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PthariensFlame:
I'm not sure if this is the appropriate board for this topic, but I've just had a surgery for which I was given Versed (Midazolam).  In fact, it's the third that I was given Versed for.  The odd thing is, I remember every one of them at the same level of detail as every other memory from the same general time period as the corresponding surgery.  The memories are not traumatic (I was disconnected from all external sensory input, after all, so there was no pain), but they're present nonetheless.

Is there anyone else who remembers surgeries that they weren't "supposed to" like that?  As far as I know, I'm unique in this respect amongst my real-life peers, but I'm wondering if a significantly wider cross-section of the world's population has anything interesting to say on the matter.

TheEvilDog:
Nothing quite along those lines. When I had surgery on my foot, I must have been about 14, the anaesthetic they gave me wore off just after they completed the procedure because I vaguely remember being lifted off the table and wheeled off to recovery. Which shouldn't happen, because I remember when I told the surgeon he was surprised that had happened, I should have woken up before they got me out of recovery.

Although I do have a reminder of that operation. When they inserted the catheter into the back of my hand, however they did it, the nurse managed to bend the needle, so later when she was removing it, it tore the back of my hand. So I have a very minor scar where it happened now.

nekowafer:
I've had two surgeries, in completely different places, for completely different issues, and I remember nothing about them. I've also been put under for an endoscopy/colonoscopy and remember nothing of that, though I'm assuming it would have been slightly less traumatic than a surgery. Are you willing to tell us what surgeries you had? Sometimes people are just put in a "twilight state" if they don't need to be completely out for the procedure.

Redball:
Two experiences:
I had an emergency appendectomy in 1974. I'd headed over to the hospital ER after dinner with stomach pains. It was determined to be appendicitis late in the evening, and the surgery was performed early in the morning. Because of the meal, I was given a spinal block and what may have been scopolamine. I had vague memories of conversation and perhaps pressure at some point in the surgery, but it wasn't alarming.
Maybe 10 years ago, I was scheduled for a sigmoidoscopy, to look at the last few feet of large intestine. It was not to be painful, so I wasn't given a general anesthetic. The physician asked if I wanted him to go further. Since I hadn't experienced serious pain, I told him to keep going. There were two awesome cramps during the rest of the procedure, maybe 8/10, and I recall groaning. Then it was over. Since then, they've been standard colonoscopies, anesthesia and all.

PthariensFlame:

--- Quote from: nekowafer on 11 Oct 2012, 18:05 ---Are you willing to tell us what surgeries you had? Sometimes people are just put in a "twilight state" if they don't need to be completely out for the procedure.

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I had my adenoids taken out at age 8, a wolf tooth taken out at 12, and just had my wisdom teeth removed today.

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