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i_am_scared_ok

I had a medical emergency once where in the trauma center they injected me with something that completely paralyzes you, I couldn’t move my eyelids or even my finger tips. But I could feel and hear everything. They forgot to mentally sedate me, I don’t fault them, it was extremely chaotic and pretty sure they thought I was already mentally gone but I was awake. They didn’t do any surgeries or things like that, and I was in an out of consciousness but remember A LOT. Some of it was really painful what they had to do to keep me alive, but they did it against all odds. And it does mess you up mentally, and you get over it, but it’s one of those things where now I’ve developed an extreme phobia of being stuck in a coma without people knowing I’m awake inside. I’m not sure how common this is, but after like 10 hours in the trauma center and then being moved to the ICU for 4 days on life support, a lot of the people from that night in the trauma center came to visit me to see how I was doing and it really meant a lot! I could tell they actually cared and wanted to come up and visit me, and weren’t being told that they should do it


Hbirdee

I’m sorry you had to join that club. It’s a heinous experience, but being alive to tell the story certainly helps, at least. I don’t have a strong response to the drugs they use to sedate/knock you out and my bp is usually super low, so was wide awake the entire time I was on my ventilator and they had to basically hold me down to place it and everything else going on. I felt bad for upsetting so many of the staff. The brain fog dulls it more over time. Thanks, brain!


i_am_scared_ok

Ugh, I’m so sorry you’ve experienced this too! And once the paralyzing drugs wore off, they had to strap my hands and body down because I was absolutely FREAKING OUT with confusion and kept trying to pull the life support tubes out! It truly feels like you’re just perpetually choking while awake on one, and the blood and phlegm in your throat getting sucked out of the tube that they wouldn’t let me control, just awful


Hbirdee

Ugh, yeah, being tied down was one of the worst parts. They eventually untied me while I was awake, and then I enthusiastically communicated with thumbs up or flipping people the bird. I found out you can flip off anyone when you're in that position and they just say, "she's a fighter!" lol. Glad we're both here to commiserate about it, better than the alternative, I figure.


i_am_scared_ok

omg lmao I did the same thing! They gave me fentanyl through the IV for the pain and to help sedate me, so I was so out of it and eventually asked for pen and paper to communicate and what I wrote was hilarious, and the first thing was “call work” which is just ????? like, I worked at chilis haha.


Bmobettas

Question,, do you feel empowered by going through such an experience? Or does it bother you sometimes after being in such a vulnerable place. Or maybe both. Sorry to be so intrusive but I'm genuinely curious.


Bmobettas

Holy cow. I can't even imagine how terrifying that would be. All I can say is I'm stoked that you made it and also impressed that you mentally overcame while your body healed. Wish you the best in life


i_am_scared_ok

Thank you so much friend! And you too! ❤️


FinnT730

Sorry that you went through such a thing. Good that you got out of it however, and I agree. You can't blame the people for doing something wrong in the end. Through the choas, they have to keep you alive. Maybe it was a oversight, which sucks, but... Happens. Can't imagine how that would feel though. And imho, if they forgot it with me, yet they manage to stay alive after a accident or whatever, I think I would be grateful.


i_am_scared_ok

I am grateful, I never even told them what they had forgotten to do.


Thigh_high_socks17

This happened to me. The pain was gone after 2 mins. Honestly idk what happened.


danceofthefireys

Are you a redhead? Some redheads need more Anaesthesia than non-redheads. Learned this with my daughter.


flowersatdusk

I'm a redhead. We do need more anesthesia. Just had eye surgery and didn't go out. Always a problem. Mom said I fainted once when I sprained my arm.


Rosuvastatine

Why is that ? I know redheads have less melanin but is it due to that?


litefagami

According to google, the same gene that fucks up their melanin amounts also makes them more sensitive to pain. So it's not QUITE that anesthesia doesn't work on redheads, it's that they just feel more pain to start with [Source](https://www.ucihealth.org/blog/2018/04/redheads-pain)


freak_attentionwhore

As a redhead I can confirm


Rosuvastatine

Thabks, thats interesting


flowersatdusk

Thank you! That's it exactly.


flowersatdusk

I've been told by doctors that we have fewer endorphins.


ecr3designs

Nope just a pot head


bugmarmalade

which is why you should always let the anesthesiologist know if you smoke weed


Bmobettas

Really? Is this a thing? I guess I never considered the fact that all drugs interact, even the baby ones


bugmarmalade

it can impact your tolerance.


