I would never have anesthesia unlesd it was life or death. We dont know how anaesthesia works & we dont know how consciousness works. So I call total bs to anyone who says we know anesthesia isnt death, a new person in the same body with the same memory & feelings.
When I was 19 I had my first open heart surgery to get my Aortic and Mitral valves replaced. I remember counting down from 10 and everything went black when I hit 7. The next thing I was aware of was hearing my surgeon talking with the nurses and my dad. For the briefest of moments I was relieved b/c the surgery must be over if my dad was in the same room as me. But then I noticed that I couldn't move my arms, legs, and I couldn't open my eyes. I never felt so much terror in my life. I tried to scream as loud as I could to get my dad's attention but nothing came out. But for whatever reason, I could wiggle my toes. So I started thrashing my toes for what felt like an eternity before a nurse noticed my feet and alerted my surgeon. He asked me if I could understand their conversation and I wiggled my toes twice for yes and once for no. He asked if I wanted my dad to be next to me, and I wiggled my toes twice and my dad came to my side and held my hand. I couldn't move my hand, but I could feel his hand on mine. The surgeon told me there was a complication with the surgery, that there was excessive bleeding behind my heart that delayed most of the surgery. So the surgeon decided to hold off on the rest of the surgery until the next day, so he put a semi-transparent acrylic shell over the wound in my chest to protect me until the next day. The doctors then gave me more anesthetics and I went unconscious again. After the entire surgery my brother told me that what I remembered actually happened and he even saw my beating heart through the acrylic shell. So yeah, that's my anesthesia story. Other than that, everything went perfectly.
As an anesthesiologist, I found this video to be highly accurate and informative. One thing I would add is that we use intravenous drugs to ensure paralysis - making surgical retraction and exposure easier. If the effect of those drugs outlasts the intravenous or inhaled anesthetic agent (e..g. the gas vaporizer runs dry or the propofol pump malfunctions), that's when you have a situation where consciousness returns but muscles remain paralyzed. In the absence of those paralytic agents, involuntary or voluntary movement usually precedes return of full consciousness.
This makes me curious. In my case, when I regain awareness during a procedure, I'm not paralyzed at all (barring a nerve block). No one seems to have noticed any movements before the screaming starts (without the nerve block). With the nerve block, I've learned that surgeons don't like bored chatty patients.
Sounds like a more horrible version of sleep paralysis. I have experienced it twice, once a couple months ago, and it was the most terrifying thing I've ever experienced. I hadnt been sleeping well, I woke up and was completely paralyzed. No hallucinations thankfully, but I thought I had had a stroke or something. I tried screaming for my wife, I tried moving and shaking the bed, all that came out was wierd breathy groans. I was trying to scream as hard as I could "HELP ME!!!" because my wife was in the other room watching tv and I needed help! And not only was the situation terrifying on it's own, there was this raw pure feeling of terror as if whatever neurotransmitter that causes terror were dumped into my brain synapses. Then it just...stopped. I was so shaken up though. I was in a daze all day and when I told my wife about it later that day I was overcome with emotion and just couldnt help but cry. And I knew it was silly, but it was like a minor acute PTSD or something. But what a wierd experience.
I should have been an anesthesiologist. If I didnt go for my dream of being a fighter pilot (and achieving it!) I would want to be an anesthesiologist. Sure would get paid more...
That picture you showed when you were talking about old timey surgery reminds me of that one case where a doctor performed an amputation. He amputated a leg. He went for the speed record and did it in like 30 seconds or so. He was so fast he also amputated several fingers of his assistant. The patient died from sepsis. So did the assistant. And one person in the audience died of shock. So this was the only medical procedure with a 300% mortality rate.
if I recall properly, the guy was the fastes surgeon back then, he even did amputation in like 4 seconds. I don't remember his name, but yeah, 300% mortality rate should be in Guiness Book
@@aneasteregg8171 My theory is that he was a timetravelling gamer and he was going for the killstreak to call down a recon drone since it was so dark in that room. Old habits die hard.
I had an abscess on my rear drained a few years ago. I was lying there chatting with the nurse as she administered the anesthetic (propofol). After a few minutes of chatting I asked when the doctor would be in. She laughed and said "oh, he's come and already drained the abscess". From my perspective I had an uninterrupted conversation with that nurse. I didn't feel a thing, I don't remember a thing. Absolutely amazing experience.
I had one 8 years ago in the same place, they never gave me anesthesia so i felt every thing. Long story short, i never pick at a scab or pimple i cant see
I had the same experience with a cardiac catheterization. I was allowed to watch the procedure on a monitor. I asked the doctor when he was going to start, and he told me he'd just finished. I technically didn't miss it, i just didn't remember it.
I had Propafol during my "50-year inauguration" (I'll leave it to you to figure this out...). It was the BEST 45 minutes of sleep I had in literally YEARS! I can see why Michael Jackson had an issue with it...
Anesthesiologists still can prescribe and use cocaine for - no joke - nasal procedures as a numbing medicine. They can write the Rx and it is in the pharmacy's tool box. What they will not do is bring it home to their husbands.
@@JRAPHAEL0 In 2010 70% of doctors were male, and 2017 was the first time more women enrolled in medical school than men. Bring it home to their wives would be more accurate if you're going to say it that way.
Back in 1990, my ENT Dr used cocaine on me when he had to insert a steel tube with a camera on it into my nose. He was trying to make a teaching video of my paralyzed vocal chords. He forced me to return the next day to redo it, but I showed him! One of my vocal chords moved!
During my 30 years of giving anesthesia I've had several cases of recall under anesthesia. The worst cases are those where there is severe pain remembered and can cause PTSD. Thankfully my caese were only memory without pain. Ive had many more examples of patients telling me they were awake during surgery. I carefully ask them to describe exactly what they remember. Most times they describe situations that did not happen or were not possible during surgery. Some describe seeing another person the next bed over being operated on - this is usually a blurry memory of waking up in recovery room. Others say they remember watching the surgeon operate on them during a major surgery. In fact we tape your eyes shut to prevent accidentally brushing you eye lid open with our hand or coat sleeve causine a scratch on your eye. That happens quite easily so we take that precaution. There are also larger drapes that cover your entire body drurung major surgery. If you were awake on your back and looked up all you would.be able to see is that blue cover in front of your face. Perhaps those patients have bits of memory of waking up in the operating room after surgery - we try to get most everyone somewhat awake there where it is safest do do so. And some peoples stories seem to be entire fiction made up for some unknown reason but they absolutely believe it. Perhaps these people put a series of memories and their fears and splice them together to make a movie like memory that never really happened. The brain is far to complex to know how it works.
@@Mohatheking19 Hello. It would be best if you spent a month doing an anesthesia rotation. I was a general surgery resident for 2 years with a guaranteed 5 year slot. I just wasn't thriving as a surgeon and couldn't see myself doing it the rest of my career. I looked at other options in surgery but they all told me that if I couldn't cut it in general surgery they wouldn't want me in urology or ophthalmology.... I liked the operating room environment and hated being in an office setting seeing patient after patient and ordering tests and prescribing pills. Fortunately I did do one month with an anesthesiologist and thought it was interesting. PROS - in residency they didn't treat us like slaves the way the surgery attendings did. A tired anesthesiologist is going to make mistakes. We were not over worked. I know these days you guys will not be abused the way we were.n We would always have the day after call completely off. Call was every 4 to 5 days too. We had a couple of residents on call at the same time and a couple of nurse anesthetist students also on call so if it wasn't too busy we got a lot of sleep. I had time to study during anesthesia residency but not when I did surgery. Anesthesia gives you immediate feedback. An internist prescribes meds and them sees the patients back to see if they are working. In anesthesia we see immediately if they are working. Real time monitoring. You learn how to adjust when they don't give the desired effect. There are lots of anesthetic techniques and procedures to learn. Using your hands is something we do every day. Airway management is crucial to being good at the job. Sometimes it is very challenging and stressful. We used to put in lots of central lines but those days have passed. Now we do tons of ultrasound guided nerve blocks which are extremely fun and rewarding. spinals and epidurals are part of the game too. The patients respect you too. That is important. The surgeons can be less than appreciative aholes and if there is a problem they are well known to blame anesthesia. I worked moistly at a small community facility and was respected. The large facilities are more like production plants where you are just part of the operating room. Nowadays most everybody works in a group. A good group takes care of each other. Plenty of breaks and for lunch. Not all are that way. You take care of people from pre-op until they roll out the door or go to a room. Post operative pain management with nerve blocks or epidurals is fun. In s practices you supervise nurse anesthetists. Some like to specialize in chronic pain management and not do operating room work. We are truly critical care docs. Some do ICU work only or combine O.R. work and ICU patient management. I did just O.R. work and seldom helped our ICU and E.R. docs when they were in a bind. CONS: Lack of respect by the surgeons and sometimes are pushed to get the cases moving faster and faster - time is money. Being an employee. Some anesthesia providers work for someone who takes more than a fair share of the revenue you bring into the practice. It can be stressful. Sometimes things go bad very fast. You will likely kill someone even though what you did was completely acceptable treatment. It stays with you for a long time. Some times you don't know what to do. Learn to look like you are in control when your brain is clueless. Strange things happen out of nowhere and you make it up as you go. Sometimes you get involved in some pretty gross cases. Horrible injuries, bad smells, infectious cases (like Covid 19). One day they may rush a child into your operating room who is essentially dead. Could you handle that? You have too keep some people alive when the surgeon can't control the bleeding. What a nightmare giving multiple units of blood as fast as possible over and over.. You have to be pretty smart and know a lot about internal medicine and how various diseases can effect your anesthesia. Knowing how to stay out of trouble is the best skill you can ever learn. It really helps to be fairly strong and mechanically inclined. I worked in a small practice many years. I was the only anesthesia doc in the building many times. Nurse anesthetists are usually pretty good but when the shit hits the fan you are it. No other doc can bail you out. Operating rooms can be cold dark and boring. If you are doing it right it can be boring. Some operations /procedures can last an entire work day or longer. They teach you one step at a time. I recommend a large or medium size group practice after residency so you can still learn from the experienced ones. Spending time with the patients can be very fun. Explaining in detail when needed. Holding hands at other times. Learn to gain their confidence and then deliver exceptional care. Any other questions???
The last surgery I had whenI was a kid, something happened and when I tried to talk to the doctors and nurses about it they freaked out. And when I told them about what I remembered, they looked pale and refused to answer any questions. To add they were supposed to do a procedure to stretch a tube and decided after they put me under not to do the procedure for a not really specified reason. I have had problems with going to sleep since then 🤔
When I was 14 I had just broken my arm. Not the kind of broken where you go to the doctors and see if it is actually broke. My wrist was dangling and I had to hold it in place with my other hand while driving to the emergency room. It took about 30 minutes to finally get in for surgery, and by then it had felt like an eternity. I never was asked to count back or anything, all I can remember is waking up with a foggy view and a bunch of silhouettes standing over me. I couldn't move or hear anything. I only remember trying to look all around the room and then one of those silhouettes came over towards me and everything went black again. Everything is fine with my arm now, I did type this whole thing with it after all.
16:00 Actually you *CAN* tell them you are awake. You can't tell them in words, but you are still responding to the pain. Your heart rate and blood pressure go up, and it is something your anesthesiologist is suppose to watch for. If they are good, they will see you are waking up, adjust the drugs and put you back under before you wake up. If they are not paying attention then you wake up and you can tell the surgeon the joke he told while he was breaking your bones. Then watch his or her face turn grey. If you need to have surgery ask your anesthesiologist what they like to read during surgery. If they say anything other than "I don't have time to read during surgery" get a different anesthesiologist.
I once had to get a broken finger tip shortened due to an infection. Before the surgery all I could think of was that movie Awake where Hayden Christensen wakes up while having a heart transplant. Fortunately, my experience was more like blinking and teleporting from the OR to the recovery room. Unfortunately, the pain when the nerve block eventually wore off while I was at home that night was by far the worst pain of my life.
I had a wisdom tooth form on an angle and it broke. They had to put me under but my tolerance is extreme so they added gravol intravenously. When the dentist put the tool into my mouth to knock it out of position for extraction, I tasted the metal. I woke up the moment he popped it. Thankfully, I live in this modern medical world. Otherwise, that tooth would have killed me.
Horse fell on me when I was 12. Shattered my pelvis, crushed 3 vertebrae and ruptured my bladder. Pain has lasted on and off my lifetime. I am thankful I have been as mobile as I have been. Proud mom and grandma against all odds. Kidney stones weren't pleasant but nothing compared to my first couple physical therapy sessions.
I hear ya. I went to Physicians Neck and Back and ended up in so much pain I couldn't sleep all night and had to cancel the rest of my sessions. It felt so bad when they said I had failed but really it meant the treatment had failed.
I was completely incinerated in a hydrogen bomb explosion, my head exploded, and my brains was raining down simultaneously in three different country's. Oh my lord, I know a thing or three about pain...
Leeanne Hicks I’m so sorry that happened to you, I fell of a horse when I was 10 broke two ribs and a toe lucky but I still feel pain from it, it didn’t heal properly... I can’t imagine how bad it was for you
My dad is one of those people who regains consciousness and memory formation but can't move. Absolutely terrifying hearing him recount the surgeries he's had where this happened
Thats how big it feels like when it passes thru. Mine was about 4mm, but felt like 200. Comparable to childbirth? Has to be (I'm a guy.) The pain comes in waves and all you can do is scream. Last time, my wide-eyed friend gave me a torodal (sp) and I passed out. Woke up a few hours later still shaking. 😨
That horrible situation where you are awake and aware but paralyzed happened to my uncle's brother for his open heart surgery. That is one of the scariest things I can think of. Absolute torture.
When my wife had eye surgery back in the '80s she got cocaine in the eyes and then a bottle of cocaine drops to use for a week. She was very happy that week!
I'm 62 years old. When I had my tonsils out at age 5 or 6 I was given ether. Back then, unlike today, most everyone had their tonsils removed. It was like a rite of passage. Mine were removed in the hospital ER. The doctor extracted a dipper of liquid ether from a mobile, double-walled, stainless steel, "thermos" jug on casters. He dribbled some of the liquid ether into a mask that he held over my mouth and nose and told me to count backwards from ten. I don't remember making it to one. I do remember seeing a rotating spiral a Ia the old TV show "The time tunnel". I woke up later and didn't even have a sore throat everybody said I'd have. Although I was able to have all the ice cream I wanted like everybody told me I could have afterwards.
When I was young, I had a condition where the corners of my toenails were growing in a way that caused them to pierce the skin and grow beneath it. This had gone on for a year or so before I was taken to the hospital to get it checked. At that point, my toe was messed up, severely infected and was bleeding constantly. I remember I was in seventh grade, I couldn't play with the other kids because walking alone was painful, and running was out of the question. I would go home every day to find my socks soaked in blood. While all of that was painful on its own, it was nothing compared to the day I was taken to the hospital to "get it checked". I remember the doctor taking one look at my foot and saying "he needs a surgery. but it's pretty simple, we can do it right now". I was taken to a dark underground surgery room. It was just me, my parents, and the doctor. As I was lying on my back, he took a big needle full of the anesthesia liquid, and he shoved it in the tip of my toe. The anesthesia didn't work, so he gave me a second shot...and a third...and a fourth. By the time he gave me the fourth one, I was begging him to stop. I was screaming the entire time; and when I lifted my head to look at my toe, it was swollen like a tennis ball. Due to the severe infection, the anesthesia didn't have an effect. The doctor told me to bite on something, and he told my parents to pin me down because "this is gonna hurt a bit". That's when he took out a surgical knife and a surgical pincer, and I realized what was about to happen. After what felt like an eternity of screaming in a twister of unimaginable pain that was running its course across my entire body, the doctor finally finished tearing through my flesh and shoving a pincer underneath my toenail and, at last, pulled it out. At that point, I looked at the two beds next to me, and I saw both of my parents passed out. One thing for sure, my tolerance for pain increased tenfold afterwards.
I had the same issue on both my big toes and it's not pretty in the slightest. Had a double wedge resection under local anaesthesia but the toenails grew back the same so I had to have it done again. The 2nd time it took a few attempts to numb the area, and since then I can still occasionally feel the pain of where the 2 needles went into the sides of each toe, exactly the same as during the procedure. Thankfully once it was numb I didn't have to go through the pain, however I could still feel the pressure of what the doctor was doing which is unsettling.
@@backalleycqc4790 I'm a carpenter...i'm good with pliers, but I'm not a dentist. So...there is more to it than that. Which was the entire point being made.
I woke up during a surgery to remove a mass in my stomach. I woke up feeling my abdomen like it was on fire! All I could do was cry, couldn't talk or scream. I could feel him literally cutting me open from the navel down.The anesthesiologist realizes I'm not out and she told the doctor to stop that I was awake. I remember the doctor flipping out saying I should be out, next thing I know is the mask for the laughing gas go over my face then I went back out. That's all I remember. The doctor came in my room to ask me if I remember anything during the surgery. I told him about the feeling of being on fire and pressure across my legs. He apologized saying that they didn't give me enough anesthesia. The anesthesiologist came into my room then and apologized. It took 11 hrs to do my surgery. To this day I can still remember how bad I hurt. I absolutely love your videos! They are so well thought out and all the research you do is truly a top notch channel. Thank you!😊💯
@@HimanshuSharma-oy9ss I agree with you 💯% Its been over 20 years ago. I've had a few surgeries since then, but it by far was the worst. I had a mass of adhesions in my intestines. That's why it took so long. I hope no one ever has to go through what I have been though. Be safe eveyone!
