Comments by "" (@jmitterii2) on "We Still Don't Know How Anesthesia Works | Answers With Joe" video.

  1. Was about to have some oral work done, and one doctor gave me a pill to keep me conscious, but "I wouldn't remember a thing." That and some other aspects of the problem, I went my oral surgeon instead. He put me out. Kind of needed it, the work required getting very close to a nerve that could cause loss of sensation in my left bottom face forever if damaged. In fact, the second opinion oral surgeon's selling point after I told him what the other doctor wanted to do was just give me a pill to sedate me... his eyes got big and said "NO! I want you out!" Sold! You're doing my surgery!
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  2. Used general for wisdom teeth extraction, and another one recently in the mouth. They give locals for both during the work and when you wake up. I've been out 4 times. The first time, I did in fact dream... when I woke the very first time, I thought I dosed off, was very tired that morning. The other two times, no dreaming at all, pure time warp. The last time, I kept talking to the doctors, told them the last 3 times I play a game to see if I recognize the moment I go out... kept talking and my speech become obviously slurred and my eyes began to feel very heavy and I felt them roll up into my head, last thing I recall was "I think... I think this is the moment, I'm about to go out, finally got it!" From my perspective, it literally felt like the oral surgeon further reclined by chair, opened my mouth, and with a few jiggles ripped my molar out, then showed it to me, and I thought wow, that was quick. In reality it took 15 minutes... they gave a local as soon as I was out, and the proceeded to remove the molar, then cleaned the are very well, ensuring the cyst that caused the bone jaw absorption that required the removal of the tooth was removed. Then used bone grafting material giving me a total of 4CC, then took a suture device to stitch the area closed. As I woke, he did show me my tooth they pulled. He told me to keep biting down. I had a hard time remembering things for 3 hours after, needing to repeat questions, I knew I had asked the questions, I just couldn't remember the answers. I don't recall the other times having such time distortion effects afterwards, but those were over 10 years ago with my wisdom tooth and cyst removal. Get rid of your wisdom teeth asap, especially if they're impacted. They can cause cyst formations, and some cysts are incredibly aggressive and bad coming back and reabsorbing bone and ruining more jaw and thus other teeth. I waited til I was 25 to get my wisdom teeth out. I should have had them out a lot sooner.
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  3. That's odd, my oral surgeon, and I would think all surgeons, warn that's a possibility, especially if it's your first time going under. I wonder if he was loopy though... I know I was a bit each time immediately after waking up. But normally it was a very tired sort of happy loopy... happy that it's over and hearing the doctor describe that it went well.
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