IV anesthesia?

Hello,

When undergoing general anesthesia via IV injection, what does it feel like? Do you just suddenly black out or do you feel drowsy first? Waking up I'm okay with, but the actual going-to-sleep process is something I'm curious about.

Thanks!

For me, I was told to count back from 10, and when I got to 8, it was like in the process of blinking, and then just waking up. You dont really have time to feel a drowsyness.

I had surgery today doctor told me it was time to go to sleep so I had i.v and he put a mask on me Report It

It's much like going to sleep. Usually the anesthesiologist will have a relaxation technique like counting backwards and before you know it you are asleep.

No I never get drowsy. I am awake and suddenly I am out like a light. It should hit you that fast. Those drugs are amazingly quick and short acting. If they need to give more, then can, but they can leave your system easily. Although, they do cause about a 24 hour amnesia. You won't remember a thing from the day of the surgery. LOL

It's kind of fun. Most people do fall asleep. I was in and out of it most of the day but it effects each person differently. I woke up with what felt like the worst hang over ever, though.

It's allot like going to sleep, but you don't really feel drowsy. It's weird. As the anesthesiologist counts backwards for you, the world recedes and gets very far away, kind of fuzzy- and bang! You are not aware of anything, and your done with surgery and awake again.
In a weird way, it's kind of cool...

i will try to do my best to answer your request. i am an ordinary person like you. my advice if you really want to know the sleep process is to try it your self (take the anesthesic), or ask somebody who took it. but if it's not dangerous, take it yourself, then you will understand better the sleep process.

Well, I had it 2x in the last year. It's happens really, really quick. At first you're just normal, they say, o.k. now picture your self on an island enjoying life and count down from 100 in your head. For me all I remember both times is waking up when the dr. is wheeling you to recovery. soo there's no real fun in it(for me at least) it happened so quick. I was given, Propofol and Fentanyl-Fentanyl is basically morphiene or herion, as a hospitals version of pain killer.

it is like, lying down after working 12 hours, and still doing stuff after work. u rest ur back and everything goes silent and before u know it, the alarm clock is going off again.. of course with anesthesia u are more rested plus u know that when it wears out....u will be in pain

Most of the sedation medications used in the anesthesia process cause amnesia. Anesthesia is not one medication but a series of them designed to be non traumatic. I have not had a patient complain of a sudden blacking out or a scary feeling. You may feel drowsy because of a pre-op medication called Versed. This is usually given to help prepare you for surgery, test your response to medication, and decrease anxiety.

You go to sleep within 3 to 4 seconds after it goes in or during. I wouldn't be scared. I had to have exploratory surgery because they thought they saw a tumor in my uterus. It was removed and I'm fine.

I never get drowsy, as soon as it is injected in me, I know nothing, until I wake up.