Comments on: The power of our drugs - an anecdotal story

By: ladyk73

ladyk73 — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 02:16:31 +0000

Maybe he wanted to tell you he had to um…….
fart (giggles)

By: bobby

bobby — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 22:22:06 +0000

OMG that is fffffunny! You should have bent down and got a rough draft. Now I’m dying of curiosity. By the way, I tagged you. (check my blog)

By: Mah

Mah — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 02:10:41 +0000

First off, interesting blog! I enjoy reading your entries
Second. it’s funny to think your husband really doesn’t remember a thing … isn’t it propofol that can make you have erotic dreams? ;o)
Third, because we’re on the subject, I’m really interested in knowing the use of propofol for c-scopes (re: me MSIII who had an anesthesia placement all summer and really really liked it. also, I’m an IBDer who doesn’t like versed). Does it work better than versed + fentanyl? And can it be administered by a GI?! Is it given through a pump?
Keep up the nice blog!

By: Terry

Terry — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 13:24:13 +0000

Mah, Propofol and colonoscopies are like peas and carrots, as Forrest Gump would have said. They were made for each other. A much better anesthetic, IMO, than versed and fentanyl. Why? Quick on, quick off. No nausea/vomiting. Great amnestic. Very easily titratable. I never use a pump, just give squirts. I usually start off with about 30-50 mg. and then titrate 10-20 mg. throughout the case, for however long it may take. Of course, as with any anesthetic, all patients must be monitored (EKG, BP, oxygen, SPO2), and the drug must be delivered by someone who knows how to read and interpret all the monitors’ data, handle a possibly compromised airway, and any other unexpected events that giving an anesthetic drug may incur. I know that this drug is given by GI docs, and their nurses, and it is called conscious sedation, but if it were MY colonoscopy or anyone I care about’s, I would have it delivered by the more competent hands of an anesthesia provider.

By: Mah

Mah — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 23:33:15 +0000

Thank you so much for the info! Propofol is cool, people are out in just a few seconds… it amazes me every time! I *think* here (at least where I am in Canada) we would need an anesthesist to use propofol … I’m not sure I’d let my GI intubate me if it was required anyway (she’s used to putting tubes in the oesophagus, not the trachea ).
Well, thanks again!

By: atyourcervix

atyourcervix — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 01:14:22 +0000

Like I already commented under your latest post….I lurrrrvvvve propofol!!! As soon as the administrations starts, I wave nighty night to the anesthesiologist and out I go! I wake up quickly afterwards, acting like a drunk and all giggly (just a wee bit dizzy too), but it very quickly dissipates and I’m feeling normal again.

By: gareth B

gareth B — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 12:53:54 +0000

god help you if you trust everything that happened to you under ine influence of propofol……………….