I was sobbing because I had begged my Mom to be there and she kept assuring me she would be, but wasn't. 😢

happens when they give you the muscle relaxant first And then they Put you to sleep. I thought This is what it is to die And then I went to sleep. I was apologized to.

Should do pharmacogenomics testing before surgery or other Rx's

Can't you tell from a spike in blood pressure in the patient from the pain? I've had 59 procedures with anesthesia and it has never happened to me, YET!

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.

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.

7th comment! 🎉

I love your personality. It's perfect.

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.

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!”

Happened to me in 1971, still got the yips!

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

Just got a notice on this.

I woke up in the middle of back surgery once, and I said to the surgeon, "Am I supposed to be awake, and they said no hold on."

I have a one in a million issue with anesthesia, my Dr.s and hospital, all of them, refuse to acknowledge it. I think it's because they have no idea what's going on, I am scared to death of anymore surgeries of which I need at least 2. but refuse to do them until I can get some answers. but again I bring it up and it's like I am speaking in another language. please help me, I am hoping you know something that might help. not sure i should bring it up right here. or if you can contact me.

Isn't propofol what MJ died from after being drugged with it by a Dr who knew it was inappropriate to do so?

I heard Anastasia and had to rewatch b4 I heard anesthesia.

Imagine already being in pain or sick and having to sit/sleep in that for days…Then, tell me it was “fine”. It’s just like when a male doctor is performing a LEEP procedure on a woman and says: “You’ll just feel a “little pressure”. No. No. It’s pain I’m feeling. Not “pressure”.

Then I should be in those journals bc when given varsaset will not wake up for 6 hours!

A angry spinal cord is not a pleasant thing to deal with. After 8 hour spinal fusion and Laminectomy operation my pain when waking was like nothing I felt before. I am a quite person, I screamed in pain. Literally felt like I was in a acid bath from the nerves.

Why is this not a requirement for all doctors for patients to wash their face brush their teeth and shower

L-theonine is amazing.Thjs is click Batey

*wrongly

My first colonoscopy i was terrified of anestgesia. The anesthesiologist saw my heartrate when I got on the monitor and commented how nervous i was. He then tild me everything would be ok and stroked my head a few times. Next thing i knew i was awake and feeling great. I always remember and appreciate his compassion

I really like all your presentations. Having Anaesthesia is the closest we come to death in general. And I'm so thankful for the skills in Anaestgesia which takes us closest to death but brings us back. I had surgery recently and did not remember anything during my operative period. I woke up again in the RR.fairly clear headed recovery. . I remembered nothing about what went on in surgery.

Oh my I do. Not want to ever do that!! 😮😮😮😮😮😮😮

Anesthesiologists always have had my utmost respect. Heros.

I've had the "benefit?" of experiencing both 1970's style surgery and 2023 style surgery with GA. I miss nothing about the "Recovery" room system. What a miserable wake up experience, alone in a room, a nurse who is perhaps behind a glass window, perhaps not anywhere to be found. Give me the PACU where there are nurses and physicians present as soon as your eyes open. And the antiemetics back then were hardly effective. Many more improvements, including that milk of amnesia you also seem to be holding like a pointer 😉. Sometimes a shake is a shudder, meaning it's hormonal instead of neurological? I don't know, either. You've never done a spinal fusion? Curious. I've experienced quite a few dicectomies, fusions and decompressions, and am being worked up for a lumbar diiscomy and fusion, levo scoliosis revision and spinal decompression -- again multi-level. I wish I could catch you live. I worked in Palo Alto and surrounding towns in the valley for years. One of my sons was born at SMC 38 years ago in Don Creevy's ABC. But after many years in the BA, undergrad and graduate degrees, long time fixtures at McCoffees in HMB, a glorious 6 years on Miramar Beach, we left the BA in 1990 after Loma Prieta. I'm in the Boulder CO area now and we haven't returned to Northern CA in many years. Every plan we've made in the past 5 years has been interrupted by fires, flood, air quality warnings, and health restrictions. Oh, with a global pandemic in there to cancel plans, too. I wish I could buy you a large drink and talk with you for an hour. You have a kind soul, a loving heart, and an impressive understanding of le condition humane. And you're a top doc. I have personal questions about my own experience with surgery, a complex case, and other questions about a recent surgical complication that put me in the ICU for two weeks unexpectedly that I believe you could offer insight on. We never get as much time to talk to our anesthesiologists pre and post procedure. Before or after the corporate grab of medicine. I have other resources, but none with your complex set of skills. So, I look forward to that day but will let the chips fall were they may. See you around, Anthony. May God always bless you.

