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Blue54 Thu 02-Oct-25 10:40:35

A relative was taken into hospital in an emergency and operated on, when she was back in her room she believed there was a conspiracy going on with the nurses and doctors.

She wouldn't believe anything the doctos/nurses told her and that they were recording her with hidden microphones. She would say to them 'I know what you're all up to' 'I know you're in it too' and tell her husband 'don't speak when they come in the room' she was absolutely paranoid that they were trying to get her and her husbands bank details and no matter how much they told her it was the anaesthetic she just would not believe them. This wasn't just after coming round, this was the whole day following her operation.

She couldn't believe she acted this way and apologised to all the staff because she was so embarrassed. They've put a note on her records for future ref wink grin

TheWeirdoAgain60 Thu 02-Oct-25 09:04:35

I was in my 30s and was wheeled out of the operating room, totally conked out and one of the nurses asked me where I am, to help bring me out of the anaesthetic and I told her groggily I'm on a space ship - in my head I was - then that I was in the hospital, then I said ''you're very beautiful! '' The poor lady went red and thanked me!

Lying in the ward bed, I was coming around properly, and it suddenly came to me what I'd said! Very embarrassed, I felt!

Oreo Thu 02-Oct-25 08:57:14

LadyGracie

I told the surgeon he needed a haircut.

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Lilypops Wed 01-Oct-25 22:31:24

When I was coming round after a C Section after the birth of my twins. I asked my husband to buy some Cost pards ( post cards) to inform everyone I had given birth and my twins had arrived safely !!!

TwinLolly Wed 01-Oct-25 21:16:34

These are hilarious! It hurts to laugh because I'm still recovering from a hysterectomy so I'm almost crying with laughter. I do hope we get some more candid foot in mouth anaesthetic comments. Thanks for these so far.

Redrobin51 Wed 01-Oct-25 21:13:20

According to the nurses I told some extremely funny, dirty jokes. Now this is a girl who loves to hear jokes but can never remember them to retell.

V3ra Wed 01-Oct-25 20:27:16

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Grandma70s Wed 01-Oct-25 18:21:18

When giving birth under the influence of pethidine I kept saying ā€œCats purr when they’re doing thisā€. (That’s true, but it’s stress rather than pleasure.) Then when the doctor was doing some stitching I addressed him as ā€œYou down there embroidering my bottomā€.

Aldom Wed 01-Oct-25 18:18:14

The day before going into hospital for surgery under general anesthetic, I listened to a radio programme about Percy Shaw. He was the man who invented Cats Eyes. Road safety.
When my husband and daughter visited later, apparently I lay there, eyes closed and all I waffled on about was 'cats eyes'.

Magenta8 Wed 01-Oct-25 18:04:59

When I was a student nurse I was doing my stint in theatre and this young man, who had just had an appendicectomy, was coming round from his anaesthetic and he kept saying "I'm a naughty boy. Oh I'm such a naughty boy." I remember the theatre sister saying "Tell us more." He never did.

Astitchintime Wed 01-Oct-25 18:04:22

I had been given a nerve block and sedation………went out like a light until the surgeon started his work! I came round, looked him in the eye and said ā€œwell, that didn’t work did it?ā€ He immediately instructed the anaesthetist to give me a GA

LadyGracie Wed 01-Oct-25 17:56:34

I told the surgeon he needed a haircut.

Lathyrus3 Wed 01-Oct-25 17:39:22

I said, ā€œIt would be nice to die.ā€

They instantly wheeled the resus cart up to my bed.

Obviously they thought I might give it a go!

Skydancer Wed 01-Oct-25 16:58:27

Not me but a lady in the hospital bed opposite me sat up and started singing opera in Italian when she was coming round from her anaesthetic.

PamelaJ1 Wed 01-Oct-25 16:56:39

When I was giving birth they gave me pethidine, my DH says that I shouted ā€œthat bl** stuff isn’t working!

yogitree Wed 01-Oct-25 16:43:23

I did when going under an anaesthetic for a hip replacement - I remember the surgeon 'ripping off my paper pants'!!! Must have been short of time that day. I don't remember a single thing after that thankfully!

TwinLolly Wed 01-Oct-25 16:31:26

Did any of you have funny experiences when coming around from the anaesthetic? Sometimes we are not accountable for what we say while still under the influence of anaesthetic.

For me, I remember saying I was in pain and then it was "lights out" for me until I got back to my room.

My ex, after vasectomy, years ago in South Africa, was laughing and joking with the nurses! An hour later he didn’t remember 🤣.