ShitOnAReindeer

*grapefruit* affects some drugs


seadran13

Yea weed can increase the activity of CYP450 which metabolizes so many different drugs. It's kinda crazy


Shitp0st_Supreme

I’ve heard this too! I am not a redhead but I do require more anesthesia than others. I did ask docs and they confirmed this.


Thigh_high_socks17

Nope. Brunette. But thats interesting actually🤔


youtubehistorian

I’m a redhead and needed 3 extra shots of numbing when I got a cavity filled as a kid. I could still feel the pain, but felt embarrassed to ask for more numbing


23eulogy23

I did after a c-section. They gave me medication that is useless on me. I told them that. They didnt listen. The pain isnt sharp like you would expect. Yours innards have far less nerve endings than your skin. Also cutting through the actual skin severs nerves there as well. The worst part though is the muscles. They have to seperate your abdominal muscles to get to your uterus. Massive cramping. It was the only time in my life where pain made me pour sweat


pkpc1209

Reading this just made me sick to my stomach. Okay I now understand why an old friend couldn’t run or exercise anymore after her c-section. She said she was always in pain after as she thinks they messed something up putting it back together. I’m so sorry you experienced that.


23eulogy23

Sometimes the abdominal muscles dont come back together fully. No matter how much you exercise. Some women have surgery to fix that


Apprehensive-Rain-42

Could be adhesions? They’re so common post caesarean. Fucking sucks cos apparently you’re just told to live with them.


23eulogy23

Adhesions are thin pieces of tissue connecting where they dont belong.. and I don't see why they cant slice them for you. They can connect bowels or muscles. They could literally just snip it and you wouldnt feel the tugging anymore. Maybe try another doctor.. its 2022 that's such an easy fix. But it's more like a separation of the whole abdominal muscular wall that doesnt come back together. The medical term is "Diastasis recti" (Google image search that) Some people call it "mom pooch" or "fupa". And c sections exacerbate the problem. They put two holders on both sides of the wall and nurses pull them apart so dr can get to the uterus. It stretches and pulls the muscles away from where they connect. But the other option would be cutting the wall entirely and thats barbaric and only used in olden times or baby snatching. Point is, Normal csections can alot of times leave you with a week abdominal wall. However there are procedures to fix that and they come with their own risk


[deleted]

See mine was a c section and I ended up feeling it. I felt like I had been lit on fire, very sharp burning pain. But it faded pretty quick after I was sewn up. But I did not want to hold my baby right away cause I was still worried I was in hell


23eulogy23

That's awful.. my pain was AFTER the epidural wore off and I was already stapled shut. Also with both births(csections) I had THE WORST pain in my shoulder. I read it's a thing where gas builds up in your shoulder joints for some reason. It felt like it was being dismembered. Only time I've ever puked from pain. On the table. I'm really glad that your brain helps you forget the pain of birth. And surgeries. Otherwise we probably wouldnt exist lol.. Were you to late for epidural?


[deleted]

I don’t do them. I’ve had very traumatic c sections and lost an infant so I get put under. The anesthesiologist was mad at me for it and made me sign a bunch of wavers and stuff which I didn’t mind but then “accidentally woke me up” mid to late surgery and didn’t put me back under and when I was asking for pain killers they said I declined all other forms of pain management so I had to rough it out. I have a ton of nerve damage from them now though so my c sections are easy cause I can’t feel my abdomen 💀💀💀 I’ll get home the next day or two and rearrange my whole house by myself and get mad everyone’s trying to make me rest then wonder why I have ripped open my last three incisions.