Its very unsettling to hear of someone going through such a pain in such a way!. I can sympathize with you for staying strong through this long battle.Glad to hear you're okay now. More power to you 💪. And for me personally , its inspiring to see that you forgave those oblivious Doctors. I mean accidents happen sometimes but this was a case of pure negligence shown by them and could have been easily prevented with some vigilance. It was nice talking to you 😊. Stay safe.
@@HimanshuSharma-oy9ss Thank you so much for your kind words. I really have enjoyed this interaction with you. You are very kind. You are a breath of fresh air. Keep yourself safe. Bless you!😊
I've woken up during shoulder surgery. I remember looking around and made eye contact with the surgeon and then I was out again. But I felt no pain. I can tell you I have severe sleep paralysis and that is basically like laying there fully conscious and fully aware but unable to move.
Yeah I also have pretty frequent episodes of sleep paralysis, especially if I lay on my back. Sometimes I’ll be so tired that I roll over onto to make and then fall asleep again, only to wake up gasping for hour a few minutes later. It was scary the first few times it happened, but after a while you do just get used to it. One time I was able to open my eyes enough to see shadow figures dancing around my room, I woke up when it got to the foot of my bed and touched my foot 😂
I used to have sleep paralysis several times a year. Now it's once every few years. I discovered an easy way to end it.. well 2 really. 1) Realize that there's nothing wrong, that the body ALWAYS paralyses itself when you go to sleep. That you just regained consciousness and opened your eyes for some reason while it is still paralyzed. That there is really no evil creature coming to get you and just got back to sleep without even trying to move. --That is what I'll do most of the time now. or 2) Realize the above and just lay there enjoying the sense of utter relaxation (Because that is what it IS, all your muscles are utterly relaxed) and then fall back asleep. OR, if I say feel like I have to go pee or want to move into another position: 3) Realize the above in #1 and instead of going back to sleep, gently and patiently try to wiggle my toes or a finger(s). It always unparallelizes my body in milliseconds and I'm quickly able to move everything. Then slowly get up to go pee or roll over and go back to sleep. ...and I DO mean get up slowly. I've almost fallen getting up after sleep paralysis because the mind body coordination connection isn't that great still. I think learning how to unparallelize my body helped lower the instances of it happening in the first place. If you want some REAL fun, learn how to get the body into a deep deep state of relaxation while conscious so the body also is paralyzed. I've almost been able to do it with my hands and lower arms. They get to the point where they feel "asleep" (Not the same as blood circulation cut off, but just... not "there" kinda.) I'm trying to learn how to extend it through my whole body. ..but I'm weird. I'm also conscious frequently after my body is "asleep" when I'm going to sleep. I swear I can feel sensations in my arms, legs and torso etc shut off while I still can hear sounds around me. Then my hearing and awareness of surroundings go at the same time.. and I wake up hours later. It's apparently a thing you can learn with deep mediation. (And is actually VERY good for you apparently) I just naturally do it.. and sadly haven't been able to while meditating because it just makes me sleepy and want to go to sleep since I experience it frequently when falling asleep. My brain is like, "Oh hey!! The body and senses are SO relaxed, it must mean it's time to go to sleep!! Lets do that" and I lay down and go to sleep.
@@OgdenM I started actively practicing going into that state of meditation that you described where we feel separate from the body (especially the limbs). It’s not “numbness” per se but I get what you mean describing it that way… It’s a detachment from our perception (& sensations) of the body. When you detach from the body, it can feel somewhat like you’re floating at times & much like trying to learn to float the hardest part is that the way to get it is that you have to stop struggling, remain still & relax all of your muscles for it to work. I have been practicing because it can help with chronic pain. It doesn’t take it away the pain itself, rather, it helps us disconnect from the pain sensations & perceive it in a way in a way that we become separated from the pain so it becomes more tolerable.
When I cracked my kneecap for the second time in my life, I found out something that I had often wondered about, how much pain can a person endure without losing consciousness? I was working on an offshore drilling rig, and I had to get up to a raceway to run a wire, and to all the safety guys out there "yeah I know", without a harness or anything. So after climbing up about 15 feet, I slipped and fell on a large motor housing on my right knee and fell on the steel deck. During the time the pain rose up, all I could think was that the pain did not just hit a limit and remain there, it kept increasing, and mind you pulling a piece of shell embedded in the bottom of my infected foot with tweezers was really bad, but it ended when the shell came out, this just kept going, and going, finally it did plateau and diminish, but yes the body is capable of fully awake excruciating pain beyond which you would think you could handle. Another interesting topic is "shock". When you have injured yourself severely, enough times, you learn to stay calmer while enduring the pain, but many times, you cannot stop shock from taking over your body. When I sliced my wrist open with a piece of ceramic tile, I just kept pressure on it until I finished the few tiles I had left, but when I was leaving work for the day I looked at the wound and saw something white, and when I looked at the cut I realized what I was seeing was my tendon, and I could see the hollow region in the interior of my wrist. I was OK with that, but my brain freaked out anyway, and sent me into shock, so there I was with minimum pain, and totally calm, but in shock and about to pass out. Luckily the event passes in 10 minutes, but it is the strangest thing to have your body go into shock mode, while your brain says "It's Fine, I'm OK". So study "shock" and tell us about it.
So, about the "waking up during surgery" scenario: I had to get my appendix removed about 6 months ago. One of the listed side effects during anaesthesia was waking up during surgery. I of course asked about, and the anaesthetist calmed me and told me this was extremely rare but they would prevent that anyways. During preparation and shortly before anaesthesia they then put a headband on me with some electrodes. They told me they would monitor my brain activity to sense how "deep" into the anaesthesia I was. If I would get to deep there could be a risk of my heart stopping to beat, and if I was not deep enough I could wake up and have the scenario you described. So they would constantly adjust the medication to keep me at a constant level of unconsciousness.
That's cool! I was under the impression that there _still_ wasn't any way to tell if someone has woken up during surgery but, in hindsight, monitoring neural oscillations like that makes perfect sense!
I had knee surgery on Jan 2, 1971 for a basketball injury. Removed cartilage and tightened ligaments. I was in college and had habitually slept through my 8 am history class. I woke up in the recovery area just as the nurse was turned around to take off her paraphernalia and thought "Oh shit. I slept through history class again!!". I started to get up and wondered why the sheet was wrapped around my leg. The nurse was horrified and pushed me back on the cart. Later, as I spoke to the doctor who performed the surgery, I mentioned this. He said "That explains it". It seems that I did the same thing in the middle of the operation. I mumbled something and tried to get up off of the table. I am 6'6" and it took four people to hold me down while the anesthesiologist pumped more sleepy time into my whatever. Of course, due to exposure while I was in college, I had become much more resistant to the influence drugs and alcohol.
@@alcelaya1365 I had to fill out a form where I had to state if I had surgeries before and if they were more than x years ago, if I take drugs, how much alcohol I drink, how large and how heavy I am, if I had some allergies and some more stuff. That was shortly before the operation and was given to my by the nurse and the anaesthetist then took it and read it.
@@JanB1605 I had to have a fasciotomy for what is considered one of the most painful conditions known - compartment syndrome. Morphine and fentanyl have no effect on the pain. Before the truly horrendous operation the anesthetist asked all that and also whether I wore dentures or had expensive dental work done. Considering the pain I was in I found the question very odd but in retrospect I know the answer informs him how to intubate.
Ironically, the most painful experience I've ever had was having anaesthetic injected. I was having a tooth extracted but it snapped off at the gum, so the dentist had to do a surgical extraction. The root of the truth was being extremely stubborn and the anaesthetic didn't really take, so the dentist injected anaesthetic directly into the exposed nerve. It was the most intense and excruciating pain I have ever experienced. I was fully conscious throughout because dentists don't knock patients out in Australia, and this one wouldn't even give me nox to take the edge off.
I was "put under" because having large crazy tooth roots is a thing in my family. I woke up in the middle and didn't have pain, but I remember clearly the pressure and hearing the crunching and cranking of my huge 6 root wisdom tooth brake away from my jaw bone. No pain, but a clear memory. I think it's because the roots of that tooth were so deep they went into my soul.
Haven't had any wisdom teeth pulled yet and only have 1 thankfully. But I have had two front teeth pulled after one fractured and the other chipped off right up to the gum. The anesthetic injections weren't painful at all and awake during the whole thing, all I felt was the pressure of pushing and pulling on the tooth til it was free, the fractured one had actually started to abcess and the dentist even had to wiggle some little tool around in the hole to get the fragments out. Each tooth was a few years apart too so not just one procedure. I'm also in Australia
I've had tricky nerves that wouldn't deaden and I'd get shot after shot where the just sort of sprayed the meds around while the needle was deep into my jaw. That was fun pain.
It happened to me, on two different occasions when I was having an upper GI done. After the procedure when I was able to speak I told the doctor that I was awake and was trying to tell them to stop. He finally believed me when I recited the conversations he had with the nurses during the procedure. Interestingly the first time I had a double dose of anesthesia because I wasnt going under.
I have a friend that put some on his tooth for pain just a couple weeks ago. It was probably mostly something else though. Cocaine has very little cocaine in it these days.
Was about to have some oral work done, and one doctor gave me a pill to keep me conscious, but "I wouldn't remember a thing." That and some other aspects of the problem, I went my oral surgeon instead. He put me out. Kind of needed it, the work required getting very close to a nerve that could cause loss of sensation in my left bottom face forever if damaged. In fact, the second opinion oral surgeon's selling point after I told him what the other doctor wanted to do was just give me a pill to sedate me... his eyes got big and said "NO! I want you out!" Sold! You're doing my surgery!
@@jmitterii2 I had oral surgery with one of those "you won't remember anything" drugs. Sure enough, I don't remember a thing, but my husband does because he was in the waiting room and heard me screaming multiple times. Woke up and the dentist admitted my lower jaw went out of socket during the procedure, and then had to strap me down as I tried to grab my jaw. Apparently I also punched a nurse. My next oral surgery, I demanded general anesthesia.
I was having a vasectomy - when I learned that I’m resistant to local anesthetics. It took 17 injections in my testicles, feeling every damned bit, before the urologist gave up and just told me “I’ll hurry.”
Resistant to local anesthetic? I wonder how common that condition is. I suppose it's good you won't be passing that genetic variation on to future generations.
In both my surgeries I woke up and I remember everything, luckily I didn't feel anything. Before my knee surgery the anesthesiologist told me to countdown from 10 and that I would be out by 5 or 4, needless to say after making it to 0 my anesthesiologist looked as worried as me. Not as worried as when I woke up mid surgery stretching my arms and legs as I usually do when I wake up, pretty much botching the surgery (fun times) they managed to get me under again to finish the operation but it didn't turn out well. Got to say seeing my leg spread open is something I will never forget.
@@buzzthebuzzard5267 I had the same exact thing happen to me (other then botching the surgery) i had knee surgery at around 5-6 years old and i remember waking up half way through the operation. I only woke up for enough time to see what was going on and then immediately passing back out
I woke up from anesthesia while they were pulling out the scope that was down into my groin had about 6 inch to go I screamed felt every bit of it as they pulled it out and told me to stay still
@@TeamLegacyFTW I had ingrown toenails on three of my toes, don’t you dare underestimate the horrific pain that an ingrown toenail is, even without stubbing it.
Administering anesthetic solutions into the CSF or epidural space is called neuraxial anesthesia. And I am so happy about your describing general anesthesia. My life's work involves teaching persons that GENERAL ANESTHESIA IS NOT NATURAL SLEEP!!
The time when I was 6 year old and was playing with the door and the wind blew the door shut and chopped my index finger off. My mother had to pick the chopped off piece and take me to the hospital, they couldn't give me anesthesia, so they stiched it back together without it. They told us to wait for a few days and see if the finger turns blue or not, if it did, they would have to chop it off, luckily it didn't
I have 2 "most painful" events in my life. I was in elementary school on a field trip when all the sudden, it felt like my eardrums both got stabbed with a screwdriver. I remember falling down and screaming in pain and screaming and crying all the way to the hospital. Ended up needed tube put in my ears because I managed to have fluid behind my eardrums that caused a double ear infection. On a fun note to make matters worse, I woke up in the middle of them putting the tubes in. I was told it took 5 adults to hold me down before they put me back under. Woke up after the surgery and felt great. Needed the tubes in for awhile before going back in to have them removed. The second one was a few years back. I was in martial arts and am a hygiene freak. I was responsible for disinfecting the mats and all that shit. Well, for as much effort as I put in, a few people really had a habit of ruining it. Unfortunate for me, because I had to grapple with some of them. I don't know who it was, but I got a freaking staph infection on my shin. 1mm off the bone, blew up to the size of an egg in a couple of days. Rushed to the ER where you could see the buldge that was ready to erupt. They sedated me and removed and cleaned it, very well I might add, and there were a lot of exposed nerve endings. The pain of the infection felt like a hammer to the shin with every step. But. The first time they removed the antimicrobial ribbon from my shin in the hospital to clean my wound and change it out...I, a grown ass man and a black belt, had to gag myself with my shirt because I could not hold in my scream. It felt like someone took a chisel and started chipping away at my shin. Mind you, my bone is practically exposed due to the egg-sized hole in my leg. Another fun note, when I woke up in recovery after the procedure, I had a tube down my throat that they forgot to remove before I woke up. So I got to almost throw up as they pulled it out of me. God, I love hospitals. Good times.
Ah, your anesthesiologist did NOT "forget" to remove the endotracheal tube (that's the anesthesia term for the tube). Many times patients are escorted to the recovery room with an ETT to allow the patient to recover adequate function. Maybe there was a complication associated your lesion. Perhaps the anesthesiologist gave a dose of paralytic agent before the end of the case, and you haven't yet regained full muscle function; yes the respiratory system also has this type of muscle tissue. Without muscle function, you would not he able to breathe spontaneosly effectively, if at all.
My pain scale is so skewed because of the extreme pain(s) I've experienced. When i was 13 I had my first kidney stone (sister said hers was more painful than when she gave birth for reference) and it was a 4mm stone, literally the biggest thing that might be able to pass your ureters. Was waiting overnight to have surgery to have it removed and thankfully passed it. Then I had another one when I was 15 but was able to pass it, and I've had lots of little ones that are so small they don't even hurt. However within the past 2 years I've had 2 7mm kidney stones so bad they had to preform a surgery to physically remove it since it literally won't be able to pass at least not without major damage. The first 7mm one had at first been treated as a bladder infection with just antibiotics and that helped the pain a bit and then one day I woke up in so much pain that I was throwing up from it and literally couldn't take a sip of water without throwing up, it felt like I was dying and ended up throwing up so much I started throwing up bile. I went to the ER and waited 4 hours just to first get seen and get some tests and scans. Turned out my kidney had been backed up for so long I had an incredible infection and my kidney was about to burst so i was rushed into emergency surgery (still took 2 hours of waiting) and they couldn't even remove the stone right away cause it was so infected and they were worried about me getting sepsis if it burst so for 2 weeks I had to have a stent between my kidney and bladder to drain the infection then had to go into surgery again to remove the stone and had another stent put in for 1 more week and I could feel them the entire time and had terrible bladder spasms with it in. Then just 4 months ago I had to deal with the same thing (7mm stone and throwing up) plus went 28 hours without food or water bc ERs suck and I couldn't keep anything down and had to have surgery on the other kidney to remove the stone and then had to deal with another stent for 2 weeks. I had the same anesthesiologist for my kidney stone surgeries even at different hospitals. He said he knew who I was before he even came in the room because he read my chart and history and my 7mm stone stood out to him and he remembered. (I swear your best friend when going into surgery is the anesthesiologist, they are the one calming you and working with you, they tend to you at least some when you wake up so you have a familiar face, idk anesthesia makes me emotional so maybe its just that) And on top of all of that I have Fibromyalgia which means my nervous system overreacts and thinks non painful sensations are painful and amplifies pain as well as Ehlers Danslos Syndrome where none of my connective tissue works so my bones are constantly moving about at my joints in ways they shouldn't and I get partial dislocations and one of my shoulders is just forever dislocated/out of socket bc of the trauma it constantly coming out of socket did and the fact that my body is constantly getting little tears in my connective tissue so the fibromyalgia just compounds that to where I am constantly in severe pain and even with heavy duty pain meds I'm still in constant pain. Literally, being basically unconscious under general anesthesia is the most pain free and restful thing ever, because my brain/nervous system isn't perceiving and reacting to pain that doesn't have a cause (fibromyalgia) then my body isn't using energy to react (why fibromyalgia is also called chronic fatigue syndrome) and so I wake up with my body rested and for a while I'm completely pain free before it wears off completely.
People often talk about how human body is amazing and works wonders, but I think we often forget how awful life can be when it doesn't work. Experiences like what you described make me hope that one day we will be able to transplant our brains into artificial bodies.
I’m not going to lie. I think i would off myself if I constantly experienced this. You are strong. I used to have such painful periods id puke, lay in a pool of sweat, be incapable of walking, etc, but that is literally nothing compared to this. What tf.
