Icu sepsis survivor

[Kellie13]

Hi my name is Kellie and I was intensive car for sixteen days and while I was in there I though the wall had fairies on and and the road going to camber sands had bugs bunny and Betty boo running cartoon bars and houses in did other people experience the same thing

[dall05]

Hi Kellie,

I had 2 1/2 months in ITU, (sedated and ventilated for a month) and had all sorts of dreams and Hallucinations. I remember being at the British Camp cafe on the Malvern's with Yogi Bear and a few other Disney characters before flying off in a chinook helicopter .

[Brittxoxo in reply to dall05]

Hello! My mom was sedated and ventilated for 2 weeks and now that shes up she's hallucinating so bad! Does it last forever? Or did you eventually normal out lol

[dall05 in reply to Brittxoxo]

Yeh' she'll be fine but it can take a couple of months before it finally leaves you. It was 4 months before I finally left hospital and I was still hallucinating, but by then I had kind of worked out what was happening and would snap out of it when I new it couldn't be real.

I'm sure your mom will be ok but these things can't be rushed. I look back and laugh now at the things I said and done. .

[Brittxoxo in reply to dall05]

Okay that makes me feel alot better! Thank you! And God bless you

[johnsd in reply to dall05]

Did you notice me landing my Spitfire just before Adolf walked through the ward a couple of times, and those nasty nurses wouldn't get me a can of apple juice out of the dispenser in the ceiling? I was also quite surprised that the Air Ambulance service was using flying boats (Catalinas) to do their job, and keeping them in the lake just outside my room.

[muncii]

Hi Kellie - judglng from peoples' comments here over the last few years, I'd say it's perfectly normal. In fact, a common characteristic of ICU patients. It can be scary to think one is losing one's mind. But the impact does fade over time.

OTOH you could count yourself lucky, that your hallucinations and delusions were of a rather sweet kind! - many people (including myself) had much darker, paranoid, frightening, experiences.

Hope your recovery goes well

[Kellie13 in reply to muncii]

Still fighting to get back on my feet but it's not happening fast enough I'm still in alot of pain I'm thinking I pushed myself to fast and now it's fighting back

[muncii in reply to Kellie13]

sorry to hear you are still in a lot of pain Kellie. Would it be a good idea to discuss this with your medical team/physio.

I have a feeling that recovery is not always a gradual process, perhaps it can happen in fits and starts, and maybe one day you think you are doing fine, and the next, things seem back to square one. It can be frustrating, and difficult to know when to really 'push' yourself, and when to lay off and relax.

Hopefully the pain will lessen over time. Best wishes.

[GordonE]

Hi, I was in ICU 105 days, satated/coma for 42 then 10 days. I am a year down the line now on Xmas eve when I got home. I don't recall having any cartoon type dreams, but had some very vivid hallucinations which took quite some time to unpick which was fiction and fact, much to the amusement (after the relief of knowingI was going to make it) I am happy that I was'nt involved in a helicopter crash, but I think my cousin is a little disappointed that she is'nt married to the Lord Chief Justice !

I would not worry to much, the mind seems to have a ways of sorting its self out after a while. Although, I do wish I had won the lottery, (maybe I have, I have my life and a future with my wonderful family)

[Bgf99]

Yes I was victim of loads of conspiricy theories when I had sepsis in Intensive care. People kidnapped me s d put me to work at night or part of drug smuggling ringor made me involved with an Italian family celebration being held on the ward for a relative of the staff.

[Natalie1969]

Funnily I live near Camber.. I too am a sepsis survivor. 😊 I had some rather bizarre thoughts and hallucinations . one specifically was that my local hospital was merging with a hospital in Kurdistan and they had put trains under the ground so people could go from one hospital to the other.. hmmmm.. realistic aye??

[Kellie13 in reply to Natalie1969]

Hi I lived in rye for many years went to school there my vivid sepsis hallucinations were so real I really though I was frequently asked why was bugs bunny and yosemity Sam chasing me with a gun lol freaky

[bunnyrabbit1234]

Hi Kellie my dreams were mostly about me being in mortal danger in a war zone in a far away part of the world and being rescued and brought back . Next thing I'm back in some outher part of the world needing help again . Very scary and very real .

[BBDEBS]

Oh my days, a mixture of laughing with my fellow survivors at the stupidity of all our dreams and shivers at the memory of the bad dreams. God bless you all, we do have some crackers thoughts!! It does pass xx

[angelrock]

Hello Kellie,

It all seemed real at the time, but was reassured at my follow up appointment, this is normal due to all the drugs I was on. I still remember those awful times.

[Alisongiblin]

My 17 days in ICU was a few years ago but I still remember my time there & the hallucinations that I had . Reading other people's experiences has been really interesting & made me feel that I am not alone . I remember a war zone, my husband arriving in a flying car & the nurses hating him .

[bralespotter]

I was sedated and intubated for 14 days after emergency splenectomy and had bugs. White bugs and black bugs crawling over the awful Tommy Bahanna prints decorating recovery center here in So. California desert. That was in March - 9 months ago and am surprised there are still things crawling around that I can't see. It's going away, the recovery is incremental, I've been very depressed from time to time, smoking herb helps, gives sense of humor a boost. I'm 77 and live alone. A potter. Do everything myself! But couldn't move or do anything on my own after 2 weeks in ICU . Humiliating if nothing else but learned to eat and walk again. And am not goofy. Amazing.

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I had Sepsis in April, but the strange "dreams" are only happening now, and they are not while I'm sleeping. It is really odd.....