I woke up once, luckily all I remember is saying "oh, Hi!" and then went right back out!

It happened to me the first time I had surgery. I was terrified that I would be in pain. I didn't know what they did to you when they put you under- tape your eyes shut, paralyze you, incubate you. I was racking my brain to figure out how to let them know. My blood pressure went up (because I was scared)and they gave me more sedation and it put me back under. However, during the time that I was awake, I could hear everything that was going on and could feel the pressure of where he was inserting the rods in my abdomen. I heard the gauge of the instruments he was asking for. When I went back for my checkup, I told the doctor what I heard and he finally believed me and realiz3d that I was speaking the truth. Now I tell every anesthesiologist about the experience to make sure it doesn't happen again.

I love your personality. It's perfect.

Happened to me. It was a terror I cannot describe. Worse, was the conversations the staff were having. Crude and vulgar. Luckily, about half way through surgery, the docs realized I was awake and fully knocked me out. I ended up not having to pay a dime for that surgery.

This runs in my family on BOTH sides... it's terrifying and horrific to experience!!! I've had it happen, so has my grandfather, my mom, my dad.

It happened to me twice, and I just told them in a sing song voice,”I can feel that!” Second time I just said,” you need to put me out because I am awake!”

It scares me to think about that even possibly happening. Ive only had surgery once, and i don't even remember them beginning to use anesthesia on me, in fact i just remember moving to the operating table and then bam i was being wheeled back to my hospital room. Its kinda freaky.

0.1 and 0.2% means 1 or 2 out of a thousand, this number is HUGE

The vast majority of you Docs don't believe those that do speak up

In those situations, there is a history of gaslighting and doctors attempting to cover up by drugging the patient in attempt to make the patient loose their memories of event. A well public instance is Sherman Sizemore. Another recent instant occurred in St Louis during a hernia surgery but the doctors documented the instance. Glad your covering this topic.

Your subconscious remembers. I have had heart issues since the night of my surgery 2 years ago. I wish someone would have warned me about PTSD as well. I'm not the same person as I was before the surgery. It's like my body remembers, but my brain doesn't.

I had night terrors as a child from a memory of waking during surgery. I had a repeating dream of seeing the bright overhead lights, being aware of stitching, feeling myself grasping at something,and hearing the voice of the doctor and a nurse saying "I've got her." I woke from this dream too paralyzed to move. Then, I had to get up and walk through our house to calm myself down. I was just a little kid. I never told anyone about it until decades later. I just suffered this event and the memory in silence. I finally stopped having the dream. But, before any surgery, I now tell the anesthesiologist about my experience, and that I don't want to go through that again.

I told the nurse as soon as I could speak in recovery. She was shocked. She called the anesthesiologist and he came and asked me about it then I never saw him again and no one in the hospital would ever talk about it. I became taboo to everyone. I wasn’t just aware. I was paralyzed and it was terrifying, especially when the surgeon opened me up from my sternum to my pubic bone!

I worked as an RN who scrubbed cases in neurosurgery at a major trauma center and it didn’t happen often, but when it did, (bucking) it was handled very quickly without incident. It was kinda freaky for the nurses, too.

Happened to me twice. The first time was in 1996 and I am still having screaming, suffocating nightmares from it. My husband knows to pull me up fast because I can’t breathe. I was still awake when they put the succinylcholine in and I was trying to scream, no “sucs, no sucs”, but I couldn’t yell or breathe. Since then, I have had nightmares and panic attacks. 2nd time was during hip surgery but they hadn’t given me succinocholine or intubated me. I woke up to them hammering but it didn’t upset me because I could breathe. I must have said something because I heard them talking about me being awake and then went back out.

I woke up during my hysterectomy - I was struggling to get the tube out of my throat. I got to hear my ob-gyn drop an F bomb & I was still awake when they tied me down. Interesting experience - I didn't sue because I was very fond of my ob-gyn.

This happened to me during a lung biopsy. Thank God they just went through my throat. I heard all of the doctors voices and then had hemorrhaging in my lung afterwards, when I was able to speak and tell them sobbing due to fear they put me to sleep foe a few hours and did nothing about it,Houston, TX VA hospital

I have woken up during hip port implant. I heard, "Oh, you're not supposed to be awake." I told them it's OK. I was headed to a cheesecake factory after this. Yeah right....maybe two states over there was one...LoL. Oh well, at least I woke in a good mood and not nauseous.