@@catheriney6209 believe me the thought has crossed my mind many times but I have a good support system thankfully, but my life is pretty much a living hell. For example when I shower I have to worry about my shoulder partially dislocating and it often does but I can put it back in place just as easily
Well that sounds completely terrible. I also have chronic pain. But hearing ur story actually makes me not feel so bad. Dude, I hope it gets better for u..
Philip Hulme excuse me but did you just say “re” inflated. That means your eye was deflated??? I don’t want to bring up bad memories but care to elaborate?
@@Ben-Rogue This makes me wonder why we have such debilitating fear over needles in the eye and such. I have been told its absolutely painless if done right. So why do I turn away from horror movies that use it as a scare tactic, or have to consciously think of something else to keep myself from getting some horrifying nightmares. The imagination can be as much a curse as a boon.
Most painful experience? How does this stack up: I once had a seizure whilst lying front down on my bed. Soon came to unable to move either arm, and quickly realised both of my shoulders were dislocated. Ambulance was called cz I couldn't move (I'm disabled, walking is a no go), and the agony was so bad they carried me onto the stretcher inside my duvet that I was laying on cz they had no other way to lift/move me. Got to the emergency department about 4pm, but couldn't have strong pain relief because they were considering operating. So I lay there, two dislocated shoulders, until 7am the next morning. Later found out that in the dislocating of both shoulders I had also cracked my shoulder blades when they jolted backwards, oh and my foot was pulsing in agony cz I somehow must have whacked it mid-seizure too, so that was also fractured. Longest night of my life; and I didn't even mention the fact I vomited from the pain but had to lay near it all that time because they couldn't move me. At least I got a nice scar to remember it by.
I remember watching a documentary about a woman, who went in to have surgery but the Anastasia wore of like what you said, she could feel, and was aware of what was going on around her, but could not move, the pain was so bad that she actually, took two heart attacks from stress, and they decided to take her appendix out because they were already in that vicinity and thought we might as well take out the appendix, and I just thought to myself that was probably the most horrible thing you could imagine, not being able to move a fraction of a muscle and people, are just chopping you up horrible situation.
@@HaleKelsey1 listening to her in her comment and description of what she went through it sounded like and nightmare, she was totally awake but could not move she could feel everything, so much so that she had a heart attack unrelated to any for a reason for being in hospital in the first place, just out of shock and pain sounds horrifying.😰😨🤯😱🥵
@@jasonwade2277 yeah, people get ptsd from it, it scars them for life. I mean, hours and hours of surgery where you can feel everything but cannot move or speak out... it’s like sleep paralysis x3000
i think the most pain i’ve ever been in was either when my periods were so bad the pain made me pass out and stay up for 3 nights straight every month or when i had my kidney removed/kidney failure early this year at 18. i don’t really remember being put under though, they said they were going to push something into my iv but i don’t remember what they said it was and then i woke up in the recovery room. i do however remember half waking up in the first recovery room and being very confused and in pain. i only heard stuff like the nurses asking if i could hear them, was in pain and stuff like that but i’m assuming i knocked right back out haha
Falling off a 2 story roof onto concrete and having a grade 5 separation of my ac joint with every ligament torn to shreds comes to mind. However the most painful thing I've ever experienced was "leg cramps" in the middle of the night after running a half marathon for the first time and not hydrating enough. They started in my groin and went all the way to my toes. My toes we're even stuck pointed in every different way. Unlike normal leg cramps where you get relief when you straighten that muscle out nothing even gave temporary relief considering it was every muscle affected. I tried a million different positions in between rolling on the floor literally screaming bloody murder in pain. After about 5-10 minutes I eventually got so hot and lightheaded I passed out to wake up on the floor about 30 minutes later. The "cramps" had gone away but it felt like I had pulled every muscle from my groin to my hamstrings. Honestly I've had some gnarly injuries and nothing compares to what those 10 minutes felt like.
I woke up in the middle of the night with heat cramps from a PT session and a road March in Missouri in the heat of August. Absolutely awful. Not as bad as yours.
I had practically the same thing happen to me except it was from skating on ice for 10.5 hours straight and after waking up from the first pass out of pain the pain was still there. Repeat for 4 excruciating hours. I couldn’t walk for 3 days after that as my muscles were so stiff and sore from those cramps.
I remember regaining awareness during part of my wisdom tooth extraction. I didn't feel "pain", but I was able to feel an unbelievable amount of force being applied to my jaw, and felt surprised it wasn't breaking. I also felt my cheek being pulled back farther than I thought possible so they could extract the tooth, which made me amazed that my flesh wasn't tearing. I think I tried talking, which made them dose me again to put me under.
Had all 4 removed at the same time when I was a kid, and remember just barely coming to as they were moving the "wedge" they use to hold your mouth open from one side to the other.
@John Walker That might work if they're actually sticking out enough, but usually they're impacted and actually horizonal due to the jaw not being big enough for them to be vertically aligned like the rest of your teeth.
The exact same happened to me as well. I had to get all 4 removed, so I decided to have it done in one go, so they decided to knock me out for the procedure. I got the "introductory pill", or as we call it, the "kiss my a**-candy", and it almost knocked my off my feet, I hazily remember leaning heavily on the nurse that led me to the chair, and babbling absolute nonsense. Then I blanked. Then I woke up, because someone tried to rip my jaw off. I, too, was amazed at the amount of force it a) took to get that tooth out, and b) my jaw could take without actually ripping off. I think someone held my head with both hands while the doctor wedged his knee on the chair and pulled with something that sounded in my head like a building being demolished. No pain, though, at least none that I remember. I got the teeth later, and one had jawbone still lodged between the roots, and they explained, they had to chisel it out. I guess this was when I woke up. Procedural anaesthesia appparently only goes so far. A relative had it worse. She told me she partially came to during appendectomy and felt the knife slicing into her belly while being unable to move. The doctors later told her, that in rare cases the drugs induce vivid, unpleasant dreams. Yeah, sure. I wonder if this partial insensitivity to anaesthesia is a family thing, like an inheritable trait?
I learned a lot and you did a great job at explaining things so basically anybody can understand. Anesthesia really gives me the creeps so the comic relief was a nice bonus too!
Most pain: I cut the tip of my middle finger off with an angle grinder. There was a 20 minute car ride to the ER, and had to wait an hour in the waiting room. But they got it back on!
@@ioratv Most tissues can usually make it that long without oxygenation from the blood, organs are often transported in emergencies obviously outside the body. They usually use something to keep them cool because it slows down the process of cell death. People have had entire arms reattached and regained function. The actual nerves being severed is the more lasting issue assuming any body part gets reattached.
I got the tip of my middle finger bitten off by a wolf (no joke), so I feel your pain man! Although mine is still gone... But hey, worst car ride of my life!!
My worst pain was some reaction I had to my SSRIs. I'd been on them for a few weeks and had no problems... and then I went on my period. Suddenly I was rolling in pain on my bed, until I had to go to the bathroom and vomit, at which point I almost blacked out. I spent like an hour in the bathroom, trembling on the floor, unable to stand up probably because every time I'd try to stand I'd just start blacking out again. I remember looking in the mirror just before falling back down and seeing that even my lips were white because I was so pale. At some point I was scream-crying into the toilet because I'd thrown up everything and was just dry-heaving. Then it was over, and I quit taking the meds immediately. Switched to another antidepressant and I've had no problems like that since.
When I was fifteenish, I got my wisdom teeth out and they overestimated the amount of general anesthesia I needed and it took me three and a half hours to be able to walk. I was about 100 pounds haha
My most painful experience in terms of physical pain: I was hit by a car and then my right leg was crushed by one of the wheels. I needed surgery to repair the leg, and I was effectively a disabled person for 6 months.
Holy shit. Same thing happened to me but I took a year to hey off crutches. I still walk with a cane. The cartilage in my knee disintegrated from the pressure of the wheel running over it
@@GregorBarclay After I recovered, the first thing I did was get back on the same skateboard, and ride a bunch of times through the spot where I had the accident.
When I was nine, a periodontist performed a simple surgery on my mouth to remove four teeth and reposition the adult teeth that would have come in later, as the adult teeth would have come out in the middle of my palette without surgery. I 'woke up' during the last few minutes of my procedure, just as they were finishing up. I felt them moving around inside my palette, and stitches going in and out on my gums from the extractions. That was by far the most painful experience of my life. Each stitch entering and leaving felt like rhythmic and calculated torture. I could not move or give any sign that I was in pain, and as this was only a minor procedure, no advanced technology that would have detected my awareness was being used.
I had to have stitches put in without anesthetic once when I was young and yeah you have my sympathy needles going in and out of any area on you body is not fun
I’ve woken up in the middle of being “put down” 3 times. Luckily not in the middle of any super painful surgeries. 2 surgeries dealing with a pilonidal cyst on my ass and a colonoscopy procedure. I vividly remember hearing doctors say “oh shit he’s up again” many times through out all of these procedures. I will also wake up post op with my breathing tube still in and either mess with it or just straight up pull it out myself. This would all happen while feeling the effects of anestesia heavily to the point I can’t open my eyes or speak. But still able to yank the tube out myself. I could hear the nurses say “oh let me get that out for you” when I would mess with the breathing tube but after my first pilonidal cyst surgery I remember hearing “let’s get that breathing tube out” and then “oh nevermind then”. I had pulled it out myself in my “sleep”. I didn’t open my eyes, say a word, but I remember the feeling of the tube around my mouth and taking it out. Anesthesia fucking scares me.
I only went into surgery once, and I remember the anesthesiologist asking me to count back from 100. I trailed off after 96 and then I can still clearly remember him asking me if I could hear him. I responded with "No." He must have cranked up the gas after that, cause that's the last thing I remember before waking up in recovery. I have no idea why I said no, when I obviously could hear him.
I just wanted to say how sorry I am for your misfortune! My mother was paralyzed by the anesthesia during a colonoscopy and oral tube camera exam and couldn't do anything about it for the nearly two hour long procedure... That probably only affected her as much as it did because around that point she already had seven eye surgery's (each one having to be awake enough to answer questions about the pain and pressure in her eyes) so yeah... My mother kinda scares me when it comes to pushing how though a human being should probably be...
People are different. The thought of being one of those who resist anesthesia scares me a bit. Thanks for the story. It makes the thought more managable.
I lost my leg when I was three. When I was 10 or 11 I had to have a revision. That is, they break the bone and reset it because it wasn't growing the way it should. A few days later I was in the house on crutches when I fell, landing right on the end of my broken stump. It was in a cast, but it still hurt really badly. Way worse than any other pain I have felt. Later I broke my arm, watching it bend between my wrist and elbow, hearing the bone crack and of course feeling it. Even that didn't hurt as bad as falling onto the end of my stump.
@@JK-bh6xk Imagine how the female spotted hyena feels about childbirth. Female spotted hyena's have a "penis" which that baby must pass through. It tears when this happens. The "penis" is actually a very enlarged clitoris, so you can probably imagine.
"What's the most painful experience you ever had?" right before my 2013 brain surgery it became painful to think thoughts. it felt so surreal to have that pain leave once the surgery was done
"Doc what the hell are the needles for?" "Yo dawg I heard you don't like pain so I'm giving you some pain so you can feel pain to distract you from the pain."
HA! When I am placing an IV in a patient, I say that very thing (well it's the CONCEPT) to the patient. Believe me, I'm not a fan of this fact, either.
To answer your question, the most pain I ever felt was when I was 12 years old, it was the WInter of 2008/2009. I'm leaning towards December, and I'm on these hills called "7 hills." Everyone is sledding and I'm on my brand new GT Snow Racer. I didn't know how to turn. I thought it was like a car. You turn the wheel and the whole thing turns. Anyways, I wound going off a jump but only kind of. The right side of the thing went off the jump but the left side didn't. I cut off the top of my left ear. Fortunately, it was still kind of attached. I went to the hospital and after a few hours and 26 stitches, it was back on. I still have the whole thing, but I also have a wicked scar. Anyways, getting cartilage sliced is brutal. I don't recommend it.
20 odd years ago I almost lost my right leg in a motorcycle wreck. I subsequently had 12 major surgeries over the next 6 months. I almost always had the same anesthesiologist for every one except maybe the first emergency surgery. I was out when before they went to work. In any case, the first thing the doc told me was that anesthesiology is more of an art than a science but that he'd be next to me the whole time and monitoring my state. We eventually knew each other on a first-name basis!!! .. A very cool and reassuring dude to be sure! I also found out from him that when you are 'under', you don't dream. He has no idea why that is!
Most painful experience: 7th grade soccer accident, cut my palm, seperated six vains and my thumb's nerv, bled like a pig, lost close to a liter of blood; and on the way to the hospital my mom made me drink half a liter of milk because it's traditionally believed that it restores lost blood; the doctor stoped the bleeding but apparently couldn't drug me for the surgery until my body processed all that milk. And that my friends was the longest most agonizing six hours of my life. The good news is I my made a full recovery.
When I had my colonoscopy. I felt weird, cause I lost time. I was looking at my hand at the start and the next thing I know the doctor said, "OK all done!" I didn't even know they had started. It just weirded me out for the next few days.
Just wondering why you would be having any type of anesthesia for a colonoscopy?... maybe colonectomy if that's even a thing but colonoscopy... And I don't know what would be worse, having it done fully awake or having unaccounted time from the colonoscopy
I was once up for 8 days and nights in a row due to a massive tooth impaction. No insurance, money or painkillers beyond ibuprofen. It was the most excruciating pain I've ever experienced, and after a few days I was hallucinating, and having sensations of floating above my body. I attempted to slice the gum with a blade to relieve the pressure which didn't work. I tried to pull the tooth out with pliers. This only added to the agony. On the eighth night, I dropped to the floor, losing balance, and I felt what seemed like an electric shock and a pronounced vibration around the impacted tooth that lasted about 3 seconds, and the pain left within a minute, I remember thinking that an evil spirit had just left the tooth and then I passed out and slept. Idk about the spirit but to my delirious mind, it sure seemed real.
Well... But what if after you endured like say... 12 hours of surgical pain... After that no pain will be greater than what you experienced... Thus, 12 hours for a lifetime of supreme pain treshold... Yes, i know, its not that simple. Yes, i know, my english can be broken from time to time.
I remember ether. I remember being held down while they put the mask over my face (this was when I was approx. 5 years old in 1960) and it felt like they were trying to suffocate me. I remember kicking a nurse.
Is ether the gas? I got that too as a kid and I was doing the same kicking and trying to fight the dentist off me, the smell of rubber mask and the feeling of the stuff kicking in has always stuck with me, I remember my face vibrating, scary experience it's made me scared of having an operation I worry about waking up whilst they are still operating
So I was reading a book in English class junior year, fairly healthy my whole life so far, when my lung collapsed. I genuinely thought I had been stabbed when I felt the sharp pain come through my chest, I turned around, turned back, nearly passed out from shock, sweat buckets and eventually asked to see a nurse, started feeling better after being given a moment but left in excruciating pain when I take .ore than half a breath, I cried in front of the nurse from how bad the pain was. They wrote it off as a panic attack so I sat there for 20 minutes before they called my parents who knew I never have panic attacks, rushed me to the hospital where I had to lay down with my left arm up, which made it feel like that side of me was on fire while iodine was running through me(not a fun feeling) and then was given phentanyl to get a tube in my side to help my lung reinflate, it had shrunk by 30% by the time I was there but when it first happened I swear it must have shrunk my 50% because I felt like I was choking. 0/10
I once told the dentist I wore special underwear in case he was one of those dentists..... He and the nurse were mortified, and they are the ones who drugged me causing me to say the most colorful thing in my mind at the time. So at least you kept it PG, I made it a little XXX- rated :/
@@tanyakristeen lol i just keep thanks everyone telling them how nice they were. The only dumb thing i did was try to get up i almost fell on the floor and a nurse caught me
You probably don't feel anything (I think you'd have some lingering feeling/memory afterwords if you had experienced pain) but it's not improbable that you may be conscious - I _seem_ to remember hearing the healthcare staff "above" me talk
0:07 there's a few. Not in order of magnitude but: 1.) Almost losing the tip of my thumb while cutting kindling with a hatchet 2.) Stubbing my toe on a rock at the beach, and causing me to lose my pinky toenail. 3.) While sharpening a cheese knife that looked like a mini cleaver I slipped and cut my thumb 4.) Having boney sequestrums come out of the cut that was made during my first jaw surgery, which are basically pieces of bone that are rejected during healing. (The initial surgery was to correct my overbite by sawing my jaw, moving it forward, and using plates to keep it where it is. I had a second to fix the cut that never healed and to remove the plates.) The sequestrums came out through the unhealed cuts
My most painful part of my life was when I was in 5th grade. I shattered the lower bones in my right leg by first landing on a hard plastic swing and then on hard dirt that is on top of concrete. My parents didn’t believe I broke my leg even tho I could feel the bones moving inside the flesh. Luckily it didn’t break the skin otherwise who knows if I would have my leg bc the bones looked like a puzzle piece. It wasn’t until a neighbor heard me screaming that they decided to take me to the hospital, five hours after I originally broke it. I then had to spend the night in a hospital room in a rough restrain to not move it and given supportive care to like not have so much internal bleeding. I then got my leg put in a cast the next day and now almost a decade after it happened, I can’t run but hey I can walk a marathon so I’m proud of where I ended up.
