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5:22am April 30, 2013

➸ "You don't need this junk. You need a cat.": Oh and the other good thing

twocentsormore:

youneedacat:

Is that everyone told me the exact medication combination they used for my anesthesia is going into my chart as an excellent choice for the future.

So in most circumstances, for all further noxious procedures in Interventional Radiology, they should be able to have someone on hand to do them…

Oh, you don’t have to answer this now, but just whenever you have the energy- what exactly was it they gave you again? Because I want to go back to my oral surgeon and try to talk to him again about why the combination of sedatives/anesthetics he was trying to talk me into wouldn’t be a good idea for me (to say the least) and why, and see if I can get him to believe me.  clatterbane mentioned some other ones specifically for wisdom tooth removal, that are good if your adrenal glands tend to go psycho in medical situations, and I want to have a list of medication names to actually show him.

I’m not sure all of it. But I think one part was propofol. It works great for my mom too, and she and I have very similar physiology. I can’t say what will work for you. A really good anesthesiologist will have a number of tricks up their sleeve that they can combine and mess around with to make your experience work as good as possible, rather than being confined to one or two meds. I know there were at least three meds I was given. I think another was fentanyl. But I suspect the propofol made the difference between the mild sedation of my horrible experience and the total lack of awareness I had this time.

The anesthesiologist also said a good anesthesiologist will never promise you won’t wake up, you’ll be asleep, you won’t feel anything, you won’t remember anything. Because even general anesthesia is something people are known to wake up from. In fact I’ve woken up from general before and heard someone say “oh shit” and put me out again. A doctor once told me people with trauma histories are hard to put under and keep under because our bodies try to keep us alert no aware at all times