Coma survivor

[Tanky1968]

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I was sanctioned in hospital had a fight as wanted to go home was sedated with 5 adult doses fentanyl,tied to guerny ,blacked out ,woke up 50 days later after coma,MRSA lung infection,encephalitis,meningitis,angina,high blood pressure,nerve damage,2 blood clots neck,tracheaomoty ,survived ,lived in another parallel world,still struggling but alive ,one day at a time ,please keep going despite the odds,don’t let the system beat you,believe in yourself.

As I had illegal street drugs in my system from the weekend the doctor,doctored the paperwork,it stated that I attempted suicide with a meth overdose,I had not had any for 40 hours prior to being sanctioned in hospital,it was the 5 adult doses of fentanyl they gave me to sedate me as five orderlys were on the ground in pain as they tried to grab and cuff me I’m ex infantry I warned them ,they took revenge on me for procedural reasons my life meant nothing to doctors ,trust no one, ever.

[Rhyl1 Partner Moderator ICUsteps]

Hi Tanky1968 you have to think carefully about why any doctors or nurses would want to keep you in hospital unnecessarily? You don’t say why you were admitted to hospital originally.

It is possible to identify what the drugs are in your blood. Fentanyl is an opiate that is made synthetically and is recognisable in the blood. Perhaps you need to request your hospital notes to sort out in your head how everything happened.

[Tanky1968 in reply to Rhyl1]

Due to trialing valdoxen for ptsd which sent me suicidal then the hospital staff and cold hearted doctors sanctioned me under mental health act 24 hours in hospital ,a load of tripe and giving too much power to useless idiots,hope all doctors die a slow and painful death.

[Rhyl1 Partner Moderator ICUsteps in reply to Tanky1968]

I can understand how angry you feel but can’t condone your wish that all doctors should die. Many patients on this forum would not be alive without doctors.

It needs two doctors to section a patient and the requirement is that you are a danger to yourself, in other words, in great danger of taking your own life. It is not a decision taken lightly.

Are you getting any therapy or trauma counselling for your PTSD? If you are then you should talk about your feelings with the therapist. You may need to see a doctor in the future and you’re going to find that very difficult.

[Brett631973 in reply to Tanky1968]

Alcoholism is a disease just like any other disease tanky 1968 its not that we don't have enough will power to stop. It takes a lot of willpower to drink like I did. And we pay a lot of taxes or duty on booze so that covered the cost of intensive care. Alcohol was the solution to my problems. But unfortunately it then becomes the problem. So if the solution becomes the problem and the problem is the solution. Well it's a double edge sword..

I'm pleased your alive your post just helped me identify with you. Stay safe. Not many of us get through. There's that stereo type and some of the doctors and nurses haven't had the same life. So they have no understanding. Take care. All the best Brett.👍

[Tanky1968]

I do not trust anyone especially someone in health or medical in my opinion every doctor is arrogant and selfish and the very least they deserve a slow painful death,never ask for help,ever,there isn’t any .

The doctors that sanctioned me will one day meet me face to face,that I can guarantee

[Tanky1968]

Thanks it’s just very difficult and no one cares or understand if there was an easy way out I would not hesitate taking it

[Feelingbetternow]

I was almost killed by my treatment team. I went in for abdominal pain due to pancreatitis and they prejudged me to be an alcoholic in alcohol withdrawal. I had no signs or symptoms of alcohol intoxication or alcohol withdrawal but they still treated me for alcohol withdrawal without telling me or obtaining my consent. The treatment for the alcohol withdrawal made me very sedated. I then had an allergic reaction to the IV contrast they had given me for the CT of my abdomen. No one recognized that I was having an allergic reaction. They continued to administer IV fluids even though I was in fluid overload. The excess IV fluids went into my lungs and I began to have shortness of breath. I could not breathe. I was restless, agitated. The treatment team didn’t realize I had developed pulmonary edema and continued giving fluids. Finally, I was in so much distress that I tried to leave but that only triggered a Code BERT (Behavioral Emergency Response Team) resulting in me being placed in restraints for “safety” reasons. I was suffocating. I had on wrist restraints and a roll belt across my abdomen that was too tight. I could not breathe. I could not sit up. I tried. The staff showed no compassion. They then decided to intubate me and place me on a ventilator in the ICU for 9 days. My lungs continued to fill up with fluid. I developed pleural effusions who no one identified on the echo that was done. On the 6th day in the ICU, a young moonlighting physician assessed me and treated me with diuretics. My pulmonary edema seemed to respond to the diuretics. My lungs improved slightly but by now I had developed heart failure, kidney failure, anasarca, ascites, bruises and wounds on my back from physiotherapy treatments that were not necessary but that only caused me more discomfort and pain. I was going to die. After I was extubated, I immediately wanted to leave AMA. I knew they had caused my respiratory failure. My providers rendered care that was negligent and that did not meet the standard of care and I nearly died. My recovery took months and months. I feel my body is moving better and I no longer have the chest pain or the chronic shortness of breath but I just cannot seem to be able to forget the feeling of being tied down in the ICU and being held against my will. It has been 2 years since this happened and I still have night terrors.

[Brett631973 in reply to Feelingbetternow]

Alcoholism is a disease just like any other disease, its not that we don't have enough will power to stop. It takes a lot of willpower to drink like I did. And we pay a lot of taxes or duty on booze so that covered the cost of intensive care. Alcohol was the solution to my problems. But unfortunately it then becomes the problem. So if the solution becomes the problem and the problem is the solution. Well it's a double edge sword..

I'm pleased your alive your post just helped me identify with you. Stay safe. Not many of us get through. There's that stereo type and some of the doctors and nurses haven't had the same life. So they have no understanding. Take care. All the best Brett.👍

[Brett631973]

Think I may have got confused the reply was for getting better now. Very sorry

[Tanky1968]

Thanks for the kind words