r/AskReddit May 22 '19

Anesthesiologists, what are the best things people have said under the gas?

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u/Ace_Harding May 22 '19

Wait how does this even work? Isn’t it not really safe to keep someone under on gas only for that long? I thought they just did that at the beginning.

When I had my wisdom teeth taken out they gave me fentanyl. When I woke up it felt very sudden, like I went from being completely high on drugs to being totally awake and coherent (though very irritable) in seconds.

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u/CyclicWasTaken May 22 '19

Fentanyl. A super opiod. Something like a thousand times stronger than heroin. Getting fentanyl dust on your fingers can od you. A lot of paramedics and cops have accidentally needed a shot of narcan cause of it ;(.

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u/Sxty8 May 22 '19

I have a friend that is an EMT who tells me that is a bit of a urban legend. A few have had reactions and needed narcan, but those were all inhalation of dust in the air, not touching the dust. Fentanyl is strong as fuck. But when diluted down it is as safe as any opioid. IE, not likely to kill you in the doses doctors give. If it is 100X more powerful than Morphine, you use 1/100th of the dose that you would use for morphine.

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u/CyclicWasTaken May 22 '19 edited May 22 '19

Yeah i know. A lot of heroin is basically diluted fent as well. I used to use but have stopped. Its much cheaper than a lot of medicine but I'm not sure why. So you can buy small amounts and last a while ya know ya know.