From: Alan Cairns 

On 1/1/04 8:16 PM, in article 3ff4f058{at}w3.nls.net, "John Beamish"
 wrote:

> Mine felt as if I had, for the duration of the anesthesia, attempted to
> contract every muscle forcefully.  It was the kind of ache that you get
> after a tough workout.


Ah, then you had IV scoline (suxamethonium). It's a quick acting paralysing
agent. But before paralysis it contracts muscles. You can see it working --
all the muscles twitch and then go dead. Commonly, there is muscular
fatigue and ache afterwards.

Alan

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