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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 🤣.

FranP Sun 05-Oct-25 23:47:19

I dare not repeat in print what I said to the hunky young doctor who stitched me up after giving birth <lol>

Wishes Sat 04-Oct-25 17:02:21

My friend and I chaperoned each other on our respective visits to the dentist, both of us having wisdom teeth out.

My friend has a raucous laugh. She came around with this laugh and swearing like a trouper.

I woke up crying because they pulled me from a lovely dream. I could hear my name being called in the dream and kept telling them to go away.

TwinLolly Sat 04-Oct-25 15:23:58

I love all these comments. They have brightened up my day.

M0nica Sat 04-Oct-25 14:30:34

last time I had an anaesthetic, thankfully they are few and far between. I was having an abcess dealt with, the anethaetist told me to relax and think of somewhere I would like to be - like a beach or in woodland. My prompt reply was that the place I most wanted to be was where I was, going into theatre to have my exceedingly painful abscess dealt with. He burst out laughing.

Witzend Sat 04-Oct-25 10:09:16

A bit off topic, but my mother broke a hip at 90 or 91 (I forget) and we were told afterwards that the anaesthetist had remarked, ā€˜Boy, this is one tough old bird!’

He was right. A broken hip at that sort of age can often be the beginning of the end, but she went on to 97.

GoodAfternoonTea Sat 04-Oct-25 07:57:17

My father, such a lovely man, loved Greek mythology, and he started talking about beautiful Greek statues.

andrea67 Sat 04-Oct-25 03:44:58

I was heavily sedated and going into theatre for s mastectomy due to cancer, the loverly surgeon came to collect me snd as pushed the trolley I looked up and said " you have the most gorgeoud blue eyes" in this sultry voice. He just chuckled, on meeting him for post op checks I was embarrassed but right-- he did have very blue eyes and a lovely smile.

nexus63 Sat 04-Oct-25 01:54:22

i was 18 and getting all my top teeth removed, i was not reacting very well so they had to bring me round half way through, i asked the dishy looking dentist if he was married, i had to stay at the dentist for a few hours as i react badly to being put under, i could not look at him without blushing, he did say as my mum and i were leaving that sadly he was married and way to old for me, a few years later i married a man who was 18 years older than me.

icanhandthemback Thu 02-Oct-25 19:55:34

When I was 14 I had my tonsils out and on the way back to the ward told the young porter wheeling my bed that I was going to marry him. It made the nurses laugh.
When I was sedated to have some teeth filled in my late teens, I kept trying to get to the dentist to hug him as I thought he was so clever. I was so persistent that when I came to my senses, I vowed never to go back and I didn't.

AuntieE Thu 02-Oct-25 17:39:02

Grandma70s

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€.

I bet the midwife was in stitches! (Pun intended.)

Chicklette Thu 02-Oct-25 17:18:38

When I had pethidine whilst having my eldest daughter I said some really weird things. I remember talking about seeing my sister’s husband ā€˜coming down the road wearing a frock’. I never say the word frock! And when pushing I apparently said very loudly ā€œit feels just like doing a big shitā€ which is SO not the sort of thing I would normally say! I felt embarrassed for weeks after as I kept remembering different things.

Alie2Oxon Thu 02-Oct-25 16:40:50

Apparently I told the nearest person "Come to bed!"
Not saying who, it's too embarrassing.

NannaFirework Thu 02-Oct-25 15:50:02

Some years ago I was having a minor knee operation and was in a lovely Private Hospital (nhs patient) apparently their waiting lists were shorter…when I came to, and all the way back to my room on the trolley, I was belting out Come into my life by Donna Summer - I’m sure the radio was being piped around the hospital which seemed to encourage me! And once in my room, I began phoning random people and goodness only knows what I said to them (work colleagues)! 🫣

ClicketyClick Thu 02-Oct-25 15:36:01

These are hilarious.

