It is crucial to detect the patient’s existing anxiety to assist patients. It was like...blinking! Do they give sedatives before surgery to be relaxed? I keep thinking I'm going to die in surgery. I had quite a few operations under general anaesthetic and it's not as bad as you think. I should also say that I work in the medical field and have witnessed scores of people getting and recovering from anesthesia. Try distracting your mind, or counting down from 99. 0 comments. I did go for a longer run today than usual, because feeling my heart withstand intense exercise gives me more confidence that everything will be ok. New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast, More posts from the HealthAnxiety community. Advice? Press J to jump to the feed. Preoperative anxiety is one of the most important problems for the patients, because it causes emotional and psychiatric problems as well as physical problems. But overall, I know statistically there's a low chance of anything happening. The anesthesiologist made it sound like I may have the option to take regional anesthesia, which I'm hoping the surgeon will agree with, but I won't know until I get there in the morning. u/Danielitoa27 . I'm going in for surgery tomorrow. Ask your surgeon for a referral so you can get professional help; a rhinoplasty is not necessary, but some day you may need surgery. It went really well. Press J to jump to the feed. I'm going in for surgery tomorrow. This is a Subreddit for people with specific but often awkward questions about their body and how it works. Someone on Reddit asked, "Anesthesiologists, what are the best things people have said under the gas?" I have a vacation in July I'm going on but I can't get excited over it. I've never gotten it before. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. The medicines they use today get in and out of your blood very quickly, and are different from the older ones that tended to have more side effects and linger in your blood longer. But now that I think about it, since it's tomorrow morning, I'm getting REALLY scared. Anesthesia prevents patients from feeling pain during surgery, yet it can be one of the most frightening aspects of surgery for some people. I would STRONGLY recommend drinking bone broth if you are not a vegetarian etc as it made me feel a lot less foggy in the week after. The idea of going under scares me to no end. I suggest that you do not have a revision rhinoplasty if you are that scared of a general anesthetic. I am having a surgery on my knee tomorrow i tore a lateral meniscus or something and i was wondering what type of Anesthesia are they going to give and how is it going to be put into my body, most likely? General anesthesia is, essentially, a medically induced coma, not sleep.Drugs render a patient unresponsive and unconscious. I totally understand where you’re coming from. And it wasn't in a being high kind of way - it's like the fog of anxiety was lifted and I was more present in my body and in the now. and i dont even remember that. I've been under before. They put me on the bed, mask over my face and asked me to count to 10 and I can remember getting to 3 and then waking up after. I have three weeks of time off from work starting today, a big deal considering I'm self employed and needed to do a lot of preparation to get to this point, and this would be the longest amount of time I've taken for myself in years; I deserve to focus on myself and work through my anxiety issues. I had anesthesia once when I was a kid for oral surgery and of course I didn't know what to expect and was totally trusting of my doctor and it was no big deal at all. 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