Anesthesia has also been found to have an association with cognitive decline.
I would think trauma, also.
Every time you go under anesthesia you’re getting conked in the head with a hammer.
Hospitals today are tantamount to a debilitating accident.
I have family and loved ones who returned from hospital stays much WORSE than when they went in. It’s insane.
Absolutely. Repeatedly under sedation >2 hours, without movement, you can start destroying connections within the limbic system. Basically shortening the shelf life for the 'back office' of the executive-functioning frontal lobe.
I thought this has been known for years. My aunts and uncles used to refuse to have surgeries unless a life-threatening situation because they insisted it destroyed mental abilities. I’ve had two surgeries in my lifetime. I refuse to go under anesthesia again. I swear I lost brain cells and some of my memory from those surgeries.
I wonder about anesthesia at a dentist’s office for a tooth implant. They claimed it wasn’t anesthesia, but I couldn’t think straight for a few hours.
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Anesthesia has also been found to have an association with cognitive decline.
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Now days they give you a shot of medical grade fentanyl and lights out until wake up in recovery room.
My friend’s 90+ year old mother was living independently until she had surgery for a broken hip. the hip is fine, but her memory is shot.
My neighbor is 94.
Still walks.
Sharp as can be.
Amazing man.
30 surgeries so far.
I had general anesthetic for cancer surgery in 2019. After the surgery, I was a stumbling idiot for quite sometime. I felt my mental acuity worse by at least 50%. Couldn’t remember jack whatsisname. I did research (managed to do that) and found that some people have no cognitive damage for gen. anesthetic, but many do. 2% or some small amount lose it totally and never get better. Over time mine has improved, but my short term memory is not good, and people around me can see this. I have an excellent memory and high IQ and it is very frustrating to have this. Of course doctors never warn patients about this.
I take herbs to help mental acuity and member and they do help a bit. Long term memory is not affeceted at all. I am in early 70s but up until the surgery I had zero cognitive difficulty at all. No relatives for 3 generations or more had any cognitive decline with age, and most lived a long time.
Not a comforting thought having gone through multiple knee and hip replacement surgeries. I have noticed a decline after each operation and not for the better except for the joints.
I got plugged into the VA, they run you thru multiple clinics and dont seem to cross talk much. This is with everything being ok. I hate being foggy in the brain and specifically anesthesia. I shouldn’t complain too much. My pre VA docs would only ever prescribe was some opioid variant.