I woke heard the joke the doctors were telling 😂 after told doctor he said nah you couldn't have until I told him the joke his mouth dropped and he said sorry

Even if the patient can’t respond, wouldn’t their heart rate escalate enormously with the pain of being cut open while awake? That would be a clue to the surgical team.

Unfortunately, that happened to me as a child at eight years of age and I could not react nor did I really know who or how to say anything to anyone afterwards

Should do pharmacogenomics testing before surgery or other Rx's

It has happened during at least 3 of my 12 surgeries that I know of. I remember 2 of them and was told about 1 by a surgeon that had performed a few of my surgeries. He apologized and said he thought they gave me enough/more because of it happening before. 💜✌️

Happened to me in 1971, still got the yips!

I have it! And the drs have not believed me and basically called me a liar until I told them what they were talking about. I wish I lived close to you for you to be my dr.

My anesthesiologist had me out so hard this morning that my pillow was saturated with drool. I haven't drooled that heavily in 4 decades

This has happened to me during every surgery. I've told doctors and anesthesiologists before every surgery. They don't ever believe me. I'm always paralyzed but can talk because I'm intubated. Opiods also do not work on me. I had my GP draw blood and do a urinalysis and the drug doesn't even show up in my system. What can I possibly do? I need more surgery but tired of this happening and then recovering with zero pain meds.

I felt my stomach being cut open. Couldn't see, move, searing pain

How horrible! You are already scared to death to go under anesthesia. You’re scared to have surgery that could be life-changing. You might not have the greatest anesthesiologist or the kindest one so you’re now even more scared. You go have surgery and they didn’t do the right thing or something happened and you’re awake through the whole surgery and fill everything. That would suck talk about massive medical PTSD. I would not even know how to recover. I already suffer from it already, but to be left awake by accident or whatever happened to this person is come completely awful. My heart goes out to them.😢😢😢😢😢 I guess the only thing somebody could do with the situation is counseling immediately tell your surgeon immediately what happened report everything ASAP. And make sure that you get help.😢

I woke up during my wisdom teeth getting removed. Was fully aware and remember it vividly. When I opened my eyes the first thing I did was say “I love you mom.” I had said this because the doctor doing the surgery was my mother’s boss and she was allowed to assist him removing me and my brother’s teeth so she was the first thing I saw. Her reaction was to say “I love you too” and then strictly tell me to go back to sleep lol- the doctor thought it was adorable.

This why I still have my gall bladder and thyroid. I told my parents when I had my tonsils out that I remember everything during the surgery. I was 5, so of course they thought I was being dramtic 😶. Pain medication provides absolutely no relief for me, so surgery is a definite concern. Had a melanoma removed, and felt the surgery after 10 minutes (local anesthetic), and I maxed out on amount they could give me. Root canals/tooth extractions- 5 minutes before I feel it. Any opiates, regardless of the make/model: vicodin, norco, percocet, percodan, Dilaudid, demerol?- no effect. Of course the assumption is I am a drug seeker, so drs always ask what does work for me.😂 Aspirin. One chewable childrens aspirin. I once had an ED doc (I work in a hospital) ask if I wanted him to write a prescription for baby aspirin, and I told him no. I said I have a contact at CVS that would hook me up. . . .and no one would even know. Lol. Yup. No surgery for me unless I am in critical condition.

I woke up with my second c section. I started talking and I freaked everyone in the operating room. I kissed my daughter and told them to continue. I felt bad for the doctor, he wasn't expecting that. Neither was I ❤❤❤

I woke up during my routine tonsillectomy when I was 9. All I remember was opening my eyes and getting upset because my stuffed bear was in a plastic bag beside my bed instead of with me on the table. Luckily a nurse noticed almost immediately and I fell back asleep. When I woke up my bear was with me again lol

👩‍🎤 On my 2nd C-section I had an epidural. When my doctor/surgeon made the 1st cut I yelled “I can feel that.” He said to the anesthesiologist to do something and he spoke to me to reassure me, he asked me what kind of music I would like to hear🥰 Everything was fine after that. He waited for the anesthesiologist to say “go ahead” and Doctor Chan said you have a little boy. I didn’t even know that Doctor Chan had already re-started 🤱🥰

Question have you noticed anesthesiologists are so caring.

