Less sedation next time please...

[perdidobay]

MY!
I had cataract surgery on Wednesday at 9am. My husband said I slept all the way home and he put me in bed. I didn't wake up until
Thursday at 7am. He said he checked on me hourly to see if I was still breathing.

Have any of you had an experience like that?

 

[stm61]

I had a hysterectomy a few years back. I've always had a problem with getting sick after waking up from surgery. This time they definately did not want that to happen, so they used something called Versted, or something close to that. I must have woken up in recovery, but I have no memory of anything from the time the nurse put the medication in the IV, until I was being moved back into the bed in my room. I woke up for a few minutes then, then went right back out. I think the nurses woke me a few times to check vitals and give meds, but I can't swear to it lol.

 

[imabrat]

A couple of years ago when I had my adenoids removed, I had some trouble clotting. They gave me fluids, the first thing I did was say "I have to pee", and slept after that.

Last year (actually it was a year yesterday) I had my knee replaced. I remember waking up from surgery and they put me on Morphine, which didn't help at all. I had a CPM machine so my knee was moving constantly, I was in PAIN! I finally got a pain pump with Dilaudid, and the next 7 days are fuzzy now. I remember having my best friend visit me, getting angry over Cherry Pepsi and I wanted Cherry Coke, and the social worker and some gifts. I JUST found out today I recieved anti-rejection meds after surgery, shows you how much I remembered. LOL!

Then getting my port removed after chemo was horrible. They didn't use enough sedation. They gave me some Valium and a small local. I FELT EVERYTHING! It was a short procedure, but man, having a device with tubing ripped from your chest is painful. To top it off, they glued me shut, not stitched. They glued me too tight! I'm reminded everytime I shower, it's incredibly tight in that area.

 

[froglady]

MY!
I had cataract surgery on Wednesday at 9am. My husband said I slept all the way home and he put me in bed. I didn't wake up until
Thursday at 7am. He said he checked on me hourly to see if I was still breathing.

Have any of you had an experience like that?

Be thankful. When I was a new RN, the standard of care was to keep patients in the hospital for a few days, and the first 24 hours they were sandbagged so they wouldn't move their heads.

Going home and sleeping in my own bed for 20 hours? Sounds good to me.

sandbagged = 2 sandbags, one on each side of your head, to keep you from turning to one side or the other

 

[lovetoscrap]

See, now that is the kind of sedation I like! I want to be out until the incision heals! Heck, I want to be gassed before they put the IV in-- and left out until I am at home, in bed and over those extremely painful first few days, but I can't seem to convince them to do that.

I had a choice for my foot surgery of a local with some "relaxers" or full general. The dr came in and witnessed me trying hard not to faint when they were doing my IV, then the anesthesiologist saw me turn white when he described the local option. He and my dr and I agreed that I needed to be totally out!

For the foot surgery before this I had a procedure (different dr) that can be done with a local in the dr's office surgical suite. But he refused to do it and said I HAD to be in the hospital with anesthesia! He knew me too well. They gave me the Twilight stuff but a very strong dose. I was OUT--and happy that I was.

Acutally what was really cool was that there is a portable local anesthesia they can use. It is a canister that has a line that goes into your incision. This was the greatest! My foot stayed numb for almost 3 days until the dr took it out because of the local and that really helped.

 

[Macca1111]

MY!
I had cataract surgery on Wednesday at 9am. My husband said I slept all the way home and he put me in bed. I didn't wake up until
Thursday at 7am. He said he checked on me hourly to see if I was still breathing.

Have any of you had an experience like that?

Have you had that type of sedation before? It may just be a reaction to the type of medication. I'd probably be glad to be out like that tho, I don't do so well with anesthetics.

 

[perdidobay]

Then getting my port removed after chemo was horrible. They didn't use enough sedation. They gave me some Valium and a small local. I FELT EVERYTHING! It was a short procedure, but man, having a device with tubing ripped from your chest is painful. To top it off, they glued me shut, not stitched. They glued me too tight! I'm reminded everytime I shower, it's incredibly tight in that area.

 

[perdidobay]

Be thankful. When I was a new RN, the standard of care was to keep patients in the hospital for a few days, and the first 24 hours they were sandbagged so they wouldn't move their heads.

Going home and sleeping in my own bed for 20 hours? Sounds good to me.

sandbagged = 2 sandbags, one on each side of your head, to keep you from turning to one side or the other

I can't imagine not being able to move my head!

I did enjoy my long nap

 

[perdidobay]

Have you had that type of sedation before? It may just be a reaction to the type of medication. I'd probably be glad to be out like that tho, I don't do so well with anesthetics.

I had the same type of sedation 4 months eariler when I had a colonoscopy, but I was out only 7 hours then.