this post was submitted on 17 Aug 2023
36 points (89.1% liked)

Asklemmy

43750 readers
1189 users here now

A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions

Search asklemmy ๐Ÿ”

If your post meets the following criteria, it's welcome here!

  1. Open-ended question
  2. Not offensive: at this point, we do not have the bandwidth to moderate overtly political discussions. Assume best intent and be excellent to each other.
  3. Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below
  4. Not ad nauseam inducing: please make sure it is a question that would be new to most members
  5. An actual topic of discussion

Looking for support?

Looking for a community?

~Icon~ ~by~ ~@Double_[email protected]~

founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
 

Sorry if this does fit here, or make sense couldn't find an ask docs community with my tired 1am brain.

Just had cosmetic surgery yesterday and wondering what the typical time is for remembering things. Also if you could add when you felt you could function (sit up without feeling dizzy, think straight, text anything but gibberish) again. Thanks in advance!

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[โ€“] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I've never lost memory as part of a surgery, so I'm not sure how that side of things works. I pretty much just wake up like a light has been turned on post surgery. It's not quite that quick of course, but I don't really have a confused phase.

It could just be that I've had so many surgeries and my body is used to it by now?

[โ€“] HangryHobbit 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thank you for your perspective! We're they cosmetic surgeries as well?

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Some of them were, but most of them weren't

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I had emergency cosmetic surgery after my accident and remember up to the anaesthesia counting down from ten to about four, and then waking up afterwards.