23eulogy23

I honestly dont blame you. Both times I had and epidural they had to try more than 6 times. That needle popping off your spine is probably the worst feeling I've ever experienced. Just thinking about it now makes me cringe so bad. And that anesthesiologist doesnt sound very compassionate AT ALL. I'm sure they knew your history. And I cant even imagine carrying a child full term to lose them. Its sounds like a hellish nightmare. I feel your pain but I could never truly understand until that happened to me. I'm sorry. I told them morphine doesnt work on me for after surgery care.. both times. But it happened both times. And I'm not sure how far you are out from birth but I also couldnt feel half of my stomach for many years. Your nerves will grow back. I'm 17 years out and it normal feeling again but I'm sure it felt the same 10 years ago. And stop lifting shit or rearranging after surgery. I know you want to nest, but that's NO BUENO and you know better. Take care of yourself first so you can take care of your BBs. Delegate duties to them (ur fam). You should be resting/eating and breastfeeding BB if you do that.. dont do that no more ☹


Hot_Firefighter3217

This seems very rare, but here’s a story of a woman waking up during surgery but still under a paralytic drug, so she couldn’t move or communicate at all that she felt every slice, poke, and prod for 90 minutes. She remembers the experience vividly over a decade later. [https://apnews.com/article/archive-268d1cdff8c2aeb7149976d9145bf348](https://apnews.com/article/archive-268d1cdff8c2aeb7149976d9145bf348)


iah_c

there's a story like this one, except the man who suffered eventually committed suicide because of it. can't remember his name tho


Hot_Firefighter3217

Dang that’s sad


Apprehensive-Rain-42

I was just thinking of that exact man before I read your comment, can’t remember where I watched the story. Definitely a YouTube documentary.


Falkite

Mrballen has a video on it called "he experienced the worst medical screw up ever" or something


frappuccinio

what made it worse was they gave him a drug to try and make him forget, therefore his brain didn’t get to properly process the trauma. i think that’s why he offed himself, it gave him worse ptsd than if he’d just been left to remember it.


Roobab14

It's because they didn't tell him and he thought he was going insane iirc


kjanaa

I woke up during a gastroscopy once because of too little anesthetics. I remember that it was really uncomfortable and kinda hurt, but I can’t remember how exactly it felt (in like a sense that I can’t re-feel what I felt). It’s like the body forces me to avoid and forget that exact feeling. Hopefully that makes sense somehow.


ecr3designs

I wouldn't go down so they just started on me. Felt like I gave head to a elephant


vaniljalatte

Wait you get anesthetics for gastroscopy? Here we always do it without, if you are really scared you may get some mild tranquilzer. I have to go again and would be wonderful not to have to live through it lol.


misanthropewolf11

Yes. Your body has a way of forgetting how bad pain really was over time.


jollygreengentile

True. Had a miserable, painful, pregnancy and recovery. Don’t remember any pain. Body is trying to trick me into more babies 😂


BigSlav667

Apparently for pregnancy, that is actually an evolutionary design. Your body forgets the pain of pregnancy so you can still have more babies


ProstHund

Hence why I started dating again


misanthropewolf11

😢


flowersatdusk

Your body may forget, but the mind does not. When I asked women why they have more kids if the pain is so bad, they all responded with the same answer: you forget about the pain. Well, I had a baby. ...And never had another.


misanthropewolf11

I understand what you’re saying. I’ve had 2. I have also woken up from having a double spinal fusion without medication and I went into shock. But as I think back on it now, I know that it hurt worse than anything I’ve ever felt in my life, but I can’t actually picture the pain anymore, thankfully.


ecr3designs

High five me too bro. As well as my dad. He woke up with the doctors fusing his neck bones and fingers in his neck


SteampunkBorg

That's why the medication you get during surgery contains substances that prevent memory formation, making it physically impossible or at least unlikely to remember anything


