Is shallow breathing ordinary after anesthesia?

While I was awakening from anesthesia I remember the nurse recounting me that I needed to take deeper breaths. I thought I be breathing fine. What would cause the shallow breathing?Is shallow breathing ordinary after anesthesia?
most anesthetic agents are respiratory depressants, and they can breed your breathing more shallow. the exception to this rule is narcotics, which will cause respiratory depression but gross your breathing deeper but slower.
most likely your breathing be just fine, but the recouping room nurse wanted you to hold deep breaths to re-expand your lungs to prevent something call atelectasis- that's where portions of the lung remain collapsed because of underinflation while beneath the effects of the anesthesia.
I found after having a spinal that my lungs get congested. Maybe it's just the congestion that make you breathe shallower, not too sure.
Normal breathing is relatively shallow. The nurse was recounting you to take deeper breaths so you would gain more oxygen, to help you rest from the anesthesia. But normally you don't call for to do that.
yes. really it depends on what type of anesthesia you were beneath. generally your muscles, during and after anesthesia, are more relaxed, and that includes the muscles contained by your diaphragm, in your chest and lungs.
They want you to breath cavernous due to anestesia being expelled by the body. Ways to achieve things out of our body (naturally) urinating, bowel movement, vomit, and exhaling. TO get rise of extra river in your body you pee more. The deeper you breath the express you wake up.