Being put under anesthesia is the closest feeling to death you can get

[PowerRanger]

I believe death is the exact same thing as when you are put out in hosptial....nothingness.

Same as if you have ever been knocked out by a punch..'you' are switched off and its just your body lying there..except its forever

[BlotterBrah]

I've only been under anesthesia once when I had surgery on my knee, woke up with a different pair of undies on srs. I was loving the morphine as well, pretty sure I told one of the nurses I was in love with her.

[TrotonKat]

yeah dude that was the weird part for me too, its not like sleep where you still know you exist or what not. like you seriously arent fkin there under anaesthesia its the strangest thing. definitely not a fun feeling waking up out of that thats fo sho

You are also not aware of being a sleep for the whole 6 or 8 hours of sleep. Even when people dream during the night there will be a point during sleep that you will just disappear, reality will no longer exist inside your conscious mind and it will be like being put under for surgery. Just everyone freaks out about being put under for surgery because it knocks you out straight away there is none of this fading away slowly.

[anonymous]

[Jasonw1178]

We all know this. When someone dies, we all know they are gone. They don't exist anymore. We feel more for their family, not the one who died. All this "they went to heaven" or dreams of things in an afterlife is to biggest cope of humanity. People kill themselves because the pain of existence is so great they would rather not exist.

I'm not going to rule out spirituality, and that we don't go somewhere after we die, BUT just hard scientific truth of what we do know.

[dizzin9]

Wonder if anybody woke up in the middle of a brain or heart surgery?

[BowlingWizard]

Wonder if anybody woke up in the middle of a brain or heart surgery?

Saw this article a while back, very interesting read:
https://www.sciencedaily.com/release...0911132802.htm

[r0bo]

http://www.radiolab.org/story/anesthesia/

[vik66]

Wonder if anybody woke up in the middle of a brain or heart surgery?

Ok so there are 3 basics of putting someone under for a procedure

Amnesia
Anesthesia
Paralyssis

********, propofol, and versed usually cover these basics. If you remember anything or feel any pain during a procedure it was because your CRNA/anestheiologist was probably not doing their job correctly. They most likely were not vital signs and pushing drugs correctly. IE- patient has a spike in heart rate- means they are probably feeling some pain, so lets give more ********...etc...patient is moving....lets give more propofol...etc etc

Med student on my anesthesia rotation. I AM AWARE

[Diabolous]

when i was in hospital they said count to 10 and you will be asleep after counting I was still awake and had a panic attack they had to put me under gas to get me to calm down

Lmao, hooray for you, blessed are the meek my friend! I needed that lol tonight ..

[VinBin]

For the record, "brain activity" (as mentioned in the initial post) does not cease when you are under anesthesia generally. Only in very specific cases is there an attempt to cause a near "flat" EEG.

As vik mentioned above, those three medications are used, but the most commonly used agent to maintain anesthesia are inhaled agents (commonly called gases) such as sevoflurane or isoflurane.

Awareness under anesthesia is cool to talk about but is exceedingly rare, and generally due to some genetic variation in a given individual who metabolizes medications differently or in emergency cases when things move quickly. It is more commonly a misunderstanding in patients who are under sedation (for minor procedures) and not "general anesthesia", and they remember people speaking around them when they are in a sedated state.

[LisaSkinnoble]

I just fell asleep. If that's what dying is like, that's not so bad.

A friend of mine with two kids aged 8 and 7 went in for surgery and just before they put her out they asked her if she had any concerns. She said "Hell no, this is the first uninterrupted sleep I've had in 8 years!"

[SazabiBrah]

I just fell asleep. If that's what dying is like, that's not so bad.

A friend of mine with two kids aged 8 and 7 went in for surgery and just before they put her out they asked her if she had any concerns. She said "Hell no, this is the first uninterrupted sleep I've had in 8 years!"

This, had my first surgery last year... it just felt like going to sleep

[reallyweak]

All i remember from when i had surgery on the tendons in my pinky 2 months ago was them sticking a fuking 3inch needle into my arm and then what felt like fire in my veins, i close my eyes then 5 seconds later i'm in the recovery room.