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robolemmy@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

One of the first drugs they give you before surgery interferes with the formation of long term memories. There’s a good chance you were awake and aware for quite awhile after the first injection… you just couldn’t make long term memories about it.

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thespcicifcocean@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Is the inability to form long term memories a side effect of something, or is that the main point of one of the drugs?

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- ManOMorphos@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Causing memory loss is an important part of anesthesia. Usually it’s done with very strong sedatives that are in a similar family to benzodiazepines.
  
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- BlueOysterCultist@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  I’d assume they meant short term, cus losing long term memory formation for any amount of time would be trrrifying
  
  I’m unsure of it being the intended effect or a side effect
  
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  - robolemmy@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Nope, I definitely mean long term. That’s the whole point… you don’t remember what happens for a little while, and it’s definitely on purpose. They also give you a soporific (makes you unconscious) and a paralytic (so you don’t move voluntarily or otherwise).
    
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    BlueOysterCultist@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    That sounds like short term though
    
    Like roofies affect short term memory, you can’t form memories during a short period of time. Short term memories feed long term memory.
    
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Allero@lemmy.today ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
How long term are we talking about? Because I remember being immediately surprised once I got awake. It’s not that I just don’t remember it now, specifically.

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- robolemmy@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Yeah, you won’t remember anything from the time it kicks in to the time it wears off, give or take a couple of minutes.
  
  The first time I went in for a surgery, my memory ends shortly after they pushed the first drug into my IV but my mom was there and she said we talked for another 15 minutes before they took me to the OR. I remember none of it but she says I was completely lucid as far as she could tell.
  
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  - Allero@lemmy.today ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    I see! Curious.
    
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