I would never have sedation for anything again, not after being sedated for major dental surgery,
I am terrified of needles, and OK the sedation reduced the terror substantially, but the pain of having needle after needle pushed into my gums was no less excruciationg for my being sedated. It just gave the whole experience a dream-like quality. And i was totally aware of a bunch of people trying to bully me into co-operating better. And ;'m thinking back at them (can't talk, can i?) how the fucjk can you expect a body to be in full control of their faculties and responses, after reducuing them to this state, huh?".
And at the end of it all, they just gave me paracetomol for the ongoing pain, FFS. My Mum stayed the night with me, and the poor woman was totally distraught to see me sleeping in tiny little fits then waking ,whimpering and crying with the pain, all night long.
I fel more sorry for Mum than myself, not because I'm unselfish, but because I've other reasons why pain sometimes keeps me awake all night, so that, in itself was nothing new. Normally there's no-one to witness that. and I like it that way. What can they do , except feel helpless?