How many of you have been severed? (Used Versed)

Many may not know that hundreds of millions of people have experienced temporary severance, which happens in a way when you are given the drug Versed -- benzodiazepine -- which is routinely administered before almost all general anesthesia and many other medical procedures. Versed blocks the storage of memories. I (the outie) of course don't remember it, I just remember the doctor pushing the plunger to inject it, and later waking up in the recovery room (elevator.) However, after administration of it, my girlfriend reports having a conversation with my innie before I was wheeled away.

Of course, my innie still knew he was me, and he didn't know that one of the effects of the drug would be that he would be erased shortly, so it's not exactly severance of course. I have not used the drug since (it's not actually necessary.) I wonder how many have taken it knowing its effects, and knowing they were an innie whose fork of consciousness would soon vanish, and what they might think of it. (I have contemplated you could use this for couple's therapy, where a couple could share secrets to see how the other innie would react, and then decide whether it's safe to tell their outie.)

Doctors use this drug when they are going to do something to you which will be uncomfortable or traumatic to remember. (There is a parallel to the use of severance for the delivery of the Senator's wife in the show.) In ordinary surgery, it is to calm you and let you forget the burning that propofol (the real anesthetic, and also the drug Michael Jackson abused) causes. Propofol also has memory erasing abilities and can even go back in time a few minutes akin to the fictional "neuralizer" pen of Men in Black. That's another story. More squicky is how it is used for procedures for which propofol is not advised, but which will leave traumatic memories. I have had propofol with no versed and it's no big deal at all.

So, while most of you will not remember your severance, there are some who do, or who have talked to the innies created by versed. The fictional severance in the show would have surgical applications of course, but that's hardly what Lumon is about.