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YouTube has brought the world many gems, but none greater than the trend of filming people at their most vulnerable - under the influence of laughing gas - and sharing all the funny stories with the rest of the internet.
Nitrous oxide or "laughing gas" is a sedative that calms the nerves, used commonly during dental procedures, like pulling teeth, and while the name suggests the patient will break out into fits of laughter, a lot of times the side-effects makes those around them laugh even harder. Someone on Reddit asked, "Anesthesiologists, what are the best things people have said under the gas?" and the answers may send you into fits of giggles without any local anesthesia. Scroll down below, and don't forget to upvote your favorite funny anesthesia stories!
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The laughing gas (nitrous oxide) we use today was developed through experimentation by British chemist and inventor Humphrey Davy in 1799. He was curious to see the effect the gas would have on people and what they might do, so he began with experiments on himself.
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Humphrey and his assistant Dr. Kinglake, began by heating up crystals of ammonium nitrate, collect the released gas in a green oiled-silk bag, pass this through water vapor in order to remove any impurities, and inhale it through a mouthpiece. According to records the Public Domain Review, anesthesia side-effects recorded involved giddiness, flushed cheeks, intense pleasure and the “sublime emotion connected with highly vivid ideas.”
Eventually, the experiment conditions evolved in setting and frequency. Humphry would inhale larger amounts of the gas outside of his lab, “occupied only by an ideal existence”, and even consume it after drinking. The researcher continued to record the effects in detailed accounts but his addiction grew as well. He constructed an "air-tight breathing box" and would sit for hours at a time inhaling large amounts and almost died on several occasions.
Early in the summer of 1799 the nitrous oxide trials began on other people. The two researchers began to give the gas to their circle of friends and had them report their experiences after. Future Poet Laureate, Robert Southey said of the experience: "O, Tom! Such a gas has Davy discovered, the gasoeus oxyd! O, Tom! I have had some; it made me laugh and tingle in every toe and finger-tip. Davy has actually invented a new pleasure for which language has no name. O, Tom! I am going for more this evening; it makes one strong and so happy, so gloriously happy! O, excellent air-bag!"
While nitrous oxcide is safe when administered by health professionals some young people have begun a trend of inhaling it for festivals, nightclubs and concerts. Ian Hamilton, a drug researcher at York University, told MailOnline: "This significant rise in deaths due to nitrous oxide use needs urgent action, we need to educate young people about the dangers of using this drug. While the drug is relatively safe, the way it is used means people are at risk of asphyxiation. These reported deaths are most likely to have been accidental rather than deliberate, that gives us an opportunity to reverse this appalling trend."
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logical fallacy 5 years ago
So, for my thesis I work with human aortas that we get from the mortuary of the uni hospital, but in recent months the pathologist responsible has been very ill and unable to harvest the organs. I got the call that she was well in the tube, so I proceded to say, in a normal voice, 'well a few more days and I'd have taken an axe to the tube and get them myself, yay for dead donors.' The entire cart froze. It's why I don't go out much...
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Muhammad Cisco Zulfikar 5 years ago
Not the best way to start a wrestling career, but quite a hilarious one
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Kathy Baylis 5 years ago
There are some words and phrases that should be off limits for doctors and nurses to say in front of patients. I had a biopsy done a while ago and, while extracting the tissue sample, the doctor whispered something to the nurse that included the words "I can see it". I thought he was saying he could see cancer! I was too much in shock or I would've said something right then. I was a wreck until the labs came back. Luckily, there wasn't anything wrong. Turns out he was talking about something entirely unrelated to my procedure, but I think he and the nurse forgot for a moment that I was awake and my ears work just fine.
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I HAD A GRAT TIM 5 years ago
I had to go under this once too. I had a rock stuck in my upper left eye. I did the same thing. Surgery lasted 2 1/2 hrs and for me it was like ZAP. When I woke up everyone was staring at me like a lab experiment. Turns out I had a huge black eye and looked like a panda 🐼 😂
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Shika Louis 5 years ago
When you come in again - You:"Hi again" Surgeon : "Oh God, what name am I going to be stuck with now?"
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logical fallacy 5 years ago
The screaming kids are common when they come out of anesthesia. I used to volunteer at my country's main childhood cancer hospital and we would even tell the parents before the treatment started (usually small kids going for multiple sessions of radiation), so they wouldn't freak out if their kid started screaming for no reason when they woke up. We called it anesthesia rage.
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Charlotte Brine 5 years ago
I'm afraid I'm tempted to call r/thathappened on this one... Thoughts from other people?
Catlady6000 5 years ago
What's really frightening, there are people who don't really go under, they just paralyze. Completely aware of everything going on, people talking, surgeons cutting, yet are unable to say or do anything, or even scream or make a noise. They're able to completely recount everything that was said or happened. Not everyone reacts to meds, including anesthesia, the way they're expected to.
Aisling Badsha 5 years ago
I woke up on an operating table getting my tonsils out. I was choking on my own blood. Hadn't been aware up TIL then but that was horrible
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Cherry Brownie 5 years ago
People saying it's impossible for the person to still be up: you realize that everyone's metabolism, weight, med history, drinking/drug use all make you a heavier dose than most. For me its a combination of how my body metabolizes the meds & I have been put on a lot so I'm more resistant. And if you think a doctor wouldn't make the fat comment then you must not be big yourself because doctors will call people even just a little bigger fat horribly rudely right to their faces so why do you think they wouldn't even you're under? Ive had doctors/nurses make comments about my weight when I'm not even proportionally that big & I was having extreme vomiting & stomach problems completely unrelated to my weight but because I was a little bigger they hopped on that at one point & called me fat. So yeah doctors are a******s if you're even a little bigger than most
Nikki Gross 1 year ago
I was much smaller weight wise then now when I had my first endoscopy. I woke up halfway through and after that, my GP at the time made a note in my chart to dose me hard if they need to put me under for anymore procedures. That is something I tell any doctor, that might have a reason to have to knock me out for any procedures.
