What are some of the possible side effects of Anesthesia?
• When you are being anesthetized or while you are waking up, you may bite very hard and may, despite all precautions, damage your teeth. This may happen particularly if your teeth are weak, damaged, loose, capped or you have permanent bridges. However, this is unusual and occurs less than once in every 2,000 anesthetics. • During general anesthesia, a tube is usually placed in the windpipe to help you breathe. It occasionally causes a sore throat which may last a day or so after your operation. • Nausea may occur for a short time after an operation from the procedure or anesthetic drugs. If necessary, you can ask the nurse for medication to help decrease the nausea. • Infrequently (less than two percent of the time) patients receiving spinal anesthesia (a form of regional anesthesia) develop a headache. To discuss ways to reduce the headache pain, please talk with your anesthesiologist when he or she visits you after surgery or call 734-712-3840 during daytime hours. This type of head
