alt Hacker NewsI have a theory that some people don’t fully wake up after the anesthesia wears off. A part of them is still sleeping. Like memory bank takes a slow break and stops working. I suspect it happened to me and now I am looking for answers.
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ggm • last Monday at 6:24 AM
It's a reasonably well understood problem for older people in particular that general anaesthesia can trigger some kind of cognitive decline in some people.
Separately at least in Australia you are given specific advice regarding avoidance of operation of construction machinery, farm machinery and the like.
I don't agree with anesthesia having long-term affects similar to their initial use (excluding any allergic reactions of course).
I will say that I believe when a person experiences significant pain of any kind, it changes their lived experience such that what previously might have been painful may not be as much if the event causing the pain is relatively less. Much like how the high-water mark of a river indicates what a riverbank can withstand.
For example, a person who has never had to use crutches due to injury may see having to park their car a great distance from a store's entrance as being "a pain in the ass" and might complain loudly. Yet that same person who doesn't have the option to drive to the store due to an injury, or if they did would have to use crutches to move about, may very well not care at all where they park once they regain full mobility.
In short, pain is relative and once one "raises the bar" of what is considered painful, that which once qualified as same very well may no longer be so.
Problem is, it takes the memory of "new levels of pain" to make this happen.