@@WouldntULikeToKnow. Thank you for the sympathy. I've completely cut out my "father", he was an overall abusive ginger bastard who is just the worst. I cut off contact for a year or so with my mother before confronting her about what went on in that event (and others), to which she has apologized and is working to try to be better. I'm still not like, fully accepting of her but the fact she acknowledges what she did hurt me and is trying to be better, has me wanting to give a hesitant second chance.
You can't run but you can do more than I can with that marathon thing. Best I pulled off is an 15 km (something like ⅓ marathon) with a massive backpack in 12 hours. Rather shit.
Hey Joe, anaesthetics DO NOT paralyze you. Those are paralytics; a completely different class of drug with two different mechanisms of action (depolarizing and non-depolarizing).
@@zebratangozebra I'm sure physical pain has an even stronger memory than emotional one since it is crucial to survival. The exception being child birth. Emotional pain is named inaccurately in my opinion... it feels more like a very strong negative overstimulation. I can turn emotional pain into creativity, physical pain is just crippling. Both types are connected tho.
@@808Fee I agree with this interpretation too. I definitely remember physical pain. People get PTSD over physical pain too. Let's say you did something and broke your arm and you were in pain for months. While the experience is mental it stems from a physical pain and you will remember it everytime you consider doing or do the activity that caused you that pain. That is likely a survival mechanism to prevent the situation that led to your injury.
When I was still doing heroine, and me and my co worker buddy scored some bad stuff laced with phentenal. I dropped him off, made plans to hang out another time and then the next day I found out he died that night. As well as the time a different friend overdosed when i was driving his truck because he was to high and i called 911, and tried to keep him alive until they showed up, then followed them to the hospital after they brought him back. Or when that same second friend died from another overdose a year later. Or when a third, forth and fifth friend died. I unfortunately have lost count now. The co worker was the worst though, because i was with him, i drove us there and dropped him off. I was the last person to ever see him, and he had a daughter, and his dad was the one who found him when his dad got home from work. I still have a lot of guilt about him 6 years later, the last 5 of which have been sober. The rest i wasn't talking with at the time when they died because i was sober and keeping my distance. Don't do drug. Seriously, just don't. Edit: i just realized you meant physical pain, but im gonna stand by my post. Id break my foot again anyday over feeling like i killed a friend.
True fact, I’ve got a friend that suffered anesthesia awareness during an operation. Pised off, threw things at the doctor, calling him all kinds of names when awoke.
That's odd, my oral surgeon, and I would think all surgeons, warn that's a possibility, especially if it's your first time going under. I wonder if he was loopy though... I know I was a bit each time immediately after waking up. But normally it was a very tired sort of happy loopy... happy that it's over and hearing the doctor describe that it went well.
I’ve woken up during surgery several times. I remember it, but thank god I wasn’t in horrible pain and the doctors realized I woke up and sedated me further. Good video. Very interesting.
I had a long surgery lasting 6 hours. I remember my son being at the end of a hallway in the hospital pacing and I walking towards him(my son was home during my surgery). I think maybe we think about important things on our brain when under general anesthesia.
the most painful thing i experienced was definitely ovarian cysts mines were so severely inflamed that no matter what i did they would hurt inside so badly it made my whole body completely numb and i was given a medication to help ease the pain and ended up with anaphylaxis and was in and out of consciousness not only was i lucky enough to have severe inflammation and anaphylaxis but to make it worse i had a blood clot that wouldn’t pass my body which was giving me extreme pain and i also had e. coli along with an extremely painful UTI it definitely increased my pain tolerance but at what cost
When i was 24, my wife and I were in a Polaris Rzr. As i was driving down a hill, i turned and the back end started to slide; it caught an edge and we started rolling down the hill. Somewhere in the rolling, my left hand flew out of the side of the car and was smashed between the roll cage and the ground, breaking all four of my metacarpals, and popping the broken bones out of my palm. I spent 30 days in the hospital, on blood thinners, pain medication, and multiple surgeries while they tried to salvage as much muscle, skin, and vascular tissue as possible. I ended up losing the Pinky, Middle, and ring finger on my left hand. The most painful experience of my life was the occupational therapy following all of this. I didn't cry when the accident happened, but my saint of a OT would torture me three times a week until i regained all motion, i bawled my eyes out like a baby. Here's some NSFL photos if you're interesting and morbidly curious like me: imgur.com/gallery/lTkHx edit: after watching the whole video, i should include i was under general anesthesia for most of my surgeries, procedural anesthesia for an angiogram while they investigated artery damage, and regional anesthesia when they blocked all nerve signals going to or from my left arm, and local anesthesia for putting in a picc line. I won Anesthesia Bingo
jesus why did I click on that link xD that looks HELLA painful. I guess thank you for sharing? Will know to keep my hands to myself (I'm sorry) in any coming car rolling adventures o.O
I started seeing pain and twitching in my legs after seeing the pics. Jesus! hope you're doing fine and your career didn't crumble down. also, how does it feel walking around with 3 fingers and a conjoined (I guess?) one.
@@ExtremeDadDRAMA Because if a bb hits your eyeball it will likely go through. Doctor knowing the cause of the injury likely told him that if it wasnt for the protection of the eyelid it would have been a much more serious injury.
When I was in the Army I had knee surgery and when I woke up I was violently angry. I was shaking everywhere and was in an almost blind rage. I think I may have woke up during the surgery but maybe I blocked the memory.
I have the similiar experirence. I was a sick kid. Had 3 major surgeries. After I woke up from surgeries I always were angry. Can't remember a thing about those angry sessions.
It is called Thorazine and you both are allergic as am I. My heart stopped after raging for three days trying to escape from hospital because of that stuff. I told them to change drugs but they wouldn’t listen and it killed me. It wasn’t anything adrenaline and a defibrillator couldn’t solve once they found me. 70mg of thorazine when one only weighs 75lbs is asinine.
John Possum You are right, that’s why I sued the hospital. What should have been a routine procedure went horribly wrong because the doctors used thorazine. I wonder how often it has been misused like this.
I remember going under for surgery the doctors were just having a conversation about whatever. I didn't realize I was being given the anasthesia. The dots on the ceiling started to turn and move like very slow bugs. I noticed that all the letters in the room looked like hieroglyphs, which I'm somewhat used to because I'm dyslexic. But when I turned to the person who I'm guessing was the anesthesieologist their face looked unrecognizable like it was under rippled water. The last thing I remember is asking if they wanted me to go to sleep, they said yeah, so I did. I wish they had told me I was being drugged so I could start trying to be unconscious. I thought they still needed me to be awake to answer questions so I was just sitting there hallucinating.
I had a couple of multilevel spinal fusions, lumbar and cervical. I remember the pain was so intense I had a couple out-of-body experiences. Worse, they sent me home inadequately treated, the analgesics weren't strong enough for post-surgical relief and the pain was incredible. I've never forgotten it.
I’ve had the paralyzed but awake surgery experience when I was having my tonsils removed. I was 16. I wouldn’t recommend it... Doctors didn’t believe me until I told them what conversations they were having while cutting on me.
Did they tell you it was a cholinesterase deficiency or a pseudocholinesterase deficiency? There are other drugs they can give you but you have to tell them. There are other weird connections with things to avoid in life. One thing is it can be familial, ours is. Just a note from one rare disorder person to another.
Demaris That’s crazy man! I had no idea that stuff ran in families, I’m going to look into it now (I’m a search and rescue guy, not a doctor or anything, but that’s one for the notes...)
My first experience w/ general anesthesia was when I was referred to a specialist because of a lump under my collar bone. I was in my early twenties and going through a rough time as a single mom and on medicaid. The doctor (I can't remember what kind of doctor thought i know it was not the right kind to treat my lump) spoke bad English and insisted that I needed surgery thought I asked many times if there was some other way to find out what was causing the lump. After I had gotten xrays a few weeks prior I went in for surgery and was asked if I got the xrays WHILE they were administering the anesthesia. Long story short - There was no need for the surgery as the lump was a lump of fat and as a person who has always been a cynic, I developed a very poor view of doctors as I am sure the doctor know full well he was performing unnecessary surgery to get the insurance money. Plus I have a lovely scar on my chest and went through 6 months of pain unable to barely raise one arm up and got terribly nauseated and threw up for hours after surgery. If I saw him again I would give the doctor a good punch and kick 30 something years later (and I am a pacifist mind you). Other interactions with doctors over the years has not raised my opinion for the most part.
A girl told my friend that her friend had a crush on me. I took it serious, demanded to take her home from a pub where we all met. All the way home we held hands and later even kissed her to say goodbye. Next day we met again in front of a group of friends and I took it for granted that she was my girlfriend. We all met and I said hello to everyone, tried to kiss my new girlfriend and she pulled back! This was so disturbing. I stood there like a complete fool. After that we were together for years to come but in the end broke up. Just a story.
15:50 didn’t happen to me in my open heart surgery, but happened in recovery. I woke up about 30 min before I could move and heard the nurses talking to my family that they’d give me pain meds when I woke up. It was the most frustrating 30 min of my life. I can only imagine the trauma of it had happened when my chest was still open...
Oh my God. 30 minutes?! I've woken up "too early" post-op, but not _that_ early! Very vague recollection of waking up after sinus surgery and hearing someone SCREAMING... (spoiler: it was me) There was a definite "oh shit" response to my consciousness. But at least they knew I was awake and were able to knock me right back out. Can't imagine if that weren't the case!
Yeah, thankfully I had done a ton of research before and knew what was happening so I wasn’t afraid. I was just so mad I couldn’t tell them I was already awake and in a lot of pain. I told my husband after, that if I were ever to be kept alive in a way that I could not communicate that they need to pull the plug, I can’t do it...
@@kaitlynnkenney9140 - Agree 100%! In fact, I'm going to plagiarize from you and add that language to my Healthcare Directive! To be completely conscious & cognizant, yet unable to communicate in any way... that sounds like a special kind of hell. No thank you.
Worst physical pain....top two: 1- Near septic infection in my lower back around my spinal cord, required immediate emergency surgery. 2- Seven infected ulcers on my lower legs from exposure to wild parsnip(and poor initial treatment from my GP), it took almost two years to heal the open wounds and I still experience ghost pain from damaged nerves. Both were excruciating.
Yes, this is a day late. Long story. It has nothing to do with the 'rona. I'm fine. Enjoy!
I would never have anesthesia unlesd it was life or death. We dont know how anaesthesia works & we dont know how consciousness works. So I call total bs to anyone who says we know anesthesia isnt death, a new person in the same body with the same memory & feelings.
@@animtheory well then thats a idea ....
It works by erasing your memory and freezes you in place while under anesthesia. You still feel the pain!!! 😳😳😳
We do know how anesthesia works, it's microtubules
Joe Scott ah yes the first nick name for coronavirus
When I was 19 I had my first open heart surgery to get my Aortic and Mitral valves replaced. I remember counting down from 10 and everything went black when I hit 7. The next thing I was aware of was hearing my surgeon talking with the nurses and my dad. For the briefest of moments I was relieved b/c the surgery must be over if my dad was in the same room as me. But then I noticed that I couldn't move my arms, legs, and I couldn't open my eyes. I never felt so much terror in my life. I tried to scream as loud as I could to get my dad's attention but nothing came out. But for whatever reason, I could wiggle my toes. So I started thrashing my toes for what felt like an eternity before a nurse noticed my feet and alerted my surgeon. He asked me if I could understand their conversation and I wiggled my toes twice for yes and once for no. He asked if I wanted my dad to be next to me, and I wiggled my toes twice and my dad came to my side and held my hand. I couldn't move my hand, but I could feel his hand on mine. The surgeon told me there was a complication with the surgery, that there was excessive bleeding behind my heart that delayed most of the surgery. So the surgeon decided to hold off on the rest of the surgery until the next day, so he put a semi-transparent acrylic shell over the wound in my chest to protect me until the next day. The doctors then gave me more anesthetics and I went unconscious again. After the entire surgery my brother told me that what I remembered actually happened and he even saw my beating heart through the acrylic shell. So yeah, that's my anesthesia story. Other than that, everything went perfectly.
Wow! That's scary!
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Holy shit
WOW! That's amazing! Thanks for sharing 👍
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As an anesthesiologist, I found this video to be highly accurate and informative. One thing I would add is that we use intravenous drugs to ensure paralysis - making surgical retraction and exposure easier. If the effect of those drugs outlasts the intravenous or inhaled anesthetic agent (e..g. the gas vaporizer runs dry or the propofol pump malfunctions), that's when you have a situation where consciousness returns but muscles remain paralyzed. In the absence of those paralytic agents, involuntary or voluntary movement usually precedes return of full consciousness.
Hi mo!
This makes me curious. In my case, when I regain awareness during a procedure, I'm not paralyzed at all (barring a nerve block). No one seems to have noticed any movements before the screaming starts (without the nerve block). With the nerve block, I've learned that surgeons don't like bored chatty patients.
what about those people who have had anaesthesia and yet had lucid awareness during their period of "unconsciousness" ?
Sounds like a more horrible version of sleep paralysis. I have experienced it twice, once a couple months ago, and it was the most terrifying thing I've ever experienced. I hadnt been sleeping well, I woke up and was completely paralyzed. No hallucinations thankfully, but I thought I had had a stroke or something. I tried screaming for my wife, I tried moving and shaking the bed, all that came out was wierd breathy groans. I was trying to scream as hard as I could "HELP ME!!!" because my wife was in the other room watching tv and I needed help! And not only was the situation terrifying on it's own, there was this raw pure feeling of terror as if whatever neurotransmitter that causes terror were dumped into my brain synapses.
Then it just...stopped. I was so shaken up though. I was in a daze all day and when I told my wife about it later that day I was overcome with emotion and just couldnt help but cry. And I knew it was silly, but it was like a minor acute PTSD or something. But what a wierd experience.
I should have been an anesthesiologist. If I didnt go for my dream of being a fighter pilot (and achieving it!) I would want to be an anesthesiologist.
Sure would get paid more...
That picture you showed when you were talking about old timey surgery reminds me of that one case where a doctor performed an amputation. He amputated a leg. He went for the speed record and did it in like 30 seconds or so. He was so fast he also amputated several fingers of his assistant. The patient died from sepsis. So did the assistant. And one person in the audience died of shock.
So this was the only medical procedure with a 300% mortality rate.
if I recall properly, the guy was the fastes surgeon back then, he even did amputation in like 4 seconds. I don't remember his name, but yeah, 300% mortality rate should be in Guiness Book
The only surgeon with a 3:1 K/D
Gotta respect the speedrun strats though
@@aneasteregg8171 My theory is that he was a timetravelling gamer and he was going for the killstreak to call down a recon drone since it was so dark in that room. Old habits die hard.
Anesthesia is honestly so weird. One minute you're in a chair next minute you're flying down the highway in the backseat with your mom driving.
Sounds like how I’ve felt after seizures D:
Except "next minute" feels like ages have passed.
@@HaleKelsey1 that’s an interesting comparison. I’m sorry you have to experience seizures
Virtual teleportation!
Or on another planet.
I had an abscess on my rear drained a few years ago. I was lying there chatting with the nurse as she administered the anesthetic (propofol). After a few minutes of chatting I asked when the doctor would be in. She laughed and said "oh, he's come and already drained the abscess". From my perspective I had an uninterrupted conversation with that nurse. I didn't feel a thing, I don't remember a thing. Absolutely amazing experience.
I had one 8 years ago in the same place, they never gave me anesthesia so i felt every thing. Long story short, i never pick at a scab or pimple i cant see
Got to love modern time travel.
I had the same experience with a cardiac catheterization. I was allowed to watch the procedure on a monitor. I asked the doctor when he was going to start, and he told me he'd just finished. I technically didn't miss it, i just didn't remember it.
I had Propafol during my "50-year inauguration" (I'll leave it to you to figure this out...). It was the BEST 45 minutes of sleep I had in literally YEARS! I can see why Michael Jackson had an issue with it...
@greaper123 Colonoscopy?
"Doctors don't use cocaine anymore, at least on their patients."
lmao!
it's my understanding that they do still use it for eye surgery
Anesthesiologists still can prescribe and use cocaine for - no joke - nasal procedures as a numbing medicine. They can write the Rx and it is in the pharmacy's tool box. What they will not do is bring it home to their husbands.
@@JRAPHAEL0
In 2010 70% of doctors were male, and 2017 was the first time more women enrolled in medical school than men.
Bring it home to their wives would be more accurate if you're going to say it that way.
Dr. House laughs in the corner, while getting one more vicodine pill.
Back in 1990, my ENT Dr used cocaine on me when he had to insert a steel tube with a camera on it into my nose. He was trying to make a teaching video of my paralyzed vocal chords. He forced me to return the next day to redo it, but I showed him! One of my vocal chords moved!
During my 30 years of giving anesthesia I've had several cases of recall under anesthesia. The worst cases are those where there is severe pain remembered and can cause PTSD. Thankfully my caese were only memory without pain.
Ive had many more examples of patients telling me they were awake during surgery. I carefully ask them to describe exactly what they remember. Most times they describe situations that did not happen or were not possible during surgery. Some describe seeing another person the next bed over being operated on - this is usually a blurry memory of waking up in recovery room. Others say they remember watching the surgeon operate on them during a major surgery. In fact we tape your eyes shut to prevent accidentally brushing you eye lid open with our hand or coat sleeve causine a scratch on your eye. That happens quite easily so we take that precaution. There are also larger drapes that cover your entire body drurung major surgery. If you were awake on your back and looked up all you would.be able to see is that blue cover in front of your face. Perhaps those patients have bits of memory of waking up in the operating room after surgery - we try to get most everyone somewhat awake there where it is safest do do so. And some peoples stories seem to be entire fiction made up for some unknown reason but they absolutely believe it. Perhaps these people put a series of memories and their fears and splice them together to make a movie like memory that never really happened. The brain is far to complex to know how it works.
