Why does Propofol put you to sleep so quickly?

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I got a procedure done and they used an anesthesia which I believe is called “Propofol”. It put me out so fast, it felt like I got violently dragged into sleep. Immediately after I saw that white liquid being injected in my vein, I passed out.

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The reason it’s white is because it dissolves so well into lipid/fat, so it’s dissolved in soy-bean oil and a fat found in eggs.

Drugs that work in your brain need to get through lipid walls to act, and your brain is also made from lipid.

When it gets to your blood stream it dissolves into your brain easily and quickly, where it can act on the switches that turn your memory processing and conciousness off.

It natually falls off those switches as the amount of it in the brain goes down, which makes you wake up.

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