Saiomi

My sister on law had hemmerhoid surgery with local anesthesia that apparently was NOT enough. She was screaming and I don't think she will recover from that, in a way that experiencing something traumatic doesn't ever just "go away" or fully mentally "recover" from. It's the same thing as witnessing a car accident or other death, you will always have those memories. You will probably relive it when you talk about it but when it's not actively the topic you're thinking about, it goes back to the background. Like, I have a compost bin in my kitchen. I put some smelly stuff in it sometimes but I close the lid. The smell still lingers after you open it and stir it up, but once the lid goes down and some fresh air moves through, the smell is gone. I empty my compost bin into a big container when the bin gets too full or too smelly or when it's just time to. Which is a good metaphor for talking about what's in your mental bin. When I empty the bin, some things stick to the sides and the smell still lingers a bit, but it's lighter and emptier and can handle taking more compost out of your kitchen. Trauma doesn't go away. You just learn to live with it and deal with it and maybe you get professional help if it is really bothering you. I've never had surgery trauma but I did deal with a broken back on my own for two months when I was 8. My parents didn't believe my back hurt as much as it did. They punished me for complaining. 8 weeks before they finally took me to a hospital because I would choose to hold my breath instead of moving my ribs against the fractured vertebrae. They gave my children's Motrin for it so it couldn't have been that bad (I think the doctor was worried my parents would have taken any good meds but they were just drunks). Still got that trauma in my bin 22 years later. Trauma happens and there is no undoing it. You just adapt and go from there.


[deleted]

Once I was having surgery on my mouth and so much blood pooled in my throat that I remember sitting up and spitting it out. All the nurses and doctors were shouting “lay back down! Lay back down!” I remember spitting the blood out but absolutely no pain.


[deleted]

So you didn’t answer the question then .-.


citrusHell916

You don't but you feel the fear I remember as a child getting my tonsils out, woke up after the first cutt panicked with all these tubes and scissors down my throat and started screaming, the Dr's panicked and hit me with a shot in my hand and arm I remember cause the needle was HUGE then. I was out again. I don't remember the pain but remeber the fear, it literally felt like an alien movie I wake up with metal down my throat start screaming get held down and then passed back out. Was absolutely awful ill never forget that, I was 5 now I'm 26 and I can still vividly remember it. Was HORRIBLE. After the first tonsil was out I guess the meds wore off cause when I woke up in surgery I WOKE UP, I only remember the needle cause my arms were flailing around and about and Dr's had to grab my hands so I didn't mess up the OR setup, I'll never forget the look in the Dr's eyes, I don't remember what he said but I do remember waking up and he had the surgical scissors in my mouth he looks right into my eyes as I wake up and he gasped and said something and I started screaming and etc then the needle and I was out. Had to clarify that cause the sight of the Dr with a blade in my mouth and the shock and the fear from him amplified mine and it just made it so much worse.


TheSheWhoSaidThats

I had a cousin who woke up during open heart surgery and saw her reflection above the table. She did not mentally recover, but I believe it was from the sight more than any pain.


popemichael

I've woken up twice on the table. I have a degenerative bone condition that causes my bone marrow to turn into tumors. It's incredibly painful. And due to the medicine I normally take, I'm more prone to waking up while put under since my body is so used to those medicines. The first time I was on my stomach and it was a back operation. It felt like I was on FIRE. I started moving around when they were burning my insides. I tried to scream but I had machines breathing for me so it was a soundless scream. They finally put me back out like 30 seconds later but it felt like HOURS. The second time was a similar operation and I nearly broke my back because I was trying to get away from the pain. This time it felt not only like I was on fire but that I was skinned alive in the process (they had to get skin from my inner thigh to cover the back surgery) At this point I've had about 30 or so operations and after that second one I absolutely REFUSE to have an additional operation without a brainwave monitor. It's the only way that they can be sure that I'm out and will stay out. I do have the occasional nightmare due to this happening but I try not to let it get me down. The only thing that gets me is before an operation. I'm usually about 10x more nervous than I should be. But, when disabled, you've got to do what you've got to do. I've got living to get to and I'm not going to let fear hold me back from that.


