“Can anesthesia make you tired for days?”
I am a 38 year old female. I want to know if anesthesia can make you tired for days?
5 Answers
The stress of surgery causes some people to feel tired for days after the procedure. For example, patients undergoing colonoscopy with propofol often feel energized after emergence from anesthesia. Colonoscopy does not cause great body stress like an open abdominal procedure.
It depends on the type of surgery, the length of the procedure, type of anesthesia (I suppose it was general anesthesia and the procedure was ambulatory, so you went home the same day). But it also depends on how sensitive you are to the effects of all the medications you received, as well as whether you were given some pain medication when you went home. In general, the effects of the general anesthesia should be gone in a few days.
Yes anesthesia can make you feel tired or even feel like you’re in a fog for days to weeks after. The longer you’re under anesthesia the longer it takes to recover from an energy and cognition standpoint.
Yes. Especially general anesthesia
All depends upon the length and type of surgery, and patient general condition. You could feel weak and tired after a major surgery under geta. But it is supposed to disappear in a matter of 24 or 48 hrs.
