Posted by sonic_gb on December 4, 2007, at 17:35:44
In reply to Re: Anesthesia » sonic_gb, posted by Jamal Spelling on December 3, 2007, at 17:13:53
> > Jamal,
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> > I agree that it is a very weird feeling. As someone who has never done illegal drugs in my life (except for some marijuana when I was very young), I have to say that the iv injection of Remifentanil before induction gave me a surge of euphoria like nothing I could have imagined. I seriously understand how iv opiate abusers get addicted.
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> > Sonic.
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> Hi Sonic
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> I don't think my anesthetist used fentanyl or anything like that to anesthetize me. Certainly, the experience of going under was not euphoric for me. It was neither pleasant nor unpleasant. It simply was. I think I was given a sodium channel blocker (or something like that).
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> In fact, I actually asked my doctor whether he was going to give me oxycontin or anything like that, to which he replied:
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> "I don't service no junkie scum. If you're having this op just to get your fix, then you better get your *ss out of my theater before I phone the cops."
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> LOL!!! Methinks the doctor doth protest too much, wouldn't you say?
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> Jamal
>When I asked the anesthesiologist what he'd just injected, he said "think of it as a triple martini by IV". I then sat in the euphoric remifentanil glow for about 30 seconds befor the anesthesiologist pushed propofol which obviously knocked me right out. When I woke up in recovery, the nurse had a booster of (what I think was remifentanil, but definitely an opiate) and asked if I was in any pain, and when I said yes, gave me 2 additional doses over the next few minutes. Good stuff, but I can see why it would be dangerously addictive.
Why would you're surgeon drive such a hard line about anesthesia drugs? It's not like it's subjective as to whether or not you need them...
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