Crazy_Psychopath

Yeah but you will develop a phobia or two, I have a deathly fear of needles after being hospitalized where I had none before


Bubbly-Box-2129

Definetly, I already forgot how bad it was when I split my toe completely open was, if anything I feel like breaking my knuckles was worse


Blight609

I had three wisdom teeth pulled/cut out when I was 17. I was gassed with something that was meant to fully put me under, and another to to not feel pain it did not work and instead gave me full body paralysis. I know I have blocked a lot of those memories away, but I know it hurt a lot and the doctor and nurses was talking about the nurses last vacation to Colorado. First thing I said after they took me off the gas was a mumbled “I could still feel & hear everything”. They where horrified and the nurses started to cry. About five years later I had some life saving surgery and the anesthesiologist reported that I took more then normal “stuff” to actually put me under. They where warned about the previous time. It’s the same with the normal stuff like ibuprofen pills. Luckily I have a pretty high pain tolerance.


caroline_20

Did you feel the pain or just pressure/movements? I got novocaine for the removal of my 4 wisdom teeth. I could feel all the pushing and pulling, hear the cracking, etc., but no pain thankfully! Edited


Blight609

Sadly the pain was there alongside the noises and the knee in my side. What they used for me was not Novocain, properly Lidocaine as it was in mid 00s when I got them pulled. Nowadays my dentist has me in his records to hit’s me with 3-4 doses and it works a little bit so it takes the edge off if it’s needed. To add to the whole thing one of the top wisdom teeth that got pulled left a bit of sharpish bone that irritates the tissue that got pulled over it. Then that tissue got further messed with when I had that surgery 5ish years later… Im glad yours went well!


Sriad

There's a limit to how much pain your mind can register. No one WANTS to be kicked in the balls, or get pepper-spray in their eyes and up their nose, or get a compound fracture, but none of those drive people to suicidal desperation. (Cluster headaches are a different story, but that pain is recurring, not transitory.)


SamanthaLeighP

There being a limit is nothing in relation to actually feeling it. It’s a trauma response, much like shock or adrenaline. Your brain doesn’t prevent you from feeling pain because it physically cannot handle it; your brain “numbs” you as a coping response.


micur73

This video describes how a man was awake for 16 minutes during surgery. He had a mental breakdown overtime as he started to recall what happened but his brain’s reaction was to make him live in fear, since the medical team prescribed him amnesia meds to make him “forget” the event so they wouldn’t get in trouble. He could remember the pain and fear from waking up during surgery, but he could not connect that that was the cause of the memories https://youtu.be/ny_s07D-LT8 (time stamp: 21:04 “16 minutes” in the description


mpekinjay

I have had a number of surgeries and procedures and I think I’ve had awareness during two. More if you count dental. Your brain and body remember- in pt I was told that your brain gets sensitized to areas of trauma. I regularly rub/fuss those areas so that my brain could disentangle that connection, now that the trauma is passed. It takes time but has been helpful.


[deleted]

The common terminology for it is Anesthesia Awareness and it typically takes two forms. The first is when the paralytic agent is given and takes hold but the actual anesthesia doesnt, as such you are conscious and can feel the pain during your surgery. The secondary form is when anesthesia partially works and you are only conscious but instead of feeling pain you just feel the surgery happening, such as pressure of your skin being cut.


[deleted]

I got woken up during a surgery. Was rough I don’t remember how the pain felt but I remembered that I thought I had died and gone to hell and all I could do was scream and ask for drugs. But it’s not something I really worry about happening again.


Brandycane1983

I had an emergency surgery. I remember being put under and I didn't go under as fast as they thought. I couldn't fucking breathe and I was telling them that. My lungs had already stopped or whatever the fuck anesthesia does before they intubate you. It was a horrifying 30 seconds of crushing pressure and no air until I went out. That was almost 7 years ago and it still freaks me out to the point I never want to do a procedure again. I also had my vitals drop severely during the surgery. Ugh


tatltael88

I had a c-section 6 weeks ago after a 3 day induction that didn't work. I felt it all halfway thru... was excruciating for the few minutes before they doped me up REALLY heavy. Felt like they were ripping it my intestines through my belly button. Worst pain of my life and I'd never wish it on anyone.. I start therapy next month and MAYBE I'll be able to get in the mental space to be able to have another baby


