What does it feel like to be put under general anesthesia?

Nothing: Usually there will be an anesthesia [person (md or crna) talking to you and relaxing you. You will be told to think of something pleasant and the medication is given. Most patients are asleep within 3-4 seconds and remember nothing.

Drifting to sleep: It feels like just drifting off to sleep very quickly. Occasionally patients recall feeling some burning or stinging in the IV site when medications (especially propofol) are injected into the vein. Sometimes people have the sensation of a funny smell or taste in the mouth. None of this lasts long, as sleep comes within seconds. When you wake up, you feel as though no time at all has passed.

NOTHING: You do not dream during general anesthesia. Your brain wave are alsmot absent. You may dream on wake up. Anesthesia means a" a strange sleep" because u have no sense that time has gone by. It feels like nothing happened no time passed - nothing.

Very Few Know: With modern anesthetics we try and shut down the memory of the patient before they go to the or. Once they can't remember what happened, it is very hard to find out what they felt as they went to sleep. Without sedatives the very medication that is used to put people to sleep blocks memory formation, so we have the same problem. Same with waking up. Patients come to in the pacu after the op.

Nothing: By definition, general anesthesia involves loss of consciousness. Therefore, there should be "no" awareness. The experience of anesthesia "induction, " the going-off-to-sleep, may be variable and depends upon the urgency of the surgery and your general medical condition. Nonetheless, even if a "longer" induction is required, drugs used to lessen your anxiety will erase memories anyway no worry!

Nothing: Falling asleep and is generally euphoric and rapid taking only seconds. Once under you experience nothing.

Very Few Know: With modern anesthetics we try and shut down the memory of the patient before they go to the or. Once they can't remember what happened, it is very hard to find out what they felt as they went to sleep. Without sedatives the very medication that is used to put people to sleep blocks memory formation, so we have the same problem. Same with waking up. Patients come to in the pacu after the op.