54 Internet Users Reveal What They Saw When They Woke Up In The Middle Of Surgery

Look, Pandas, we don’t wanna scare you, but we also don’t want to lie to you: there’s a small chance (teeny-tiny, really) that you might wake up during surgery. One minute you’re enjoying a cup of tea with the Mad Hatter in Wonderland, the next—your eyes are open and you see a bunch of doctors looking down on you.

Confused, maybe even a bit scared, you then drift off again. It’s not a situation you can fully be prepared for, but it’s something you should be aware of beforehand if you ever have your wisdom teeth pulled, have knee surgery, or anything else. The internet is full of stories about anesthesia awareness, and we’ve collected the most memorable ones from all over r/AskReddit to share with you today.

Don’t forget to upvote the posts that impressed you the most. And if you’ve got any similar medical horror stories to share with all the other readers, you can do so in the comments. Do we have any Medical Pandas in today? You can tell us all about your own experiences with anesthesia, too.

A small warning for those of you who are slightly more sensitive than the rest: this article might make you a bit uncomfortable. If you’d like something else to read, check out our post about dogs doing cute and funny things over here. Those of you who feel brave should scroll down.

#1

I woke up when they were removing a small bone from my foot that was broken. Remember feeling them poke around in my foot so decided to take a look. Remember seeing the incision and just then, a nurse noticed me with my head up. She just lightly pushed my head back down, told me to close eyes, and the next thing I know I was in the recovery room. Pretty weird.

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#2

I woke up partway through having all 4 wisdom teeth removed. The assistant had wrapped her arms around my forehead, the dentist had his knee on my sternum and was yanking two handed on the largest pair of pliers I have ever seen that somehow fit into my mouth. He stopped, nodded to the anesthesiologist and then thankfully I didn't remember anything else.

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#3

In the 90s I woke up during knee surgery. Like just fully snapped awake and sat up. All of these wide-eyed masked faces just turned and stared at me.

I looked down at my clamped open leg, looked at one of the masked faces that everyone seemed to be deferring to and said "I don't think I want to be awake for this."

They put me back under and as a drifted off I started to feel pain.

Woke up after the surgery and the doctor came in and apologized. I had specifically mentioned that I require more anesthesia than most people (the redhead thing thatcis finally being acknowledged in modern medicine) but they didn't believe me and gave me a normal dose.

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According to the American Society of Anesthesiologists, only one or two in 1,000 medical procedures that involve general anesthesia involve a patient becoming conscious. Other research indicates that the actual odds might be far, far lower.

“The condition, called anesthesia awareness (waking up) during surgery, means the patient can recall their surroundings, or an event related to the surgery, while under general anesthesia. Although it can be upsetting, patients usually do not feel pain when experiencing anesthesia awareness,” the ASA explains.

#4

I wasn't put under for my wisdom teeth extraction, just given halcion to make me loopy and out of it (I wasn't supposed to remember most of it) and of course local anesthesia. But halfway through the procedure I vaguely remember beginning to cry as I felt the dentist struggle to get part of a tooth out, and it literally felt like he was just trying to rip the damn thing out of my head. Horribly painful and traumatic. He was like, "Oh gosh you gotta tell me if it hurts!" Well I tried sir but I'm more drugged than I've ever been in my life and your hands are in my mouth.

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#5

Broke my arm (very close to the wrist) during a dirt bike accident but me being me, I was just like "naaaww, its just a sprain and it will heal". It did heal but VERY crooked. Went in for surgery to have it broken a set straight. Mid way through surgery i'm woken up by a tugging and a muffled thud. I open my eyes to see numerous doctors and nurses pulling my arm in oposing directions and there is one doctor hitting my arm by the "breaking point" with a mallet. Next thing I knew im waking up on the recovery room. Apparently a nurse was on standby with a hardcore sedative just in case as I seemed to be initialy resisting the gas.

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#6

I was 14 and had to be put under for a hernia surgery, and as they were stitching me up I woke up and demanded that I have a cup of Coke with “the good ice”? I don’t remember any of that but I do remember waking up craving Coca-Cola and being pleasantly surprised that I had one in the cup holder on the way home.

I don’t actually like Coca-Cola that was the odd part

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Awareness during surgery isn’t the same as remembering what happened before the anesthesia started working. Some patients even dream during surgery and think that they were conscious during the procedure when actually they weren’t.

