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Originally Posted by Daonnachd
I just got back from my ECT and must say it was the roughest I've had in nearly 5 years of maintenance. As I was going under I couldn't breathe but my hands and feet were agitated and fluttering. I tried to speak to tell them that I couldn't breathe but I couldn't talk! I'm sure my hands got a little more frantic at that point. Apparently it was then that the anaesthesiologist gave me something additional in the mix going in my IV and it sent me into a deeper sleep. I know this because he came to talk to me after I woke up in Recovery.
After all that, I am feeling better.
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Daonnachd, I'm so sorry to read that that happened to you. I know (real experience) something like what you are referring to. On the page before this (I'm quoting below), I wrote about such an experience. It was during my first ECT treatment that I had in a series, about 9 years ago. I usually don't mention that it was during ECT, because I don't want to scare people. It is, indeed, a rare thing. Mine was not while going under. In my case, the anesthesia wore off before the succinylcholine. When that happened, I was fully paralyzed, couldn't open my eyes or speak, and was unable to breathe on my own. I don't know what happened then, if they somehow realized and knocked me out again, or...something else. I'm sure that if I was no longer intubated, that I must have been reintubated or had been, and just still felt I couldn't breathe at the time. I can say that the anesthesiologist's interview was not a joke. She apologized profusely and assured me it wouldn't happen again.
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Originally Posted by BirdDancer
I'm having a tough time getting going this morning. I got to sleep later than I should have, and then my initial sleep was unpleasant. To my knowledge and hubby's, I have never had any signs of sleep apnea, but every once in a while I will wake up in a startle, feeling like I can't breathe. I sometimes wonder if it is related to an anesthesia awareness event I had once in the past (where I couldn't, or felt like I couldn't, breathe). That was frightening. It was taken very seriously after I reported it, as there are generally only about 30,000 cases every year and many fewer during the procedure I was receiving. Even the anesthesiologist came to interview me about it the next day. Luckily, it never happened again.
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