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Have you ever been under general anesthesia? What was it like? Did anything strange happen? (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Thorny_Thicket@sopuli.xyz to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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As a compliment to the thread about near death experiences I'd really like hearing people's experiences of losing consciousness under general anesthesia and what's it like coming back.

Also interested of things anesthetists may have noticed about this during their career.

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[–] thelastknowngod@lemm.ee 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I was a kid when I last had it. Really uneventful. "Count backwards from 10" and you're out by 6.

My wife had it a few months ago to fix a deviated septum. Her native language is Turkish. When she came to she was only speaking English. The doctors couldn't understand her "but she seems fine." I told her she was speaking Chinese just to fuck with her a bit. "Oh no! We need to get a dictionary!" It was really strange.. She understood Turkish perfectly fine but was completely unable to speak it.

Other than some funny after effects, it was mostly a non-issue for her as well. She was fine after a couple hours.

[–] Supertramper@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

I remember the „count backwards“ trick well. What a flex.

[–] DrQuint@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Oh wait, my wife told me I was also leaning towards English a lot too when I woke up. I'm not a English native. However, I was switching to it after pauses or sentences.

Wonder how common this is.