It’s nice to have anesthesia when you’re having surgery! Having anesthesia means that you will receive drugs. The longer the operation, the longer the anesthesia, and the more drugs you’ll receive. When the drugs are discontinued following surgery, your body must break down (metabolize) the drugs before you will feel normal. Anesthetic drugs often cause some hangover. Hangover can be good if it eases your discomfort immediately after surgery. But once you’re feeling better, a hangover that lasts longer is a nuisance because you don’t feel normal as quickly.

Some people are prone to develop nausea following anesthesia. Even the best antinausea drugs don’t totally prevent nausea in some patients. However, the fewer narcotic drugs you get, the less chance of your developing nausea. The shorter the anesthesia and the less tissue trauma during surgery, the fewer narcotic drugs you’ll need.

The longer you need anesthesia and the more tissue trauma, the more drugs you’ll need, the longer you’ll be required to remain at the surgery facility, and the longer time before you’ll feel normal.

Ask about surgery time, anesthesia time, time in the recovery room, and how long until you’ll return home the day of surgery. all of these factors will tell you a lot about how much anesthesia you’ll receive and when you can expect to feel normal.

There is no avoiding the fact that the shorter your surgery and the less tissue trauma, the fewer drugs you’ll need, the less chance of nausea and hangover, and the more rapidly you’ll return to normal.

I know I’m repeating, but I want to be sure you’ve got the picture!

In our peer-reviewed and published study of 627 patients in our twenty-four-hour recovery publications,refining our anesthetic and surgical techniques resulted in documented recovery times that we previously considered impossible. All patients were operated on using general, endotracheal anesthesia, and here are the recovery results:

Time from the beginning of the breast augmentation procedure until patients left our accredited outpatient surgery facility to return home averaged less than ninety minutes! All patients scored maximum on recovery criteria, and all were able to raise their arms fully over their heads before leaving.

No patient required narcotic-strength pain medications at home.