It’s a very scary feeling.

I have a vague recollection of waking up at some point during my wisdom teeth surgery, over 15 years ago (which was under general because I had very impacted ones.) I was terrified but they put me back to sleep really quickly. When I woke up I was sobbing though. 😕 I was glad that my mom was there when I came to (the only surgery she was able to be at, all of the rest of mine were after she passed.) I really hope that never happens again. I was awake for kind of a while before my first MRI under general… I cracked up the staff because I made a comment on their jokey banter… they definitely thought I was out of it by then, probably bc I was keeping my eyes clamped shut to avoid looking at the MRI machine. And then was immediately given something that really did knock me out. Lol.

I always wake up in the middle off my surguries but takes some time to pop my eyes open. Only felf pain in 1 when they put too large of a stent in which caused a heart attack & had to pull it out, start my heart & put in a smaller one. No one told me at the hospital, they just said we are keeping you for 4 days & pumped me up on moriphine. I found out because i requested a complete copy of my medical report.

During a spinal fusion after I was put under, next thing I’m fully awake and my body was paralyzed and my lungs couldn’t function! It was terrifying! I was aware of everyone around me. Then they put me out again. I told everyone that would listen during my hospital stay, even my surgeon…everyone gaslighted me like it happened all the time! Whaaa?!? I don’t know how to be taken seriously, but 8 months later I still have anxiety about not being able to breathe.

Great. Just the video I needed. I have a surgery in 3 weeks😭😓

Woke up WAY too early once after getting an endoscopy when I was a kid. Was completely paralyzed but fully conscious w/ the tube still far down my esophagus. Eventually enough wore off where I could start to hit the side of the bed frame to which the doctor quickly took the tube out once he realized I woke up too early (still remember the nurse saying “I think she’s awake!”). That was so terrifying

Was sedated but they didn't use enough local anesthetic (I'm not a read head and don't do anything fun). I told them mid surgery it hurt and in that moment really was just hoping everything would stop. Which begore I kept requesting GA to be told no even tho I had done what we had before every other eye surgery where I had GA (like 18 means i magically must stay awake?). The surgery prior was awake and I got anxious so I said last time I felt a lot of anxiety being aware in the OR and then this happened so next surgery I was under GA thankfully. Then the next I had a different surgeon who I requested GA and even explained I have ptsd from this time that has had me hospitalized multiple times to be told idc you're awake in the OR then after bc I felt all again (I genuinely believe this tome was on purpose not numbing me bc dr did nothing when i said it hurt and started having a panic attack other than say breathe instead of giving anxiety meds or numbing the eye) so my psychiatrist wrote a letter going this pt was okayish now she's active SI bc you wouldn't listen then that opthalmologist left like 2 months later and my current has always agreed to general for eye surgeries and in office procedures I get breaks and med students hold my hands and I have my stuffed animal and i get a little math infodump in to calm down.

Happened to me during bunion surgery. I could feel the Dr. tying sutures. I didn't want to look. I just said "I can hear you speaking." The Drs. Froze, and the Anesthesiologist quickly said "I'll fix that right away"

I believe it happened to me but the memory is vague. Couldn't make out the conversations I heard but I felt extremely vulnerable

I woke under anesthesia. I saw the over head light and spontaneously sat up and retched because I was intabated. The anesthesiologist grabbed me ny the head and said don't do that! I remembered it very clearly.😊

I woke up at the end of an oral surgery and couldn't keep my hands away from my mouth because it was painful and I didn't want the surgeon to continue with me still awake. They tied me down and told me they were almost done, applied local anesthesia, and finished the surgery with me wide awake. The student who was watching asked me what I remembered, I felt so bad for her, I lied to her and told her I didn't remember anything... when I in fact remember everything. It was terrifying.

I had a procedure under a local anesthetic. It was agony. A deep stinging pain. Like a true Brit, I kept quiet and thought of England.