Some patients are more likely than others to regain consciousness during surgery. “It can be more common in patients with multiple medical conditions, and certain surgeries or circumstances increase the risk of awareness because the usual dose of required anesthesia cannot be used safely. These surgeries are often emergencies, such as emergency C-sections, certain types of heart surgery, and surgery that’s needed after a traumatic injury,” the ASA explains.

#7

I'm a big guy and when the anesthesiologist gave me the dose he told me I would be asleep in 10 minutes. About 15 minutes later I'm lying there still awake and I can hear that they are about to start. So I decide to give a "hey there". The doctor was astonished and was like "you're still awake??". So they have me another dose and I finally drifted off. I woke somewhere in the middle of the surgery and I could tell they had no idea I had woken up. I started to feel a lot of pain but I was afraid of startling the doctor, making his hand slip...so I kind of quietly saying ow but got louder and louder until they heard me and freaked out. All is well now though! Heart is fully functioning and all.

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#8

I woke up while they were putting a metal plate in my arm. They used a block which basically made my entire arm from shoulder to hand numb. When I woke up I could remember hearing a drill and a slight pressure in the arm they were working on. I just said "This is awesome" followed shortly by someone saying "oops." Quickly went back to sleep.

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#9

They were talking about buying vintage lunchboxes on eBay. I wasn't properly awake or in pain, but I could 'feel'/had awareness that their hands were inside me. The anesthesiologist noticed my eyes were open, and I woke up again properly when they were wheeling me into recovery.

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While some patients only vaguely remember what happened when they woke up, others vividly remember specific details. Naturally, this sort of experience can be disturbing or even traumatic for some. The ASA recommends that patients speak to their physician anesthesiologist after their surgery if it happens to them. Counseling can help deal with confusion and stress.

The more the anesthesiologist knows about your health conditions, the medication that you use, your history of alcohol and drug use, and previous experiences with going under, the better they adapt and the lower the risk of anesthesia awareness. In short, the more open and honest you are with medical professionals, the better they can do their jobs.

#10

I had 4 wisdom teeth remove (all impacted).

Funny thing was I counted all the way to 10, looked at the Doctor and was like... uh, is this it?

Doctor was shocked, nodded for another hit and i managed to make it to 7.

Woke up during the operation with a giant vice in my face to keep my mouth open. "Hit him again!"

Woke up a second time, as he was yanking on my jaw, "What the f*ck? Hit him again!!!"

The gas wore off right as he was cleaning up.

I vaguely remember chatter during the procedure too.

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#11

I woke up during surgery to remove a bone spur from my big toe. I must have made a sound because the doctor looked at me and said what are you doing up? Go back to sleep. I said do I have pretty bones? And he said yes now go to sleep. And then I went back to sleep. I did not feel any pain at allAnd I was so drugged up I wasn’t even scared

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#12

Woke up during a form of gastric bypass in 2001. I remember feeling the worst pain of my life. I couldn't hear anything and knew my eyes were taped shut. The only thing I could thing to do was move my hands as I could feel the restraint. I started rolling my hands as much as possible and that was it. I had gall stones the size of golf balls in my gall bladder, broke my leg during roller derby and walking on it to take myself to the hospital, and got to almost 8 cm dilated before I requested the epidural. Waking up during surgery is my 10. Nothing has come close to that pain.

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#13

I was having surgery on my ankle in 2005, getting a few pins placed because I'm super graceful and broke it. I woke up to hearing what sounded like a drill, and feeling a lot of pressure at my foot. I didn't feel any pain, thank goodness.

I opened my eyes and looked directly at the anesthesiologist, who immediately said "hold on. She's waking up." Everyone kind of stopped what they were doing, and then I went back under.

When I came to again, I was in the recovery ICU with the doctor. I asked her how long into the surgery I woke up, and she told me I was only out 15 minutes before I needed more anesthesia. She also told me I'd scared the s**t out of her, because it was the first time anyone had ever woken up on the table in her experience. Granted, she was fairly young so I don't think it's all that uncommon.

She was really cool about everything though. She asked if I'd been afraid and needed someone to talk to, and I told her no. I was never scared or in pain, so as far as I was concerned it was just a weird experience during my otherwise successful surgery.

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#14

I had two egg retrievals for IVF. I woke up both times during the surgery. It was a scary thing waking up to pain.
They were quick to put me under again. The doctor was so concerned he sent me in for chest X-rays. Turns out, me waking up could be the result of undiagnosed sleep apnea.

