“Can you feel anything under general anesthesia?”
I'm going to have surgery under general anesthesia and I'm worried. I never had surgery done before. Can you feel anything under general anesthesia?
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With general anesthesia, you should not feel anything or remember anything. It could be 5 mins or 5 hours, it will feel like a time warp for you after closing and then opening your eyes. Sometimes you will dream, so make mental suggestions to yourself of being on the beach.
No. General anesthesia is a drug induce loss of consciousness during which patient are not arousable and not responsive to painfull estimulation. On rare cases like severe traumas and cardiac surgery since there is patients that are hemodynamically unstable there is a tendency were the level of anesthesia is decreased in order to improve patient vital signs and in those patient we can see recall. Patients remembering part of surgery but this is rare.
No
