How Long Does It Usually Take to Wake Up from General Anesthesia if Going for a Mommy Makeover for 4 Hours?

A mommy makeover will last several hours.  Despite that it will feel like a blink of an eye to you.  General anaesthesia is extremely safe and the recovery is usually quite fast. It should not take more than a few minutes to wake up.  There will be a period of time that you are awake, answering questions and seemingly your normal self, but you may not remember everything.  After 30 minutes or so that will pass.As there is a spectrum of quality in plastic surgeons, so too is the case with anaesthesiologists.  It is not to say that they are not all safe, but some can wake patients so gently that there is rarely any pain or nausea.  Fortunately, it is a sought after position which gives our office the ability to choose who we think will provide our patients the best care.  If you have any concerns speak to your surgeon.Dr Rodger ShorttOakville Plastic SurgeonAss't Clin Professor &Director of Cosmetic Surgery Training,McMaster University 

 The wake-up time after mommy make over is dependent on a number of different factors: These include length of surgery, type of anesthetic, use of intra-operative numbing medicine, the anesthesiologist and a patient's individual physiology.  Typically longer surgeries require longer recoveries.  The more medicine that is given in the course of an operation the longer it may take for the body to process it and neutralize it to the point where patient wakes up.  What type of anesthetic used will greatly influence how long it takes to wake up after surgery.  There are IV and gas anesthetic agents, there are long-acting and short-acting agents, and there are how all these medicines are used together.  In the ideal situation once the anesthetic agent is turned off within 5-10 minutes of patient should be awake enough to be transferred to the recovery area and hopefully in 30-45 minutes be ready to be discharged.    But with longer surgical procedures, variations from patient to patient and anesthetic provider to provide, recovery will very greatly.  Typically after my mommy make over procedures I tell patients to expect to be in recovery for about 1 hour.    

My patients begin waking up as soon as they arrive in the recovery room following a mommy makeover. They are monitored for 60-90 minutes prior to discharge. Most patients doze a little longer in the recovery room but are easily awakened upon calling their name. We advise our patient to go directly home from our surgical facility and plan to stay in bed the rest of the evening and take the pain medications as prescribed.

This really depends on the anestheologist. Most of my patients are fully awake in one hour and eating and drinking. If the amount of opiates is kept to a minimum you should have a very rapid and smooth recovery.

Hello, this is more of an anesthesia question. It can depend on many factors like length of surgery, your own baseline medical status, what type of anesthesia was used, ow much etc.... Thanks

You will wake up and be breathing on your own within 5-10 minutes after the final stitch. You are then transported to recovery where you will continue to wake up. It used to be that patients would predictably have nausea after the surgery due to fentanyl (a powerful opioid) given during emergence. Now we use exparel, a long acting numbing medication that makes the surgical site pain free, which frees us up from combating surgical pain with opiates. This results in the patient being free of opiate related side effects such as nausea and constipation, and they can go home the same night and sleep in their own bed. Due to the improved pain control, walking around and moving is not impaired, reducing the chance of blood clots in the legs. Generally people leave the facility about 50- 70 minutes after the case concludes. 
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Matthew C Camp M.D.
Board Certified Plastic Surgeon
Member of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons

Hello, Everyone wakes up differently from anesthesia . Most patients will wake up a few minutes after the completion of the procedure for the mommy makeover. There are a lot of variables related to waking up after general anesthesia. Some of the common ones include your age, overall health, what procedures were done, and what medications were used.

Following 4 hours of general anesthesia, most patients spend around 1 hour in the recovery suite before going home.  This allows the anesthetic agents to clear from the system and coherence to return.  It takes up to an additional 24 hours for the full effects of the anesthetic drugs to wear off - it is therefore advised against making major decisions for this period of time. 

Most of my patients awaken immediately following the completion of their mommy makeover.  At that point the patient is typically groggy but has a smile on their face.  Over the course of thirty minutes most awaken completely. We typically observe them for another hour in the recovery room before transferring them to the overnight care facility.  I prefer for my patients to be monitored by a nurse for the first night following a mommy makeover that includes a tummy tuck.

As soon as your surgeon is done with the surgery you will wake up from anesthesia within a couple minutes. You will then spend about an hour in the recovery room before you will be allowed to go home. 

The amount of time that it takes you to wake up after surgery is affected by multiple factors.  These factors include your overall weight, length of surgery, how much narcotic you received while asleep, and what other medications were used during surgery and their dosages.  In general the goal is for you to be awake and breathing on your own within the first 10-15 minutes after surgery has been completed.  The one caveat that I forgot to mention is that in my opinion it is super important that you are put asleep by a board certified anesthesiologist!