#15

I was having surgery to repair a pneumothorax (collapsed lung). I vividly remember waking up in the middle of it and looking up at the doctor. I looked him right in the eyes, lifted my left arm (they were working on the right side) and tapped the facemask. He nodded and I was out again.

I've actually had a few similar instances. I've got the ginger gene that makes drugs and anesthesia and such less effective. Problem is, unless I have facial hair you'd never notice I was ginger. My beard is bright red, but my hair is blonde. I have to warn doctors and dentists that they might want to up the requirements because it doesn't work very well.

#16

I woke up during foot surgery--I had conscious sedation and local anesthesia in my foot. I remember feeling super chilled out. I felt like me, the surgeon, and all the other people in there were buddies. They were sawing off part of a bone and I remember thinking that it felt kinda good, like a foot massage. I asked the surgeons if I could see what they were doing and they said something like "no, go back to sleep." I think I asked this question more than once during the surgery.

I remember waking up right after the surgery as they were preparing to transfer me to the recovery room. The surgeon said something like "haul your a*s onto this stretcher."

Not gonna lie, it was pretty awesome.

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#17

I woke up in the middle of gall bladder removal surgery. I couldn't look down, but I know I was cut open on the operating table by the bloody knife and vacuum tube in the surgeon's hand. The thing that bothered me most, though, was the fact that there was a tube down my throat and it was really difficult to breathe. There were a lot of "Oh my God"s and "Please don't move"s, some said very loudly and near the edge of panic. Finally the doctor yelled for someone to give me another dose of anesthetic, and bonk I was out like a light.

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#18

I actually opted to stay awake during my wisdom teeth surgery because my dentist suggested it. The painkillers he kept giving me didn't work so he had to inject directly into a nerve- that was probably the most painful thing I've ever experienced. But it's really weird being awake for that surgery. The dentist took what I can only describe as a hammer and chisel and broke my teeth up into smaller pieces that he picked out, and I saw and felt the pressure of it. I also felt him sew up my gums. It wasn't traumatizing like it would have been for other types of surgery, but I wouldn't say it was fun either

#19

I was put under for surgery to get my wisdom teeth taken out (because most of them hadn't broken the skin and I'm a complete scaredy cat when it comes to pain).

At some point during the procedure I woke up feeling all numb and extremely tired; I could barely move a finger. I was a bit weirded out when I saw three people with blood-covered hands poking around inside my mouth with strange tools. I didn't feel any pain, though, since my mouth was probably shot up full of Novocain. I kind of wanted to not be in that situation, so I mustered all of my strength and twitched my finger a bit. I guess either the doctor or one of the nurses noticed and a nurse went over to the IV drip and fiddled with it a bit. I closed my eyes again, and feel back asleep.

Next thing I know, I wake up to find my mouth full of gauze, I'm still really tired, and a nurse is telling me to stay seated so the doctor can bring my mom in here and talk with us (even though talking to me at this point is as useful as talking to a wet sponge). The doctor told us how the procedure went, what awesome medication I would be one for the next couple of weeks, and how to change the gauze.

All in all, it wasn't that bad as far as "waking up during surgery" goes. I wouldn't want to wake up during a surgery again, though.

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#20

When my father had his hip replaced, he woke up in the middle of his surgery. He said "it sounded like someone was building a house" because of all the sawing and hammering. Luckily he was still numb, so he just looked over at the anesthesiologist and said "I think I'd like to go back to sleep now". My father said the guy looked like he s**t himself when he realized my dad was awake, and quickly put him back under.

#21

I think I woke up during abdominal surgery. It felt about like you'd think it would feel with someone rooting around in your abdomen. PAIN. So much pain. I don't remember the sensation that I couldn't move. It's hard to remember exactly because I felt disoriented and my head was kind of spinning like I was drunk. The worst pain was from where the retractor (the thing that holds the incision opened) was. It could feel it mostly one one side and it just felt like somebody was pulling me apart with it. I also had the worst headache I've ever had, but the abdominal pulling was worse.

I've always had suspicion my anesthesiologist was diverting meds or somethig because I got better when I could get off IV meds and take pills instead.

