this post was submitted on 21 Aug 2023
156 points (97.0% liked)

Asklemmy

44151 readers
1216 users here now

A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions

Search asklemmy 🔍

If your post meets the following criteria, it's welcome here!

  1. Open-ended question
  2. Not offensive: at this point, we do not have the bandwidth to moderate overtly political discussions. Assume best intent and be excellent to each other.
  3. Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below
  4. Not ad nauseam inducing: please make sure it is a question that would be new to most members
  5. An actual topic of discussion

Looking for support?

Looking for a community?

~Icon~ ~by~ ~@Double_[email protected]~

founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
 

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.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ah yes, I also remember having a sore throat after, but I don’t recall them telling me beforehand that they would intubate me.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't think you can have general without intubation. To protect against aspiration or something, if not actually to breathe for you.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah that makes sense. It wasn’t something I had considered before the op.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Isn't it because they paralyse you and your lungs stop working?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I don’t know the answer to that.