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Carol Emory 5 years ago
My son had oral surgery when he was 10. He had a problem with needles so they numbed up the area for the IV and then gave him an injection into the IV that made him a little loopy, but relaxed. Right before they wheeled him into the OR, they asked me to say a few words to him. I reassured him that he would be out quickly and everything would be fine. Then the nurse says "Sure he'll be ok. He's a brave and handsome young man." He looked at her in hazy shock, turned a terrified face to me and said "Mom! I think she wants to marry me!!" So much for bravery...lol
Melissa Nunya 5 years ago
I had a surgery. Apparently I wasn't waking up after and they called my mom back. She said my first and middle name And sternly told me it was time to wake up. I immediately answered her. :)
HelloGoodbye 5 years ago
I would be scared s***less if my Mum said that! I would have stood up saluting!
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Dodger 5 years ago
When I came out of getting my wisdom teeth removed, I was 15, and I woke up, clamped my hands over my ears and started sobbing. The nurses were super worried that something was wrong but when they asked me, I started sobbing even harder and managed to get out the words "I'm not an elf, s**t". Then I started crying even harder because my mom hated it when I swore and I made all the nurses pinkie promise not to tell my mom.
Jill Pulcifer 5 years ago
I had my wisdom teeth out at 16, when I woke up I was tied down and there was a male nurse tending to me and a very angry female nurse in the corner who looked like she had been crying. Apparently I came to in the middle of the surgery and just started swinging, I had no memory of it, but according to them, I clocked the lady nurse first then proceeded to swing on anyone else near me until they got enough sizable men in there to restrain me and get me knocked back out. On one hand I felt guilty, on the other I felt like thats what you get for failing to knock out a 5 foot tall hundred pound girl.
Kiss Army 5 years ago
When I had surgery and woke up in the recovery room, I was convinced they took me to another room just so they could steal my shoes. I kept telling my mom that I left my shoes in the other room and they stole them and that my husband was going to be mad because I had just spent $175 on those shoes. Then there was a lady named Karen in the next bed and the nurse kept talking to her and calling her by name and I kept yelling "MY NAME IS NOT KAREN!!"
Bored Lazy Lizzy 5 years ago
When I went under for some bone removal (MHE) The nurse had told me to count back to 100 and then I just said "Woah, I don't think I can count" and passed out.
Renae Dougherty 5 years ago
after all four wisdom teeth were pulled i woke up asked if i could have a breakfast burrito. the doctor said no. i cried for an hour.
Leo Domitrix 5 years ago
Had general anesthesia for repair of a shattered bone. Woke up asking, "Why are there little blue alien men on my legs?" Still no clue what that was about....
Lauren Caswell 5 years ago
Omg I was sedated for a gastroscopy, and I have just a flash of memory from the procedure: shoving a nurse and attempting to remove camera. When my nurse came in after I woke, she commented that I was 'quite a fighter'. Apparently I'm not as shy and quiet as I thought! I also asked where my purse was approx 30 or more times on the way to the lift.
Shauna Clodfelter 5 years ago
Coming out from under after my emergency appendectomy my surgeon asked if I wanted to go home or stay the night. Apparently I yelled at him, "There's 4 kids there! You can't make me leave!" I also cried to my BFF on the phone, "I can't dance."
logical fallacy 5 years ago
A few years ago I had sinus surgery and being the scientist that I am I had been very curious about how it was going to happen. No having time for much research, I came to the conclusion they would file down the bones that were obstructing my breathing. My curiosity manifested itself by me asking the doctor after waking up in a conversational tone: 'so, was I hard?" What I meant was, were my bones hard to file down, but XD For the record, I'm female, and a very shy sort of person at that. My dad almost died of embarrassment.
Caroline 5 years ago
Not during the procedure, this happened after. I had been given laughing gas. My dad locked us out his car, and when he left me and my sister to look for help, we tried to get in the car and this old couple gave us an evil look, then when my dad came back the police arrived saying they had reports two young women trying to break into a car.. I was still hyped from the laughing gas and couldn't stop laughing. I think the officers thought I was on some sort of illegal drug
Maya Baggins 5 years ago
I was just a teenager and they got me where they gave the anaesthesia to kids. I remember asking the nurse "Did you already sedate me?", "Yup" the nurse answered, "I'm not sleepy yet, this isn't working" I said. Here comes the blank. My mother says the first thing I said after surgery was "I'm sleepy", she answered "Then get back to sleep", then I answered "Ok" and got asleep again... Needless to say a don't remember this conversation.
Randomcthulu 5 years ago
I woke up in the middle of having a tooth pulled when I was nine. My dad said you could hear me half asleep yelling at the dentist all the way in the lobby. Ends up the gauge on the nitrous was stuck at half, had been enough to put me under but not keep me there. And my mother wonders why I hate going to the dentist...
Claes Gustavsson 5 years ago
I don't get why american dentists use so heavy anesthesia, I had my wisdom teeths removed (Sweden), and it was just local injections, did this four times and could go back to work the same day. Thinking about that viral video "David after dentist", that's just insane.
Peikko 3 years ago
Same in Finland. Although I wouldn't mind to be unconcious, I'm horrified of dentists
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Agnes Jekyll 5 years ago
A friend said, "'I've got an itch in my under carriage," as he was going under. He was told this is not uncommon, but I suspect otherwise.
Paola Martz 5 years ago (edited)
The only time I've been under anesthesia (for a endoscopy + biospy), I remember that as soon as I woke up, I jumped off the hospital bed and tried to walk to the vending machine to get a coffee (I had a severe ulcer so, coffee was forbidden by the way). My parents were laughing real hard at it, doctor didn't seem so amused, though.
R.s. Potter 5 years ago
Has anyone else felt that their brain didn't work right for a few months after surgery? I read somewhere that it's the anesthetic that does it, supposedly it stays in the body tissues for some time after the surgery is over.
Hans 5 years ago
I am somewhat surprised what people get strong anaestethics for...wisdom teeth? Colonoscopy? I mean, anaestesia is a heavy burden for the body, and usually painkillers do a likewise good job. On the other hand, the individual fear and the invidiual pain tolerance seem to vary widely.