#22

I woke up during a bone graft on my right wrist. I remember opening one eye to look around. I saw the surgeon working on my wrist, with my forearm opened up, and my skin looked like a curtain. It was maintained on the sides of my arm with little pins. I didn't feel anything and didn't really understand what was happening, it felt like I was watching a movie. I remember trying to say "what are you doing?" but a nurse immediatly realised I was "awake" so she told me "it's okay" and someone put me back to sleep.

#23

When I was 17, I got appendicitis, but the kicker is...I was misdiagnosed twice! I went a full month with a ruptured appendix that gave me a softball-sized cyst. I went to the local hospital twice, and they kept saying it was lymph nodes or something, and it would go away on its own. Eventually, my parents took me to a different hospital, and they diagnosed me with appendicitis and needed to do emergency surgery because, apparently, I could have died if I left that cyst there much longer. They ended up opening me up and draining the cyst that night. I remember them knocking me out for the procedure, and then, I woke up to an extreme force — like I had a 500-pound boulder on my lower right side where the appendix is. I remember seeing the doctors with some tubes like forcing them into my abdomen, and it f**king hurt.
"They were trying to get the tubes into the cyst to drain it apparently, but holy hell it was the most uncomfortable thing I can remember. Not only the pain, but I will never forget that horrible god-awful smell that came from the puss they were draining from the cyst.

#24

I chose to be sedated and knocked out for an endoscope when I was 17. This was the first time I'd ever been put under, and it didn't go so well. I now know that I have the gene redhaired and pale people get that causes us to metabolize narcotics and sedation differently — basically, it takes more drugs to knock me out. The sedation they gave me put me out for about 10 minutes. I woke up suddenly and violently during the procedure. I started kicking and punching and trying to pull out the endoscope. The doctor and nurse tried to hold me down, but I kept fighting them.
At the time I just remember thinking, Why are they so upset? I'm just laying here doing nothing. They had to give me a ton more sedative to put me out again. A couple months later when I had my wisdom teeth out at the hospital, they did the whole 'breathe deeply and count back from 100' thing. I got down to about 65 when they realized they needed to administer more. They said I took more than most grown adults.

#25

I was having a triple bypass. They were taking the graft artery out of my arm, and I woke up and heard the sounds of the operating room. People talking, metal clanging against metal. Heard someone say close up that arm now, and I was thinking it was over; I had made it. But I still couldn't open my eyes, my mouth felt like it was full of tubes, and my arms were strapped down. Then, I heard the man's voice again and he said, 'OK, I'm going into the chest.' Well, that got my attention. I had agreed to the open heart surgery, but I didn't want to be awake for it. I tried moving as hard as I could to let them know I wasn't asleep. I felt pressure on my chest, and it moved. As the pressure moved, I felt a coldness where the pressure was as he was cutting into me.
I worked as hard as I could to get moving and was able to flex my butt and leg muscles just a little bit. I started doing that in rhythm and got the gurney rocking a little bit, head to toe. The pressure stopped, and I heard, 'This man is not asleep!' Someone else said, 'OH!' In about three seconds, I was out again and didn't wake up until I was in recovery. After I was moved to ICU and the hoses were pulled out of my throat, the doctor asked everyone to leave the room, and he asked what I remembered. I told him about when I woke up. He said the 'art' to heart surgery is keeping you enough under the anesthesia so you don't know what's going on, but not so deep that they can't get the heart started again. I'm just glad he noticed I was awake before he started spreading ribs!

#26

I was getting an ablation done to my heart because of an irregular heartbeat.
I woke up at apparently entirely the wrong moment because I moved a bit, and the doctor/surgeon started screaming 'SIR!! DO NOT MOVE THIS IS A CRITICAL PART OF THE PROCEDURE' Something like that anyway.
A nurse appeared next to me and literally held my shoulders down until they put me under again.
Was a scary 30 seconds or so.

#27

I woke up, felt really peaceful. Couldn't really see anything, I think my eyes were just cracked open a bit, so I had the impression of people moving around.

Then I tried to take a breath. Couldn't do it. All my muscles were paralyzed. I started to get air hunger so badly, my mind was racing, I was in a panic, but I could not make my lungs take in air and I couldn't tell any of these shadowy doctors and nurses around me that I was dying. It was horrible. I think someone noticed my heart was racing because there was a sudden feeling of extra attention and alarm from the shadowy figures and I was put under again.

