Posted by Jamal Spelling on December 3, 2007, at 17:13:53
In reply to Re: Anesthesia » Jamal Spelling, posted by sonic_gb on December 3, 2007, at 9:20:48
> Jamal,
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> I agree that it is a very weird feeling. As someone who has never done illegal drugs in my life (except for some marijuana when I was very young), I have to say that the iv injection of Remifentanil before induction gave me a surge of euphoria like nothing I could have imagined. I seriously understand how iv opiate abusers get addicted.
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> Sonic.Hi Sonic
I don't think my anesthetist used fentanyl or anything like that to anesthetize me. Certainly, the experience of going under was not euphoric for me. It was neither pleasant nor unpleasant. It simply was. I think I was given a sodium channel blocker (or something like that).
In fact, I actually asked my doctor whether he was going to give me oxycontin or anything like that, to which he replied:
"I don't service no junkie scum. If you're having this op just to get your fix, then you better get your *ss out of my theater before I phone the cops."
LOL!!! Methinks the doctor doth protest too much, wouldn't you say?
Jamal
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