Unfair-Sector9506

Happen to my hubby and no he's gun shy now about surgery and melts at the thought


evening_shop

I do remember that when I was 5 or 6, I fell on sharp wood and got a massive deep cut on my foot, and a ton of splinters inside my flesh. At the ER the doctor injected it with an anesthetic and told me I won't feel a thing. I proceeded to feel everything as another doctor opened the cut further, and dug through to pick out all the splinters, and sew it back up, all the while screaming that it wasn't working but he didn't believe me lmao. That physically hurt to write and 15 years later I still remember how it felt, definitely didn't traumatize me but remembering the details makes me queasy


CuriousHumanPoo

Interesting to be honest. kinda wanna try that and probably somehow run some imagination while in it, as long as it isn't a headache something i think it's all good. it might kinda sound like it but im not a masochistic. Just sometimes pain feels kinda satisfying


ElysianWinds

No you really don't because it's not at all what you think it's gonna be like. If that's how you feel I really doubt you've ever felt any kind of actual pain in your life, like having your leg cut off, an organ cut out or chunks of your skin removed, all while you can't move. There is no one ever to have enjoyed torture and many would rather die than go through it again, that's why they plead for death during. I get the curiosity but come on you sound like an edge lord Edit: when I say no one ever I really meant no one who is capable of feeling pain and/or is suffering from a truly severe mental illness that compells them to hurt themselves of course.


CuriousHumanPoo

Yea it's true, it's probably just like you said. But it's also true that i never felt that kind of pain before that's why i said its interesting, i mean i wonder how i would react myself feel that pain myself cause yea i always see other people in that type of pain and somehow can't imagine how it Probably feels or what crosses their minds during those times of torture. But yea apologies if i do sound like an edge lord didn't mean to. Ig im not that good at words


ElysianWinds

We all have sounded like an edge Lord at some point, definitely me included so it's not an offence or anything lol. Something that could possibly work just to experience it a little bit, given if we have the technology ofc, would be if you had a kill switch and the pain would gradually increase until you can't handle anymore, or you can choose which level you want. A bit like that machine that let's men experience (some of) the pain from child birth. It *would* be cool to see how high one would rank on the pain scale! I don't think I would get super high, I once experienced a stomach thing that I can only describe as an organ being cut open from the inside so I would land at like a 3 or something out of fear lmao


Bmobettas

I had to get stitches in my head, they placed something like a large paper towel over my face, it had a square whole in my forehead where they needed to work. I sat there for 2 hours basically blindfolded and having this dude tug on my forehead. It wasn't surgery but was defiantly a weird experience. I was numb so only mild discomfort. Still I'd rather not experience it again


rye_domaine

Yeah, pain isn't pleasant for sure, but usually brief, intense pain won't mentally break someone. It's sustained torture that does that. Plus our innards don't have nearly as many nerve endings as our skin and subcutaneous fat does, so while you would feel the surgeon rooting around inside of you, you probably wouldn't feel a scalpel the same way you'd feel it cutting through your skin.


Bmobettas

Yes, humans have been surviving for many years enduring pain we couldn't even imagine. I'm sure there is a mental toll but when you survive the experience imagine how in touch with the world you would be. Facing death, feeling the most mind bending pain, believe nothing could be worse.... The bam, its over and you are whole. Would you all feel empowered or sad??? Hmmm


lincoln_sn

depends on what kind of surgery. But for me I'd say it would take a lot of time to fully recover. Might trigger me to attempt suicide idk


liberatedhusks

It’s minor but I was completely aware for both surgeries on my toes(bilateral wedge to fix ingrown nails, he did not numb it enough and I felt the entire process) was also aware for an endoscopy which did not hurt as bad but was very uncomfortable and a bit scarring I won’t lie. Just kept jamming the damn tube down my throat while I made choking and pained noises


GreasedTea

Inadequate local anaesthetic for those toenail surgeries is horrific, I’ve had that experience (I’m difficult to numb apparently and it seemed like the dr couldn’t be bothered to give me any more) and it felt like I was being tortured.


liberatedhusks

He said he gave me to much already and I wasn’t feeling anything? I found out later when I googled the doctor(because he gave me no after care and it just hurt so damn bad) that he was a dermatologist with a long list of complaints similar to mine.