When I spoke with my doctor about it later he admitted there had been a bit of a problem with the anesthesiology, but that I had never been in danger. He apologized and I appreciated both that I hadnt imagined this horrible situation, and that he hadn't tried to pretend I imagined it. My brother is a nurse and some of the crappy things he's told me he's seen happen in the operating room are never admitted to patients afterward, I guess because of fear of lawsuits.

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#28

I woke up in the middle of a root canal. I remember opening my eyes and not knowing what the hell was happening I grabbed the dentist hand and doing so I scared the life out of him he ending up screaming and yelling for the nurse to increase what ever cocktail iv I had. After he was done and I was fully awake we laughed about it and he told me I was his 1st patient to wake up in the 15 years he's been practicing

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#29

I woke up during surgery to repair a shattered Humerus. My whole shoulder was dissected open and a dude was using a screwdriver and a drill to attach a steel plate to the bones pull the parts together.

Me: ahhhhh! (Screaming through O2 mask) Doc: (turning pale) I thought you were out ! Me: Im not f*cking out you stupid motherf*cking son of a b*tch. AAAhhh! This f*cking hurts ! Stop that ! Goddammit..... (continued to scream curses in five languages at the poor doc, who is looking at the anesthesiologist....) And then I was out. My wife, who was in the waiting room, said she knew it was me screaming, and really, really had to keep herself calm and not run back there and start kicking as*es.

I felt so bad at the nasty s**t I said to the poor doc that I looked him up and apologized a week or so later when I was in for a post hospital stay checkup.

Me: Um, I'm really sorry at the stuff I said to you. Doc: You remember that ? Me: Yeah, and I'm really not like that. I'm sorry. Doc: (Chuckling).. it's OK, it happens. I'd yell too. So.. how are you ? Me: Better

Thanks again, Doc. Without you I'd have a stainless steel joint and be even more f*cked up than I am with just some screws and rivets and s**t. Or have a plain pinned up sleeve and no arm at all. Because that damage was epically bad.

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#30

Had to have a lumpectomy done about 3-4 years ago. The anesthesiologist came in to speak to me about general and how I would be put under for the procedure, blah blah blah. Fast forward to the surgery room- I'm wheeled in, some medication is given to me through my line, I start to feel kind of loose. Enter as**ole surgeon. Anesthesiologist starts to tell her he's about to start my general. She gives him the look of death followed by "She's not going under for this." He looks at her kind of funny, says no I've told the patient we would do general and I think that's best for this situation. Surgeon doesn't agree, says twilight only, I try to speak, I'm vetoed. In goes local and I wake up mid-surgery attempting to speak and lifting my head up freaking out. Anesthesiologist flips his s**t, grabs my line, in goes general. He paced through my recovery room for the next two hours waiting for me to wake up. I make eye contact as I come to, he lets out a HUGE sigh and leaves the room. Never again do I see that surgeon.

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#31

I woke up during a routine colonoscopy. It felt like they were shoving a board through my intestines...the pressure was unreal. I remember I was finally able to say “please stop!” Both the nurse and the doctor’s eyes got as big as saucers, and that’s the last thing I remember. Normally, you wake up in recovery, get up and go home pretty much alert. I slept for 24 hours because of the extra bump they had to give me to put me back under to complete the colonoscopy.

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#32

I had a minor surgery in which I didn't ever actually fall asleep. I guess I just talked through the whole thing. I was, like, 8 years old at the time. All I remember is that I had tunnel vision, but instead of the edges of my vision being black, it was like the fuzz when you turn your TV to a channel with no reception.

Also, not really surgery, but I've had several very minor operations in which the local anesthetic wore off before the doctor had finished. The first time was when I was getting a mole removed from my hand. I felt the last couple of cuts he made with the scalpel (thankfully they're VERY sharp). I also had five stitches put into my scalp and the anesthetic wore off after the third stitch. The last two were pretty unpleasant.

#33

I had an endoscopy and colonoscopy the same morning. I was told since I was doing both that I would have general anesthesia and not remember a thing. I warned them that I have had to be given extra medicine before (I'll tell that story next), but I think they didn't believe me.

I didn't wake during the endoscopy. During the colonscopy, I came to but I was heavily out of it from the drugs I needed for the endoscopy. I was looking at the screen and realized I saw what they were-the inside of my colon. Anesthesia makes me really giddy and weird, so I decided to make a joke. I said, "Looks like I did a really good job cleaning myself out!" (referring to the prep you do the day before to clean out your bowels). Following this I started laughing. Thinking back this could've been bad because you are supposed to stay still so they don't puncture anything. They got a good laugh out of me though and turned up the meds. I don't remember the rest.

