# Experience with Anesthesia

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/experience-with-anesthesia/827629>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [January 11, 2019, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/experience-with-anesthesia/827629 "2019-01-11T23:54:21Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Anita\_Dayoff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Anita\_Dayoff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anita_Dayoff)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2019, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/experience-with-anesthesia/827629/81 "2019-03-20T00:59:06Z")

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> [@DPRK](#):
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> Any “connoisseurs” here that can opine on halothane vs isoflurane vs …?

I came out of a lower end oscopy feeling FINE and thought I was together - I was way wrong but it still felt great. My brother had the same experience

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**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2019, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/experience-with-anesthesia/827629/82 "2019-03-20T04:18:04Z")

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> [@digs](#):
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> I don’t play well with anaesthesia. Last time I was under, they wouldn’t let me go home until I stopped puking… but I didn’t.  
> So last surgery I got a block, and stayed awake.
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> At the dentist, I often ask for zero anaesthesia. I’d rather have ten minutes of pain than hours of floppy novocaine mouth, where I feel like my lip is dragging on my collar.
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> My daughter (Nurse Anaesthetist) keeps telling to try some new anti-puking drug, but since I had a weird psychotropic reaction once, I just go with the pain.

You and me both!

I find I don’t remember pain very well. I can remember that when I broke my arm I fantasized about cutting it off, it hurt so much. But I don’t remember the pain that made me think that.

Give me a couple minutes of pain followed by no anesthesia to recover from any day.

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**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2019, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/experience-with-anesthesia/827629/83 "2019-03-20T05:06:32Z")

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Apparently, after my second hernia operation, because the IV in my left hand hurt so much, I ripped it out, refused to allow them to put it back in and rolled on my side to sleep (the incision was upward from my navel). I woke several hours later with zero memory of any of that.

All I could say was “Sounds like me”. 😃

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