# When anesthesia fails...

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-anesthesia-fails/280682>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [December 19, 2004, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-anesthesia-fails/280682 "2004-12-19T21:08:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![Kaspar\_Hauser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b3f665/32.png) [@Kaspar\_Hauser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kaspar_Hauser)\
**Post date:** [December 20, 2004, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-anesthesia-fails/280682/21 "2004-12-20T17:55:58Z")

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> [@hillbilly queen](#):
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> I wonder if having a high resistance to pain killers (as I do), would cause this. I also have a high resitance to pain, but not THAT high. I’ve never had surgery under general, so hopefully I’ll never find out.

I have a high resistance as well, to pain and painkillers. I was having surgery on my eyelid once and woke up near the end. It was excruciating. I watched the surgeon’s hands (with my other eye) as he put the stitches in. I wasn’t paralyzed though – I was writhing around like a fish. Since it was almost over, the only thing they could do was finish up quickly. I’ve had a few surgeries since then and I always warn the doctors over and over. Luckily it’s never happened again. Although the last time I had a filling I had to have three shots of Novocaine before I was numb.

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