Suluhu 5 years ago
Yes that seems quite excessive. I had my wisdom teeth crushed and cut out from inside of my gums as they never surfaced. But that was done with just a local anaesthetic. I don't see why one would go under completely for that stuff.
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Dan Clark 5 years ago
i had emergency surgery to sort testicular torsion but was due back at work the next day after a 2 week holiday. I went into surgery having signed a consent form meaning i didn't know if i would be waking up with all the same bits i went to sleep with ! I came round from surgery and my first question was "are they both still there" luckily they were. I cried hysterically for a bit and then proceed to message all of friends just to let them know how happy i was. I then chose to email my HR manager in great detail explaining why i wouldn't be in work for a bit but not to worry i would be back and i still had both my bollocks.
Jean Jacket 5 years ago
OMG! Was the HR manager amused or did you get in trouble ?
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Susan Price 5 years ago
In high school I had an emergency appendectomy - my first surgery. When I was coming to I was super nauseated. I was trying to tell the nurses I wanted to throw up but they just looked at me funny. Finally couldn't hold it any longer, rolled over and barfed on one of their shoes. I felt bad for it but I DID try to warn them. I was later told that I was speaking Spanish and they didn't understand me. The word for barf/throwing up is VOMITAR.... They should have had a clue lol
First.time.in.Space 5 years ago
I'm just curious here. Ok, maybe a bit jealous too. I have removed 2 wisdom teeth in my life but I have NEVER gotten any funny supplements for such a thing. All I got was local anesthetic. That's standard here, but I live in Sweden so... Maybe this is a bonus you get in the US? Next time I visit I'll make sure to follow this up...
Mommyofboth 5 years ago
I never had that kind of reaction when I had mine out. I was knocked out too. I just remember being really tired. Walking to the car, going back to sleep, walking into the house and back to sleep. Nothing funny.
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Apollo 5 years ago
my dad lost my sister in the hospital after she had her wisdom teeth taken out. she legit stood up checked herself out and walked around the hospital for the next hour before they found her and brought her back to recovery. after i had surgery done to remove a severely cracked molar that had developed a cavity at the bottom of the crack i supposedly tried to stand up and when the nurses tried to make me lay back down i started making screaming goat noises and yelled for a bit about how i am the godess of being stubborn. i also refused their help when they tried to put me in a wheel chair to wheel me out to my mum's car. i ended up falling and laying on the floor for awhile saying that i had been accepted as one of the tiles.
Jasmine Williams 5 years ago
I will never forget the time when i was doing my internship at a hospital in the GI Lab. A woman came in with her husband who was scheduled for a colonoscopy. The doctor allowed the wife to be in the room during the procedure. The anesthesiologist informed the husband of what medication she will be giving him and that it will make him feel very very relaxed. So once medication was given, you can tell the husband was feeling really good and seemed pretty relaxed. His wife is sitting next to his head and the DR. asked if the husband was ready - he replied yes. So then the Dr. lifted one of his butt cheeks to insert the scope ( a big scope ) and the husband started to moan and grunt but the Dr. continued inserting. Next thing you know, the husband goes while moaning... " Noooooo Michael, Stop! Michael, you're too deep." THE DR. NAME ISNT MICHAEL , NOR IS HIS WIFES NAME. Everyone just froze except the DR. The Dr. kept inserting and said "Welp that wasnt the first time."
KT Trondsen 5 years ago
After my wisdom teeth were removed I started to come to, apparently i patted my crotch infront of the nurses and said "oh good my zipper isn't undone, you can pay the man!" and i heard nurses giggling away then i was out again. Whoops lol
Ann Abdelzaher 5 years ago
LOL I had done sedation to get my top wisdom teeth out because I had a traumatic experience with my lower ones, because the Novocaine didn't work (13 shots total between two sides) anyway I remember the ENTIRE procedure of getting my top ones out ...remember walking to the car and don't remember much of the rest of the day... including calling my brother and talking for 45 minutes.. apparently lucidly as he had no idea. I do know I scared the hell out of the doctors a couple of times.. went in for a colonoscopy and endoscopy (simultaneously) they gave me the anesthestesia and I went out or so they though... as soon as they started the endoscopy I opened my eyes and tried to sit up cus I was choking... I also woke up before the colonoscopy was finished... kind of freaked them out when I answered one of the nurses when she said something LOL.
Ann Abdelzaher 5 years ago
Another time I was 34 when I had my tonsils out and I woke up in the recovery room and immediately asked for water... scared the nurse but I didn't have a clue why.... turns out they had literally just parked my bed...so I shouldn't have been awake yet much less talking so clearly.
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Ruth Balaity 5 years ago
After. 25 hours labor and 3 doses of labor inducing drugs not working the dr said he was going to have to deliver the baby with forceps. Immediately i thought I remembered asking him not to squish his brain! I verified that later and the dr said “-Yes, you did!
Just Curious 5 years ago
Pretty sure every woman who has a forceps delivery says this...
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Mary Ann Burgess 5 years ago
Several years ago I was having foot surgery and woke up in the middle of it and asked, "Anyone know where I can get a big, juicy hamburger?" I'm a vegetarian.
Suzanne Melton 5 years ago (edited)
This is the opposite. Back in the '70s, Dave was a physician's assistant for orthopedic surgeons. Whenever the surgeon was using this particular anesthesiologist, the anesthesiologist would find out if the patient he was putting under was a smoker. If the patient WAS a smoker, the anesthesiologist would lean in as the patient was going under: "You no longer want to smoke. You want to stop smoking." Etc. Before this particular surgery, the patient WASN'T a smoker so the anesthesiologist didn't say anything. Dave: "You know how to play the piano. You know how to play the piano."
Celtic Pirate Queen 5 years ago
I had my wisdom teeth removed when I was around 28. I had a tooth extracted (f**k you Dr. Abolofia for not helping me when I lost my job/health insurance) around 2002. In each instance, the Doctors performing these extractions called me "Mish". It certainly wasn't on my charts, nor mentioned in any previous conversation. "Mish" is the name my Grandmother called me (my name is Michelle & calling me Shelly will get you throat punched). Each time, coming out of the anesthesia, I was told "You have a lovely singing voice". Apparently when seriously medicated, I knock out my torch song version of Elton John's "Sweet Painted Lady". With absolutely NO cognoscente memory. NONE.
