#general anesthesia

[honolulublue]

Ai fun

[thatpollguy]

Have you ever had surgery that required anesthesia?

Hi anonymous! I'm not sure whether you are referring to local anaesthesia or general anaesthesia, but I get the feeling you might be referring to the latter, considering that all surgeries require some form of anaesthetic. I will go off this assumption, but if I got it wrong, send me another ask with the specific type of anaesthesia you intended and I'll redo the poll for you. Thanks! Keep 'em coming, folks.

Have you ever had surgery that required general anaesthesia?

Yes, more than once

Yes, once

No, but I've had surgery requiring local anaesthesia

No, I've never had any form of surgery

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[nightingalesandnorco]

Hello! In many shows or movies, when a character is about to go under they ask them to take deep breaths through the mask. I've been told it was for pre oxygenation because that's not the mask who put to sleep.

But when I had surgery irl they asked me to breath normally, so what's the difference ?

Is there something like inhalation anesthesia = deep breathes (so anesthetic gas) and injection anesthesia= breath normally (oxygen) ?

Thank you and sorry if my question is a bit messy-

There are both inhaled and parenteral (injected, intravenous in this case) surgical general anesthetic agents. Inhaled agents include isoflurane, sevoflurane, and desflurane. These may be given via mask or endotracheal tube. Parenteral agents include propofol, ketamine, and methohexital. These agents may be used alone or in combination, and may also be used in combination with other drugs like paralytics (succinylcholine, vecuronium) which are given via IV.

Deep breaths vs. normal breathing has more to do with the anesthesiologist/anesthetist's preference. If inhaled anesthetic agents are being pumped into a mask, the patient will inhale them regardless of how they breathe. An anesthesiologist/anesthetist might tell a patient to take deep breathes because the anesthetic might take effect faster, or they might tell the patient to breathe normally so they don't reflexively hold their breath.

Happy whumping!

[allupallu]

The surgery went smoothly and I'm stable. I was emotional after waking up, nurse comforted me and we talked a lot. My energy levels are very limited, but altleast I have less brainfog. The staff is so nice, I probably thanked them too much, I was so happy that I went through with it. Thanks yall

[surgerypatient]

[weirdstrangeandawful]

TW: medical, victim blaming

Whumper judging Whumpee for “allowing” things to happen to them under general anaesthesia.

[system-of-a-feather]

One of the non-DID things about me / us is that we really don't find surgeries or going under anesthesia really stressful or concerning at all and Id even argue that some of us find it fun/funny and/or nice cause we get to go offline and let someone else do the hard work

And I like to attribute that to having gotten so used to DID that our brain is not bothered by "leave the body in the hands of someone more specialized in the task"

Cause to me, its not that much more different than say, letting a protector do their job.

[tontonguetonks]

so for any of you out there who’ve gotten top surgery, or any gender-affirming surgeries... fuck, any surgery that required general anesthesia.

were you afraid? because i’m terrified. i’m not afraid i’ll regret my choice—i do tend towards melancholia and all, so i’m preparing to experience some post-op depression. i am feeling so deeply uncomfortable knowing i’m going to be asked to breathe in and count down from 10, knowing i may very well not get past 8 before i wake up seconds later in a different room, high on whatever cocktail they’ve got me on. i’ll remember at some point that i lost all that time in between.

and i will be alone, the whole time, from check in to discharge. because of covid, the clinic isn’t allowing anyone to accompany me. i won’t be waking up to anyone i love.

i’ve tried visualising my way through it so many times, hoping that it would get easier, and it hasn’t. and i’m also kinda sick of being told that i don’t need to worry and that everything is going to be okay.

i know it will, more likely than not. but none of those assurances are comforting.

40 days to go.