That happened to my brother when he was 5. Except they gave him sleeping gas but started the surgery too early when he still wasn't asleep. He's 22 now and still fears the dentist :/

I was wide awake when I had my teeth pulled.. I had like 26 removed tho, and I was pretty damn numb!!! However I didnt feel all the pain, and when I did feel pain on one of them the dentist stopped and re numbed it... if this is true SUE!!!!

I hope that guy loses his hands in a wood chipper. fyl.

So fyl I had to register to comment and because a similar thing happen to me years ago (maybe we went to the same guy?). But instead of wisdom teeth extraction, I had to get impacted bicuspids removed. The upper lip web was cut to get to my gums, to get to the teeth that never grew out properly. Whoever administered the anesthesia didn't give me enough because roughly halfway through the procedure it began to wear off and I could *feel* the scraping and pulling throughout my entire skull. It was the most physical pain I've ever been in and I still cringe at the thought of it 13 years later. I remember just laying in the chair, bawling my eyes and out trying to flail my arms to get attention, but the whirring sound of the drill (or whatever the hell that torture device was) drowned out my crying. Maybe the doctor and nurse were too focused on working on my mouth that they didn't notice, or they just thought I was being dramatic - who knows? But it was definitely a traumatic experience. Oh yeah, and my upper lip web wasn't reattached all the way, so there's a little bit of it that flaps. Anyway, OP, I feel your pain - literally.

Ok, in order to clear any uncertainty up or anything, I just had this procedure done this morning at 8:30AM on Sept 17, 2009 and I can tell you every single detail. I was hooked up to an EKG. I was giving NO gas and hooked up to an IV for hydration. I'm guessing it was a saline solution. Then I was given an general anesthetic. This general anesthetic is called thiopental. This is an extremely fast acting anesthetic with a fast short-life. In order to maintain a sedated state, it must be used in conjunction with NO. This causes a state called conscious sedation. Then in order to achieve analgesia (pain relief), I'm not sure if they used novocaine or lidocaine as the local anesthetic in order to cause mandibular block. Therefore waking up during the procedure is EXTREMELY rare and for someone to metabolize all the anesthetic agents like that... is very strange. If you were to wake up 1) there would be no recollection of that whatsoever, 2) no pain should have been felt due to mandibular block. 3) Now that I just read the FML again, she said "PULLED" I'm not sure if she had impacted teeth or what.... so disregard this statement if she didn't have impacted wisdom teeth haha.

i also created an account just to post this after reading all of the responses about how this is "Fake". It at least wasn't fake in my situation when I had my wisdom teeth pulled a couple of months ago. For one thing, the majority of the people I know had general and were asleep for the entire thing. First they gave me NO before they inserted an IV for the general. As I'm waiting to fall asleep they get ready, and then they start. I'm wondering why I haven't fallen asleep. I was awake for the entire thing. Obviously I also had local, but local only does so much. The three that were pulled really hurt, but nothing compared to the one that had to be extracted. And my doctors KNEW I was awake. I started crying which caused me to start choking since my nose was stuffed up when the nurse said "try closing your eyes it will help you fall asleep". In my case I found out later that my dentist tend to be stingy with the drugs. But to the OP, at least you didn't have to go through what I went through a week later. A random bone started coming out of my gum so I had to go back and my dentist had to go back in and grind down the bone from the inside. Also really painful, I could feel the grinding in my skull and was in intense pain for a week. So no this post is NOT fake

I had mine taken out i was awake the whole time and it takes like 10 minutes. Its scary but its not painful, it doesn't hurt til the novicane wears off hours later.

I'm so sorry! This is the first true, VERY PLAUSIBLE FML I've seen on this site. Reading it made my teeth hurt! Sue; that's emotional trauma.

Surprisingly, this happens to people a lot. there was this whole documentary of Discovery Health Channel. people wake up, paralyzed, and have to go through an entire operation feeling an immense amount of pain.

aw, that's sad.