Inclusion criteria:
Patients who need spinal anesthesia
Age group: 18 to 70 years old
Physical status according to ASA classification classes I, II, and III
Exclusion criteria:
Patients with contraindications to spinal anesthesia
presence of infection at the site of spinal anesthesia injection,
Lack of personal consent,
Obesity with BMI > 38 kg/m2,
Uncontrolled type 1 and 2 diabetes mellitus,
Uncontrolled hypertension history,
Moderate to severe valvular heart diseases,
Neurological and psychiatric disorders such as stroke, history of brain lesions, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and schizophrenia,
Fever exceeding 37.5 degrees Celsius at the beginning of the surgery,
History of alcohol consumption, drug abuse, or misuse of sedatives-hypnotics and glucocorticosteroids,