Things people say coming out of anaesthetic

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I had my wisdom teeth out on Friday, and when I came too the anaesthetist told me I'd been 'showing him some affection with my fingernails'. :imbar I don't even know what he meant because I couldn't talk properly and then they put the oxygen mask on me to shut me up. I hope it was something innocent, that table is pretty much on groin level :lol2:. He was quite dishy too!

Since then I've been comforting myself with the thought that the staff had probably heard worse things from patients. So, what's the funniest thing you've heard from someone coming out from under anaesthetic?

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when i had my wisdom teeth out, my then-husband picked me up and drove me to the uw campus, saying he needed to "pick up some books." he left me alone in the car with my tyelenol #3 and disappeared for a couple of hours. this was in the days before cell phones, so i couldn't call him to please come take me home. the weather was getting increasingly nasty and he wasn't coming back and i was in pain, and nauseated from the drugs -- somehow it seemed like a good idea to drive myself home.

as i was driving myself down the lakeside drive, i noticed a tree limb flying across the road followed by what looked like a good sized tree. in my rearview mirror, i could see the docks on the lake flying up in the air and twisting into neat spirals. i thought it was so cool! in retrospect, it was probably extremely foolish to be driving an itty bitty honda civic around in a tornado, but truthfully, i didn't notice the tornado at the time. i just thought it was really cool that the docks were flying up in the air and twisting into spirals.

whoa, scary! and what a jerk.

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I didn't have really funny moments per say, after I had my D&C I was in the recovery room and I had felt my BP drop, I was getting all clammy & sweaty and I kept trying to get up. I looked at my dh and said OMG I'm diaphoretic. He called the nurse in and she check my bp and sure enough it did drop.

On the drive home I was still soo hot and sweaty that I was taking my clothes off in the car.

When we got home I was half naked standing in front of the air conditioner. My poor DH was soo scared.

when I got my tubes tied I wasn't nearly as bad. Except my BP dropped again and I paled and the nurses got scared, My dh told them that I did that last time as well.

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I got two funny ones----when I was in labor with my second child I was just ready to deliver when my now ex husband had to "walk away cuz it was too stressful for him"....apparently I didnt realize he had left and I dont remember saying this but the nurses told me afterwards that I grabbed the OB doc that was delivering and whispered in his ear "We're never having sex again because I will not have any more of your children".

The second surgery was foot surgery and the plan was to sedate me long enough to numb the foot up...well I woke up and could feel the tourniquet around my calf to cut off the blood flow so they would do the surgery....I couldnt feel anything in the foot but that tourniquet was bothering me and I kept complaining about it until finally the doctor doing the surgery (He was also a doc that I worked regularly with) said "someone put her back to sleep so I can concentrate on what Im doing and not have to listen to her mouth any longer". Next thing I knew I woke up in recovery with the surgery complete.

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I cry too. The first time I ever had surgery, I didn't have a general and I was so disoriented the whold time, I'm surprised that I didn't get out of hand. After that experience I wanted to be out. I've had three other surgeries since then and every time I wake up I cry. After my knee surgery, I cried and the nurse asked me what was wrong, I said "I don't know, I guess it hurts". The nasty nurse said "well it can't be that bad, stop it".

I warned them for the next one, and when we did our IVF after the egg retrieval I bawled too, but I had a lot of support there.

It's just so embarrassing to cry in front of everyone like that.

I cry like a baby everytime when I come out of it. I remember the first time I was put under: my boyfriend came back to recovery just as I was waking up and I was lying there balling my eyes out telling him to go away, that I didn't want to see him. Boy was he mad!! And I don't even know why I reacted that way.

P.S. The relationship didn't last much longer, maybe those were my true feelings just coming out subconsiously!

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When my honey had a vasectomy, I came into recovery to sit with him and he started ranting loudly how his doctor was well endowed and should never wear pants that tight. He went on to say how the nurses must love working with him all day. He kept saying how disgusting this doctor looked with his tight scrubs on and how big he was. I was laughing so hard and just kept trying to get him to eat crackers and drink. The nurses were cracking up as well. I finally had to get up and pull the curtain.

In his defense, the doc really did wear his scrub pants way too tight and yes, you could see everything he was born with!

To this day, he gets embarassed when I tell people. He has no memory of it at all. :lol2:

Hopefully the doctor got word of it and started wearing bigger pants. Maybe your husband performed a public service?

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Specializes in Cath Lab, OR, CPHN/SN, ER.

I had my wisdom teeth removed- I was given valium po prior to the procedure to help me relax. I remember telling my mom "I feel really drunk"- she asked how I knew what being drunk was like (I had just turned 18 and was a freshman in college, of course I knew what drunk felt like). Afterwards I asked if we could go get my tongue pierced since it was already numb. LOL

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When I was 16 I was in a really bad car wreck and broke my arm, so I had to go to surgery right away to have my hand basically pinned back to my arm...I don't remember going in, but I remember coming out of anesthesia, and having a guy standing over me counting backwards...and I said 'What the h*** are you doing and where's my Mom?' And I said OVER and OVER 'I want a ham and cheese sandwich and a Dr. Pepper!! NOW!' LOL And as soon as I got into bed, there was a sandwich and a Dr. Pepper!!

When I was going under for a hysterectomy, the doctor kept talking to me and patting my arm where the IV was, and I kept telling him (in a very drunken slur) 'Stop touching my ******* arm, that hurts...'

LOL

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Specializes in Ortho, Case Management, blabla.

A patient still waking up that still had versed/fentanyl/dilaudid in their system..

"Oh my god! You're CUUUUUUUUUUTE...can I take you home with me?!?"

This was with her husband in the room.

Then she turns to her husband (on the other side of the bed,) "Isn't my nurse cute?!?!?" (I'm a guy btw)

Awkward.

Of course, when I had her as a patient again the next day, she remembered none of it.

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I just had my appendix out. As I was coming out of the anesthesia, I started directing my own treatment. I requested toradol, an albuterol nebulizer and started asking if the surgeon had injected the incisions with a local anesthetic. I was also crying and kept asking them to let my friends in so they could hold my hand. The funny thing was I found out later that they did everything I wanted. I got my neb (anesthesia had triggered some asthma) and toradol for pain. Since I asked every two minutes for my friends, eventually they gave in and let them come in. (There weren't other patients around then).

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Specializes in ER, ICU,.

When I had my first child, the RN's were wheeling me from recovery to my room. I guess they thought I was still out of it. They were talking about how big my boobs were. Saying that my milk had already come in, and wondered what bra size I wear. So, I HAD TO TELL THEM! Got quiet! They didn't say anything else! Ha:eek:

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When I had my first child, the RN's were wheeling me from recovery to my room. I guess they thought I was still out of it. They were talking about how big my boobs were. Saying that my milk had already come in, and wondered what bra size I wear. So, I HAD TO TELL THEM! Got quiet! They didn't say anything else! Ha:eek:

ROFLMAO! :lol2:

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When I had my first child, the RN's were wheeling me from recovery to my room. I guess they thought I was still out of it. They were talking about how big my boobs were. Saying that my milk had already come in, and wondered what bra size I wear. So, I HAD TO TELL THEM! Got quiet! They didn't say anything else! Ha:eek:

That remind me of a nurse I wanted to slap one day. We sent an overdose upstairs, tubed. When the nurses were getting her situated and settled in, hooked to their monitors and the vent, one of the nurses couldn't stop commenting on how nice her boob job was and her perky her boobs were. Um- she might still be able to hear you!!!

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