Hallucinations ?

[Katiebethpdxsea]

Ischemic stroke, mild cognitive impairment, that's me; however, lately I've been having hallucinations, they only happen upon awakening middle of the night, or morning. Manifest in color distortion. My room is white, and I've been seeing red, or yellow. I can blink a couple times and get to reality. I have long term sleep apnea.

Are the hallucinations more likely from my strokes? Or more likely from sleep apnea, and lack of TEN sleep? Or what?

[jeffcobb Ambassador]

Hi. Not a doctor, just a patient. My guess is they are from the stroke or stroke side-effects. I do not believe the apnea is a causal factor here; there would be alot more data out on it. The TENS sleep or whatever I know nothing of so won't make a stab there. The apnea, I worked with medical device makes and the big pharmas for a few years working on apnea research and nowhere in there were mentions of hallucinations. Take that for what its worth. So if:

A: Many thousands more people have apnea than strokes yet

B: Stroke victims have many thousands more times the instances of hallucinations.

Not rocket science. Is it possible that maybe under the super-right conditions and the person has a freak medical syndrome nobody knows about, could it happen? Yeah but as Wayne said, monkeys might fly out of my butt too...