Nordlys 5 years ago
I wish I was american. You get to be properly drugged up just to remove wisdom teeth.
Merlyn Emrys 5 years ago
Only if you have insurance or money. Otherwise you keep your wisdom teeth, or crowdfund their removal with minimal local anesthesia.
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Erik Granqvist 5 years ago
In the E.R. after a really bad car crash, it is said that I asked the staff to put coffee in the iv dripp-feed. Personally, i cannot remember that. I was bussy being in the clouds from whatever they doctors gave me.
Trash Panda 5 years ago
When I was a teenager my older brother was in a bad car accident. He had to have several surgeries the most intense of which was the first one. When he was coming to after surgery, he kept trying to sit up while yelling, "I JUST WANT TO LAY DOWN DAMMIT!!!". After another surgery, he came to and while trying to remove a catheter from his junk, kept yelling, "I WANT TO PEE BUT SOMEONE SHOVED A STICK IN MY D**K!!!"....Whoo, fun times.
Harleen 5 years ago
High school me was a huge Twilight fan. When I had my wisdom teeth out, I saw them pulling all of this bloody gauze out and telling my parents how to pack it back in. The nurse was going to throw the gauze away. I sat up, started sobbing and went, "NOOOOO! Give it back!" Just to humor me, she put it back on the tray and asked why. "Because I just bought empty tea bags to make your own tea. I want to put them in a bag and give it to Edward! The blood can get wet again in hot water." My mom tried to reason with me. "NO! SHUT UP! I'M MAKING VAMPIRE TEA!!!"
Zaheen Muhammad 5 years ago
Loved this post the most since my time on BP! Thank you for the watery eyes from all the discreet but uncontrollable laughs in the office.
Merlyn Emrys 5 years ago
I'm no fun at all. After a three part sinus procedure that took three or four hours, I woke up the first time crying from neck tension pain- my body felt it while I was under, I guess- but they gave me my pain meds. So then the second time I woke up, I just sat up slowly and asked to be allowed to use the toilet and get my clothes back on. a nurse wnet with me to the bathroom to help me, but she kept asking, "You okay? You sure? You want me to help you?" and being absolutely baffled when I shuffled right to the toilet, used it, washed hands and scrambled back into my bra and clothes. "How are you even walking?? No one is this coordinated right after!" And I just smiled drunkenly and said, clearly, "I've been on a lot of medication in my life- I've got a TON of experience at moving while incapacitated." I think I shocked them a bit.
Dorothy Parker 5 years ago
Love these stories. Someone didn't believe the doctor called the patient fat? I wouldn't be at all surprised. Doctors say terrible things to overweight people, blaming any and all conditions on their obesity, even when the patient is in for getting hit in the head by a framed picture falling on their head. So, uh, yeah.
Amber Cornish 5 years ago
Being put under for jaw surgery, I was about 16. They're doing the countdown and all of a sudden I am giggling hysterically. I can tell I am but I'm not sure why. Last thing I remember is someone saying, "Oooohhkayyyyy then."
Ray Kinserlow 5 years ago
I was having some surgery and, I was told, I woke up and said "Get the number of that truck!". Cracked them up!
carol Vaughn 5 years ago
I had a DNC, when my daughter was like fourteen, my husband, daughter and mom in law was there, Mom in law took daughter off to get ice cream after they took me back, I had a bad dream that my daughter was killed in a crash, I woke up screaming her name, my husband got so pissed off at me, I called her instead of him, he wouldn''t liseten to why and would not talk to me for two weeks. and yes we are still together,
thepotatogirl 5 years ago
I have to get my wisdom teeth removed sometime, and some of these posts are worrying me. Can anyone like explain what happens and maybe give me some advice? I'd appreciate it :)
Ann Abdelzaher 5 years ago
For the most part getting the wisdom teeth removed is fine especially if you can handle novacaine. it is the pain afterward just make sure they give you some prescription pain killers.
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Wanda Queen 5 years ago
See now, this is why I swear so much in every day life. I say what's on my mind then when I'm drugged up it's NBD. ;)
Catlover5 5 years ago
After I had my wisdom teeth surgery I insisted that I would be able to walk, luckily they forced me to get wheeled to the car because as I tried to take the one step to get into the car I almost landed flat on my face. Apparently I also did the Macarena a lot while I was loopy and at one point my mom's friend was babysitting me and when it was time for me to change my gauze I tried really hard to put my used bloody gauze in her hands, needless to say she rejected it.
Marcus Lynch 7 months ago
Waking up from hernia surgery, I apparently asked my wife in front of the nurse if Mr. Happy was still there because I was scared they might cut him off by mistake.
Sheba's Mum 1 year ago
Apparently, as I was going under for a colonoscopy, the doctor- in a patronising tone - asked if I was OK. My response was to ask him to bend over so I could shove a camera up his a** to see how he felt. Then later as I was coming round, I apparently volunteered to do cartwheels across the ward to prove I was OK.
GhostlySnail (she/her) 1 year ago
I had to get teeth pulled and apparently laughing gas wouldn’t work because I was already too worked up. When I had to get anesthesia my main problem with that was not being able to eat and my dad having to take me. I’m still mad about the second one, he was annoying the whole time.
Savannah Manis 3 years ago
I had surgery when I was 8. Apparently after the surgery the doctor tried to wake me up to see how I was doing. I looked him in the eyes, gave him a dirty look (my mom called it the worst one she's ever seen) and went back to sleep. My mom also woke up in the middle of her tonsil surgery. She remembers sitting up, gagging, and then being put back under.
the Lemon Queen 5 years ago
When I was six, I was having stitches put in my head. All I remember from before was screeching, "I WON'T DRINK YOUR POISON IN MY NOSE AND FALL ASLEEP!" and after, I woke up and stated: "well, that went fast." and mum said I had actually been out for an hour and I started mumbling about 'brain bugs dragging me through time'. That was fun.