The second story is I had to have a lump the size of a golfball removed from my breast (luckily it was benign). Before surgery they gave me the anesthesia and it seemed normal at first. Instead of falling asleep though, I just went on a really crazy trip. The big light next to me was shimmering like it was wet and changing colors. The tiles on the ceiling were expanding and getting longer then smaller. This went on for what seemed like a long time before the room looked normal again. I spoke up and said, "I think you need to give me more." The nurse must have had a near heart attack (I was supposed to be asleep). The doctor came in, verified I was wide awake, and they gave me more.

#34

I vaguely remember becoming aware that I was in surgery during an operation to repair a detached retina. I didn't feel any pain, since it was just the sedative and not the anesthetic that wore off. I remember seeing the doctor standing over me, singing the song from The Country Bear Jamboree at the Magic Kingdom in Disney World, and the doctor calling for more sedation before I knocked back out.

Once in recover, they told me I had to eat before allowing me to go home, and asked what I wanted. I requested lasagna stuffed inside ravioli. Man, those were some good drugs, whatever it was they gave me.

#35

I woke up halfway through my circumcision (26, medical complications made it necessary)

Thankfully I was paralyzed from the waist down still but apparently I said "uh... guys?... I think the sleep s**t wore off..."

Two beeps and like 30 seconds later I was unconscious again.

Also holy s**t there's a lot of blood in a d*ck during circumcision. Like... scary s**t!

#36

I woke up during surgery for a deviated septum. Heard crunching and saw the doc leaning over me. They put me back under. Apparently the bone that the cartilage attaches to was crooked from a childhood injury and the doc had to break off the crooked piece with needle nosed pliers. Hence the crunching sound.

#37

By design, they woke me up during surgery to my hand. They didn't tell me beforehand that they were going to wake me up, so when I did wake up, I thought I was in recovery.

The surgery was to release some scar tissue from a previous procedure, so they woke me up to see if I could move my fingers. I made a fist, something that was tied-off broke and blood began to shoot out. Poof, I was back to sleep.

#38

I woke up as they were stitching my leg back up after getting hit by car. I freaked the f*ck out because I was intubated and couldn't move (muscle blockers or whatever) but then I just relaxed and conked out again.

Not entirely relevant but I've undergone like 15 surgeries (all related to my username) and I kinda enjoy the feeling on General Anesthesia. Just kinda breathe in deeply and the next thing you know you're in the recovery room.

#39

About 18 years ago I had an ERCP done, which was to do an exploratory looksie at my pancreas. They didn't put me under completely but gave me sedatives to make me sort of goofy and out of it. It wasn't so much that I "woke up" more that I remember different parts of the procedure, like when they put the tube down my throat and told me to lay back. I have a few images of the doctors standing around me and the little x-ray or imaging machine over my abdomen. It kinda felt like an alien abduction vague memory from a movie, or something, if you can picture what I mean.

#40

Since I have a Crohn's and Barrett's Esophagus, I tend to have regular scopes from both directions.

I don't actively have full memories from these procedures but I do have very vague memory of the tactile sensations. Like I can recall them pulling the scope out of my throat and gagging as it went but I don't recall anything but the sensation. I can vaguely recall a hand on my shoulder, being shifted around, stuff like that.

I do recall country music being played during one, too. For whatever that's worth.

#41

SCRAPE SCRAPE SCRAPE GRIND GRIND GRIND CRRRRRGHSLUUUUURRRRP CRRRRSCHLUUUUURRRRP SHHHHHHKKKTTTLUUUUURP...

"he's moving a bit, would you... thanks" ... ksssshhht zzzzzzzz...

#42

I woke up during dental work, mentioned how Adventure time was my favorite show, and then went back under.

#43

I moaned and opened my eyes and moaned some more, then the anesthetist put an end to that! After my recovery my anesthetist told me in awe,"You woke up during the procedure!" I explained to him that I fell asleep in the first place not because of the anesthesia, but because I wanted to sleep. Heheh. Good times.

#44

Woke up during colonoscopy, I felt jabbing in my lower hip, I thought my boyfriend was kneeing me in the back (he curls up into a ball when he sleeps). I said owww and I assume they increased the knock out juice after that cause that’s all I remember.

