Many mentions about "did not wake up after surgery"

see...and I read that too and had the same thoughts as you.....first of course, OMG! I'm glad they're ok--scary.

But then....I was like.. I wish I didn't wake up so fast....WAIT...I don't mean that I want trouble.....not at all....it's just that I have the opposite problem...I wake up too soon!!!! and that is worse...cuz I know whats going on.   I have woken up in the middle of knee replacement...although not from the knee pain...from the arthritis in my shoulder that they had out to the side for the IV...it was KILLIN' me.   go figure......

and then if I don't wake up in the middle of it, I wake up in recovery....can't breath....can't move....can't communicate with anyone and I am in a panic state till someone finally comes to my aid.....so scary.

The worst though....the very worst...is how sick I am after wards...   EVERY TIME. I cannot do the pain pump cuz that makes me sick too.....it's so awful.

I'm a bit confused about all this because from what I understand the person actually doesn't experience a lapse of time???? 

I've been an RN in a hospital for 16+ years and have never heard of anyone who "didn't wake up from surgery."  Ever. 

I have heard of rare cases where someone suffered an arrhythmia, stroke or bleeding incident in the OR, but if you are reasonably healthy (and that's why you've had months of pre-op testing), you will most likely be fine.  VSG is an elective surgery.  Surgeons don't like to take risks and would not operate on you if they felt there was a likelihood that you would have a fatal complication.   It is extremely rare for anyone to "code" in the actual OR.  Death a possibility with any surgical procedure, but it is extraordinarily rare.

Think of it this way:  I work in a major urban trauma center.  I would guess that one or two people die in the ER every week from auto accidents.  Many, many more are critically injured.  Our ICU is full of people who have been severely injured in crashes.  But, it is so rare for someone to die at my hospital during routine surgery that I really can't remember it happening, and if it did happen, it wold be the talk of the charge nurse meetings for days.  You are much more likely to die on your way to surgery then you are to die in the OR.  Now that you know this, are you going to avoid driving for the rest of your life?  Are you going to live in fear of traveling in a car?  Heck, don't get me started on bicycle or pedestrian traumas -- they're even worse! 

The more likely possibility is that you could suffer a leak after surgery.  That is the most common complication of sleeve surgery and there are several people on this board who have been unfortunate enough to experience this.  I believe that most eventually recovered and have gone on to have health and success afterwards.

We all take calculated risks in our lives every single day.  Stop listening to these medical geniuses who tell you that their cousin's sister's friend of a friend "didn't wake up from surgery."  They're idiots.  Don't let idiots run your life. 

This is good to know, I keep hearing this too, mostly related to folks with untreated sleep apnea.....

My sister-in-law had a simple surgery on this past Friday, December 13, 2013 to have tube placed in so she can take

dialysis at home and she never woke from the surgery.  She is still not awake.  Doctors are puzzled because her vitals are good and they can not get her to wake up.  She started have seizures after she did not wake the first day, so they place her in a medical induced coma.  The next day they started trying to bring her out of the coma and it did not work.  Today, we received word from hospital that they placed her back into a medical induced coma because test showed seizures again.  Doctor seems to think her body absorbed too much of the anesthesia.  They stated that they did test and did not indicate a stroke or heart attack and brian functions looked good on scan. She has four specialists that is trying to figure out this situation.

What's her status?! I have someone experiencing the same thing after a cardiac surgery.  It's been 5 days.

Hi, my mother had a gastric bypass surgery on 12//22/2017. Surgery went well according to the surgeon and staff however my mother has yet to wake up...

 One of the reasons surgeons don't like to do elective procedures on the very obese is that anesthesia is much more difficult for us. First, our extra weight & tendency toward sleep apnea create physical complications that can interfere with breathing (anesthesia usually depresses respiration)

The other reason is that it can be REALLY hard to gauge the right amount of anesthetic to give us. Anesthesia doses are usually titrated based on weight - however, with the morbidly obese they can't do that - it would put many of us into toxic quantities. So, the anesthesiologist must make her best professional judgement...which can result in staying anesthetized longer than expected. "Didn't wake up" means "didn't come out of anesthesia as soon as expected", so they might move you out of recovery to ICU so as to make room for other surgical patients.

 I've always had a horrible time waking from surgery so when I had my last surgery (lumpectomy in Feb) they skipped the narcotics and I woke up, slightly groggy and was at the diner in 2 hours having breakfast! Sooooooooo no more narcotics for me during surgery! 

I am one of those who did not wake up from surgery, when expected.

I did not wake up in recovery.

I have never been a smoker.

I was put in ICU until I woke up.... about 17 hours after surgery.

After I woke up, I recovered quickly.

I left about 3 hours after the originally planned time.  

In summary, I was in recovery 2 hours, ICU 15 hours, regular room for about 6 hours, then discharged.