I was under the impression that that's basically how memory always works, anyway. For the most part, at least.
Hello . I will be done at med school this year . Do you recommend anesthesiology as a specialty? What would be the pros and cons?
@@Mohatheking19 Hello.
It would be best if you spent a month doing an anesthesia rotation. I was a general surgery resident for 2 years with a guaranteed 5 year slot. I just wasn't thriving as a surgeon and couldn't see myself doing it the rest of my career. I looked at other options in surgery but they all told me that if I couldn't cut it in general surgery they wouldn't want me in urology or ophthalmology....
I liked the operating room environment and hated being in an office setting seeing patient after patient and ordering tests and prescribing pills. Fortunately I did do one month with an anesthesiologist and thought it was interesting.
PROS -
in residency they didn't treat us like slaves the way the surgery attendings did. A tired anesthesiologist is going to make mistakes. We were not over worked. I know these days you guys will not be abused the way we were.n We would always have the day after call completely off. Call was every 4 to 5 days too. We had a couple of residents on call at the same time and a couple of nurse anesthetist students also on call so if it wasn't too busy we got a lot of sleep.
I had time to study during anesthesia residency but not when I did surgery.
Anesthesia gives you immediate feedback. An internist prescribes meds and them sees the patients back to see if they are working. In anesthesia we see immediately if they are working. Real time monitoring. You learn how to adjust when they don't give the desired effect.
There are lots of anesthetic techniques and procedures to learn. Using your hands is something we do every day. Airway management is crucial to being good at the job. Sometimes it is very challenging and stressful. We used to put in lots of central lines but those days have passed. Now we do tons of ultrasound guided nerve blocks which are extremely fun and rewarding. spinals and epidurals are part of the game too.
The patients respect you too. That is important. The surgeons can be less than appreciative aholes and if there is a problem they are well known to blame anesthesia. I worked moistly at a small community facility and was respected. The large facilities are more like production plants where you are just part of the operating room.
Nowadays most everybody works in a group. A good group takes care of each other. Plenty of breaks and for lunch. Not all are that way.
You take care of people from pre-op until they roll out the door or go to a room.
Post operative pain management with nerve blocks or epidurals is fun.
In s practices you supervise nurse anesthetists.
Some like to specialize in chronic pain management and not do operating room work. We are truly critical care docs. Some do ICU work only or combine O.R. work and ICU patient management. I did just O.R. work and seldom helped our ICU and E.R. docs when they were in a bind.
CONS:
Lack of respect by the surgeons and sometimes are pushed to get the cases moving faster and faster - time is money.
Being an employee. Some anesthesia providers work for someone who takes more than a fair share of the revenue you bring into the practice.
It can be stressful. Sometimes things go bad very fast. You will likely kill someone even though what you did was completely acceptable treatment. It stays with you for a long time.
Some times you don't know what to do. Learn to look like you are in control when your brain is clueless. Strange things happen out of nowhere and you make it up as you go.
Sometimes you get involved in some pretty gross cases. Horrible injuries, bad smells, infectious cases (like Covid 19). One day they may rush a child into your operating room who is essentially dead. Could you handle that?
You have too keep some people alive when the surgeon can't control the bleeding. What a nightmare giving multiple units of blood as fast as possible over and over..
You have to be pretty smart and know a lot about internal medicine and how various diseases can effect your anesthesia. Knowing how to stay out of trouble is the best skill you can ever learn.
It really helps to be fairly strong and mechanically inclined.
I worked in a small practice many years. I was the only anesthesia doc in the building many times. Nurse anesthetists are usually pretty good but when the shit hits the fan you are it. No other doc can bail you out.
Operating rooms can be cold dark and boring. If you are doing it right it can be boring. Some operations /procedures can last an entire work day or longer.
They teach you one step at a time. I recommend a large or medium size group practice after residency so you can still learn from the experienced ones.
Spending time with the patients can be very fun. Explaining in detail when needed. Holding hands at other times. Learn to gain their confidence and then deliver exceptional care.
Any other questions???
The last surgery I had whenI was a kid, something happened and when I tried to talk to the doctors and nurses about it they freaked out. And when I told them about what I remembered, they looked pale and refused to answer any questions. To add they were supposed to do a procedure to stretch a tube and decided after they put me under not to do the procedure for a not really specified reason. I have had problems with going to sleep since then 🤔
It was also the only time I had woken up without my stuffed bear that they allowed me to take with me. It was my fourth surgery I had.
When I was 14 I had just broken my arm. Not the kind of broken where you go to the doctors and see if it is actually broke. My wrist was dangling and I had to hold it in place with my other hand while driving to the emergency room. It took about 30 minutes to finally get in for surgery, and by then it had felt like an eternity. I never was asked to count back or anything, all I can remember is waking up with a foggy view and a bunch of silhouettes standing over me. I couldn't move or hear anything. I only remember trying to look all around the room and then one of those silhouettes came over towards me and everything went black again. Everything is fine with my arm now, I did type this whole thing with it after all.
“Some of it gets into the baby..”
“Oh no”
“..and it actually ends up calming them down”
“Oh nice”
“..so calm that they stop breathing”
“Oh NO...”
Heheheheheh
What a rollercoaster of emotions
He does this kind of jokes all the times, sad as they are, I actually love how he says them
"...luckily, the baby never feels any pain or discomfort."
That's good!
"However, the parents may be traumatized forever."
That's bad.
Lol! This comment shouldn’t make me laugh but the breakdown is funny.
16:00 Actually you *CAN* tell them you are awake. You can't tell them in words, but you are still responding to the pain. Your heart rate and blood pressure go up, and it is something your anesthesiologist is suppose to watch for.
If they are good, they will see you are waking up, adjust the drugs and put you back under before you wake up.
If they are not paying attention then you wake up and you can tell the surgeon the joke he told while he was breaking your bones.
Then watch his or her face turn grey.
If you need to have surgery ask your anesthesiologist what they like to read during surgery. If they say anything other than "I don't have time to read during surgery" get a different anesthesiologist.
Or "I like to read your monitor"
I once had to get a broken finger tip shortened due to an infection. Before the surgery all I could think of was that movie Awake where Hayden Christensen wakes up while having a heart transplant. Fortunately, my experience was more like blinking and teleporting from the OR to the recovery room.
Unfortunately, the pain when the nerve block eventually wore off while I was at home that night was by far the worst pain of my life.
@@PWiz30 That hurts.
I had a wisdom tooth form on an angle and it broke. They had to put me under but my tolerance is extreme so they added gravol intravenously.
When the dentist put the tool into my mouth to knock it out of position for extraction, I tasted the metal.
I woke up the moment he popped it. Thankfully, I live in this modern medical world. Otherwise, that tooth would have killed me.
@@clockztickin Naming an IV drug "gravol" is just asking for a horrible medical error.
Horse fell on me when I was 12. Shattered my pelvis, crushed 3 vertebrae and ruptured my bladder. Pain has lasted on and off my lifetime. I am thankful I have been as mobile as I have been. Proud mom and grandma against all odds. Kidney stones weren't pleasant but nothing compared to my first couple physical therapy sessions.
I hear ya. I went to Physicians Neck and Back and ended up in so much pain I couldn't sleep all night and had to cancel the rest of my sessions. It felt so bad when they said I had failed but really it meant the treatment had failed.
I feel your pain 2 broken legs broken pelvis ruptured spleen, fractured ribs collapsed lung and broken collar bone
I was completely incinerated in a hydrogen bomb explosion, my head exploded, and my brains was raining down simultaneously in three different country's. Oh my lord, I know a thing or three about pain...
Leeanne Hicks I’m so sorry that happened to you, I fell of a horse when I was 10 broke two ribs and a toe lucky but I still feel pain from it, it didn’t heal properly... I can’t imagine how bad it was for you
Leeanne Hicks stay fighting 💪🏾💪🏾
My dad is one of those people who regains consciousness and memory formation but can't move. Absolutely terrifying hearing him recount the surgeries he's had where this happened
0:52
"ACTUAL SIZE" ...
me: watching it on a 65" TV - OMG 😳
thats what i thought also
Me watching on a smartphone: still pretty fucking huge and I wouldn't want that thing inside of me.
I was confused about that, too. I'ld say Joe means actual size relative to his body size in the picture. Which is still pretty big.
Its a joke.
Thats how big it feels like when it passes thru. Mine was about 4mm, but felt like 200. Comparable to childbirth? Has to be (I'm a guy.) The pain comes in waves and all you can do is scream. Last time, my wide-eyed friend gave me a torodal (sp) and I passed out. Woke up a few hours later still shaking. 😨
That horrible situation where you are awake and aware but paralyzed happened to my uncle's brother for his open heart surgery. That is one of the scariest things I can think of. Absolute torture.
Uncle's brother? That's how you calling your dad?
@@kennymustdie8518 No, my uncle is my uncle by marriage (my aunt is my blood relation) and it was his brother (who is no relation to my family).
Yes, sometimes they will catch it though (elevated vital signs). Still scary though 😳 😬 🤔
@@tigershirew7409
For future reference, saying "my uncle in law's brother" can make this fact much clearer :)
When my wife had eye surgery back in the '80s she got cocaine in the eyes and then a bottle of cocaine drops to use for a week. She was very happy that week!
😂😂😂
Did you know
you can get a refill at your library?
There's usually a guy behind the alley there...
I'm 62 years old. When I had my tonsils out at age 5 or 6 I was given ether. Back then, unlike today, most everyone had their tonsils removed. It was like a rite of passage. Mine were removed in the hospital ER. The doctor extracted a dipper of liquid ether from a mobile, double-walled, stainless steel, "thermos" jug on casters. He dribbled some of the liquid ether into a mask that he held over my mouth and nose and told me to count backwards from ten. I don't remember making it to one. I do remember seeing a rotating spiral a Ia the old TV show "The time tunnel". I woke up later and didn't even have a sore throat everybody said I'd have. Although I was able to have all the ice cream I wanted like everybody told me I could have afterwards.
When I was young, I had a condition where the corners of my toenails were growing in a way that caused them to pierce the skin and grow beneath it. This had gone on for a year or so before I was taken to the hospital to get it checked. At that point, my toe was messed up, severely infected and was bleeding constantly. I remember I was in seventh grade, I couldn't play with the other kids because walking alone was painful, and running was out of the question. I would go home every day to find my socks soaked in blood.
While all of that was painful on its own, it was nothing compared to the day I was taken to the hospital to "get it checked".
I remember the doctor taking one look at my foot and saying "he needs a surgery. but it's pretty simple, we can do it right now". I was taken to a dark underground surgery room. It was just me, my parents, and the doctor. As I was lying on my back, he took a big needle full of the anesthesia liquid, and he shoved it in the tip of my toe. The anesthesia didn't work, so he gave me a second shot...and a third...and a fourth. By the time he gave me the fourth one, I was begging him to stop. I was screaming the entire time; and when I lifted my head to look at my toe, it was swollen like a tennis ball. Due to the severe infection, the anesthesia didn't have an effect. The doctor told me to bite on something, and he told my parents to pin me down because "this is gonna hurt a bit". That's when he took out a surgical knife and a surgical pincer, and I realized what was about to happen.
After what felt like an eternity of screaming in a twister of unimaginable pain that was running its course across my entire body, the doctor finally finished tearing through my flesh and shoving a pincer underneath my toenail and, at last, pulled it out. At that point, I looked at the two beds next to me, and I saw both of my parents passed out.
One thing for sure, my tolerance for pain increased tenfold afterwards.
I had the same issue on both my big toes and it's not pretty in the slightest. Had a double wedge resection under local anaesthesia but the toenails grew back the same so I had to have it done again. The 2nd time it took a few attempts to numb the area, and since then I can still occasionally feel the pain of where the 2 needles went into the sides of each toe, exactly the same as during the procedure. Thankfully once it was numb I didn't have to go through the pain, however I could still feel the pressure of what the doctor was doing which is unsettling.
I can delete same problem anasthetc world's but IT still hurt and IT hurt like hello when anastetic wore defently not as bad but fuking terible
AAAAHHH 😱😱😱😭😭😭
I've had ingrown toenails but nothing as bad as what you described. That sounds like pure hell dude.
Those toe shots are no joke😳 but the relief of the toenail finally being out is worth it
“A dentist was basically a guy that was good with Pliers” .. lol
They still are...
@@backalleycqc4790 what are you? Some sort of anti-dentite?
payday510 He's a RABID Anti-Dentite!
And a surgeon was anyone handy with a saw.
@@backalleycqc4790 I'm a carpenter...i'm good with pliers, but I'm not a dentist.
So...there is more to it than that.
Which was the entire point being made.
I woke up during a surgery to remove a mass in my stomach. I woke up feeling my abdomen like it was on fire! All I could do was cry, couldn't talk or scream. I could feel him literally cutting me open from the navel down.The anesthesiologist realizes I'm not out and she told the doctor to stop that I was awake. I remember the doctor flipping out saying I should be out, next thing I know is the mask for the laughing gas go over my face then I went back out. That's all I remember. The doctor came in my room to ask me if I remember anything during the surgery. I told him about the feeling of being on fire and pressure across my legs. He apologized saying that they didn't give me enough anesthesia. The anesthesiologist came into my room then and apologized. It took 11 hrs to do my surgery. To this day I can still remember how bad I hurt.
I absolutely love your videos! They are so well thought out and all the research you do is truly a top notch channel. Thank you!😊💯
My god. I haven't heard anything like this before. What you just told is the defination of excruciating.
@@HimanshuSharma-oy9ss I agree with you 💯% Its been over 20 years ago. I've had a few surgeries since then, but it by far was the worst. I had a mass of adhesions in my intestines. That's why it took so long. I hope no one ever has to go through what I have been though. Be safe eveyone!
Its very unsettling to hear of someone going through such a pain in such a way!. I can sympathize with you for staying strong through this long battle.Glad to hear you're okay now. More power to you 💪.
And for me personally , its inspiring to see that you forgave those oblivious Doctors. I mean accidents happen sometimes but this was a case of pure negligence shown by them and could have been easily prevented with some vigilance.
It was nice talking to you 😊. Stay safe.
@@HimanshuSharma-oy9ss Thank you so much for your kind words. I really have enjoyed this interaction with you. You are very kind. You are a breath of fresh air. Keep yourself safe. Bless you!😊
It feels so nice to hear that.The feeling is mutual 🤗. Bye. Take care.
I've woken up during shoulder surgery. I remember looking around and made eye contact with the surgeon and then I was out again. But I felt no pain. I can tell you I have severe sleep paralysis and that is basically like laying there fully conscious and fully aware but unable to move.
Yeah I also have pretty frequent episodes of sleep paralysis, especially if I lay on my back. Sometimes I’ll be so tired that I roll over onto to make and then fall asleep again, only to wake up gasping for hour a few minutes later. It was scary the first few times it happened, but after a while you do just get used to it. One time I was able to open my eyes enough to see shadow figures dancing around my room, I woke up when it got to the foot of my bed and touched my foot 😂
I used to have sleep paralysis several times a year. Now it's once every few years. I discovered an easy way to end it.. well 2 really.
1) Realize that there's nothing wrong, that the body ALWAYS paralyses itself when you go to sleep. That you just regained consciousness and opened your eyes for some reason while it is still paralyzed. That there is really no evil creature coming to get you and just got back to sleep without even trying to move.
--That is what I'll do most of the time now.
or 2) Realize the above and just lay there enjoying the sense of utter relaxation (Because that is what it IS, all your muscles are utterly relaxed) and then fall back asleep.
OR, if I say feel like I have to go pee or want to move into another position:
3) Realize the above in #1 and instead of going back to sleep, gently and patiently try to wiggle my toes or a finger(s). It always unparallelizes my body in milliseconds and I'm quickly able to move everything. Then slowly get up to go pee or roll over and go back to sleep. ...and I DO mean get up slowly. I've almost fallen getting up after sleep paralysis because the mind body coordination connection isn't that great still.
I think learning how to unparallelize my body helped lower the instances of it happening in the first place.
If you want some REAL fun, learn how to get the body into a deep deep state of relaxation while conscious so the body also is paralyzed. I've almost been able to do it with my hands and lower arms. They get to the point where they feel "asleep" (Not the same as blood circulation cut off, but just... not "there" kinda.)
I'm trying to learn how to extend it through my whole body.
..but I'm weird. I'm also conscious frequently after my body is "asleep" when I'm going to sleep. I swear I can feel sensations in my arms, legs and torso etc shut off while I still can hear sounds around me. Then my hearing and awareness of surroundings go at the same time.. and I wake up hours later.
It's apparently a thing you can learn with deep mediation. (And is actually VERY good for you apparently) I just naturally do it.. and sadly haven't been able to while meditating because it just makes me sleepy and want to go to sleep since I experience it frequently when falling asleep.
My brain is like, "Oh hey!! The body and senses are SO relaxed, it must mean it's time to go to sleep!! Lets do that" and I lay down and go to sleep.
