<r><QUOTE author="Ari2;36113"><s></s>What do you think happens with major surgery? You are given drugs to make you lose consciousness. Then all sorts of nasty things happen to you. You may have consented to the surgery, but it is unlikely that you really know in detail of what happens to your body beyond a rough description of the basic procedure. But you are given drugs to make you forget. You won't remember the procedure (if the memory-erasing drugs were given before surgery you may not even remember being wheeled into the OR), but you will not be "pretty f'd up", with panic attacks and feelings of being unsafe. This happens to thousands of people a day in the US in surgeries that range from small hernia repairs to heart transplants to facial reconstruction to amputation. You don't remember. You aren't f'd up.<e></e></COLOR><e>[/FONT]</e></FONT><e>[/SIZE]</SIZE></e></SIZE><e>[/B]</e></B><e>[/COLOR]</e></COLOR><e>[/quote]</e></QUOTE>
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<COLOR color="maroon"><s></s>Ari, I can’t figure out if you pretend to not be getting it at all because you're getting a kick from me getting into an explanation of the most obvious things (if so, please let me know and I'll just ignore such posts of yours since I don't really have time to waste) or you really aren't getting it?!<e></e></COLOR><br/>
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<COLOR color="maroon"><s></s>During surgeries we do NOT actually FEEL pain; many surgeries (for instance, c-section, which is a major abdominal surgery) performed under anesthesia that allows a person to stay totally awake and STILL feel no pain. As for general anesthesia, you don't ACTUALLY FEEL anything, even pocks, forget about pain, it NOT just about torturing you and then erasing it from your memory. So, you do NOT really get any trauma on the first place.<e></e></COLOR><br/>
<COLOR color="maroon"><s></s>On the other hand, some people report anesthesia failure (when they couldn't move or scream but feel quite a bit) and some of them don't quite even remember the surgery itself, remembering just the feeling of panic, pain, helplessness and those people usually spend years going through therapies, having horrible nightmares, panic attacks, etc.<e></e></COLOR><br/>
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<COLOR color="maroon"><s></s>Most of babies (about 85% of them) are NOT given ANY anesthesia. Some are given topical cream which usually almost doesn't do anything even IF you wait the full 45 min or so for it to take affect (which usually isn't the case; no one usually wants to "waste" time waiting for it to take effect and the ripping off, cutting and crushing of the most sensitive part of the body is basically performed almost right away after the cream was applied which basically means NO anesthesia). Most babies wail bloody murder, they chock, pass out, puke, pass out, wail, chock and this "fun" goes on for about 15 min. Do you SERIOUSLY think that human BODY and BRAIN can really EVER forget such a trauma even if it's not something a person actively remembers?! That would be so naive to think that!<e></e></COLOR></r>