I have had it A LOT in surgeries and it doesn’t matter what type of anesthesia I’m given, I still wake up.

I woke up once, heard them using electric instruments then i guess they caught i was awake by the monitors or something then was out again; maybe awake 10secs max, no pain i felt during that time. Wouldnt even call my experience unpleasant.

I was still awake when they started slicing me open , a dr asked another , how was your drive in , snowing n slushy , I woke up the second time trying to pull out the tubes , the nurse said we aren’t done yet , go back to sleep There were more times yet , My son in a coma heard a lot of convos also

Dr Kaveh ~ In the small percentage of people this happens to, please tell me they don’t feel pain🙏 The thought is terrifying!!

Awful. My friend had her first surgery, gallbladder removal had anesthesia awareness. She remembered the arguing and what went on. Had a huge emergency end of surgery they had to intercom the entire hospital. She may have to go back to repair a leaking bile duct. She’s dreading going back. + the doctors are not being honest about it with her. Very upsetting.

This terrifies me, needing surgery on my brain, decompression surgery. Due to chiari malformation, THIS terrfies me. Waking up feeling it ALL unable to speak or alert someone

No, I have nener experienced that, I love ❤your videos

It's too late to tell your Dr. Because the patient will suffer the rest of their lives from that trauma

Yes, to me. Twice!

Yeah my first surgery at 12 yrs old set the stage for a lifelong issue with anesthesia...recovery isn't any better

Doc, my doctors have learned to knock me out so I don't talk through their time out. Benzodiazepines wake me up. They try to give them so I calm down. Not a good idea.

It happened to me. I let them know whenever I need surgery again. Unfortunately the result is they now knock me out so hard that I can’t wake up and am out of my head for days afterwards. I’ve tried asking for a happy medium but they don’t get it.

Hi. AT 1000a.m. On January 18,1998 my appendix BURST!!. At midnight that night i went into surgery. They knocked me out around 900pm to prep me. I woke up TWICE. first when they were shaving my very hairy belly/abdomen area. I remembered a beautiful nurse moving her face looking down at me and said "look whos awake". Then, during the ACTUAL SURGERY i woke again. I could feel them inside my guts. It didn't hurt but i twitched n opene my eyes. Dr. YELLED ANGRILY "HES AWAKE!!". NEXT morning he asked me about both incidents. I told him not to worry about it, i wasnt upset. After all, he came in at night n saved my life. Ive told every anesthesia technician about that time n it never happened again. 😮

My mom’s unfortunately had this experience and she’s a double amputee of both of her legs below the knee

Happened to me during a C-sect. The anesthesiologist said it didn't. Cow poo!

I believe this happens more than most drs think I think it takes more time to b knocked out then they think also

I was intubated and put in the back of a ambulance and i was unconscious but i could still hear everything. The oddest thing

Question - why wouldn’t you notice highly elevated blood pressure, and maybe sweat, tears, etc if a person is going through this ??? Especially the BP ? Would be a clue I’d think.

Thing is, how do you prevent it? I have Estler syndrome and I’m terrified to anesthesia they give you so much. They kill you or you’re feeling it. There has to be something. Oh well tell your doctor afterwards that’s a cop out and all that does a scare people

I did tell him and he gaslighted me making some excuse. I still have PTSD. When you wake up in the OR with a breathing tube shoved down your throat and can't tell anyone even if it was for the two minutes it happened to me and I remember, I know that was not supposed to happen. Years later I got the same anesthesiologist and told him. I was terrified and still am. I didn't remember waking up til the recovery room which was what was supposed to happen the first time.

I have red hair and either wake up during surgery or am aware of what’s going on.

Just got a notice on this.

i was.... i told doctor ,they said it was my imagination..it was so painful..but thank god it was just a lump being taken away in my arm underarm..i tried to wiggle my toes i heard conversation and then i fainted or at least given more anaesthesia

Every case reported started with “hospital tried to Deny it.” I remember waking up during my tonsil surgery. Doctor called me a liar my parent believed them. Aka doctor got away with the suit

Thanks ❤

Can't be that rare, it happened to 2 of my friends. One jumped off the table and they had a terrible time getting him back under, he's a big iron-pumping guy. Other one happened during eye surgery.

