and felt exhausted for two days but fine now,back to running and aerobics.

yes it wasn't a polyp though, he said it was a air filled lump of some sort ew

Niiiiiice.......

he said imagine a small air filled sausage up yer nose .

How alluring.

did you get to see it, south?

that would be COOL!

no and i really wanted to, also had lots of infection that needed hoovering up. wanted to see that too.

was too out of it to ask

i got to see the inside of my knee joint in one op, but it was only arthroscopy.

it was cool, though!

would be good if they could sell tapes of the surgery.

saw the ct scan of my sinuses, were like little snail shapes

I had a D&C - you're out for about 10 minutes I think - and it took me almost 2 weeks to recover from it. Felt really spaced out and very odd.

my guts always take forever to wake up from anaesthetics.

i had a light one for D&C, too, and it was about 5 days for my guts to get back to normal.

ditto the epidurals and other GAs i've had.

glad it's quite normal then, have to have a lie down again. nose keeps bleeding

take care not to get constipated, that's my best advice as a veteran of many a surgical/instrumental procedure .

don't seem to have that problem

i rather like GA.

that moment when the anaesthetist tells you he/she is going to put something in your drip and the next thing you know it's all over.

I had a GA emergency CS and I think I felt strange for at least 2 weeks afterwards. It's hard to say what causes what really as they gave me co-codamol and i had had a baby.

I must admit I wouldn't really have known what normal felt like at the time! I know I felt a tiny bit better when DH got home from work, took the baby, abd brought me a G&T in the bath PS I wasn't breast feeding....

then you wake up and think you're at home in bed it's quite trippy

it's just afterwards my nose it all clotted up

yeah, you're all warm and they tell you it's over and you just sort of fall back to sleep.

um, okay. it's over. take me up to my room and let me sleep this off.