LaRae Wisnofski 5 years ago
Just had surgery on foot two weeks ago. Not a stranger to surgery, I really thought about just being quiet on my way to surgery and after to prevent expounding on some solution to work problems that just sounded predictably dumb. But no....I woke up and commented "Of all things to be thinking about, I was thinking about Telly Savalas". To which the very young anesthesiologist replied without a beat "Well, who loves you, baby?"
Nicole Chojnacki 5 years ago
I had surgery once and for some reason, the first thing I thought as I was waking up was, "Oh, potato when I fly." I hope I didn't say it out loud!
Mommyofboth 5 years ago
When I had back surgery I was super nervous. The nurse decided to give me something for the nerves. It turns out I have adverse reactions to sedative like medicine and it does the exact opposite. It was two seconds after it was injected that I started crying like a baby (27 at the time). The surgeon then comes in to double check things and to go over the procedure with me again. He then asked which side the pain was on and proceeds to mark my right leg with his initials. I freaked the hell out and kept saying he was trying to chop my leg off. I'm pretty sure that doctor thought I was absolutely bonkers.
Ren Paley 5 years ago
First knee surgery I had, I was watching Law and Order before the surgery, while they were putting in the anesthesia, then, five hours later when I woke up, I expected the same episode to be on, and that I had just closed my eyes for a second. I was very upset that someone had turned off that episode. Then, just a few months ago, I was waking up from a procedure, and thought that the nurse looked like Mona Lisa from Parks and Rec. Apparently, she looked nothing like her, and I kept asking her why she is working at a hospital when she is so rich. She eventually sighed and said 'I don't know....' She was kind of done with me being annoying
Shannon Matthews 5 years ago
I was the designated driver for a friend that had his wisdom teeth removed, since he went sleepy time fun fun. As he was coming out of sedation afterwards, the first words out of his mouth were, "coffee. I need coffee. Coffee." Since he was groggily mumbling this, the doc wasn't sure what he was saying, but I could make it out. The doc and I had a good laugh over this. My friend remembers none of this.
Amber Medina 5 years ago (edited)
I had all of my wisdom teeth removed at the same time when i was 16. The nurse came in to wake me up, and i immediately sat up and tried to walk out. She sat me back down and had to convince me to wait after i insisted i was ready to go. Few months ago my husband went in for his first surgery. In recovery he asked me if they finished. I assured him they did. He said, "well,that was fast." I informed him it was 4 hours. He said that anesthesia must be magic. 😂
Bluebell Rizzi 5 years ago
Wish I had a story as good as these! The guy next to me in recovery started yelling though.
audrey morissette 5 years ago
I had a pacemaker installed at 28 for a congenital disease condition. They last about 10 years. While waiting to get to the OT they parked me next to an older man. To whom I said you a lucky this should be your last I'm gonna have a lot of them. I thought myself funny. I hope he did not remember after poor man...
Kathy Baylis 5 years ago
The only weird thing I said coming out of anesthesia was "Is my nose running?". At least, that's all I remember, and they never told me anything else I said or did...
Carol Emory 5 years ago
My son had oral surgery when he was 10. He had a problem with needles so they numbed up the area for the IV and then gave him an injection into the IV that made him a little loopy, but relaxed. Right before they wheeled him into the OR, they asked me to say a few words to him. I reassured him that he would be out quickly and everything would be fine. Then the nurse says "Sure he'll be ok. He's a brave and handsome young man." He looked at her in hazy shock, turned a terrified face to me and said "Mom! I think she wants to marry me!!" So much for bravery...lol
Melissa Nunya 5 years ago
I had a surgery. Apparently I wasn't waking up after and they called my mom back. She said my first and middle name And sternly told me it was time to wake up. I immediately answered her. :)
HelloGoodbye 5 years ago
I would be scared s***less if my Mum said that! I would have stood up saluting!
Load More Replies... Dodger 5 years ago
When I came out of getting my wisdom teeth removed, I was 15, and I woke up, clamped my hands over my ears and started sobbing. The nurses were super worried that something was wrong but when they asked me, I started sobbing even harder and managed to get out the words "I'm not an elf, s**t". Then I started crying even harder because my mom hated it when I swore and I made all the nurses pinkie promise not to tell my mom.
Jill Pulcifer 5 years ago
I had my wisdom teeth out at 16, when I woke up I was tied down and there was a male nurse tending to me and a very angry female nurse in the corner who looked like she had been crying. Apparently I came to in the middle of the surgery and just started swinging, I had no memory of it, but according to them, I clocked the lady nurse first then proceeded to swing on anyone else near me until they got enough sizable men in there to restrain me and get me knocked back out. On one hand I felt guilty, on the other I felt like thats what you get for failing to knock out a 5 foot tall hundred pound girl.
Kiss Army 5 years ago
When I had surgery and woke up in the recovery room, I was convinced they took me to another room just so they could steal my shoes. I kept telling my mom that I left my shoes in the other room and they stole them and that my husband was going to be mad because I had just spent $175 on those shoes. Then there was a lady named Karen in the next bed and the nurse kept talking to her and calling her by name and I kept yelling "MY NAME IS NOT KAREN!!"
Bored Lazy Lizzy 5 years ago
When I went under for some bone removal (MHE) The nurse had told me to count back to 100 and then I just said "Woah, I don't think I can count" and passed out.
Renae Dougherty 5 years ago
after all four wisdom teeth were pulled i woke up asked if i could have a breakfast burrito. the doctor said no. i cried for an hour.
Leo Domitrix 5 years ago
Had general anesthesia for repair of a shattered bone. Woke up asking, "Why are there little blue alien men on my legs?" Still no clue what that was about....
Lauren Caswell 5 years ago
Omg I was sedated for a gastroscopy, and I have just a flash of memory from the procedure: shoving a nurse and attempting to remove camera. When my nurse came in after I woke, she commented that I was 'quite a fighter'. Apparently I'm not as shy and quiet as I thought! I also asked where my purse was approx 30 or more times on the way to the lift.