Happened to me. And no i couldn't react. It didn't last long someone realized when my heart rate shot up and theyy gave me more meds. I always tell if im having anything done but i can tell that im not really believed. Its frustrating.

Mr ballen went over a case about this where the man thought he was being attacked and had no recollection of what actually happened since the gave him the part of it that made him forget but didn't put him out . or something , don't quote me .

I'm curious if it happens more often with redheads. I haven't had it happen to me, but I discovered that I do need more anesthetic than most other people. A doctor once used a term i had never heard of, "redhead syndrome". I lol and he said, " no, I'm really serious". I've since done a bit of research and it turns out that it's true in many cases. It's because of a gene called MC1R which often results in our hair color, but also means that we need more anesthesia, as well as a bunch of other traits like the ability to gauge temperature changes. Haha weird right

I described the room, part of a conversation & a minor repositioning to one of the techs. The look on his face was priceless.😂 Nothing hurt. Too spacy to be scared.👍DO NOT FEAR THIS.

It wasn't a surgery but I had a bad seizure and had been put on a ventilator on propafol and fentanyl. I woke up in the CT scanner. Aware, paralyzed, on a ventilator. I was able to somehow get their attention and they put me back out. It was terrifying.

It happened to my mom and myself. Felt very strange. My doc raised his voice as in sn emergency and to the anesthesiologist to put me out and he asked who put me out initially then I was gone again.

I always say something bc it was happening during every surgery/procedure. Nothing like being able to do everything but move.

Yes it happened to me.

They gave me Versed. Then proceeded to do two abdominal blocks. Something was wrong with the second one and I flinched. And I can tell you, Word for Word exactly what they said where we were.

Is it normal to feel like you were sliced into a million prices after having your appendix removed and scream when you wake up

I've already commented before, but it did happen to me during a ureter reconstruction. Terrible pain. I was able to moan. I was put out immediately. It was at UCSF.

Not what he's talking about, but I woke up during knee replacement, I heard hammering/sawing (?) but felt and saw nothing, there was a fabric curtain in between. I opened my mouth to speak and a voice said "Oh, I think she's coming round" and the lights went off again. I'd had a back lock, so assume they topped it up with something else, I vomited for hours overnight.

Happened to me during a colonoscopy . I remember feeling the scope and trying to move and groaning,and the doctor saying I'm almost done then i was out again.

You know this happened to me, when I went back for my post surgical check up I mentioned it to the doctor and he kind of laughed it off. The surgical assistant was also in the room at my appointment and they brushed it off until I repeated a bit of the conversation back to them. She got nervous and left the room and the doctor admitted that they did have that conversation and then blamed the anesthesiologist

Don't think I was aware but I guess I punched my anesthesiologist?

I did tell them. I was told t wasn't possible. I've had several surgeries since then been blown off by most. One anesthetist that telling him didn't matter because he didn't know what the surgery was. Umm just freaking ask! I can tell you exactly what was done because I felt it!

it happened to me when I was younger as a child and I spoke about it when I woke up and told my parents aswell but when we all spoke to the dr's they said it didn't happen.

Still can't they tell? Blood pressure or something? Vitals

I went to a surgery about three months ago and they let me keep the mask they used to put me to sleep and the mask. I woke up with that often?

So I wasn’t aware during the surgery but I was directly afterwards while still in the OR and intubated. I remember the breathing tube being very uncomfortable and me gagging. I remember being told to breathe deeply as they removed it. I remember nodding my head yes that I understood. Is this atypical and should I have told my surgeon?

If they use a brainscan during surgery will they be able to tell? I did wake up at the end of surgery, but they were trying carefully not to give me too much. The time before they had a difficult time waking me up.

If you awake but paralyzed would it be visible on heart rate and blood pressure? When you are scared or stressed usually your HR rapidly goes up...?

I woke up with the tubes in my throat and these people were practically having lunch till I wretched and the tubes were yanked😟

Every time I go under I wake up pissed

If you tell the Dr after surgery, what can they change so it won't happen again ? One of my surgeries (knee) I was rubbing my eyes.

My Sis & i habe experienced this. Stay vigil surgion & aethietist, no nervious babble talk

Thank God l fell asleep as we counted