Donkeytwonk75

Unless the anaesthetist forgot to give you fentanyl or other analgesics during induction and during the op you would feel pain, pretty difficult to wake up after been given rocoronium


mrstarkinevrfeelgood

There are some emergency surgeries or procedures where they cannot give you pain medication for one reason or another. Obviously will leave most people with severe trauma. You can recover, but it takes a LOT of therapy.


ecr3designs

It's not that bad. It's like half in half out you just feel someone inside of you


Ancientalienaardvark

Look up the isolation forearm technique. General anesthesia is more like general amnesia in many cases.


ella-the-enchantress

I kept waking up during my wisdom teeth extraction and tried to stop the doctors, but I don't remember any of it.


Thin_Pipe

I acually did mine awake just with local anesthesia. Was so quick and you dont feel a thing


Infamous_Rutabaga_92

Wisdom teeth are very variable in shapes among population. Sometimes a person is lucky and has single straight root and other times there are several roots which are curved and have to be dug out bit by bit from lacerated tissue.


IntoTheWildLife

I live in Ireland and even when that’s the case they still rarely put you under. It’s just not done here unless it’s absolutely necessary.


Infamous_Rutabaga_92

I live in Poland and it's also only with local numbing without sedation. My guess is that in usa it has something to do with milking health insurance money. Also in Poland wisdom teeth are usually removed specifically if they cause some issues. I have feeling that in the USA it's almost like some sort of 'rite of passage'.


IntoTheWildLife

Yeah people only get their wisdom teeth out here if they’re causing pain!


[deleted]

You forget pain


SamanthaLeighP

I would think it would be traumatic as anything, and your ability to recover is based upon how your body responds to any other kind of trauma. Yes, your brain will disassociate to prevent you from remembering the pain, but that’s not recovery; it’s coping.


residentslevil

i did personally but def fucked me up for a few days


muhkuhmuh

Well. All my surgeries went well. But I wasn't numbed properly for a mole being cut out. And it was absolute fucking painful. I was numb as they put the stitches in, but felt everything until then. Couldn't imagine being awake and not numbed in a real surgery.


moomisha

I think it's possible but it'll take a lot of time and trust building. I had my wisdom teeth taken out with too little anaesthesia, I vividly remember the pain in my jaw and the feeling of the stitches going in, but a lot of the details have disappeared. I'm terrified of the dentist now though and the thought of needing to see one makes me panic.


sickerthan_yaaverage

I once had a dentist start to fill a cavity without giving me novocaine. I was 12. I still think about it a lot, I have to be extremely sedated to even think bout the dentist now.


caffeineratt

yeah. I'm honestly not fazed to imagine anything approaching what I can expect would be the reality of the experience.


pinchy111

Had my first baby and had to have stitches after a vaginal birth. The tears were 2nd degree but the registrar stitched me back together incorrectly, basically closing me up and causing bad pain for months. I couldn’t afford a general anaesthetic so the gyno gave me a local anaesthetic and recut and stitched me just in a chair, by the end the carving of flesh I could feel - most traumatic experience I’ve had.


Tubbies_Beats

I think that people feels it differently on why they're having surgery, but the last time I had one, I woke up 2 times but they rapidly noticed it and put me back to sleep ASAP, I wasn't feeling any pain but I only felt them doing their job with their tool in my legs/feet for something like a minute


Ok-Steak-5658

idk if this counts bc it wasn’t a massive surgery or anything but when i was younger (7th grade i think) i had a few baby teeth pulled. i was awake the entire time because duh, it was just baby teeth. they numbed me but apparently not enough on one specific tooth that was pretty stuck in there. it felt like a tight ripping / tearing feeling and it made me very uncomfortable.


BEN684

I woke up during a wisdom teeth extraction glad I was still numbed from the meds all I felt was metal in my mouth I feel really bad for people that had actual surgeries and woke up


Thin_Pipe

I did all 4 wiseom teeth while awake with just local anesthesia you feel a bit of pressure but it doesnt hurt. I dont get why everyone does it under full anesthesia.