Like I know you’re not supposed to smoke before surgery and always tell your dr when you last smoked but how does it effect the anesthesia?
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That’s a thing? I’ve had multiple surgeries, going into them super baked. Nothing bad ever happened. Never heard that one.
I had an emergency appendectomy a few years ago. Daily smoker (wake n bake) for a decade. I was in my 30s and my parents were in the room with me and I was telling the anesthesiologist this info, and my parents were giggling (old hippies). He kept asking if I wanted them to leave the room, but I for some reason didn’t want them to, and kept telling him emphatically how much I smoked and how worried I was about waking up in the middle of the surgery. He assured me it wouldn’t happen. My parents still tease me about it from time to time. Still glad I told him.
Marijuana relaxes your central nervous system. Anesthesia also relaxes your central nervous system. If you’re high at the time of surgery, doctors may want to use less anesthesia because the marijuana would already be doing something similar to the anesthesia. If you’re not high but you use marijuana regularly, your body may be more used to the effects of these sorts of substances, so more anesthesia may be needed to put you to sleep.
It moreso affects opiate users. For some reason, systems conditioned to high doses of heroin/fentanyl/etc don’t do as well on normal doses of whatever they juice you with to put you to sleep. I assume it’s a similar chemical and it misbehaves with people’s tolerance.
The weed thing is more done as a precaution than anything else.
When i was 20 i had a hernia surgery and i smoked right before it with this trucker i met at the hospital.
They didnt put me under but they gave me a valium and a shot of Demerol in the ass and neither of them worked at all. Therr was peoples heading in to surgery who couldnt even walk and i was perfectly normal. It was not a good surgery. I essentially was gutted and had my whole stomach out on a table with just a local…
I would like to add i was a massive chronic in my 20s.
Oh, and the trucker i smoked with ended up panicking and hit a nurse so they knocked him out.
The active ingredient in marijuana, THC, can have an effect on anesthesia.When THC enters the body, it attaches to receptors in the brain and central nervous system. This alters the normal functioning of these systems and can result in changes in perception, mood, consciousness, and appetite. Research has shown that THC can decrease blood pressure, heart rate, and respiratory rate. It may also increase anxiety and impair coordination. All of these effects could potentially interfere with surgery or other medical procedures that require anesthesia.
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