Panic attacks after general anesthetic during hip surgery Posted: 11-12-07 04:04am
I had hip surgery last week under general
anesthetic and can remember feeling like
there was a pack of dogs eating at my
thigh, I woke up and could feel my leg
opened up and was in severe pain shaking
uncontrolably it felt like i was about to
die I lifted my head up and screamed
abusive language you bast**ds what are you
doing to me, with that I was injected in
the left hand and woke up looking for a
glass of water in the rcovery room, since
then I have not been able to sleep and I
am having regular panic attacs, I feel
like im going mad, am I alone or has this
happened to anyone else?
If indeed you experienced a panic attacks
after surgery on your hip, you could be
experiencing some kind of post-traumatic
stress disorder. Both anesthesia and
surgical trauma can cause post-operative
psychiatric symptoms like those that you
describe ... but these usually only last
temporarily. For most operated patients,
anesthesia or surgical intervention by
itself does not cause any serious
post-surgical psychiatric disorder. This
means that you might have a predisposition
to develop such a disorder and the
operation was only a trigger. To learn
more, you can consult a mental health
specialist.
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