Love all of your content, do you have a video where you’re actually putting a real person to sleep and what goes on before they are put to sleep and how you wake them up

NMDA antagonists are showing promise across the board. Nitrous, ketamine, DXM are all working wonders in SOME studies….Yeah the hell with paying $$$$$$ for an infusion when I can get 1000 mg of racemic K for $40. Calling it a K hole is really a disservice. It should be called a ketamine breakthrough. The secrets and answers to the meaning of life are in those breakthroughs.

I felt less alone after seeing you talk about this with so much empathy. There are still good people out there 😌

I just reacted badly somehow, because I wouldn’t wake up then before I did I quoted a whole part of my favourite game in different voices and then say up straight and started hysterically crying and tried to cut my wrists on the edges of the paper dispenser next to my bed. 8| I was inexplicably suicidal the rest of the day. Dad had to hold my hand driving home because he noticed I unclipped the seatbelt and was going to fling the door and roll into traffic. I REALLY should have written down which anaesthetics they used

My dreams tend to just be annoying. Like something doesn't make sense and I'll try making sense of it and it just keeps not making sense but just enough to make me feel like if I think about it hard enough, it will make sense.

I woke up right when the surgeon cut me on my neck, they was removing a tumor from my cancer, now it takes extra anesthesia to get me under.😢

Wow ! I’m a lurker.. but I finally caught this live on a catch up! I’m an ex nurse with a dictionary of health issues from mini fractures throughout my spine and all that causes..to fibromyalgia and nerve damage etc. I’ve been learning more about this vagus nerve but was being told by a nerve specialist (not neurologist but does excellent work) that the vagus stuff was all BS! I didn’t believe that! ;) Thanks so much for this live! It’s clarified so much for me! Makes complete sense! Excellent demos too! Thanks Doc! ❤

My face as soon as he began talking about Gen Z: :) Oh :I That's me... :T [A minute later] No wait I'm not on my phone in such a moment. 🤨

I need emergency surgery for a hernia and it's my half of stomach left from a botched Roxm y surgery and I'm scared to death the surgeon was rude and I just don't think they have my best interest at heart. As I suffer from depression and think this is such a travesty! I cannot eat or drink and have lost 42 lbs in 2 months. Something is so wrong if medical professionals can hold you hostage because I f your ailment well guess I'm just going to skip it.

Thank goodness.

I am 61 qnd have clinical depression. I have had several surgeries, a nd had no problems. About a month th ago I ĥad a Endoscopy, and the surgeon an d nurses where very rude and judgemental towards me and when I finally awoke in recovery I was combative and in immense pain. And one of the nurses said to me stop being such a drama queen

Thank you very much. im not having surgery anytime soon but I very much enjoy being informed.

Oh memories

If surgeons believed this they would act with more grace and kindness.

I really enjoy and appreciate your videos Dr Kaveh. Thank you for taking time out of your busy schedule to keep people informed and empowered.

IT ONLY GETS STINKY WHEN ITS HITS THE AIR ..... OUR INSIDES DON'T STINK ....

Very interesting!

There is connectedness with the anesthesia...seriously, going under is bliss...to be in that disembodied nothingness...i can see why certain individuals get addicted. Form itself, having one, and then existing as anything induces loneliness...but to be closer to not existing, is something almost blissful

I totally agree.

I woke up right after my minor lung surgery was done. Instant rush of pain. Was that suppose to happen? I had to call for some PK immediately

I feel i got lucky, i got out under for a colonoscopy and i have a decent needle phobia, and generally anxiety, the people prepping me were talking calm, answering my questions, and even soothed me quickly when the knock out meds started because for some reason my hearing suddenly shut off, and i panicked like “is that supposed to happen?!?” Someone rubbing my back was the last thing i remember before waking up in the recovery, best nap of my life.

i was actually really sleepy to begin with and i slept in peace i walk up 8h later (because I needed sleep and dam the nurse told me i pulled my d out and told them that bend over mid surgery so go to operation table sleepy but not horny