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Most likely your describing propofol. It's stored at room temperature, but causes a sensation that's comparable to Icy Hot, but how it hits an individual patient varies from person to person. In the moment it can feel scalding hot, blistering cold or anything in between, including nothing at all.
The clarity of your memory of that part tells me you might be a touch tolerant to it - I'd run that by your anesthesiologist if you ever need another surgery.
It was cold, but not ice cold like medical sprays or menthol candy. That said, I guess it's possible that's just how that feels on the inside of my arteries. It's not exactly something I have (or anyone has) much experience with.
Or it could be that the intervening decades have dulled my memory of it.
There doesn't seem to be much consistency - even the same patient could find it really painful one operation and not at all the next.
Propofol is weird stuff.