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kn33@lemmy.world 6 months agoThe last time I had general anesthesia, they didn’t give me any warnings but I had this weird prickly warm sensation in my crotch just before things went dark and I hated it but it’s like just gotta bear it for a few seconds until I’m out.
Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I’d take that memory with a grain of salt. Part of the anesthesic effect is that you don’t remember shit. A common concern patients voice when they roll into the OR is “shouldn’t I be asleep for this? I’ve had X# surgeries before and I’ve never been awake for this part…” But they probably said the same thing on their second+ surgery: you’re always awake when you roll into the OR, you just don’t remember the few minutes leading up to going to sleep cuz of the drugs.
That said, some people do have a resistance to some part of the effect: you might have been one of them, and are remembering traces of the experience like the pain of the propofol; but where that pain occurred could have gotten blocked out, so your brain just picked a spot.
Unless they placed your IV near your crotch, which would be super, super abnormal.
But yea I wouldn’t put much trust in the accuracy of memories immediately surrounding general anesthesia. It fucks with your brain, hard.