I think the anesthesiologist-in-training who intubated me this weekend fucked up. Is this going to become a bigger problem than just pain? And should I talk to anesthesiology to tell them what happened?

I (45F-46F, spent my birthday in the ED!) had a really short emergency procedure this weekend that required general anesthesia (could have been done with sedation, but I had eaten too recently). The procedure itself went well, I'm recovering more quickly than expected from the problem that actually sent me to the ED Saturday night. My question is about something that must have happened when they intubated me.

First thing I noticed is that when I came home from hospital Sunday morning, my daughter said, what happened to your eyes? I checked the mirror, and I have maybe 100, 150 tiny burst blood vessels around my eyes, above and below. I've seen this before, and it happens when, due to a swallowing problem unrelated to my procedure, I gag so badly on food that it triggers spasms and I vomit repeatedly and forcefully. That didn't happen on Saturday and hasn't happened in a very long time. (I am the slowest eater specifically to avoid making myself gag like that.)

The docs told me they gave me Toradol as part of the procedure Saturday night/Sunday morning, and I think now that the Toradol is wearing off, I'm feeling everything a lot more. I think the trainee really screwed up while intubating me, but I don't know. My cough/gag muscles hurt (haven't been coughing or gagging, that I've been conscious for). The front of my throat is tender to the touch, from about the Adam's apple down. Currently, it hurts to:

• Swallow.
• Chew (hurts in throat, not mouth).
• Breathe deeply (hurts under the clavicle and where I imagine the diaphragm is, what I think of as my cough/gag muscles).
• Turn my head (hurts sides of neck and I think the larynx/trachea).
• Look down.
• Tuck my chin.
• Talk.
• Laugh.
• Cough.
• Sneeze.
• Burp.
• Lift with my arms or push down (just those tired cough/gag muscles, nowhere else).

Even with 600 mg ibuprofen and after drinking very strong clove tea, it was a challenge to eat breakfast.

My takeaway is that something triggered severe coughing or gagging while I was unconscious. That's the only thing that causes all those tiny little blood vessels around my eyes to burst. And I think I was coughing/gagging against the intubation tube, because everything is so sore internally. And I think it was dramatic enough that I tired out my cough/gag muscles, or strained them or something. Even when I've gagged on food that won't go down and vomited repeatedly and with such force that I've wet myself a little bit, those muscles haven't been sore two days later.

My questions are the following, medical folk of Reddit who took the time to read this (thank you!):

• Is this likely to be or become anything than pain? Pain passes, and compared to how craptastic I felt on Saturday, this ain't nothin'. If it's just pain that might get a little worse before it gets better (ah, Toradol, if you were just a little bit longer-acting), but will get better, that's fine.
• Is there a risk of infection that I should be attentive to? Odds of infection, if you had to guess? Most concerning symptoms?
• Should I call the hospital's anesthesiology department to tell them what's going on?
• Should they have said something to me when I woke up? Would that be a legitimate complaint or comment to make to them? This isn't like they might or might not have punctured something and they couldn't really be sure anything had gone wrong in surgery: to get my eyes to look like this and my trachea to hurt like this, I must have been obviously, violently retching or gagging, and for a while. I feel like they should have at least given me a heads up, but I don't know what's normal.

I know that post-operative sore throat is a thing (thanks, Google!), but I haven't read of symptoms as severe as mine. This feels like something else.

Anyway, thanks for sticking with this through to the end, and I really appreciate your thoughts and comments.

(If it matters, I'm overweight, haven't smoked in 15+ years, don't really take any meds.)