84 Unhinged Patients Who Wanted To Be Buried In The Ground After Their Anesthesia Really Wore Off

Heard the heart monitor beeping, started smiling and humming and blurted out "TURN IT UP! I LOVE THIS SONG!!!" The doctor and nurses thought it was hilarious.

My husband told me when I woke up from having my wisdom teeth removed, I was furious at the oral surgeon. I was attempting to yell at him him for taking MY teeth to put under HIS pillow and the Tooth Fairy was going to give HIM the money MY teeth had earned. He patted his lab coat pocket and said, "Perks of the job, sweetheart." Must have been a good response, because my husband said I dropped it immediately.

Not a doctor, but when my buddy woke up from anesthesia, he went to the bathroom and got dressed. His girlfriend heard him sobbing after being in the bathroom for 10+ minutes, and asked what was wrong. He said, through tears, that he couldn't find his other sock. She laughed and told him she would find him more socks later. When they got home, he immediately crashed on the bed, and she took off his shoes so he could be comfortable...he had two socks on one foot.

My favorite was a huuuge bearded vet, Hx of PTSD, very concerned about waking up. He had apparently gotten a bit aggressive after previous procedures (obviously not his fault). As we're rolling him out of the OR, he kept asking me softly "Am I waking up okay?" and I'd tell him "Yeah buddy, you're doing great." And he'd go "Oh, okay." Didn't try to get up, no flailing, nothing. He was just cozied up under the warm blankets asking me that question over and over again.

By the time we got to PACU, he was on to repeating "Awww, I just love you guys!" every couple of minutes. Adorable.

I was having surgery on my right leg, woke up in the middle of the operation an yelled to the doctor "what are you doing to my right leg it was the left leg" and felt back asleep.

After I came out from the surgery, the doctors told me that there was about 5 seconds of pure panic in the operating room and the doctor went pale as a sheet of paper.

As a patient, I was told by my sweetie that I asked the oral surgeon if he liked wearing women’s panties.

Commanded the unicorn army against the legions of teddy bears. She was directing troops left and right calling out all sorts of attacks. It was hilarious and her friend that was with her couldn’t keep it together.

I ‘woke up’ after being sedated to get my wisdom teeth out and apparently would not shut about my husband. “My husband got me Zoodles and ice cream for later, I *love* my husband, he’s gonna set up the Fast & Furious movies for me to watch, I *love* my husband, we snuggle every night, I *love* my husband!”

Not surprising when they brought me into the recovery waiting area where he was waiting for me, I apparently excitedly shouted “my husband!! That’s my husband!!”

Not the nurse, but she sure got a laugh out of this one. I was getting ketamine treatments for chronic pain and depression as part of a research study at a prominent academic hospital. I was on the come up during one session and I said to the nurse "man I feel like a hexagon."

Patient - damnnnnn they gave me the hot nurse. That nurse before I went under was mean and kinda ugly.

Hey guy, that was also me!

Patient - no [way]? Those are some strong beer goggles. Hey! Get my wife in here I wanna see if she’s hot too.


Also they cry. Like a lot.


ETA: for those of you that cried it’s called “emergence delirium” and is really common, especially in kids and young people (hence why it’s often for wisdom tooth extraction) Also it’s more common with laughing gas. There’s also emergence agitation, which is a little more traumatic and can be dangerous since it usually involves kick boxing and alligator rolls.

As I got sedated before a procedure, I said goodbye to my husband and told him I loved him. Then I told my nurse "I love you too, but in a different way."

For several hours after one of his surgeries, my dad thought he was Elvis and warned me that the nurse was trying to steal the keys to his pink Cadillac.

Coming out of it from surgery I started petting my nurses head. She was putting a leg sleeve on that vibrates to prevent blood clots. In my groggy waking up state I thought my cat had curled up against my leg in my bed.

I told my surgeon my family and I had been laughing about not having anything to worry about because we could tell he was smart just looking at his ENORMOUS BALD HEAD.

One time I went into the ER because I got hit in the head with a giant metal pipe. They had to give me a spinal tap to make sure my brain parts weren't bleeding. They gave me some kind of amazing [stuff] through my i.v and I felt really really good. The thing they clamp onto your finger for your pulse had a red light on it. I kept saying ellliottt ellliottt to the nurse (like ET) and the nurse had to leave the room because she was laughing so hard.

Last time I went under, I woke up unable to speak French. French is my native language. I was stuck in English only mode for almost four hours. The poor monolingual nurse's face was hilarious ngl. He still tried to help, bless him.

One of my GFs had surgery, and while she was in the recovery room, she was really angry that no one would give her a pina colada. She does not drink.

I’m not a nurse but my roommate was during pandemic. She helped me schedule my upper gi endoscopy at the practice where she worked, and performed my upper GI endoscopy. I was waking up from the propofol, and APPARENTLY I was all over the cute anesthesiologist, squeezing his bicep, and saying “Ohhh Dr RodrIGUEZZZZ, you’re sooooo nice and strongggg.”

Mortifying.

My husband had to have his pinky toes removed. When they brought him into recovery afterwards they gave him the choice of vanilla or chocolate pudding. He cried because he had to choose which one he wanted. They brought in both so he was satisfied. He ate the vanilla and then stacked the cups to eat the chocolate. After his was finished, he got this crazy look on his face, and yelled at me, "you stole my pudding! How could you do that to me!?" I assured him I did not eat his pudding. The nurse came back to check on him and he informed her that I was thief and needed to be removed.


It was a very long ride home...

Had a patient request that we send him home with his amputated toes because he wanted to put them in the fridge so he could "be a cannibal".