#45

I woke up during in the middle of my shoulder surgery.

I had to have some screws put in my shoulder because it kept popping out of socket. Well as I am getting prepped, they start giving me all my medication to calm me down etc. well I go into the o.r and I get my anesthesia meds and it starts kicks in. I don't really know the time frame afterwards but I woke up mid surgery.

I remember looking to my right and going what in the f**k are you. Then I looked to my left and saw my shoulder cut the f**k open and started to get up in a panic. The doctor or nurses help me down and put a Mask on me and I went back out. As soon as I was post surgery and came to, I told my mom about it ( she is a retired rn) and she didn't know anything about it. I asked the staff in the or and the doctor and he said that nothing like that ever happened and this was probably a vivid dream. I still to this day think I did come awake. And the hospital was probably just covering their a*s from a law suit. The thing was I probably wouldn't of sue regardless. I was fine and it wasn't like I got hurt. I just wanted them to be honest.

#46

I woke up while I was having my wisdom teeth surgically removed. I didn't feel anything but I remember waking up and seeing the dentists gloved fingers right there, all bloody and I think he was stitching me up at that point. As soon as I saw the blood I passed out and woke up at home on the couch. All in all not a horrible experience.

#47

I woke up when I was getting my wisdom teeth removed. I remember the doctor looking down at me and saying something along the lines of, "Oh, hello." Before asking the nurse to put me back under.

Next thing I remember was the nurse trying to take the cotton out of my mouth but I'd swallowed it all already like a champ.

#48

I Woke up in the middle of my Appendectomy. All I remember is 3 blurry figures around me and tryig to lift my head up only to be met with intense searing pain in my abdomen, if I recall correctly I think I screamed but I could not really hear myself. I saw a figure run from the edge of the room and then I was out again...

#49

I woke up while having knee surgery, they had me tied down so I wouldnt move. I said ow because thats all my mind could formulate thtough the pain and drugs, and everybody jumped, except the doctor, thank god, and then they cranked up the gas and I was out again.

#50

So I was having a splenetic embolization, basically my spleen ruptured and they fed titanium wire through a vein in my groin to stop the bleeding. They didn't put me fully under but just sedated me. I woke up twice. First time they were shaving the area. I told the nurse, in a very drugged up state, " It's getting pretty bushly down there. Do you mind finishing up the rest." she laughed then gave me more meds. I passed out again.

Later I woke up again lifted my head up and asked the doctor, "How's it going down there?" He look at me says " Pretty good actually." He then looked at the nurse very seriously and says " Sedate him now." I then passed back out for the rest of the procedure.

They had the area numbed for the procedure so I felt no pain when I woke up. I thought the whole thing was pretty funny and joked with my nurse after about it.

#51

I woke up while getting a dental implant. I remember seeing hands in my mouth and the oral surgeon saying "oops, need a bit more sedative here."

#52

I woke up while getting part of my skin burnt off for stitches. Its honestly not as bad as youd assume. You dont really realize whats happening at first, and as long as you can keep calm and dont freak out itll be alright. Just let the doctor(s) know immediately, and try to relax.

#53

I woke up for a couple minutes during my surgery to remove my gallbladder. I couldn’t move at all or open my eyes much so all I could see were the doctors silhouettes and the bright light, I could hear everything they were saying and I still remember it. I was panicking about being awake even though I didn’t feel any pain at all, but all I was desperate to let them know I could hear them and that I was awake! But I guess I fell asleep again right after that because I don’t remember anything else. I mentioned it to my doctor after and he said that happens sometimes.

#54

I was 14, getting my elbow replaced. I woke up and started choking on the airway tube down my throat. All of the people in the OR just kept saying "it's ok it's ok we're finished" Then they took the tube out and I knocked back out.

When I was in recovery, the surgeon (or someone, I was fkd up) told me I woke up halfway through. They told me my surgery was finished so I wouldn't freak out any more than I already did.

The man asked if I'd felt anything. I just told him I felt my throat was extremely dry and I didn't like all of those people hovering over me. He was relieved to know that I didn't feel the half of the bones in my arm were gone.

It was a 15 hr surgery because the part they had didn't fit and they had to get a new part flown in while I was under. I woke up while everyone was just kind of sitting around, making sure I was still under.

It wasn't as psychically uncomfortable as it was panic-inducing. You're out completely, then you wake up thinking you've been abducted by aliens.

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