Re: Re: General Anesthetics

January 28, 2005

If you are going to have some teeth done at a time and not all, you may

want to consider having the adult teeth out first, so if your son does

have problems, the baby teeth will still have a chance to come out on

their own later.

chris1gill@... wrote:

>

>It's an interesting topic I started! I'm glad to have started it though,

>because I've never found other people that had problems with general's like I

do!

>

>My first two surgeries I just had the unbelievable nausea, course after that

>they started giving me something in the sedation for that... On the third

>surgery they could not rouse me for more than half an hour... On the next

>surgery I came through, but was not able to speak or move for a time.. I was

>awake, but that was my condition for a day... The following surgery after

that

>my body just melted down.... I wound up in the hospital for three days with

>such an unbelievable reaction of vomiting & not being able to speak and move

>properly, I felt in my head like a caged animal... Even after I left the

>hospital I was ill for two weeks.... That was it, I plan never to have another

>general unless it's a life or death situation.... So to say I want to avoid

any

>general for our son is an understatement

>

>We've had three opinions on his mouth, so we are okay to go ahead... of the

>teeth they are taking, only four are adult teeth, and they really need to come

> out, there is just absolutely no room for them in his mouth.... the others

>are just babies that are either already loose or will become loose within a

>year.... I'll just be glad when it's over... it may take more appointments,

but

>I think it's the safest thing to do...

>

>I really am relieved (sort of) to hear other people have some of the same

>problems that I do...

>Chris

>In a message dated 1/28/2005 3:50:00 AM Eastern Standard Time,

> writes:

>

>Subject: Re: General Anesthetics

>

>Thanks, Laurie and Barbara

>

>I take forever to come to, with extreme nausea and feeling just god

>awful. With my first surgery (spinal) I was in the OR before 8:00 am,

>and was the last to get out past midnight. I could not get warm, even

>with the heated blankets they gave me. I rejected the pain injections

>because it was suggested that they might increase the nausea, and

>generally I just wanted to die. The pain from the spinal fusion was

>secondary to the awful feeling of being in the twilight zone for hours.

>My muscle weakness also go worse after the surgery. Not sure if the

>anesthesia or the prolonged bedrest contributed most there. I just

>felt I never was the same.

>

>After my second surgery I came out with noise sensitivity which was

>really extreme for several days. It was very difficult then, and is

>still a problem for me. I had a touch of it before, but got worse

>right when I came out of that surgery. My rheumatoid count went sky

>high, and I had extremely unusual muscle/tendon pain, stiffness and

>weakness. That took about 2 years to settle down. I do not have RA,

>Lupus, etc. The weakness remained. (That is why I am soooo happy that

>weight lifting counters some of it) Mentally, I am not sure I ever was

>the same after the surgeries either, but that is more difficult for me

>to say.

>

>I feel strongly that the surgeries/anesthesias contributed to my

>symptoms getting worse. I just did NOT recover the same way other

>people I knew recovered. I am just curious if others here feel the

>same way or had similar experiences. I didn't even understand about

>the anesthesia until I reflected on it way after the second surgery,

>but I intend to avoid generals if at all possible in the future.

>

>Barbara,

>I sure can see why you would want to avoid craniotomy! I really hope

>that Lazier Knife treatment will work for you.

>

>Regards

>

>Sunny

>

January 28, 2005