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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What ever they pumped into me to stick a camera down my throat had me out before I knew I’d been pumped full of anything. Same with coming to, I remember being mid-sentence when becoming ‘conscious’ again.
It works so quickly because we give you a large dose to induce general anesthesia quickly. Propofol can be given in smaller doses for sedation, but for general anesthesia we want you to go to sleep quickly in order to avoid stage 2 which is the intermediate plane of consciousness. That’s when patients are hyper-excitable and disinhibited. Kind of like an angry drunk who wants to fight with everyone. Beyond just being annoying, patients can do things like go into laryngospasm, vomit, aspirate, or pull out IV lines. So that’s why we make you go to sleep so quickly.
Propofol= “Milk of amnesia”. Recovery nurse: Waking up from Propofol is faster than gases and rarely do you see anything like a You Tube posting of a person saying crazy stuff during recovery.
I can tell you I once was going into surgery and ripped my IV out so they drilled a hole in my shin and injected three huge syringes into my shin bone it was the most painful thing I’ve ever experienced but after the third one LIGHTS OUT!!!
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