@@OgdenM I started actively practicing going into that state of meditation that you described where we feel separate from the body (especially the limbs).
It’s not “numbness” per se but I get what you mean describing it that way…
It’s a detachment from our perception (& sensations) of the body. When you detach from the body, it can feel somewhat like you’re floating at times & much like trying to learn to float the hardest part is that the way to get it is that you have to stop struggling, remain still & relax all of your muscles for it to work.
I have been practicing because it can help with chronic pain. It doesn’t take it away the pain itself, rather, it helps us disconnect from the pain sensations & perceive it in a way in a way that we become separated from the pain so it becomes more tolerable.
When I cracked my kneecap for the second time in my life, I found out something that I had often wondered about, how much pain can a person endure without losing consciousness?
I was working on an offshore drilling rig, and I had to get up to a raceway to run a wire, and to all the safety guys out there "yeah I know", without a harness or anything. So after climbing
up about 15 feet, I slipped and fell on a large motor housing on my right knee and fell on the steel deck. During the time the pain rose up, all I could think was that the pain did not just hit a
limit and remain there, it kept increasing, and mind you pulling a piece of shell embedded in the bottom of my infected foot with tweezers was really bad, but it ended when the shell came
out, this just kept going, and going, finally it did plateau and diminish, but yes the body is capable of fully awake excruciating pain beyond which you would think you could handle.
Another interesting topic is "shock". When you have injured yourself severely, enough times, you learn to stay calmer while enduring the pain, but many times, you cannot stop shock from
taking over your body. When I sliced my wrist open with a piece of ceramic tile, I just kept pressure on it until I finished the few tiles I had left, but when I was leaving work for the day
I looked at the wound and saw something white, and when I looked at the cut I realized what I was seeing was my tendon, and I could see the hollow region in the interior of my wrist.
I was OK with that, but my brain freaked out anyway, and sent me into shock, so there I was with minimum pain, and totally calm, but in shock and about to pass out. Luckily the event
passes in 10 minutes, but it is the strangest thing to have your body go into shock mode, while your brain says "It's Fine, I'm OK". So study "shock" and tell us about it.
Dangggggggggg
Shock IS a really interesting response! I've seen that a couple of times and it can be totally bizarre.
Daaamn
So, about the "waking up during surgery" scenario: I had to get my appendix removed about 6 months ago. One of the listed side effects during anaesthesia was waking up during surgery. I of course asked about, and the anaesthetist calmed me and told me this was extremely rare but they would prevent that anyways. During preparation and shortly before anaesthesia they then put a headband on me with some electrodes. They told me they would monitor my brain activity to sense how "deep" into the anaesthesia I was. If I would get to deep there could be a risk of my heart stopping to beat, and if I was not deep enough I could wake up and have the scenario you described. So they would constantly adjust the medication to keep me at a constant level of unconsciousness.
That's cool! I was under the impression that there _still_ wasn't any way to tell if someone has woken up during surgery but, in hindsight, monitoring neural oscillations like that makes perfect sense!
I had knee surgery on Jan 2, 1971 for a basketball injury. Removed cartilage and tightened ligaments. I was in college and had habitually slept through my 8 am history class. I woke up in the recovery area just as the nurse was turned around to take off her paraphernalia and thought "Oh shit. I slept through history class again!!". I started to get up and wondered why the sheet was wrapped around my leg. The nurse was horrified and pushed me back on the cart.
Later, as I spoke to the doctor who performed the surgery, I mentioned this. He said "That explains it". It seems that I did the same thing in the middle of the operation. I mumbled something and tried to get up off of the table. I am 6'6" and it took four people to hold me down while the anesthesiologist pumped more sleepy time into my whatever.
Of course, due to exposure while I was in college, I had become much more resistant to the influence drugs and alcohol.
@@alcelaya1365 I had to fill out a form where I had to state if I had surgeries before and if they were more than x years ago, if I take drugs, how much alcohol I drink, how large and how heavy I am, if I had some allergies and some more stuff. That was shortly before the operation and was given to my by the nurse and the anaesthetist then took it and read it.
@@JanB1605 I had to have a fasciotomy for what is considered one of the most painful conditions known - compartment syndrome. Morphine and fentanyl have no effect on the pain. Before the truly horrendous operation the anesthetist asked all that and also whether I wore dentures or had expensive dental work done. Considering the pain I was in I found the question very odd but in retrospect I know the answer informs him how to intubate.
The best part is just he writes actual size under the kidney stone without anything to compare except his head 😂😂
It's called humor, or his attempt at it. Even a grain of sand size kidney stone would be super painful.
Well I can't speak to that but I've had a couple of kidney stones in my life and all I can say is opiates are God's own medicine.
Kidney stone that’s a quarter of my monitor: actual size.
The Hands On Gamer *crunchy*
I'm at IMAX
The size of a tennis ball for me
Ironically, the most painful experience I've ever had was having anaesthetic injected. I was having a tooth extracted but it snapped off at the gum, so the dentist had to do a surgical extraction. The root of the truth was being extremely stubborn and the anaesthetic didn't really take, so the dentist injected anaesthetic directly into the exposed nerve. It was the most intense and excruciating pain I have ever experienced. I was fully conscious throughout because dentists don't knock patients out in Australia, and this one wouldn't even give me nox to take the edge off.
Daniel Raffaele I’m wincing
It happened the exact same thing to me. Excrutiating.
I was "put under" because having large crazy tooth roots is a thing in my family. I woke up in the middle and didn't have pain, but I remember clearly the pressure and hearing the crunching and cranking of my huge 6 root wisdom tooth brake away from my jaw bone. No pain, but a clear memory. I think it's because the roots of that tooth were so deep they went into my soul.
Haven't had any wisdom teeth pulled yet and only have 1 thankfully. But I have had two front teeth pulled after one fractured and the other chipped off right up to the gum. The anesthetic injections weren't painful at all and awake during the whole thing, all I felt was the pressure of pushing and pulling on the tooth til it was free, the fractured one had actually started to abcess and the dentist even had to wiggle some little tool around in the hole to get the fragments out. Each tooth was a few years apart too so not just one procedure. I'm also in Australia
I've had tricky nerves that wouldn't deaden and I'd get shot after shot where the just sort of sprayed the meds around while the needle was deep into my jaw. That was fun pain.
"Kidney Stone - ACTUAL SIZE"
... I don't know Joe, but I think it looks a little exagerated as the kidney stone looks 2-feet wide on my screen.
A ruler on one or two sides of the image would clear the issue.
Joe ain't got no pp anymore 😔😔😔
Its almost as if thats the joke
@@veryexciteddog963 LOL xD
@@veryexciteddog963 WHAT? It exploded when the kidney stone got out? Whoa, I bet it was painful.
It happened to me, on two different occasions when I was having an upper GI done. After the procedure when I was able to speak I told the doctor that I was awake and was trying to tell them to stop. He finally believed me when I recited the conversations he had with the nurses during the procedure. Interestingly the first time I had a double dose of anesthesia because I wasnt going under.
Kidney stone. *ACTUAL SIZE*
I’m watching this in a theatre right now.
God save the man passing a 3m kidney stone
Nigga. I had spinal surgery & was put out propofol.
You're in a theatre but looking down at your phone watching TH-cam videos wtf🤔
@@TeamLegacyFTW shhhhhh! ;)
Also damn dude, how are you so photogenic?
@@MattNeufy I lol'd! Thanks😅 I was having a crappy day today but you boosted my confidence. Appreciate ya~
@@TeamLegacyFTW anything for a fellow homo sapien!
All I ask is that you pass that smile on to somebody else this week :)
Cheers friend
"The idea of a Doctor sprinkling Cocaine in your eye probably sounds terrible"
... It actually sounds like a great start to the weekend!
Or a quarantine
Ben Rogue funniest thing I’ve read online all day!!!
I always wondered how the Weekend got his start in music.
I have a friend that put some on his tooth for pain just a couple weeks ago. It was probably mostly something else though. Cocaine has very little cocaine in it these days.
@@Primusaur true but "i cant feel my eyeball when I'm with you" just doesn't have the same ring to it......
"You're in agonizing pain, but you don't remember it afterwards 👍"
That's gotta be the worst selling point for that product. 😂😂
Was about to have some oral work done, and one doctor gave me a pill to keep me conscious, but "I wouldn't remember a thing." That and some other aspects of the problem, I went my oral surgeon instead. He put me out.
Kind of needed it, the work required getting very close to a nerve that could cause loss of sensation in my left bottom face forever if damaged.
In fact, the second opinion oral surgeon's selling point after I told him what the other doctor wanted to do was just give me a pill to sedate me... his eyes got big and said "NO! I want you out!"
Sold! You're doing my surgery!
@@jmitterii2 I had oral surgery with one of those "you won't remember anything" drugs. Sure enough, I don't remember a thing, but my husband does because he was in the waiting room and heard me screaming multiple times. Woke up and the dentist admitted my lower jaw went out of socket during the procedure, and then had to strap me down as I tried to grab my jaw. Apparently I also punched a nurse. My next oral surgery, I demanded general anesthesia.
Loved the defragging hard drive analogy for dreams. I've thought that for a long time but never heard anyone say that publicly before.
I was having a vasectomy - when I learned that I’m resistant to local anesthetics. It took 17 injections in my testicles, feeling every damned bit, before the urologist gave up and just told me “I’ll hurry.”
Was probably still far less painful than it would have been without anything, even if you are resistant.
"I'll hurry"; Good Lord that's just what you want to hear. Respect goes out to your berries, bro.
Resistant to local anesthetic? I wonder how common that condition is. I suppose it's good you won't be passing that genetic variation on to future generations.
@@DrunkenUFOPilot It's actually common in red heads.
@@DrunkenUFOPilot you don't know if he had the vasectomy after already being a dad, Daren :D
In both my surgeries I woke up and I remember everything, luckily I didn't feel anything.
Before my knee surgery the anesthesiologist told me to countdown from 10 and that I would be out by 5 or 4, needless to say after making it to 0 my anesthesiologist looked as worried as me.
Not as worried as when I woke up mid surgery stretching my arms and legs as I usually do when I wake up, pretty much botching the surgery (fun times) they managed to get me under again to finish the operation but it didn't turn out well. Got to say seeing my leg spread open is something I will never forget.
Yikes
I call bs
@@teemuleppa3347 Whatever helps you sleep at night buddy.
@@buzzthebuzzard5267 I had the same exact thing happen to me (other then botching the surgery) i had knee surgery at around 5-6 years old and i remember waking up half way through the operation. I only woke up for enough time to see what was going on and then immediately passing back out
I woke up from anesthesia while they were pulling out the scope that was down into my groin had about 6 inch to go I screamed felt every bit of it as they pulled it out and told me to stay still
Most painful experience huh???
Stubbing my toe with an ingrown toenail after my mom calls me for dinner
god the pain is unreal
Wow that's weak😒
@@TeamLegacyFTW have you ever had an ingrown toenail?
@@clusterhunt Sorry, no
@@TeamLegacyFTW I had ingrown toenails on three of my toes, don’t you dare underestimate the horrific pain that an ingrown toenail is, even without stubbing it.
Administering anesthetic solutions into the CSF or epidural space is called neuraxial anesthesia.
And I am so happy about your describing general anesthesia. My life's work involves teaching persons that GENERAL ANESTHESIA IS NOT NATURAL SLEEP!!
The time when I was 6 year old and was playing with the door and the wind blew the door shut and chopped my index finger off. My mother had to pick the chopped off piece and take me to the hospital, they couldn't give me anesthesia, so they stiched it back together without it. They told us to wait for a few days and see if the finger turns blue or not, if it did, they would have to chop it off, luckily it didn't
@Mycel I come from a lesser privileged country and couldn't afford to pay for the expenses
@@tuts351 where?
I did the same when I was 2 they didn't even stitch it back on just super glue. It worked though.
When I was about 5-ish I had to get stitches because I stepped on something sharp(can't remember what) and they couldn't give me anesthesia either.
@@Shadowonwater Probably risks due to shock.
The most painful memory was I realising that I was an adult now n I need to do all adult stuff my whole life.
@@bgeery I can assure you, not for everyone.
When would you say someone can officially be labelled as an adult? What age?
Age isn't what makes you an adult.. Not in the way OP is talking about.
He said physical
Which is why parents are always telling kids to make the most of their childhoods and stop trying to grow up so fast.
I have 2 "most painful" events in my life. I was in elementary school on a field trip when all the sudden, it felt like my eardrums both got stabbed with a screwdriver. I remember falling down and screaming in pain and screaming and crying all the way to the hospital. Ended up needed tube put in my ears because I managed to have fluid behind my eardrums that caused a double ear infection. On a fun note to make matters worse, I woke up in the middle of them putting the tubes in. I was told it took 5 adults to hold me down before they put me back under. Woke up after the surgery and felt great. Needed the tubes in for awhile before going back in to have them removed.
The second one was a few years back. I was in martial arts and am a hygiene freak. I was responsible for disinfecting the mats and all that shit. Well, for as much effort as I put in, a few people really had a habit of ruining it. Unfortunate for me, because I had to grapple with some of them. I don't know who it was, but I got a freaking staph infection on my shin. 1mm off the bone, blew up to the size of an egg in a couple of days. Rushed to the ER where you could see the buldge that was ready to erupt. They sedated me and removed and cleaned it, very well I might add, and there were a lot of exposed nerve endings. The pain of the infection felt like a hammer to the shin with every step. But. The first time they removed the antimicrobial ribbon from my shin in the hospital to clean my wound and change it out...I, a grown ass man and a black belt, had to gag myself with my shirt because I could not hold in my scream. It felt like someone took a chisel and started chipping away at my shin. Mind you, my bone is practically exposed due to the egg-sized hole in my leg. Another fun note, when I woke up in recovery after the procedure, I had a tube down my throat that they forgot to remove before I woke up. So I got to almost throw up as they pulled it out of me.
God, I love hospitals. Good times.
OK, you win. I'm not even going to try to top those experiences!!
Ah, your anesthesiologist did NOT "forget" to remove the endotracheal tube (that's the anesthesia term for the tube). Many times patients are escorted to the recovery room with an ETT to allow the patient to recover adequate function. Maybe there was a complication associated your lesion. Perhaps the anesthesiologist gave a dose of paralytic agent before the end of the case, and you haven't yet regained full muscle function; yes the respiratory system also has this type of muscle tissue. Without muscle function, you would not he able to breathe spontaneosly effectively, if at all.
Did any of it hurt?
My pain scale is so skewed because of the extreme pain(s) I've experienced. When i was 13 I had my first kidney stone (sister said hers was more painful than when she gave birth for reference) and it was a 4mm stone, literally the biggest thing that might be able to pass your ureters. Was waiting overnight to have surgery to have it removed and thankfully passed it. Then I had another one when I was 15 but was able to pass it, and I've had lots of little ones that are so small they don't even hurt. However within the past 2 years I've had 2 7mm kidney stones so bad they had to preform a surgery to physically remove it since it literally won't be able to pass at least not without major damage.
The first 7mm one had at first been treated as a bladder infection with just antibiotics and that helped the pain a bit and then one day I woke up in so much pain that I was throwing up from it and literally couldn't take a sip of water without throwing up, it felt like I was dying and ended up throwing up so much I started throwing up bile. I went to the ER and waited 4 hours just to first get seen and get some tests and scans. Turned out my kidney had been backed up for so long I had an incredible infection and my kidney was about to burst so i was rushed into emergency surgery (still took 2 hours of waiting) and they couldn't even remove the stone right away cause it was so infected and they were worried about me getting sepsis if it burst so for 2 weeks I had to have a stent between my kidney and bladder to drain the infection then had to go into surgery again to remove the stone and had another stent put in for 1 more week and I could feel them the entire time and had terrible bladder spasms with it in. Then just 4 months ago I had to deal with the same thing (7mm stone and throwing up) plus went 28 hours without food or water bc ERs suck and I couldn't keep anything down and had to have surgery on the other kidney to remove the stone and then had to deal with another stent for 2 weeks.
I had the same anesthesiologist for my kidney stone surgeries even at different hospitals. He said he knew who I was before he even came in the room because he read my chart and history and my 7mm stone stood out to him and he remembered. (I swear your best friend when going into surgery is the anesthesiologist, they are the one calming you and working with you, they tend to you at least some when you wake up so you have a familiar face, idk anesthesia makes me emotional so maybe its just that)
And on top of all of that I have Fibromyalgia which means my nervous system overreacts and thinks non painful sensations are painful and amplifies pain as well as Ehlers Danslos Syndrome where none of my connective tissue works so my bones are constantly moving about at my joints in ways they shouldn't and I get partial dislocations and one of my shoulders is just forever dislocated/out of socket bc of the trauma it constantly coming out of socket did and the fact that my body is constantly getting little tears in my connective tissue so the fibromyalgia just compounds that to where I am constantly in severe pain and even with heavy duty pain meds I'm still in constant pain. Literally, being basically unconscious under general anesthesia is the most pain free and restful thing ever, because my brain/nervous system isn't perceiving and reacting to pain that doesn't have a cause (fibromyalgia) then my body isn't using energy to react (why fibromyalgia is also called chronic fatigue syndrome) and so I wake up with my body rested and for a while I'm completely pain free before it wears off completely.
People often talk about how human body is amazing and works wonders, but I think we often forget how awful life can be when it doesn't work.
