Guest guest Posted September 21, 2008 Report Share Posted September 21, 2008 > > > Does anybody know if they put mercury in anasthesia I don't know the answer (hoping Andy is still reading). What I do know is that my husband has had 2 surgeries in recent years and each time his reaction to the anesthetic gets worse and there is an e x t r e m e l y long recovery period. My husband has been allergic to many things as long as I have known him. I suspect that he was exposed to mercury during about 10 years of contact lens solution use, when mercury was in the solutions, years of allergy shots, and possibly other exposures that I am not aware of. J or if they did > back in the early 80's? I've had a couple of operations and got worse > after each one - so I'm wondering if I had any mercury exposure from > them. > > Val > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 22, 2008 Report Share Posted September 22, 2008 > > What I do know is that my husband has had 2 surgeries in recent years > and each time his reaction to the anesthetic gets worse and there is > an e x t r e m e l y long recovery period. ---Yeah, both times it took me an extremely long time to wake up from it and the doctors became very concerned. I did a little research and there was an ingredient beginning with an F (forgot what it was called)in some anasthetics and alot of people had elevated cortisol afterwards. Well, after the first surgery, I remember not being able to wind down to go to sleep. High cortisol? I remember my family commenting on how I just wanted to stay up when they were going to bed and I remember thinking that I just couldn't wind down enough to go to bed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 23, 2008 Report Share Posted September 23, 2008 > > > When I had my wisdom teeth out in the late 80's (first time I was > put under), I woke up from that an absolute basket case. I think they > had trouble waking me up, and then I couldn't stop crying for a long > time. > > ----I had the same reaction in 2002 at a topnotch hospital. I wonder > if the problem is our liver? Since we can't detox mercury well, how > would we detox all the drugs/anastetic? > > just a thought > Me too, after kidney surgery. But it happened to have been the fentanyl (morphine) that they gave me as soon as I woke up. All I can tell you is that it was very bad! After the narcane they put " allergic to fentanyl " all over my chart before I even left the recovery room. Do you know if you received anything by iv or im afterwards. Carie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 24, 2008 Report Share Posted September 24, 2008 That makes sense that our liver just does not clear it ..I sure hope there are no metals in anaesthesia.. Older people often are steared away from surgery , because they know the anasethesia is so hard on them... I have heard it can take months to clear out of the body . THe older we are the worse our livers.. But if you are like me. my liver has been bad since my 20s. nanci > > > > > > > > > > ----I had the same reaction in 2002 at a topnotch hospital. I wonder > > if the problem is our liver? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 24, 2008 Report Share Posted September 24, 2008 In frequent-dose-chelation Carie wrote: > ----I had the same reaction in 2002 at a topnotch hospital. I wonder > if the problem is our liver? Since we can't detox mercury well, how > would we detox all the drugs/anastetic? > > just a thought > -------------------- Me too, after kidney surgery. But it happened to have been the fentanyl (morphine) that they gave me as soon as I woke up. All I can tell you is that it was very bad! After the narcane they put " allergic to fentanyl " all over my chart before I even left the recovery room. Do you know if you received anything by iv or im afterwards. Carie ----------For me in the above case with my wisdom teeth, it was an outpatient or day surgery type thing, so I wasn't kept there and given an IV or anything, just would have been sent home with oral pain meds. It was a long time ago, so I don't remember many details, and back then I didn't ask many questions. After my last surgery in December, they did give me morphine right after, but I don't recall any bad reaction to that at all. Then they switched me to an oral, I think it was Loritab, and I did fine on both. And I have done fine with procedures where they have used propofol too. So I think my reaction after the wisdom teeth thing was either to the anesthetic itself, or possibly they gave me too much, because I remember it knocked me out really fast. I remember being told to count backwards from 100, and I don't even remember if I said 99, because as soon as they took the rubber band off my arm, I was out!----------Jackie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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