Shauna Clodfelter 5 years ago
Coming out from under after my emergency appendectomy my surgeon asked if I wanted to go home or stay the night. Apparently I yelled at him, "There's 4 kids there! You can't make me leave!" I also cried to my BFF on the phone, "I can't dance."
logical fallacy 5 years ago
A few years ago I had sinus surgery and being the scientist that I am I had been very curious about how it was going to happen. No having time for much research, I came to the conclusion they would file down the bones that were obstructing my breathing. My curiosity manifested itself by me asking the doctor after waking up in a conversational tone: 'so, was I hard?" What I meant was, were my bones hard to file down, but XD For the record, I'm female, and a very shy sort of person at that. My dad almost died of embarrassment.
Caroline 5 years ago
Not during the procedure, this happened after. I had been given laughing gas. My dad locked us out his car, and when he left me and my sister to look for help, we tried to get in the car and this old couple gave us an evil look, then when my dad came back the police arrived saying they had reports two young women trying to break into a car.. I was still hyped from the laughing gas and couldn't stop laughing. I think the officers thought I was on some sort of illegal drug
Maya Baggins 5 years ago
I was just a teenager and they got me where they gave the anaesthesia to kids. I remember asking the nurse "Did you already sedate me?", "Yup" the nurse answered, "I'm not sleepy yet, this isn't working" I said. Here comes the blank. My mother says the first thing I said after surgery was "I'm sleepy", she answered "Then get back to sleep", then I answered "Ok" and got asleep again... Needless to say a don't remember this conversation.
Randomcthulu 5 years ago
I woke up in the middle of having a tooth pulled when I was nine. My dad said you could hear me half asleep yelling at the dentist all the way in the lobby. Ends up the gauge on the nitrous was stuck at half, had been enough to put me under but not keep me there. And my mother wonders why I hate going to the dentist...
Claes Gustavsson 5 years ago
I don't get why american dentists use so heavy anesthesia, I had my wisdom teeths removed (Sweden), and it was just local injections, did this four times and could go back to work the same day. Thinking about that viral video "David after dentist", that's just insane.
Peikko 3 years ago
Same in Finland. Although I wouldn't mind to be unconcious, I'm horrified of dentists
Load More Replies... Agnes Jekyll 5 years ago
A friend said, "'I've got an itch in my under carriage," as he was going under. He was told this is not uncommon, but I suspect otherwise.
Paola Martz 5 years ago (edited)
The only time I've been under anesthesia (for a endoscopy + biospy), I remember that as soon as I woke up, I jumped off the hospital bed and tried to walk to the vending machine to get a coffee (I had a severe ulcer so, coffee was forbidden by the way). My parents were laughing real hard at it, doctor didn't seem so amused, though.
R.s. Potter 5 years ago
Has anyone else felt that their brain didn't work right for a few months after surgery? I read somewhere that it's the anesthetic that does it, supposedly it stays in the body tissues for some time after the surgery is over.
Hans 5 years ago
I am somewhat surprised what people get strong anaestethics for...wisdom teeth? Colonoscopy? I mean, anaestesia is a heavy burden for the body, and usually painkillers do a likewise good job. On the other hand, the individual fear and the invidiual pain tolerance seem to vary widely.
Suluhu 5 years ago
Yes that seems quite excessive. I had my wisdom teeth crushed and cut out from inside of my gums as they never surfaced. But that was done with just a local anaesthetic. I don't see why one would go under completely for that stuff.
Load More Replies... Dan Clark 5 years ago
i had emergency surgery to sort testicular torsion but was due back at work the next day after a 2 week holiday. I went into surgery having signed a consent form meaning i didn't know if i would be waking up with all the same bits i went to sleep with ! I came round from surgery and my first question was "are they both still there" luckily they were. I cried hysterically for a bit and then proceed to message all of friends just to let them know how happy i was. I then chose to email my HR manager in great detail explaining why i wouldn't be in work for a bit but not to worry i would be back and i still had both my bollocks.
Jean Jacket 5 years ago
OMG! Was the HR manager amused or did you get in trouble ?
Load More Replies... Susan Price 5 years ago
In high school I had an emergency appendectomy - my first surgery. When I was coming to I was super nauseated. I was trying to tell the nurses I wanted to throw up but they just looked at me funny. Finally couldn't hold it any longer, rolled over and barfed on one of their shoes. I felt bad for it but I DID try to warn them. I was later told that I was speaking Spanish and they didn't understand me. The word for barf/throwing up is VOMITAR.... They should have had a clue lol
First.time.in.Space 5 years ago
I'm just curious here. Ok, maybe a bit jealous too. I have removed 2 wisdom teeth in my life but I have NEVER gotten any funny supplements for such a thing. All I got was local anesthetic. That's standard here, but I live in Sweden so... Maybe this is a bonus you get in the US? Next time I visit I'll make sure to follow this up...
Mommyofboth 5 years ago
I never had that kind of reaction when I had mine out. I was knocked out too. I just remember being really tired. Walking to the car, going back to sleep, walking into the house and back to sleep. Nothing funny.
Load More Replies... Apollo 5 years ago
my dad lost my sister in the hospital after she had her wisdom teeth taken out. she legit stood up checked herself out and walked around the hospital for the next hour before they found her and brought her back to recovery. after i had surgery done to remove a severely cracked molar that had developed a cavity at the bottom of the crack i supposedly tried to stand up and when the nurses tried to make me lay back down i started making screaming goat noises and yelled for a bit about how i am the godess of being stubborn. i also refused their help when they tried to put me in a wheel chair to wheel me out to my mum's car. i ended up falling and laying on the floor for awhile saying that i had been accepted as one of the tiles.
Jasmine Williams 5 years ago
I will never forget the time when i was doing my internship at a hospital in the GI Lab. A woman came in with her husband who was scheduled for a colonoscopy. The doctor allowed the wife to be in the room during the procedure. The anesthesiologist informed the husband of what medication she will be giving him and that it will make him feel very very relaxed. So once medication was given, you can tell the husband was feeling really good and seemed pretty relaxed. His wife is sitting next to his head and the DR. asked if the husband was ready - he replied yes. So then the Dr. lifted one of his butt cheeks to insert the scope ( a big scope ) and the husband started to moan and grunt but the Dr. continued inserting. Next thing you know, the husband goes while moaning... " Noooooo Michael, Stop! Michael, you're too deep." THE DR. NAME ISNT MICHAEL , NOR IS HIS WIFES NAME. Everyone just froze except the DR. The Dr. kept inserting and said "Welp that wasnt the first time."
