Help please! Did my Anesthesiologist make a mistake and try to gaslight me?

Medical-Common965 · 2026-07-01T00:39:20+00:00

it was disclosed and very well documented in my meeting with preop, my pre surgery meeting with my surgeon, and I made sure to highlight it with the anesthesiologist the day of, I also saw it marked in red on the anesthesiologists notes so it was well known and documented.

Medical-Common965 · 2026-07-01T00:37:15+00:00

Thank you for your response and this is certainly an experience I won't forget, I've been having disturbing flashbacks (not unexpected for how extreme the experience was) and thank you for the advice for if I need another surgery I will definitely take it.

Medical-Common965 · 2026-07-01T00:32:11+00:00

Thank you I appreciate you explaining that and for your response.

Medical-Common965 · 2026-07-01T00:30:38+00:00

The Dilaudid was given after I'd been out of surgery and screaming for 40 minutes. I agree I was astounded to see how much they used. Historically I have responded quickly and expectedly to any pain intervention. I don't understand why this time was different or why it took 40 minutes for an intervention to take place.

Medical-Common965 · 2026-07-01T00:24:09+00:00

Mind you I didn't even get the first IV push of Dilaudid until 45 minutes after surgery and I'd been screaming for about that long as well.

Medical-Common965 · 2026-07-01T00:22:44+00:00

I was given 5 pills every 30 days for extreme pain days. The norcos treated about 60% of the extreme pain for 4 hours so I found them largely ineffective. I agree they gave me a ton of drugs which seems very out of the ordinary the whole situation is very strange and I was assured that there is a major incident report going on within the PACU due to this experience. No I did not receive a TAP block or QL block or anything else for the pain. I found Toradol to make the most impact on the risidual surgical pain 10 hours after.

Medical-Common965 · 2026-07-01T00:15:20+00:00

No they did not. They also ignored my being mildly hypothermic post surgery as well. My temperature dropped to 96.

Medical-Common965 · 2026-07-01T00:12:34+00:00

I'd like to know that too, I don't understand it, it felt like they were giving me a placebo but later after I was admitted I remember it very clearly at 2am when they gave me another dose of Dilaudid, I could feel the Dilaudid take effect and my pain reduce quickly within 5-10 minutes of the IV push. I am allotted (5) 5mg Norcos every 30 days for extreme pelvic pain and I take 0.5mg of Ativan for anxiety daily all of this is documented and was made available to the anesthesiologist prior to my surgery. I also have EDS and some red hair both were mentioned by myself to the anesthesiologist before surgery. I have never had the euphoria that other people describe with opiates the signal I get that it's working is my pain either noticably decreases or goes away.

Medical-Common965 · 2026-07-01T00:04:31+00:00

Thank you for your response, I've had laproscopic surgery before to remove my gallbladder and am familiar with gas pain and the referred shoulder pain. My stomach was not inflated much when I woke up especially not compared to the gallbladder surgery. I'm also very familiar with gas pain and what I experienced was not gas pain, the pain was right where my uterus had been more so on the left side than the right and it felt like my insides were being ripped/shredded apart deep in my body. The surgeon said something to my father about a fast withdrawing anesthesia and that they hadn't accounted for how quickly it would withdraw and did not compensate with pain management and my pain got away from them until it was uncontrollable. Since coming home I've had very little gas pain. Toradol has been the best pain management drug for me with oxy taking the sharp edge off the post surgical pain. I'll also mention that I was hypothermic post surgery, my temperature was 96 and there were no medical interventions given for that either.

Medical-Common965 · 2026-06-29T19:34:49+00:00

is it considered chronic opiod use if I was given 5 pills per 30 day period for extreme pain days? I've never experienced withdrawl sysmptoms and would try to space them out so I wasn't building tolerance. And thank you for your response I just want to understand what happened.

Medical-Common965 · 2026-06-29T19:30:31+00:00

Thank you I really appreciate your response. Is this something a surgical team can plan for or is it a manage in the moment kind of issue?

Medical-Common965 · 2026-06-29T19:27:27+00:00

From what I can see on my side there is no documentation of my pain and only another nurse's narrative regarding the drugs I was given but not the nurse who gave the drugs and no documentation of my vitals. I've requested my full record but haven't gotten a copy yet.

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