Repeating time after ketamine in ICU.

[Beagle1975]

I was recently in the ICU. The first night I was on a breathing tube. I fought it so hard they tied my arms down and gave me 14 bottles of Ketamine to keep me under all night. I don't remember anything from that night. But, for the first 5 hours after waking up, I repeated several 15-20 minute blocks of time. Usually 3 or 4 times. I found that if I changed a minor thing that time would move forward again until it repeated again. My wife did not believe me until I started telling her what was going to happen and exactly when in my room.

Has anything like this happened to anyone else??

[Sepsur]

Maybe the sedation has been mood & reality altering

Icusteps.org do a pamphlet on delirium follow link :

icusteps.org/assets/files/b...

[comadreams in reply to Sepsur]

The most thorough and accurate description of post ICU hallucination I have seen so far. A lot more coma victims and their families need to read this pammphlet, what took so long? I could have used reading this two years ago.

[comadreams in reply to Sepsur]

The hypothetical question in the pampphlet "What causes it" is misleading or even disingenuous it's very obvious that the cause is the drugs used to induce coma ketamine, fentanyl, diamorphine benzodiazapine, et., etc., are all powerful hallucinogenics. There is no 'cause' that's internal to the patient. They are basically "tripping out" on psychedelic drugs.

[comadreams]

Sepsur is absolutely correct, read the link.