Experiences like what you described make me hope that one day we will be able to transplant our brains into artificial bodies.
I’m not going to lie. I think i would off myself if I constantly experienced this. You are strong. I used to have such painful periods id puke, lay in a pool of sweat, be incapable of walking, etc, but that is literally nothing compared to this. What tf.
@@catheriney6209 believe me the thought has crossed my mind many times but I have a good support system thankfully, but my life is pretty much a living hell. For example when I shower I have to worry about my shoulder partially dislocating and it often does but I can put it back in place just as easily
Well that sounds completely terrible. I also have chronic pain. But hearing ur story actually makes me not feel so bad. Dude, I hope it gets better for u..
Having my right eye re inflated by syringe without anesthesia at 13 years old. 61 years ago and it still gives me nightmares
Philip Hulme excuse me but did you just say “re” inflated. That means your eye was deflated??? I don’t want to bring up bad memories but care to elaborate?
Just the idea of having a needle in my eye gives me nightmares.
@@Ben-Rogue This makes me wonder why we have such debilitating fear over needles in the eye and such. I have been told its absolutely painless if done right. So why do I turn away from horror movies that use it as a scare tactic, or have to consciously think of something else to keep myself from getting some horrifying nightmares. The imagination can be as much a curse as a boon.
Now I'm worried I'll have this nightmare 😫
Philip Hulme “reinflated” wtf???
Most painful experience? How does this stack up:
I once had a seizure whilst lying front down on my bed. Soon came to unable to move either arm, and quickly realised both of my shoulders were dislocated. Ambulance was called cz I couldn't move (I'm disabled, walking is a no go), and the agony was so bad they carried me onto the stretcher inside my duvet that I was laying on cz they had no other way to lift/move me. Got to the emergency department about 4pm, but couldn't have strong pain relief because they were considering operating. So I lay there, two dislocated shoulders, until 7am the next morning. Later found out that in the dislocating of both shoulders I had also cracked my shoulder blades when they jolted backwards, oh and my foot was pulsing in agony cz I somehow must have whacked it mid-seizure too, so that was also fractured. Longest night of my life; and I didn't even mention the fact I vomited from the pain but had to lay near it all that time because they couldn't move me. At least I got a nice scar to remember it by.
This made me soooo sad...
I remember watching a documentary about a woman, who went in to have surgery but the Anastasia wore of like what you said, she could feel, and was aware of what was going on around her, but could not move, the pain was so bad that she actually, took two heart attacks from stress, and they decided to take her appendix out because they were already in that vicinity and thought we might as well take out the appendix, and I just thought to myself that was probably the most horrible thing you could imagine, not being able to move a fraction of a muscle and people, are just chopping you up horrible situation.
It’s called anaesthesia awareness! Absolutely horrifying to think of.
Oop nvm just watched the rest of the video
Who is Anastasia? Is she pretty?
@@HaleKelsey1 listening to her in her comment and description of what she went through it sounded like and nightmare, she was totally awake but could not move she could feel everything, so much so that she had a heart attack unrelated to any for a reason for being in hospital in the first place, just out of shock and pain sounds horrifying.😰😨🤯😱🥵
@@jasonwade2277 yeah, people get ptsd from it, it scars them for life. I mean, hours and hours of surgery where you can feel everything but cannot move or speak out... it’s like sleep paralysis x3000
i think the most pain i’ve ever been in was either when my periods were so bad the pain made me pass out and stay up for 3 nights straight every month or when i had my kidney removed/kidney failure early this year at 18. i don’t really remember being put under though, they said they were going to push something into my iv but i don’t remember what they said it was and then i woke up in the recovery room. i do however remember half waking up in the first recovery room and being very confused and in pain. i only heard stuff like the nurses asking if i could hear them, was in pain and stuff like that but i’m assuming i knocked right back out haha
Oh man I feel you at the periods part... Worst pain I've ever been in, I had to start the pill at 15 and I never want to go back lol
My most painful moment was when I broke my arm had a migraine and a fever at the same time, it was fun
Yea? Well i was kicked in the balls once
Dam hate migrains. Bet the broken arm helped take your kind off it a little bit.
I have gone through Kidney stone pain- its like some one is hitting your ball continually :(
Falling off a 2 story roof onto concrete and having a grade 5 separation of my ac joint with every ligament torn to shreds comes to mind.
However the most painful thing I've ever experienced was "leg cramps" in the middle of the night after running a half marathon for the first time and not hydrating enough. They started in my groin and went all the way to my toes. My toes we're even stuck pointed in every different way. Unlike normal leg cramps where you get relief when you straighten that muscle out nothing even gave temporary relief considering it was every muscle affected.
I tried a million different positions in between rolling on the floor literally screaming bloody murder in pain. After about 5-10 minutes I eventually got so hot and lightheaded I passed out to wake up on the floor about 30 minutes later. The "cramps" had gone away but it felt like I had pulled every muscle from my groin to my hamstrings. Honestly I've had some gnarly injuries and nothing compares to what those 10 minutes felt like.
that's so crazy, the most painful thing was something your own body did to you.... far ouuuttt ;)
I woke up in the middle of the night with heat cramps from a PT session and a road March in Missouri in the heat of August. Absolutely awful. Not as bad as yours.
crazy, I fell roughly 1 story to concrete onto my head and walked away. life is werid
I had practically the same thing happen to me except it was from skating on ice for 10.5 hours straight and after waking up from the first pass out of pain the pain was still there. Repeat for 4 excruciating hours. I couldn’t walk for 3 days after that as my muscles were so stiff and sore from those cramps.
I remember regaining awareness during part of my wisdom tooth extraction. I didn't feel "pain", but I was able to feel an unbelievable amount of force being applied to my jaw, and felt surprised it wasn't breaking. I also felt my cheek being pulled back farther than I thought possible so they could extract the tooth, which made me amazed that my flesh wasn't tearing. I think I tried talking, which made them dose me again to put me under.
Had all 4 removed at the same time when I was a kid, and remember just barely coming to as they were moving the "wedge" they use to hold your mouth open from one side to the other.
This is exactly happened to me as well.
@John Walker That might work if they're actually sticking out enough, but usually they're impacted and actually horizonal due to the jaw not being big enough for them to be vertically aligned like the rest of your teeth.
The exact same happened to me as well. I had to get all 4 removed, so I decided to have it done in one go, so they decided to knock me out for the procedure. I got the "introductory pill", or as we call it, the "kiss my a**-candy", and it almost knocked my off my feet, I hazily remember leaning heavily on the nurse that led me to the chair, and babbling absolute nonsense. Then I blanked. Then I woke up, because someone tried to rip my jaw off. I, too, was amazed at the amount of force it a) took to get that tooth out, and b) my jaw could take without actually ripping off. I think someone held my head with both hands while the doctor wedged his knee on the chair and pulled with something that sounded in my head like a building being demolished. No pain, though, at least none that I remember. I got the teeth later, and one had jawbone still lodged between the roots, and they explained, they had to chisel it out. I guess this was when I woke up. Procedural anaesthesia appparently only goes so far.
A relative had it worse. She told me she partially came to during appendectomy and felt the knife slicing into her belly while being unable to move. The doctors later told her, that in rare cases the drugs induce vivid, unpleasant dreams. Yeah, sure.
I wonder if this partial insensitivity to anaesthesia is a family thing, like an inheritable trait?
@@wallyman292 yeah, mine were stuck under the crown of the next tooth, so hence a lot of cutting...and chisel...
I learned a lot and you did a great job at explaining things so basically anybody can understand. Anesthesia really gives me the creeps so the comic relief was a nice bonus too!
Most pain:
I cut the tip of my middle finger off with an angle grinder. There was a 20 minute car ride to the ER, and had to wait an hour in the waiting room. But they got it back on!
Nice that the tip of your finger didn't die during that hour wait.
@@ioratv Most tissues can usually make it that long without oxygenation from the blood, organs are often transported in emergencies obviously outside the body. They usually use something to keep them cool because it slows down the process of cell death. People have had entire arms reattached and regained function. The actual nerves being severed is the more lasting issue assuming any body part gets reattached.
I got the tip of my middle finger bitten off by a wolf (no joke), so I feel your pain man! Although mine is still gone... But hey, worst car ride of my life!!
My worst pain was some reaction I had to my SSRIs. I'd been on them for a few weeks and had no problems... and then I went on my period. Suddenly I was rolling in pain on my bed, until I had to go to the bathroom and vomit, at which point I almost blacked out. I spent like an hour in the bathroom, trembling on the floor, unable to stand up probably because every time I'd try to stand I'd just start blacking out again. I remember looking in the mirror just before falling back down and seeing that even my lips were white because I was so pale. At some point I was scream-crying into the toilet because I'd thrown up everything and was just dry-heaving.
Then it was over, and I quit taking the meds immediately. Switched to another antidepressant and I've had no problems like that since.
Bruh I relate with this
"I've had quite a few surgeries recently"
dude, take my like!!!
@Carlos Saraiva I've had my first 5 surgeries before I was 1 year-old. chronical stuff & malformations.
@Carlos Saraiva not fearing surgeries is a perk indeed! and so is being alive!
that said, I have no pain or hard feelings towards surgeries.
@Carlos Saraiva the comment was a nod to Joe's hiding his drinking by saying he'd had surgeries, tho.
When I was fifteenish, I got my wisdom teeth out and they overestimated the amount of general anesthesia I needed and it took me three and a half hours to be able to walk. I was about 100 pounds haha
"(Actual Size)" Boy I bet your hoping people have very small screens.
My hopping people most likely do have very small screens
Obviously you never had kidney stones, otherwise you'd agree that the size it felt like..
I thought the subtitle was a joke :O
@@YYYValentine Yea, Just like Gravity. We can understand it's affects and how to measure/predict it.
Drink lots of water or tea so your pee is clean so you don't get kidney stones
My most painful experience in terms of physical pain: I was hit by a car and then my right leg was crushed by one of the wheels. I needed surgery to repair the leg, and I was effectively a disabled person for 6 months.
Holy shit. Same thing happened to me but I took a year to hey off crutches. I still walk with a cane. The cartilage in my knee disintegrated from the pressure of the wheel running over it
Ok it’s official you guys - I am never leaving the house again.
@@GregorBarclay After I recovered, the first thing I did was get back on the same skateboard, and ride a bunch of times through the spot where I had the accident.
"Defragging his hard drive", takes me back to the good old days...
Doesn't seem like the good old days to me. It was a royal pain.
When I was nine, a periodontist performed a simple surgery on my mouth to remove four teeth and reposition the adult teeth that would have come in later, as the adult teeth would have come out in the middle of my palette without surgery. I 'woke up' during the last few minutes of my procedure, just as they were finishing up. I felt them moving around inside my palette, and stitches going in and out on my gums from the extractions. That was by far the most painful experience of my life. Each stitch entering and leaving felt like rhythmic and calculated torture. I could not move or give any sign that I was in pain, and as this was only a minor procedure, no advanced technology that would have detected my awareness was being used.
I had to have stitches put in without anesthetic once when I was young and yeah you have my sympathy needles going in and out of any area on you body is not fun
I had the same experience
Dear god
@@samwagner7837yeah mine ran out so I felt them and it was bad
I love people like this guy, taking interesting science-y stuff and making it cool and fun to watch. Keep the good content coming dude.👍
I’ve woken up in the middle of being “put down” 3 times. Luckily not in the middle of any super painful surgeries. 2 surgeries dealing with a pilonidal cyst on my ass and a colonoscopy procedure. I vividly remember hearing doctors say “oh shit he’s up again” many times through out all of these procedures. I will also wake up post op with my breathing tube still in and either mess with it or just straight up pull it out myself. This would all happen while feeling the effects of anestesia heavily to the point I can’t open my eyes or speak. But still able to yank the tube out myself. I could hear the nurses say “oh let me get that out for you” when I would mess with the breathing tube but after my first pilonidal cyst surgery I remember hearing “let’s get that breathing tube out” and then “oh nevermind then”. I had pulled it out myself in my “sleep”. I didn’t open my eyes, say a word, but I remember the feeling of the tube around my mouth and taking it out. Anesthesia fucking scares me.
I only went into surgery once, and I remember the anesthesiologist asking me to count back from 100. I trailed off after 96 and then I can still clearly remember him asking me if I could hear him. I responded with "No." He must have cranked up the gas after that, cause that's the last thing I remember before waking up in recovery. I have no idea why I said no, when I obviously could hear him.
DirtyBlastard I had surgery in 7th grade and my doctor had me count back from 10.
I just wanted to say how sorry I am for your misfortune!
My mother was paralyzed by the anesthesia during a colonoscopy and oral tube camera exam and couldn't do anything about it for the nearly two hour long procedure...
That probably only affected her as much as it did because around that point she already had seven eye surgery's (each one having to be awake enough to answer questions about the pain and pressure in her eyes) so yeah... My mother kinda scares me when it comes to pushing how though a human being should probably be...
People are different. The thought of being one of those who resist anesthesia scares me a bit.
Thanks for the story. It makes the thought more managable.
I have a friend who can't do the "twilight anesthesia" because she will rip the tubes out of her arm and start fighting people.
I lost my leg when I was three. When I was 10 or 11 I had to have a revision. That is, they break the bone and reset it because it wasn't growing the way it should.
A few days later I was in the house on crutches when I fell, landing right on the end of my broken stump. It was in a cast, but it still hurt really badly. Way worse than any other pain I have felt.
Later I broke my arm, watching it bend between my wrist and elbow, hearing the bone crack and of course feeling it. Even that didn't hurt as bad as falling onto the end of my stump.
Yowww!
@Vayne Carudas Solidor all but one.
Daaaamn. I was gonna say 'childbirth' was the most pain I've been in (true). But never mind now!
@@JK-bh6xk Imagine how the female spotted hyena feels about childbirth.
Female spotted hyena's have a "penis" which that baby must pass through. It tears when this happens.
The "penis" is actually a very enlarged clitoris, so you can probably imagine.
@@erictaylor5462 how do you know this?
"What's the most painful experience you ever had?"
right before my 2013 brain surgery it became painful to think thoughts. it felt so surreal to have that pain leave once the surgery was done
Pain from just having thoughts?
"Doc what the hell are the needles for?"
"Yo dawg I heard you don't like pain so I'm giving you some pain so you can feel pain to distract you from the pain."
HA! When I am placing an IV in a patient, I say that very thing (well it's the CONCEPT) to the patient. Believe me, I'm not a fan of this fact, either.
Painception
Can we just have a "Joe's cold opens" compilation? Asking for a friend...
Yes please!
I second that!
I would like that. And share it.
To answer your question, the most pain I ever felt was when I was 12 years old, it was the WInter of 2008/2009. I'm leaning towards December, and I'm on these hills called "7 hills." Everyone is sledding and I'm on my brand new GT Snow Racer. I didn't know how to turn. I thought it was like a car. You turn the wheel and the whole thing turns.
Anyways, I wound going off a jump but only kind of. The right side of the thing went off the jump but the left side didn't.
I cut off the top of my left ear. Fortunately, it was still kind of attached. I went to the hospital and after a few hours and 26 stitches, it was back on. I still have the whole thing, but I also have a wicked scar. Anyways, getting cartilage sliced is brutal. I don't recommend it.
As a person with multiple cartilage piercings, yes, cartilage pain is a world apart
20 odd years ago I almost lost my right leg in a motorcycle wreck. I subsequently had 12 major surgeries over the next 6 months.
I almost always had the same anesthesiologist for every one except maybe the first emergency surgery. I was out when before they went to work.
In any case, the first thing the doc told me was that anesthesiology is more of an art than a science but that he'd be next to me the whole time and monitoring my state.
We eventually knew each other on a first-name basis!!!
.. A very cool and reassuring dude to be sure!
I also found out from him that when you are 'under', you don't dream. He has no idea why that is!
Most painful experience:
7th grade soccer accident, cut my palm, seperated six vains and my thumb's nerv, bled like a pig, lost close to a liter of blood; and on the way to the hospital my mom made me drink half a liter of milk because it's traditionally believed that it restores lost blood; the doctor stoped the bleeding but apparently couldn't drug me for the surgery until my body processed all that milk.
And that my friends was the longest most agonizing six hours of my life.
The good news is I my made a full recovery.
oof
Thanks mom.
You sir are a trooper
Thank God your ok I know your mom was worried as a parent its a scary scenerio
how guilty did your mum feel?
When I had my colonoscopy. I felt weird, cause I lost time. I was looking at my hand at the start and the next thing I know the doctor said, "OK all done!" I didn't even know they had started. It just weirded me out for the next few days.
Just wondering why you would be having any type of anesthesia for a colonoscopy?... maybe colonectomy if that's even a thing but colonoscopy...
And I don't know what would be worse, having it done fully awake or having unaccounted time from the colonoscopy
I was once up for 8 days and nights in a row due to a massive tooth impaction. No insurance, money or painkillers beyond ibuprofen. It was the most excruciating pain I've ever experienced, and after a few days I was hallucinating, and having sensations of floating above my body. I attempted to slice the gum with a blade to relieve the pressure which didn't work. I tried to pull the tooth out with pliers. This only added to the agony. On the eighth night, I dropped to the floor, losing balance, and I felt what seemed like an electric shock and a pronounced vibration around the impacted tooth that lasted about 3 seconds, and the pain left within a minute, I remember thinking that an evil spirit had just left the tooth and then I passed out and slept. Idk about the spirit but to my delirious mind, it sure seemed real.
