• Sciaphobia@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      19·
      5 days ago

      It kinda does, doesn’t it? It was a military dentist though, and I wasn’t going to be able to refuse whatever they were going to give me, so I believe they told me the truth.

      I did threaten to bite them if I was awake enough to remember to do so though, so maybe the IV bag got an extra squeeze!

    • partial_accumen@lemmy.world
      6·
      5 days ago

      That doesn’t match my personal experience with propofol. The “going out” was pretty quick or the memory of it cut short, but the “coming back” was not quick at all.

      When I woke up in the recovery room I had awareness first, but couldn’t control my body at all, not even able to open my eyes, but I could hear things in the room. Then I remember having coherent thoughts, but everything was in slow motion like my cognition was swimming in molasses. As I tried to see what I had motor control off, learned later I was verbalizing all of these thoughts and was semi audible as I tried to talk. It took probably 15 minutes before I had motor control and could speak clearly enough to be understood. It wasn’t a horrible or fearful experience, but wouldn’t call it pleasant either.

      • ryannathans@aussie.zoneEnglish
        3·
        4 days ago

        That might have been a cocktail depending on what you had done, or they didn’t give you oxygen during recovery while your respiration was still depressed

        • partial_accumen@lemmy.world
          1·
          4 days ago

          I was given oxygen during the procedure as well as in recovery, but to your other point they could have given me something else too when I was under.

          • LH0ezVT@sh.itjust.works
            3·
            4 days ago

            Probably some paralyzing agent, to stop you from twitching and moving while they worked. And probably a tiny miscalculation, or maybe even intentionally to avoid you doing something stupid before your rational brain was done rebooting.

      • MinnesotaGoddam@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        4 days ago

        i’ve had way too many surgeries. my favorite waking up apparently i was trying to lead the recovery room in a singalong

        the song’s chorus goes “I hope you die, I hope we both die” so i’m really curious how far into it i got

      • dreamkeeper@literature.cafe
        1·
        4 days ago

        Interesting. I’ve had propofol twice and both times it was basically instantaneous. Get injected, close my eyes, next thing I know I’m opening them and saying wtf to the nurse.