Posted by Larry Hoover on August 1, 2003, at 8:14:09
In reply to Anaesthetic and antidepressants, posted by colin wallace on July 31, 2003, at 15:59:11
> Guys, do any of you have any experience of how a general anaesthetic affects your meds/depression?
> I have a nasty feeling that, if alcohol messes me up for nearly a week, anaesthetic will really ruin my day!
> Also, I don't relish the thought of being comatose and hacked to bits at all.
> Actually, it's only an arthroscopy, but I'm thinking of insisting on a local anaesthetic anyway( they tell me that's out of the question
> but I really can't see why).
> Any thoughts,
>
> Col.As a "recipient" of two arthroscopic procedures, there is likely to be good reason why they don't want you to be conscious. "Only...arthroscopy", as you say above, is a trivializing statement. Orthopedic surgery is probably the most primitive surgery there is. Hammers. Saws. Drills. Grinders. Staplers. More like carpentry than surgery.
I don't respond well to general anaesthetic, but having read up on what transpired during my procedures, I'm quite glad I was "elsewhere" during the events themselves.
I'd be more concerned about the psychoactive effects of the opiates you're likely to encounter, rather than the general.
What procedure are you having done?
Lar
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