KT Trondsen 5 years ago
After my wisdom teeth were removed I started to come to, apparently i patted my crotch infront of the nurses and said "oh good my zipper isn't undone, you can pay the man!" and i heard nurses giggling away then i was out again. Whoops lol
Ann Abdelzaher 5 years ago
LOL I had done sedation to get my top wisdom teeth out because I had a traumatic experience with my lower ones, because the Novocaine didn't work (13 shots total between two sides) anyway I remember the ENTIRE procedure of getting my top ones out ...remember walking to the car and don't remember much of the rest of the day... including calling my brother and talking for 45 minutes.. apparently lucidly as he had no idea. I do know I scared the hell out of the doctors a couple of times.. went in for a colonoscopy and endoscopy (simultaneously) they gave me the anesthestesia and I went out or so they though... as soon as they started the endoscopy I opened my eyes and tried to sit up cus I was choking... I also woke up before the colonoscopy was finished... kind of freaked them out when I answered one of the nurses when she said something LOL.
Ann Abdelzaher 5 years ago
Another time I was 34 when I had my tonsils out and I woke up in the recovery room and immediately asked for water... scared the nurse but I didn't have a clue why.... turns out they had literally just parked my bed...so I shouldn't have been awake yet much less talking so clearly.
Load More Replies... Ruth Balaity 5 years ago
After. 25 hours labor and 3 doses of labor inducing drugs not working the dr said he was going to have to deliver the baby with forceps. Immediately i thought I remembered asking him not to squish his brain! I verified that later and the dr said “-Yes, you did!
Just Curious 5 years ago
Pretty sure every woman who has a forceps delivery says this...
Load More Replies... Mary Ann Burgess 5 years ago
Several years ago I was having foot surgery and woke up in the middle of it and asked, "Anyone know where I can get a big, juicy hamburger?" I'm a vegetarian.
Suzanne Melton 5 years ago (edited)
This is the opposite. Back in the '70s, Dave was a physician's assistant for orthopedic surgeons. Whenever the surgeon was using this particular anesthesiologist, the anesthesiologist would find out if the patient he was putting under was a smoker. If the patient WAS a smoker, the anesthesiologist would lean in as the patient was going under: "You no longer want to smoke. You want to stop smoking." Etc. Before this particular surgery, the patient WASN'T a smoker so the anesthesiologist didn't say anything. Dave: "You know how to play the piano. You know how to play the piano."
Celtic Pirate Queen 5 years ago
I had my wisdom teeth removed when I was around 28. I had a tooth extracted (f**k you Dr. Abolofia for not helping me when I lost my job/health insurance) around 2002. In each instance, the Doctors performing these extractions called me "Mish". It certainly wasn't on my charts, nor mentioned in any previous conversation. "Mish" is the name my Grandmother called me (my name is Michelle & calling me Shelly will get you throat punched). Each time, coming out of the anesthesia, I was told "You have a lovely singing voice". Apparently when seriously medicated, I knock out my torch song version of Elton John's "Sweet Painted Lady". With absolutely NO cognoscente memory. NONE.
Nordlys 5 years ago
I wish I was american. You get to be properly drugged up just to remove wisdom teeth.
Merlyn Emrys 5 years ago
Only if you have insurance or money. Otherwise you keep your wisdom teeth, or crowdfund their removal with minimal local anesthesia.
Load More Replies... Erik Granqvist 5 years ago
In the E.R. after a really bad car crash, it is said that I asked the staff to put coffee in the iv dripp-feed. Personally, i cannot remember that. I was bussy being in the clouds from whatever they doctors gave me.
Trash Panda 5 years ago
When I was a teenager my older brother was in a bad car accident. He had to have several surgeries the most intense of which was the first one. When he was coming to after surgery, he kept trying to sit up while yelling, "I JUST WANT TO LAY DOWN DAMMIT!!!". After another surgery, he came to and while trying to remove a catheter from his junk, kept yelling, "I WANT TO PEE BUT SOMEONE SHOVED A STICK IN MY D**K!!!"....Whoo, fun times.
Harleen 5 years ago
High school me was a huge Twilight fan. When I had my wisdom teeth out, I saw them pulling all of this bloody gauze out and telling my parents how to pack it back in. The nurse was going to throw the gauze away. I sat up, started sobbing and went, "NOOOOO! Give it back!" Just to humor me, she put it back on the tray and asked why. "Because I just bought empty tea bags to make your own tea. I want to put them in a bag and give it to Edward! The blood can get wet again in hot water." My mom tried to reason with me. "NO! SHUT UP! I'M MAKING VAMPIRE TEA!!!"
Zaheen Muhammad 5 years ago
Loved this post the most since my time on BP! Thank you for the watery eyes from all the discreet but uncontrollable laughs in the office.
Merlyn Emrys 5 years ago
I'm no fun at all. After a three part sinus procedure that took three or four hours, I woke up the first time crying from neck tension pain- my body felt it while I was under, I guess- but they gave me my pain meds. So then the second time I woke up, I just sat up slowly and asked to be allowed to use the toilet and get my clothes back on. a nurse wnet with me to the bathroom to help me, but she kept asking, "You okay? You sure? You want me to help you?" and being absolutely baffled when I shuffled right to the toilet, used it, washed hands and scrambled back into my bra and clothes. "How are you even walking?? No one is this coordinated right after!" And I just smiled drunkenly and said, clearly, "I've been on a lot of medication in my life- I've got a TON of experience at moving while incapacitated." I think I shocked them a bit.
Dorothy Parker 5 years ago
Love these stories. Someone didn't believe the doctor called the patient fat? I wouldn't be at all surprised. Doctors say terrible things to overweight people, blaming any and all conditions on their obesity, even when the patient is in for getting hit in the head by a framed picture falling on their head. So, uh, yeah.
