Anxiety in Surgery (What Happens Under Anesthesia?)

#anxiety #anesthesia #panic

What happens to your anxiety once you fall asleep under anesthesia? Dr. Kaveh explains the secrets that are revealed by your body once you fall asleep for surgery.

Anxiety is common before surgery, and anxiety even affects your brain while unconscious under anesthesia. Surgery anxiety, or even anesthesia anxiety, can reduce the success of surgery, and your professional and personal success. And your anxiety is heavily affected by anesthesia, psychedelics, and meditative states.

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To understand how our anxiety changes in surgery, and while under anesthesia, we need to understand anxiety and your awake brain.
Anxiety can simply be defined as the difference between what you want to do and what you think you can do. For example, if you want a job promotion, but you are uncertain if you can talk to your boss, you can have anxiety.

Next, your brain’s motivation is easy to understand. Your brain functions on two properties: laziness and control. This is why we are so susceptible to “get rich quick schemes.” After all, the brain wants control over its revenue streams, and will try to find the easiest way to do so.

Both your brain’s laziness and its sense of control are disrupted under anesthesia. By the way, this also happens in disruptive life experiences, meditation, psychedelics, and more.

However, in the operating room when you’re asleep under anesthesia, depending on the dose, your brain doesn’t fall into a problem solving frenzy.

Firstly, our relationship with our values changes under anesthesia. In fact, one of our most important values, like breathing, goes out the door if the dose of anesthesia is high enough. Even at lower doses, our values, like that promotion, simply aren’t important enough for us to try to control.

Next, because our brains don’t need the same level of control, we can achieve our lowest energy state without perseverating and ruminating. In fact, our brains don’t need to spin at all in this experience.

This is a powerful opportunity for growth. At light doses of anesthesia, some of my patients can reevaluate what values they are trying to control. When they wake up, they can take their experience with them to modify what their brain tries to control.

Our brains are susceptible to worrying in a handful of situations. These include being:
• Hungry
• Bored
• Lonely
• Frustrated
• Annoyed
You can get ahead of your worrying in these situations! You can dissect what’s going on in your brain before the worrying gets out of control. And this can often be done without any medications or anesthesia, with the exception of severe conditions.

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.

[earrape]

Guys I was freaking out, shaking uncontrollably, fear of needles & fear of unknown, & also trust problems with people/doctors. But I gotta say the experience was much much better than your brain imagines it to be. Everything will be good; just get it done & get back to living a happy healthy life :) praise be to god

[TurtleFootMining]

Not only did I get educated about my Anxiety before my back surgery I got well informed on how to live and understand life thank you so much for that intro. Will remember it for the rest of my life :) :) :)

[Calibeachgtl]

Guys i had surgery yesterday and had never been under general anesthesia before. My anesthesiologists were amazing and kind. I told them about my anxiety and reassured me " well be with you every step of the way". Also tell them your anxious. They gave me something right before and that thing whatever it was hit me in like 3 seconds. I was as calm as can be. I vaguely remember the doors, and vaguely remember the mask to breath in anesthesia. I was like ok who cares no scaredness at all seeing those things. Woke up in recovery and that was it. But tell them you have anxiety, their used to it, and their sedatives are amazing !!!

[tara]

This was the simplest most helpful explanation of anxiety I’ve ever heard. Next time I feel anxious I’ll consider if it’s really what I want to do or if it’s just the fact that I can’t do it that’s triggering.

[aaroncooper]

I have watched a lot of your videos and they have helped me calm down for my kidney surgery

[jojoa]

I was put under general a few times so far, and the second time it happened the anesthesiologist came to see me the next day and said “you might notice a huge chip in your front tooth, I’ve been doing my job for 21 years and I’ve never experienced anyone bite onto the (metal thing I can’t remember it’s name) so hard, you just wouldn’t undo your bite yet you were completely comatose”. He offered to pay for my dental work but I declined, I was just grateful to him and everyone for helping me get the surgery. But it’s always confused me how I could have bitten so hard and not let go, while being totally under. Was this anxiety? I have no idea.

[LadyDez]

Thank you! I have a severe anxiety problem and I LOVE YOUR VIDEOS! Versed helped me through mine. My anesthesiologist gave me a slightly higher dose last time I had surgery. I wanted to be an anesthesiologist as a teen, but my lazy brain told me I couldn't. 😆 Honestly, you are brilliant imo, because this is the best description of anxiety I've ever heard and I've seen a lot of mental health professionals.

