Post heart surgery

[iw51]

Hi any have you experienced the hallucination effect post op 😩😩😩

[thetidders]

I think you’ll find that quite a few of us on here have suffered hallucinations on here, I did. I had a triple bypass & the next day when my lungs collapsed was when they started.

I had a lot more after I had a severe electrolyte imbalance & was in CCU. Mine were all about the hospital & the staff there & when I think about them now they were ridiculous but I believed them at the time.

Jean

[HectorsDad]

Sort of.. Morphine can really do not other pain killers are available, but. Or so much fun).

Artovostatin can cause some seriously weird and vivid dreams - you remember them too.

[MichaelJH Heart Star]

What have I missed out on. For me morphine just eases the pain and makes me comfortable. Only had one dream in ICU - was in F1 pits and wheel got stuck during tyre change. Don't remember team but I would rather be in Ferrari pits but wheel stuck in Mercedes' one!

[Hidden]

I had two very vivid and scary dreams whilst in icu which carried on when I woke up.I told the doctor who then brought some lady to talk about them.she also did some sketches and asked me if I'd mind her putting them in the British medical journal for research.I said certainly has long as I don't have to see them again.Still afraid thinking about them.

[stevejb1810]

Yep. First 12-24 hours post op I was having some very weird visual ‘disturbances’ -some were quite fascinating (to me at least). They will pass soon enough. So if you are enjoying them, make the most of it, eeality kicks oh so quickly!

[iw51 in reply to stevejb1810]

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[Hatchjd]

It has to do with the general anaesthesia. Hallucinations or post op delirium as it is also know is common after major surgery with prolonged anaesthesia times.

[gilreid1]

Yes while in icu some crazy dreams. The wourse I felt the bed was upside down and on the ceiling. Nurses had to wake me and calm me down 🤭

[kefalonia1]

Hi, the post op hallucinations and flashbacks were horrendous for me. All the drugs took me away from reality into a really scary world where l thought everyone was trying to kill me. The nurses were robots, the" Illuminate" secret society were running the hospital from the attic and the staff were selling young girls on line to sex traffickers. Then the nurses were running a secret laundry when they were meant to be looking after me in high dependency, also "poo" was all over the place, in swimming pools and sinks. The dreams took a long time to fade and l still remember them three years later they were so real. l was terrified when l finally returned home after three months in hospital l was frightened to fall asleep and had to keep a side light on. lCU delirium is very common, hideous and causes PTSD, there is a really good talk about it on you tube under TEDx talks. Time is the only healer. Take care, Sue.

[VelvetSky]

Hi, a year on from HA I am still slightly wary of crossing my hallway as due to the meds I saw black bars on the walls and snakes writhing on the floor, once I changed meds it stopped although I still have vivid, disturbing dreams. Since then the Cardio guy has tried to again prescribe the same meds, which goes to show they don’t read the notes. Why the snakes only appeared at night and only in the hall is a mystery.

It surprised me, a very down to earth type, that my mind when fully awake could convince me I was walking through snakes. Very weird but interesting.

I’m aware that since the HA that my thinking is slightly slower, does anyone find this?

[Cottonian]

Oh! Yes! For four days following surgery I had vivid hallucinations as soon as I closed my eyes, day or night, but by the day of my discharge they had ceased. I found other patients in my ward were suffering varying degrees of the same.