Amber Cornish 5 years ago
Being put under for jaw surgery, I was about 16. They're doing the countdown and all of a sudden I am giggling hysterically. I can tell I am but I'm not sure why. Last thing I remember is someone saying, "Oooohhkayyyyy then."
Ray Kinserlow 5 years ago
I was having some surgery and, I was told, I woke up and said "Get the number of that truck!". Cracked them up!
carol Vaughn 5 years ago
I had a DNC, when my daughter was like fourteen, my husband, daughter and mom in law was there, Mom in law took daughter off to get ice cream after they took me back, I had a bad dream that my daughter was killed in a crash, I woke up screaming her name, my husband got so pissed off at me, I called her instead of him, he wouldn''t liseten to why and would not talk to me for two weeks. and yes we are still together,
thepotatogirl 5 years ago
I have to get my wisdom teeth removed sometime, and some of these posts are worrying me. Can anyone like explain what happens and maybe give me some advice? I'd appreciate it :)
Ann Abdelzaher 5 years ago
For the most part getting the wisdom teeth removed is fine especially if you can handle novacaine. it is the pain afterward just make sure they give you some prescription pain killers.
Load More Replies... Wanda Queen 5 years ago
See now, this is why I swear so much in every day life. I say what's on my mind then when I'm drugged up it's NBD. ;)
Catlover5 5 years ago
After I had my wisdom teeth surgery I insisted that I would be able to walk, luckily they forced me to get wheeled to the car because as I tried to take the one step to get into the car I almost landed flat on my face. Apparently I also did the Macarena a lot while I was loopy and at one point my mom's friend was babysitting me and when it was time for me to change my gauze I tried really hard to put my used bloody gauze in her hands, needless to say she rejected it.
Marcus Lynch 7 months ago
Waking up from hernia surgery, I apparently asked my wife in front of the nurse if Mr. Happy was still there because I was scared they might cut him off by mistake.
Sheba's Mum 1 year ago
Apparently, as I was going under for a colonoscopy, the doctor- in a patronising tone - asked if I was OK. My response was to ask him to bend over so I could shove a camera up his a** to see how he felt. Then later as I was coming round, I apparently volunteered to do cartwheels across the ward to prove I was OK.
GhostlySnail (she/her) 1 year ago
I had to get teeth pulled and apparently laughing gas wouldn’t work because I was already too worked up. When I had to get anesthesia my main problem with that was not being able to eat and my dad having to take me. I’m still mad about the second one, he was annoying the whole time.
Savannah Manis 3 years ago
I had surgery when I was 8. Apparently after the surgery the doctor tried to wake me up to see how I was doing. I looked him in the eyes, gave him a dirty look (my mom called it the worst one she's ever seen) and went back to sleep. My mom also woke up in the middle of her tonsil surgery. She remembers sitting up, gagging, and then being put back under.
the Lemon Queen 5 years ago
When I was six, I was having stitches put in my head. All I remember from before was screeching, "I WON'T DRINK YOUR POISON IN MY NOSE AND FALL ASLEEP!" and after, I woke up and stated: "well, that went fast." and mum said I had actually been out for an hour and I started mumbling about 'brain bugs dragging me through time'. That was fun.
LaRae Wisnofski 5 years ago
Just had surgery on foot two weeks ago. Not a stranger to surgery, I really thought about just being quiet on my way to surgery and after to prevent expounding on some solution to work problems that just sounded predictably dumb. But no....I woke up and commented "Of all things to be thinking about, I was thinking about Telly Savalas". To which the very young anesthesiologist replied without a beat "Well, who loves you, baby?"
Nicole Chojnacki 5 years ago
I had surgery once and for some reason, the first thing I thought as I was waking up was, "Oh, potato when I fly." I hope I didn't say it out loud!
Mommyofboth 5 years ago
When I had back surgery I was super nervous. The nurse decided to give me something for the nerves. It turns out I have adverse reactions to sedative like medicine and it does the exact opposite. It was two seconds after it was injected that I started crying like a baby (27 at the time). The surgeon then comes in to double check things and to go over the procedure with me again. He then asked which side the pain was on and proceeds to mark my right leg with his initials. I freaked the hell out and kept saying he was trying to chop my leg off. I'm pretty sure that doctor thought I was absolutely bonkers.
Ren Paley 5 years ago
First knee surgery I had, I was watching Law and Order before the surgery, while they were putting in the anesthesia, then, five hours later when I woke up, I expected the same episode to be on, and that I had just closed my eyes for a second. I was very upset that someone had turned off that episode. Then, just a few months ago, I was waking up from a procedure, and thought that the nurse looked like Mona Lisa from Parks and Rec. Apparently, she looked nothing like her, and I kept asking her why she is working at a hospital when she is so rich. She eventually sighed and said 'I don't know....' She was kind of done with me being annoying
Shannon Matthews 5 years ago
I was the designated driver for a friend that had his wisdom teeth removed, since he went sleepy time fun fun. As he was coming out of sedation afterwards, the first words out of his mouth were, "coffee. I need coffee. Coffee." Since he was groggily mumbling this, the doc wasn't sure what he was saying, but I could make it out. The doc and I had a good laugh over this. My friend remembers none of this.
Amber Medina 5 years ago (edited)
I had all of my wisdom teeth removed at the same time when i was 16. The nurse came in to wake me up, and i immediately sat up and tried to walk out. She sat me back down and had to convince me to wait after i insisted i was ready to go. Few months ago my husband went in for his first surgery. In recovery he asked me if they finished. I assured him they did. He said, "well,that was fast." I informed him it was 4 hours. He said that anesthesia must be magic. 😂
Bluebell Rizzi 5 years ago
Wish I had a story as good as these! The guy next to me in recovery started yelling though.
audrey morissette 5 years ago
I had a pacemaker installed at 28 for a congenital disease condition. They last about 10 years. While waiting to get to the OT they parked me next to an older man. To whom I said you a lucky this should be your last I'm gonna have a lot of them. I thought myself funny. I hope he did not remember after poor man...
Kathy Baylis 5 years ago
The only weird thing I said coming out of anesthesia was "Is my nose running?". At least, that's all I remember, and they never told me anything else I said or did...
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