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Anesthesia can cause disturbing sexual hallucinations, leading to lasting psychological trauma
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Anesthesia can cause disturbing sexual hallucinations, leading to lasting psychological trauma

by Melody White and C. Michael White, The Conversation Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Some patients can have vivid and detailed sexual hallucinations during anesthesia with sedative-hypnotic drugs like propofol, midazolam, diazepam and nitrous oxide. Some make suggestive or sexual comments or act out, such as grabbing or kissing medical professionals or touching themselves in a sexual way. Others awaken erroneously...