[brendatroth]

Patients have anxiety due to being are uncertain about what is going to happen to their body in the OR because the doctors have not been completely honest with them regarding what is going to happen to them. What Prep is done, how much physical exposure they are going to have (naked on the OR table during prep and clean up) (in this case the nurses and drs tell half truths and commit the sin of omission by saying, "Only the part of your body we are working on will be exposed DURING SURGERY. That is the truth part and is after the pre part and the prepare your body for the PACU part.
What the procedure actually entails. What drugs they are going to use and the side effects. That Verse is a date rape drug that leaves you completely vunerable so the medical staff can do anything they want to you and you will not be able to stop them or remember. They say you are part of the Pain Management after surgery and you are not. The PACU nurse will only go by what the dr things your pain level should be and you have to advocate for yourself when you are in a diminshed condition.
Surgerysies cause stress and anxiety because the medical community keep what they are going to do to you secret and not for your benefit but for their benefit.

People read up on your procedure, watch actual videos, ask lots and lots of questions weeks prior to your surgery and talk to others who have had the surgery to see how they did.

[emmamae]

wow i never knew i still had anxiety under anethisa

[joeglennaz]

This video you made is absolutely amazing. I can relate to this on so many different levels and similar experiences myself. I had a vasectomy several years ago and I requested IV sedation because I just would be a nervous wreck. I had been under a lot of stress anyway and when they started the Proponol they didn’t put it all in at once so I didn’t go right to sleep but I immediately became so relaxed and it was such a relief for my mind and my body to calm down. I went from being so nervous to telling the anesthesiologist you could keep me right here at this level and go ahead with the procedure. But we both agreed I should go ahead and go to sleep. But that is how much it relaxed me. Now I don’t know if she gave me something in addition to the propanol like a Valium type drug I just don’t know. I even told her I said oh my gosh you could start some kind of relaxation clinic with this stuff and make millions of dollars because I could not believe the amount of stress I had been under until it was taken away from me. I wish there was some kind of natural substance that is not harmful that you could take that would give a person that same result without being addictive. Because I really really needed that relief and I’ve never experienced anything that could give me that kind of relief in seconds.. I also realize there’s probably not anything that will, but that is unfortunate because I imagine millions of people could use some real relief every now and then. Although that does make me think about a documentary I’ve saw one time about Ivy ketamine for PTSD.. Another time when I had all four of my wisdom teeth out they put me on the EKG monitor my heart rate was 140 beats a minute I was so nervous. I remember the doctor saying oh my goodness we got to get this IV started to calm you down.. Just last year I experienced what I think is a panic attack for the first time ever during a live zoom call with another company. So I now know what that feels like. All of this tells me I need to get back to hiking and exercising again something I have been putting off for the last 2 to 3 years. Anyway thank you so much I guess in telling you some of my story I’m just trying to validate everything you’re saying. Thanks again for your great videos. Forgive any typos I’m using talk to text.

[mattielucas]

I have anxiety and every time I’ve had general anesthetic I get post op depression

[Karxaras]

If you had panic attacks in the past Is it possible general anesthesia to trigger them back after surgery and even worst to have one under anesthesia?

[meredithdriscoll]

Great video, coming from someone who has panic disorder very helpful, thank you 😇

[dominiksdumbraitis]

i had panick attack under anesthesia, anesthesiologist needed to stop surgery because i had to high blood preasure

[mrinferno]

My first time surgery is still my first time surgery next couple days. I’m having a panic attack and scared scared. Think I’m never gonna wake up.

[Misslunalifestyle]

I’m getting plastic surgery to recover from my accident, this is my first surgery and I’m so scared hopefully they will fix my half of toe, between I’m only 18

[ASHLEYSHELLMAN-rk]

I got put under local anesthetic. I was still conscious during oral surgery and everything seemed like it was happening at high speed, it was extremely overwhelming. I came to in tears and started spilling my guts to my anesthesiologist about my ex cheating on me with my friend. Then my ex came to pick me up and my anesthesiologist met him and interrogated him asking him questions about me. My anesthesiologist hugged me when I left and my ex was like, "what was that all about?"😅

[AngelaGibbs-ueox]

I've only had general anesthesia once in my lifetime. At the tender age of 6, when I had surgery on my left eye lid.it was drooped. All that i remember is that they gave me this kind of cloudy looking medicine in a cup to drink. And when I drank it ( or tried to) once it went down, it came back up almost two seconds later!.😮I now know that it was some kind of pediatric preoperative med. To relax me? .But anyway, I woke up after surgery, and vomited all night. ( they kept you in the hospital overnight or a day or two back then, instead of just "throwing you out" and sending you home the same day) I still believe that would have to stay overnight if I ever need surgery.just to be sure that im alright .I dont do medications well.

[heidi]

I got anxiety watching this talking about the anxiety. Ughh bad anxiety day, but I am doing the breathing techniques you teach on these UTube Video’s 💙

[anuragbiswas]

Sir, my neck stiffens n tremor starts from head neck to hand, much social anxiety and many more, please suggest me what to do sir.