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I've just come out of hospital after an eyelid operation, and I can tell you, my experience with hospital anaesthetic this time around, is not good!

No-one told me Fentanyl makes you throw up endlessly after you come around! The recovery section nurse says, "Oh you must be very sensitive to anaesthetic! The anaesthetist should have given you an anti-nausea injection with the Fentanyl!"

Well, thanks for letting me know after the event! I got my anti-nausea injection after I'd thrown up twice, plus two huge syringes of dispersant to go with it, and I was still throwing up in the car on the way home! Not much fun, enduring that, as well as enduring the op!

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I had a previous, similar operation in April last year - by the same Doc, but with a different anaesthestist. That op, they knocked me right out. I woke up and it was all over, and recovered much better and faster that time. I went into the recovery room, had a chicken sandwich and a cup of tea (pretty enjoyable after an 18 hr fast) - then they walked me out 1/2 hr later, and the ride home was more enjoyable.

 

This time, the anaesthetist was a woman, rather than the bloke I had last year, and she only put me under "twilight" sedation. I could hear all the staff conversing during the op, and feel a lot of action around my eye, and I felt him taking skin from my shoulder for the skin graft.

 

I'd much rather be right out of it, and I don't really understand how they claim there's benefit with twilight sedation. I certainly didn't come out of it any faster or with less problems, so I'll take the GA anytime, now.

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That " knock-out " anaesthesia ! .

  I told everybody '' that I'm hard to wake up " .

 It took Four days to get out of ' post op ' ward , usually only four hours .

They kept waking me up shouting " breath " . As my O 2 was very low .

spacesailor

 

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They kept slipping that peg-like thing on my finger to check my blood/oxygen concentration. It was usually low, at 90 %. I had to deep breathe till I got it up to 96%.

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Yeah, I got the same treatment on admission. The nurse was concerned because my reading was sitting around 93% and wasn't budging.

When I asked what the problem was, she said, "your blood oxygen level is low, it needs to be a minimum of 95%!"

I'd just walked a kilometre trying to find the eye hospital, after SWMBO had dropped me off at the main hospital, because the eye hospital had moved since last year - so I couldn't understand why it would be low. However, after a couple of minutes, it started going up, and it got to 97% pretty quickly, so she was relieved.

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