Idk sh*t but could it be that the nerves around the tooth died? Like from infection or toxicity. Maybe that would kill the pain. Was it still swollen?
My dad had the same thing happen, but he finally got it out with pliers. Crazy bastard I tell ya, I’d be dying!
Did you go to the dentist after??
Let me say props to Joe for explaining how action potential / axons and dendrites works better than my college course.
J: "Let's talk about something even worse"
M: "Don't. No. Joe, please stop."
J: "It's something called anesthesia awareness"
M: "NOPE. I'M OUT. BYE."
Well...
But what if after you endured like say... 12 hours of surgical pain...
After that no pain will be greater than what you experienced...
Thus, 12 hours for a lifetime of supreme pain treshold...
Yes, i know, its not that simple.
Yes, i know, my english can be broken from time to time.
it was awesome! i could feel the instruments inside my chest as i watche it in realtime on a xray monitor like watching tv!
J: "But remember, for most of human history, that was just called surgery."
;-)
I have performed cpr, knowing this made me re-evaluate the experience.....big time.
gotama420 Jesus Christ man that’s fucking disturbing.
I remember ether. I remember being held down while they put the mask over my face (this was when I was approx. 5 years old in 1960) and it felt like they were trying to suffocate me. I remember kicking a nurse.
Is ether the gas? I got that too as a kid and I was doing the same kicking and trying to fight the dentist off me, the smell of rubber mask and the feeling of the stuff kicking in has always stuck with me, I remember my face vibrating, scary experience it's made me scared of having an operation I worry about waking up whilst they are still operating
"So, that's awful. Let's talk about something EVEN WORSE." LOL
So I was reading a book in English class junior year, fairly healthy my whole life so far, when my lung collapsed. I genuinely thought I had been stabbed when I felt the sharp pain come through my chest, I turned around, turned back, nearly passed out from shock, sweat buckets and eventually asked to see a nurse, started feeling better after being given a moment but left in excruciating pain when I take .ore than half a breath, I cried in front of the nurse from how bad the pain was. They wrote it off as a panic attack so I sat there for 20 minutes before they called my parents who knew I never have panic attacks, rushed me to the hospital where I had to lay down with my left arm up, which made it feel like that side of me was on fire while iodine was running through me(not a fun feeling) and then was given phentanyl to get a tube in my side to help my lung reinflate, it had shrunk by 30% by the time I was there but when it first happened I swear it must have shrunk my 50% because I felt like I was choking. 0/10
When I had my wisdom teeth out, I asked the nurse to marry me.
Did it work 😂😂?
I once told the dentist I wore special underwear in case he was one of those dentists..... He and the nurse were mortified, and they are the ones who drugged me causing me to say the most colorful thing in my mind at the time. So at least you kept it PG, I made it a little XXX- rated :/
At least you guys didn't swear to be able to and then try to do a backflip
Weak
@@tanyakristeen lol i just keep thanks everyone telling them how nice they were. The only dumb thing i did was try to get up i almost fell on the floor and a nurse caught me
"Well, doctors dont use a lot of cocaine these days, at least not on their patients..."' - that was hilarious!
I've always had this fear: what if we remain conscious under anesthesia, we just can't remember it?
Had surgery and woke up unreasonably angry, I’m pretty sure that’s exactly what happens
This very thing worries the bejesus out of me.
You probably don't feel anything (I think you'd have some lingering feeling/memory afterwords if you had experienced pain) but it's not improbable that you may be conscious - I _seem_ to remember hearing the healthcare staff "above" me talk
Some people do remember it clearly. There's a movie called 'Awake' that uses this as a central plot point.
@@tnk4me4 yes they do and its so terrifying
0:07 there's a few. Not in order of magnitude but:
1.) Almost losing the tip of my thumb while cutting kindling with a hatchet
2.) Stubbing my toe on a rock at the beach, and causing me to lose my pinky toenail.
3.) While sharpening a cheese knife that looked like a mini cleaver I slipped and cut my thumb
4.) Having boney sequestrums come out of the cut that was made during my first jaw surgery, which are basically pieces of bone that are rejected during healing. (The initial surgery was to correct my overbite by sawing my jaw, moving it forward, and using plates to keep it where it is. I had a second to fix the cut that never healed and to remove the plates.) The sequestrums came out through the unhealed cuts
My most painful part of my life was when I was in 5th grade. I shattered the lower bones in my right leg by first landing on a hard plastic swing and then on hard dirt that is on top of concrete. My parents didn’t believe I broke my leg even tho I could feel the bones moving inside the flesh. Luckily it didn’t break the skin otherwise who knows if I would have my leg bc the bones looked like a puzzle piece. It wasn’t until a neighbor heard me screaming that they decided to take me to the hospital, five hours after I originally broke it. I then had to spend the night in a hospital room in a rough restrain to not move it and given supportive care to like not have so much internal bleeding. I then got my leg put in a cast the next day and now almost a decade after it happened, I can’t run but hey I can walk a marathon so I’m proud of where I ended up.
Jesus, that awful.
I don't even know what to say about your parents.
@@WouldntULikeToKnow. Thank you for the sympathy. I've completely cut out my "father", he was an overall abusive ginger bastard who is just the worst. I cut off contact for a year or so with my mother before confronting her about what went on in that event (and others), to which she has apologized and is working to try to be better. I'm still not like, fully accepting of her but the fact she acknowledges what she did hurt me and is trying to be better, has me wanting to give a hesitant second chance.
Jeez and I thought what I did hurt. I broke my elbow in half by falling off the bed.
Heze A Your pain that you went thru is still valid and I hope that you’re doing better.
You can't run but you can do more than I can with that marathon thing. Best I pulled off is an 15 km (something like ⅓ marathon) with a massive backpack in 12 hours. Rather shit.
Hey Joe, anaesthetics DO NOT paralyze you. Those are paralytics; a completely different class of drug with two different mechanisms of action (depolarizing and non-depolarizing).
Don't be an ass. Didn't you hear the preamble about his NOT being a doctor, hmmm? Geez. What a dip!
@@lucygirl4926 he's just correcting him? what is wrong with that
@@maivaiva1412 I think it was more the tone, you can correct someone politely it's just nice, theres no need to add down-talk
@@noasundqvist7090 I think his tone was alright
@@pequalsnpsquared2852 "DO NOT" in capital letters do imply shouting it loud
Vomiting several hours after having had a kidney removed through my abdomen. I can't even explain the pain of my abs flexing with a 6 inch incision
Physical pain seems to have no memory. Emotional pain is forever.
@@zebratangozebra I'm sure physical pain has an even stronger memory than emotional one since it is crucial to survival. The exception being child birth. Emotional pain is named inaccurately in my opinion... it feels more like a very strong negative overstimulation. I can turn emotional pain into creativity, physical pain is just crippling. Both types are connected tho.
@@808Fee I agree with this interpretation too. I definitely remember physical pain. People get PTSD over physical pain too. Let's say you did something and broke your arm and you were in pain for months. While the experience is mental it stems from a physical pain and you will remember it everytime you consider doing or do the activity that caused you that pain. That is likely a survival mechanism to prevent the situation that led to your injury.
Well did you check with your doctor and tell him all this and are you ok 3 months after
When I was still doing heroine, and me and my co worker buddy scored some bad stuff laced with phentenal. I dropped him off, made plans to hang out another time and then the next day I found out he died that night. As well as the time a different friend overdosed when i was driving his truck because he was to high and i called 911, and tried to keep him alive until they showed up, then followed them to the hospital after they brought him back. Or when that same second friend died from another overdose a year later. Or when a third, forth and fifth friend died. I unfortunately have lost count now.
The co worker was the worst though, because i was with him, i drove us there and dropped him off. I was the last person to ever see him, and he had a daughter, and his dad was the one who found him when his dad got home from work. I still have a lot of guilt about him 6 years later, the last 5 of which have been sober. The rest i wasn't talking with at the time when they died because i was sober and keeping my distance. Don't do drug. Seriously, just don't.
Edit: i just realized you meant physical pain, but im gonna stand by my post. Id break my foot again anyday over feeling like i killed a friend.
True fact, I’ve got a friend that suffered anesthesia awareness during an operation. Pised off, threw things at the doctor, calling him all kinds of names when awoke.
That's odd, my oral surgeon, and I would think all surgeons, warn that's a possibility, especially if it's your first time going under.
I wonder if he was loopy though... I know I was a bit each time immediately after waking up. But normally it was a very tired sort of happy loopy... happy that it's over and hearing the doctor describe that it went well.
I’ve woken up during surgery several times. I remember it, but thank god I wasn’t in horrible pain and the doctors realized I woke up and sedated me further.
Good video. Very interesting.
I had a long surgery lasting 6 hours. I remember my son being at the end of a hallway in the hospital pacing and I walking towards him(my son was home during my surgery). I think maybe we think about important things on our brain when under general anesthesia.
I had a 10hr surgery. I've never been so cold as I was when they revived me.... So so cold...
the most painful thing i experienced was definitely ovarian cysts mines were so severely inflamed that no matter what i did they would hurt inside so badly it made my whole body completely numb and i was given a medication to help ease the pain and ended up with anaphylaxis and was in and out of consciousness not only was i lucky enough to have severe inflammation and anaphylaxis but to make it worse i had a blood clot that wouldn’t pass my body which was giving me extreme pain and i also had e. coli along with an extremely painful UTI it definitely increased my pain tolerance but at what cost
When i was 24, my wife and I were in a Polaris Rzr. As i was driving down a hill, i turned and the back end started to slide; it caught an edge and we started rolling down the hill. Somewhere in the rolling, my left hand flew out of the side of the car and was smashed between the roll cage and the ground, breaking all four of my metacarpals, and popping the broken bones out of my palm. I spent 30 days in the hospital, on blood thinners, pain medication, and multiple surgeries while they tried to salvage as much muscle, skin, and vascular tissue as possible. I ended up losing the Pinky, Middle, and ring finger on my left hand.
The most painful experience of my life was the occupational therapy following all of this. I didn't cry when the accident happened, but my saint of a OT would torture me three times a week until i regained all motion, i bawled my eyes out like a baby.
Here's some NSFL photos if you're interesting and morbidly curious like me: imgur.com/gallery/lTkHx
edit: after watching the whole video, i should include i was under general anesthesia for most of my surgeries, procedural anesthesia for an angiogram while they investigated artery damage, and regional anesthesia when they blocked all nerve signals going to or from my left arm, and local anesthesia for putting in a picc line. I won Anesthesia Bingo
Brutal glad your fixed.
Hurts just thinking about it.
jesus why did I click on that link xD that looks HELLA painful. I guess thank you for sharing? Will know to keep my hands to myself (I'm sorry) in any coming car rolling adventures o.O
In any serious accident the hands should always be firmly placed around the ball sack.
I started seeing pain and twitching in my legs after seeing the pics. Jesus! hope you're doing fine and your career didn't crumble down. also, how does it feel walking around with 3 fingers and a conjoined (I guess?) one.
One time I got shot in the eye one time and my eyelid blocked the bb just enough for me to not go blind in that eye
nice
fake mcCnotmyrealname wait what how could you know that
@@ExtremeDadDRAMA Because if a bb hits your eyeball it will likely go through. Doctor knowing the cause of the injury likely told him that if it wasnt for the protection of the eyelid it would have been a much more serious injury.
When I was in the Army I had knee surgery and when I woke up I was violently angry. I was shaking everywhere and was in an almost blind rage. I think I may have woke up during the surgery but maybe I blocked the memory.
I have the similiar experirence. I was a sick kid. Had 3 major surgeries. After I woke up from surgeries I always were angry. Can't remember a thing about those angry sessions.
It is called Thorazine and you both are allergic as am I. My heart stopped after raging for three days trying to escape from hospital because of that stuff. I told them to change drugs but they wouldn’t listen and it killed me. It wasn’t anything adrenaline and a defibrillator couldn’t solve once they found me. 70mg of thorazine when one only weighs 75lbs is asinine.
@@jasontucher7011 Thorazine is a psych drug. It is NOT standard for surgeries.
John Possum You are right, that’s why I sued the hospital. What should have been a routine procedure went horribly wrong because the doctors used thorazine. I wonder how often it has been misused like this.
I remember going under for surgery the doctors were just having a conversation about whatever. I didn't realize I was being given the anasthesia. The dots on the ceiling started to turn and move like very slow bugs. I noticed that all the letters in the room looked like hieroglyphs, which I'm somewhat used to because I'm dyslexic. But when I turned to the person who I'm guessing was the anesthesieologist their face looked unrecognizable like it was under rippled water. The last thing I remember is asking if they wanted me to go to sleep, they said yeah, so I did. I wish they had told me I was being drugged so I could start trying to be unconscious. I thought they still needed me to be awake to answer questions so I was just sitting there hallucinating.
As someone who's gotten two surgeries (one of which took five hours), I'm grateful that anesthesia exists.
“So... How does this anesthesia actually work?”
“Lmao idk”
“Uh...”
Uhhhmmmm, yes that is 💯. But it applies ONLY to general anesthesia.
3:36 The delivery of this many puns in such a short time span is just incredible.
lmao 😂
I had a couple of multilevel spinal fusions, lumbar and cervical. I remember the pain was so intense I had a couple out-of-body experiences. Worse, they sent me home inadequately treated, the analgesics weren't strong enough for post-surgical relief and the pain was incredible. I've never forgotten it.
I’ve had the paralyzed but awake surgery experience when I was having my tonsils removed. I was 16. I wouldn’t recommend it... Doctors didn’t believe me until I told them what conversations they were having while cutting on me.
Sounds horrible
Did they tell you it was a cholinesterase deficiency or a pseudocholinesterase deficiency? There are other drugs they can give you but you have to tell them. There are other weird connections with things to avoid in life. One thing is it can be familial, ours is. Just a note from one rare disorder person to another.
Demaris That’s crazy man! I had no idea that stuff ran in families, I’m going to look into it now (I’m a search and rescue guy, not a doctor or anything, but that’s one for the notes...)
I tried my hardest to stay away during my endoscopy, but the doctor could tell I was trying and put a towel on my eyes. That put me out.
My first experience w/ general anesthesia was when I was referred to a specialist because of a lump under my collar bone. I was in my early twenties and going through a rough time as a single mom and on medicaid. The doctor (I can't remember what kind of doctor thought i know it was not the right kind to treat my lump) spoke bad English and insisted that I needed surgery thought I asked many times if there was some other way to find out what was causing the lump. After I had gotten xrays a few weeks prior I went in for surgery and was asked if I got the xrays WHILE they were administering the anesthesia. Long story short - There was no need for the surgery as the lump was a lump of fat and as a person who has always been a cynic, I developed a very poor view of doctors as I am sure the doctor know full well he was performing unnecessary surgery to get the insurance money. Plus I have a lovely scar on my chest and went through 6 months of pain unable to barely raise one arm up and got terribly nauseated and threw up for hours after surgery. If I saw him again I would give the doctor a good punch and kick 30 something years later (and I am a pacifist mind you). Other interactions with doctors over the years has not raised my opinion for the most part.
When I was getting my vascetomy and the local didn't take. That stung a bit.
Richard Anderson oh fuck, that sounds extremely painful
A girl told my friend that her friend had a crush on me. I took it serious, demanded to take her home from a pub where we all met. All the way home we held hands and later even kissed her to say goodbye. Next day we met again in front of a group of friends and I took it for granted that she was my girlfriend. We all met and I said hello to everyone, tried to kiss my new girlfriend and she pulled back! This was so disturbing. I stood there like a complete fool. After that we were together for years to come but in the end broke up. Just a story.
Severed achilles with a shattered heel. Almost 5 years ago now.
Brutal.
”So doctors dont use alot of cocaine theese days, atleast not on their patients” - Joe Scott
lol(^o^)
15:50 didn’t happen to me in my open heart surgery, but happened in recovery. I woke up about 30 min before I could move and heard the nurses talking to my family that they’d give me pain meds when I woke up. It was the most frustrating 30 min of my life. I can only imagine the trauma of it had happened when my chest was still open...
Oh my God. 30 minutes?!
I've woken up "too early" post-op, but not _that_ early! Very vague recollection of waking up after sinus surgery and hearing someone SCREAMING... (spoiler: it was me)
There was a definite "oh shit" response to my consciousness. But at least they knew I was awake and were able to knock me right back out. Can't imagine if that weren't the case!
Yeah, thankfully I had done a ton of research before and knew what was happening so I wasn’t afraid. I was just so mad I couldn’t tell them I was already awake and in a lot of pain. I told my husband after, that if I were ever to be kept alive in a way that I could not communicate that they need to pull the plug, I can’t do it...
@@kaitlynnkenney9140 - Agree 100%! In fact, I'm going to plagiarize from you and add that language to my Healthcare Directive!
To be completely conscious & cognizant, yet unable to communicate in any way... that sounds like a special kind of hell. No thank you.
Worst physical pain....top two:
1- Near septic infection in my lower back around my spinal cord, required immediate emergency surgery.
2- Seven infected ulcers on my lower legs from exposure to wild parsnip(and poor initial treatment from my GP), it took almost two years to heal the open wounds and I still experience ghost pain from damaged nerves.
Both were excruciating.