anesthetics

Fun fact: modern plastic surgery -- including purely cosmetic, non-normative surgery -- predates both antibiotics and anesthetics.

Seems to be normal here, also at dentist you get no sedatives (anesthetics though of course).

Subcutaneous injection of local anesthetics will have very little, if any, involvement with your brain.

My problem with root canal is that I don't think I could handle the pain without anesthetics.

There are the dissociative anesthetics like nitrous oxide and ketamine, which create a solipsistic disconnection from the outside world without abolishing self awareness.

During the surgery I felt the symptomps(dizziness, difficulty speaking), consistent with neurotoxicity caused by local anesthetics.

I think you mean aesthetics - not anesthetics.

What if they anesthetics simply paralysed you, rendering you unable to respond to pain, while temporarily interfering with your ability to form new memories?

Combined with the fact that it is a bronchodilator, it can be used in many situations for which other anesthetics would be risky or inappropriate.

Having invasive surgery without sedatives or anesthetics is more authentic, but we don't do it.

No more antibiotics, ibuprofen, chemotherapy for cancer, anesthetics for surgery...

I went to a different clinic where a doctor agreed to do the surgery under local anesthetics and without sedation without any problems.

Somewhat more directly, my dentist can't use a "sorta-open-source" calendaring app because people have died in dental offices from allergic reactions to injected dental antibiotics/anesthetics.

You get that "neurotoxicity" in this case is almost exclusively referring to deleterious effects that local anesthetics can have on nerves at the site of injection, right?

> an act that lacks any negative connotations If you can imagine that forced genital mutilation without anesthetics lacks negative connotations, as long as it's "for her eventual pleasure".

So I fear that when faced with choice "a lot of pain" vs "safety for my brain" I will fear the pain, take anesthetics, and betray my values.