hollysteers Thu 02-Oct-25 15:31:47

I’m an opera singer and twice before conking out on my way to the theatre (operating), I’ve burst into O Mio Babbino Caro in full Wagnerian voice. They were probably relieved when I shut up😁

cookiemonster66 Thu 02-Oct-25 14:59:20

When I gave birth to my 10lb first baby with NO pain killers, I ripped quite badly. So they had to sew me up but had forgotten that I had no pain meds in my system. My feet were up in stirrups and I brought them down on the Dr's head trying to escape, so they gave me gas and air and I was sucking it in like my life depended on it, they were trying to remove the mask but I would not let them, so anyway while floating around with the fairies, I looked between my legs and saw Dr WHO, Tom Baker with his long scarf, and a tardis was in the corner of the room, I shouted out "Oh it's Dr WHO!" and the nurse patted my hand and said yes dear, then I got all concerned shouting at the Dr " don't sew me right up, leave a hole so I can still wee out of!" nurses were laughing and the doctor with the sore head was laughing too!

cookiemonster66 Thu 02-Oct-25 14:52:36

I spent the whole 9 mths of my pregnancy on the gynae ward (endometriosis & fibroids trying to push baby out, so drips in each hand , bed rest feet raised to save baby) so I saw MANY women coming back to ward after surgery. The funniest was a woman who was married to a Chinese man, and while coming round she was going on and on about " it is not true what they say about Chinese men having small willy's, well it is actually but I don't mind, I still really love him anyway..." so when he came to see her during visiting hours the whole ward erupted in fits of giggles, poor man, no we never told him or her about it, but even the nurses were laughing!

Knittypamela Thu 02-Oct-25 14:48:25

40 years ago i was having an anesthetic and was discussing with the doctor that the hospital was to be closed down. I was in mid sentence when I went under and for some reason cannot forget the conversation we were having.

Jaycee19 Thu 02-Oct-25 14:39:23

When I was having my daughter I was given pethidine along with gas and air my mother, who was in the room with me, said I kept mumbling about Elvis Presley not being able to find the worm hole to get out.

DotScot Thu 02-Oct-25 14:38:20

Blue54

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

The same happened with my sister when she broke her hip. When we visited, post op, she kept pointing to passing nurses, saying things like 'Watch out for that one, she's got an agenda' and 'You can't believe anything they tell you' and 'I told them they gave me the wrong medication, but they wouldn't believe me.' Poor nurses, though I suppose they are used to it.

She also said there was a plot to put patients in tartan dresses, stored on a rail on wheels. We humored her, laughing discreetly, thinking this was part of the paranoia. Then another family member who is a hospital doctor told us that in that hospital, the lead aprons worn by the radiology staff are tartan, and are kept on a portable rail, and that was probably what my sister had seen.

The next day, she didn't remember anything about it, although, being my sister, she was still keen to tell them how to do their jobs. wink

AGAA4 Thu 02-Oct-25 13:56:07

Namsnanny

My Mum who was always susceptible to odd behaviour if taking strong medication such as Morphine, told the anesthetist that he looked as if he could do with a good 'Rogering. 🫣🤣
Apparently, so the nurse told me in confidence, she didn't even reach the number 10 in the counting sequence, blurted this, and then blanked out.
We laughed about it, but didn't tell her. Although some nurses asked her if she could remember anything that happened in the op theatre, which mum found curious.

šŸ˜‚šŸ˜‚ he was probably more embarrassed than your mum.

TwinLolly Thu 02-Oct-25 13:48:38

Sadgrandma

Oh dear I’m starting to worry now as I’m due to have a GA soon. I’m apt to blurt out things when I’m awake, so …..🫢

At least you might not remember blush

Sadgrandma Thu 02-Oct-25 13:35:50

Oh dear I’m starting to worry now as I’m due to have a GA soon. I’m apt to blurt out things when I’m awake, so …..🫢

Namsnanny Thu 02-Oct-25 11:36:41

My Mum who was always susceptible to odd behaviour if taking strong medication such as Morphine, told the anesthetist that he looked as if he could do with a good 'Rogering. 🫣🤣
Apparently, so the nurse told me in confidence, she didn't even reach the number 10 in the counting sequence, blurted this, and then blanked out.
We laughed about it, but didn't tell her. Although some nurses asked her if she could remember anything that happened in the op theatre, which mum found curious.

Nannee49 Thu 02-Oct-25 10:58:19

TwinLolly when I came round from my hysterectomy last year I joyfully remarked "I don't know where it was but I've just been in the best disco in the world!"
My beautiful Sis, who I'd lost to pancreatic cancer a few months earlier, was there with me and we were having a fabulous time.

I can only assume the radio was on in the operating theatre and I'd picked up the vibe!