Recovery room

i have never had a surgery before so I'm wondering what it's like while in recovery. What do you remember about it? What was it like, etc? I have no idea what to expect. 

After surgery you're moved to recovery, you'll likely be out for this and unaware.  All of my memories of recovery are that it's sort of loud and very white.  People check on you a lot.  I normally always feel cold too :P  

From there you go to your actual hospital room.  It's much quieter!  :D

I've never had a bad time with anesthesia, and the drugs they use now are so much better than back in my day. The first thing you'll notice as you come out of anesthesia are voices and standard hospital noises (beeping from your monitors mostly). Your first thought will probably be "I made it!!!!" Then you'll open your eyes. Nurses will come and ask if you know where you are, how you feel, whether you're nauseated. You'll feel heavily drugged (because you are!), but within 30 minutes to 1 hour, you'll be yourself again, albeit a little groggy and wobbly.

I've found the quickest way out of the anesthesia is to fight it. Try not to fall back asleep, start moving around as much as possible on your gurney. Flex your toes, ankles and arms. The recovery room is the part of the entire procedure that you will have the most trouble remembering, so don't sweat it. You'll do fine.

psychoticparrot 

My only memories of the recovery room was people waking me to tell me things.  I was pretty out of it, and barely remember being transferred from recovery to my hospital room. 

One of the first things they'll ask you is how much pain you are in and then give you meds if you need them.  I was worried about nausea, so I asked for anti-nausea meds before surgery, and I was really glad I did, because I had no nausea.

Both my vsg and my tummy tuck surgery were really easy in terms of recovery.  So try not to worry.  It will probably be easier than you think.

best wishes

Carol

I remember the recovery rooms from previous procedures, and having people checking on me constantly because I tend to have low 02 levels after anaesthesia. I have no memory of the recovery room after my VSG, my first lucid moments that I remember were after I had been moved from recovery to my private room. I spent the first few hours dozing on and off and didn't really try to talk to anybody for the first few hours that I was in my room. 

I remember it pretty vividly. It was no biggie. I woke up and like others have said people will be asking me if I was in pain or had any nausea. In my case it was a big room with lots of patients with a nurse assigned to every two. I remember having a tiny bit of shoulder pain from the gas but that's about it. I actually remember the nurses discussing lunch plans and then I was wheeled out of there super fast to my private room. 

I woke up in recovery to someone checking for blood clots in my legs with a doppler, someone else did a blood draw, someone took the catheter out, made me drink dye for a test, nurses constantly asking if you're in pain/nauseated, and my mouth was sooooooooo dry from an anti-nausea patch. I remember all these little details, but was so in and out of it, I had a hard time keeping my eyes open.

I had the same experiences last Friday.  Just a fuzzy recollection of seeing a nurse and getting rolled to my room.  On Friday I got a visit from one of the doctors that worked on my surgery.  He said I met him when he and my surgeon came and talked to me in the recovery room.  I have no memory of that conversation.  There's nothing to worry about in recovery because you barely know you've been there.

I was in pain for a few minutes in the recovery room till they adjusted my pain meds , my hubby had 2 major surgeries and don't remember the recovery room at all, some of the meds they give you make you forget stuff , do not make any important decisions for a few weeks to get the drugs out of your system