Your Secrets Exposed Under Anesthesia? Doctor Explains

#anesthesia #surgery #truthserum

What do you say and do under anesthesia? Can you expose your secrets and embarrass yourself? What else is revealed when you're unconscious?

Patients don't know that their secrets can be revealed when they're under anesthesia. Secrets about mental health, past traumas, and even alcohol and drug use can be revealed when patients are under anesthesia having surgery. And yes, even juicy gossip can come up if patients are under sedation (and don’t have a breathing tube in place for general anesthesia). Fortunately, silly things that are said in the operating room stay in the operating room!

These past traumas stick around in the body, even after years, and they influence how our body reacts not only in the operating room, but even in daily life. These past traumas come out, partly through our body language, even in personal and work relationships! They impact how we live our life, and can heavily impact our productivity, such as our presenteeism, absenteeism, and performance at work.

Back in the operating room, this is very important for patients to know because many are afraid that they might spill secrets. And this fear can lead to anxiety, and that anxiety in turn can lead to anesthesia and surgery complications.

Your body takes a toll of everything that happens to it, even when we are not consciously thinking about it. It is these unsaid, or hidden, traumas, or perseverations, that can be revealed in the body under anesthesia, particularly under the stress of surgery.

In this video, I'll explain how the body interacts with anesthesia to reveal these secrets about itself. It's mediated through the nervous system, which stores so much of our past mental and physical health struggles. Because there are nerves everywhere in our body, not just our brain, but also our gut, bladder, muscles, pretty much everywhere, anesthesia really does tell us a lot about the body as a whole.

Anesthesia and surgery can be far more than just an exposition of our past mental health struggles though. The stress and vulnerability of surgery can also open the window to impressive gains in resilience and health. You have more power over your physical and mental health than you’ve probably ever been told. I see this in patients in the operating room all the time!

This video/speech/channel DOES NOT CONSTITUTE MEDICAL ADVICE. Patients with medical concerns should contact their physician. If your concern is an emergency, immediately call 911. This information is not a recommendation for ANY THERAPY. Some substances referenced in this content may be illegal, and this content is not a recommendation for, or endorsement of, their use in any way.

[louaugustine]

A year ago I had to have a hysterectomy, and the anesthesiologist treated me like I was stupid when he came into the room before surgery. I was so upset and was very uncomfortable knowing he was behind me and he was going to be responsible for a big part of the surgery. I vaguely remember someone saying I was grinding my teeth sometime probably during recovery. Thoughts of him plagued me continually even after I went home. It’s the first time I was not put to ease by an anesthesiologist. I wanted to say something to my Surgeon who was great, but I just kept quiet.

[MartaWomack]

When I think of all the times I've had surgery in my life, now I'm wondering if I need to apologize to a Hospital staff member somewhere or not. I am always fear stricken to be put under anesthesia. Bad experience in childhood that has stayed with me all my life. Vividly. I was 2 & it was 1957 when I was going in for a double hernia operation. In the surgery room, nurses started tying my hands & feet all splayed apart when I panicked & started crying for my mother. I got really scared & screamed because they were hurting me in the process, but one of he nurses told me to hush up & stay still! Which, since I was just 2, only succeeded in making me cry & fight even more hysterically. I was utterly terrified by then. I didn't understand. No one talked to me other than that. I was just a thing. No one tried to be kind, or assure me I'd be okay. Then they suffocated me with a screen over my face that they were dripping ether on & got very angry when I cried & tried to turn my face away. I still have nightmares to this day, even in my late 60's, where I'm reliving variations of that event once in awhile. Wish there had been someone like you in the room back then, but you weren't even born yet! Thank you for caring about your patients! You're a good man.

[ashleyvann]

I think your video is very Informative but I do think it's going to give people more anxiety about having the procedure done because there now worried about what they will be saying during the procedure.

[Justme-zuof]

Having been abused as a child, I am scared that I may have talked about that in the recovery room. The recovery room nurse told the floor nurse that "she had some confusion in the recovery room". I was having flashbacks leading up to surgery, knowing my anesthesiologist (nice though he was) was male.

What are the chances that I spilled my secrets in the recovery room???

[my.weightloss.chronicles]

I had this intuition!! I was coming out while still in the OR and almost accused my doctor or stuff and the fact that I corrected myself makes me think that I was suspicious of him and the staff while under. I’m suspicious of people in general and I really think I must’ve let my mind fly while under. Poor staff!

[HeyLetsTalkAboutIt]

We always say “what you say in the ambulance, stays in the ambulance.” 🚑 #mediclife

[KS-sfvo]

I love the way that you explain it. I learn a lot from you Dr. Kaveh.

[paulburley]

I had no concerns about anesthesia until I watched these videos. How can this possibly be helpful?!

[rmorris]

I've never been concerned about what I say till watching your videos!!

[elforce]

Wow, this is so interesting. I had to get my appendix removed a couple of years ago and I can remember laughing as I went under as thought my surgeon was gorgeous. I woke up, what I thought was 5 seconds later still laughing. I really hope I didn't embarrass myself lol 🤣🤣

[heidi]

Our bodies and mind’s are absolutely astonishing! I learn so much from you!

[anonymustly]

My geriatric father, upon waking from anesthesia, spent the next 4 hours convinced hit men from "the mafia" were coming to kill him.

It was really rather comical.

[TaintedTrinity]

The Body Keeps the Score is an amazing book. HIGHLY recommend

[dang]

Wow this video is awesome very informative. Thank you

[amacotu]

I had a nephrectomy about a month ago and it seems I fought for my life during intubation. There were four attempts and in the notes it suggests that in future some other method should be used — what, I don’t know and can’t remember right now. This left me with damage in my throat which healed within a week, but my mouth is a different story. I think my lower right jaw was used as a fulcrum because all my teeth were out of alignment and I developed major sores. Eating lunch now, a month later, takes at least an hour or two. Also, my lower lip was damaged and I still have loss of sensation in part of it.

I just wish someone would have told me this kind of injury from surgery was even a thing.

[wanir]

What's the most common body language? Good and bad? 🤔 I'm so invested...love your videos

[jenniebotelho]

36 hip surgeries here and I’m SO embarrassed! It’s bad enough I usually wake up from surgery, grabbing everyone’s ass 🤦🏼‍♀️😂

[ritashustitzky]

Now you got me worried. I wonder what I say when I get my colonoscopies.

[boneybone]

Can you be legally held responsible for the things you say to the staff while coming out of anesthesia?

[LilPoopsie]

I would be scared to go under anesthesia.. I once had an edible and greened out and it was scary af.. I got so anxious because I would pass out and wake up repeatedly and I couldn't control it.. The part about slowly losing consciousness is the scary part. Every time I "woke up" I forgot what I had said a few seconds earlier. But I remembered everything afterwards when it wore off 😂
I cried alot and kept telling my bf how much I loved him, and kept asking when it was gonna be over lol he told me I was talking normally and didn't say anything weird at all. 🤔