Hallucinations Aftr Surgery

[goldens]

Late in July I was rubbing Honey's tummy and chest (golden retriever mix) and I found a lump on her chest, right where her ribs join. It was about the size of an American quarter and even flat. It almost felt like a coin under her skin. I took h right in and my vet did a needle biopsy. He was like 85% sure it was only a fatty tumor, but could not be 100% sure, and since just 2 months before I had lost my full golden to cancer (a soft ball saize tumor in her intestines), I was in a near panic and he felt to be on the safe side, it should be removed when she had her scheduled dental in 2 weeks.

I always stay at the hospital for anmy procedure with my dogs. When Honey was done, the tech came out and got me and told me to come and sit with Honey in recovery, and she warned me that Honey was having hallucinations. I got back there and Honey was on a thick comforter on the floor and she was workng her legs trying to get up and was crying the most pitiful sounds. Her head was swinging around, her eys were huge. She was seeing something that was not there and was scared so bad.

I sat on the floor and held her head for about 30 mintes til the gas totally wore off and she stopped having hallucatins She was so terrified of what she saw and I was scaredshe would rip the stitches out with her back feet trying to get up. I was told is is really common--but I had never seen it with any of my dogs before. And I learned from techs on other foum that this is comon, but owners raely know this has happned or is going on with their dogs.

Have any of you ever encouteed this situaon? One thing for sure, if your dog requires a procedure that requires it to be put under, try to have any other procedures lie dentals done at that tiime. The fewer times he/she is put under, the better.

Edited January 13, 2009 by goldens

[Golden Rules]

Hi Goldens

Is English your first language or do you just type too quickly and not proof read? You post is really hard to read!

Anyway, my big Goldie boy had 2 major ops within 6 months. After the first one, he was on Methadone for pain relief - it didn't give him much relief and he hallucinated a lot.

The second op, I asked for a different analgesia which was more effective as far as pain goes, and he didn't hallucinate anywhere near as much.

Just like humans, different drugs will have different effects on our dogs. The stronger the drug, the more likely they are to have side effects such as hallucinations.

[goldens]

Yep, English is my first an only language. Except I do talk "Texas English". I was actually born down in Perth----well Mt. Lawly, at St. Annes Hospital back in '45. Mom was Perth girl, (Bassendean) Dad a Texas farm boy in the Navy stationed there all during WWII. But Mom and I joined Daddy here in the states in '46, so I learned to talk here.

No, my probems are mostly medical. I have rheumatoid athritis and my fingers do not work the best and many times I do not hit he keys hard enough for them them to print, or the space bar hard enough to put a spae between words This key board is onlyu 6 onths old, but my son says he thinks some of the keys hang a little.

And on top of that, I have vision problems caused by diabetes. I am legally blind inmy left eye. I have had lazer surgery and also injuections rght into the eyeball and that has helped some. I can not read the newspaper nor magazines without a magnifying glass and ee use one to read the computer screen if the letters are not big and in bod. Oh, to make thing evn worse, I have cataracts which the doctor will not remove until te swelling and leakage fromn the diabetes prolem is cleared up. I have to have my face right on the screen to read smal print, such as this, and I have a hrd time trying to make corrctions with my face o the screen. When my friends and famiy send me e-mails, they enlarge the letters, use large letter and do it in bold and I can sit back from the screen to read. Believe me, is a pain in the keester not being able to read without my face right on whatever I am trying to read.! My eye doctor is hoping my vision will improve with this injections n my eyeball. I sure hope so also.

[BrunoBella]

Halucinations are common with humans as well. Particularly straight out of an operation. It wouldn't stop me from having myself operated on (if I ever needed to) or me having my dogs operated on.

Some drugs are worse on some people/dogs as ArtyFarty said.

It is nothing to worry about although some people are better at giving anaesthetics with lower reactions.

[Luke W]

Hi Goldens

If you have a mouse with a scroll wheel on it, you can hold down the CTRL button and turn the wheel to make text on a web page bigger and smaller. It might help a little. It works best with firefox, but also works in Internet Explorer too.

If you've got a scroll wheel mouse try it!

Even if you don't there are other options to make web pages easier to read. Do you have a computer nerd who could help you?

Thought I'd mention it.

[Golden Rules]

Yep, English is my first an only language. Except I do talk "Texas English". I was actually born down in Perth----well Mt. Lawly, at St. Annes Hospital back in '45. Mom was Perth girl, (Bassendean) Dad a Texas farm boy in the Navy stationed there all during WWII. But Mom and I joined Daddy here in the states in '46, so I learned to talk here.

No, my probems are mostly medical. I have rheumatoid athritis and my fingers do not work the best and many times I do not hit he keys hard enough for them them to print, or the space bar hard enough to put a spae between words This key board is onlyu 6 onths old, but my son says he thinks some of the keys hang a little.

And on top of that, I have vision problems caused by diabetes. I am legally blind inmy left eye. I have had lazer surgery and also injuections rght into the eyeball and that has helped some. I can not read the newspaper nor magazines without a magnifying glass and ee use one to read the computer screen if the letters are not big and in bod. Oh, to make thing evn worse, I have cataracts which the doctor will not remove until te swelling and leakage fromn the diabetes prolem is cleared up. I have to have my face right on the screen to read smal print, such as this, and I have a hrd time trying to make corrctions with my face o the screen. When my friends and famiy send me e-mails, they enlarge the letters, use large letter and do it in bold and I can sit back from the screen to read. Believe me, is a pain in the keester not being able to read without my face right on whatever I am trying to read.! My eye doctor is hoping my vision will improve with this injections n my eyeball. I sure hope so also.

Oh my!!!

You actually do rather well then to have to deal with all that.

Glad you found this board, as sad as your stories are so far, they are educational and interesting.

[Erny]

If you have a mouse with a scroll wheel on it, you can hold down the CTRL button and turn the wheel to make text on a web page bigger and smaller. It might help a little. It works best with firefox, but also works in Internet Explorer too.

I didn't know that!! Thanks for the tip, LukeW. Handy to know. Hhhhmmm ..... does it work for pictures that have been loaded as well?

[Luke W]

If you have a mouse with a scroll wheel on it, you can hold down the CTRL button and turn the wheel to make text on a web page bigger and smaller. It might help a little. It works best with firefox, but also works in Internet Explorer too.

I didn't know that!! Thanks for the tip, LukeW. Handy to know. Hhhhmmm ..... does it work for pictures that have been loaded as well?

Yes, in IE7 and Firefox 3 it does. Earlier versions, only text from memory.