Hallucinations anyone?

[Winegum2]

I just had a very weird episode at the hairdressers. I thought that my cup of tea, that was on the shelf in front of me started to slip off the edge, so I quickly tried to grab it. It wasn't at all. Really embarrassing! Admittedly I'm very tired having had a family of 5 staying for the W/E. Anyone else had anything like this happen?

[Hennerton]

Are you suffering from severe loss of sleep, because this is a trigger? I have had them so that every time I closed my eyes, trying to go to sleep, instead of blackness, I was wandering around, seeing an exotic fruit market in truly vivid colours and then watching people very glamorously dressed at a party. I had not slept properly for five consecutive nights. Then I thought. I was looking at my dining table and put out my hand to touch it, only to find nothing. Eventually got some sleep ( I was in hospital at the time) and it all went away. Was rather interesting!

[Winegum2 in reply to Hennerton]

No, I've had plenty of sleep. Just tired from a busy W/E. I've also been v. cold all morning. Temp wouldn't rise above 36.1. Just had a hot bath and am now warm at least!

[Rudegirl]

A couple of times I've thought the car was moving when I'm sitting stationary!!!

[MollyMoo53 in reply to Rudegirl]

yep had that one a few times now. I suddenly jam my foot on the brake even when I am the passenger!!

[greygoose in reply to MollyMoo53]

Oh, yes! Me too. That also happens on trains.

My brother read a book recently about halucinations and he said that in the book it was stated that most people have halucinations on a regular basis, but don't realise it. I know that I have them from time to time.

Once, before I was diagnosed, I was driving along an empty country road, with open fields either side of it. Not a soul in sight. Suddnely, I saw an iron bar, hurtling through the air, turning over and over in its flight, out of nowhere, heading straight for the car. I didn't have time to stop but closed my eyes in anticipation of the crash, waiting for the bar to come straight through the windscreen, and the noise of the splintering glass. Nothing happened. When I opened my eyes seconds later, there was nothing. I stopped the car and went to look for the iron bar, but it wasn't there. It had to have been a hallucination. Really shook me up, though, I can tell you! lol

When I was in hospital the other year, my room kept changing size and shape, people appeared from no-where, and one minute the room was over-flowing with people, the next, it was empty but I didn't see them go. Walls kept disappearing and I could see people on the other side. Black shapes lurked in the corners, on the ceiling, hovering, waiting... Pictures appeared in swirls of the aertex ceiling and morphed into different shapes and secret messages. And other things happened that I don't really want to talk about! But that could have been due to the scepticemia. Perhaps coupled with the thyroid? I was a bit over-medicated at the time. But I don't know, anything's possible.

[Winegum2 in reply to greygoose]

The car incident sounds very scary and dangerous!! Apart from the septicemia, has this happened to you since being on the right dosage?

[greygoose in reply to Winegum2]

The right dosage? lol I'm not sure what that is. No, I couldn't swear that I was on the right dosage for me. But, let's just say I haven't noticed anything as strong as that recently. But, then again, I don't think we always know when we're hallucinating. Hallucinations can be so real, I'm sure we don't always know.

Also, the car incident was before I was diagnosed but as I have Hashi's, I don't know where I was with my levels - could have been hypo, could have been hyper, could have been 'normal'. As I've had this disease most of my life without knowing it, I've no idea what 'normal' is. But when I was in hospital, I was over-medicated, for sure. So, I don't know if it's anything to do with being hypo or hyper or whatever.

Since then, it's quite possible that I've had other mild hallucinations but that I'm so used to them, they don't really register. Things like your cup incident and thinking the car is moving when it isn't, are what I would call mild hallucinations. And if we have them all the time, would they impinge on our consciousness? If your cup incident had happened at home, alone, would you have noticed it? Perhaps it was just that it was in public and you felt stupid that made it make an impression.

Not trying to belittle the experience, but I think it's possible, like my brother's book says, that everybody has hallucinations all the time but just don't notice them. It dépends on the context, I suppose.

[MollyMoo53]

Oh Yes! Frequently. My husband privately thinks i am mad!! It can be very disconcerting, specially when I feel strongly that something is there and no one else can see it.....for a while I actually thought people were purposely pretending not to see what I see so that people would think I was off my tump! Oh yes a little bit paranoid too.

[Wheres_my_slipper]

How long have you been on your current dose? It might be possible that it's too high. I had visual hallucinations as well, though I wasn't aware of it until (and don't laugh!!) I 'saw' a set of shelves in the supermarket jump across the floor towards me. That was a bit freaky.

I had only just started on levo, and my GP had prescribed me 150mcg from the get go - it seemed that amount had shocked my system (was at 45.38 tsh and 6.5 t4 at that point, I think). Went back to GP after doing a bit of research and he agreed that was too high for an initial dose and I went down to 50mcg in order to gradually increase it, and the hallucinations never happened again.

So based on my experience only, too high a level of levo for my system to cope with was the cause of my hallucinations.

[Winegum2 in reply to Wheres_my_slipper]

Hi Wheres my slipper, I'm not sure if you're replying to me, but I am yet undiagnosed/untreated, so Levo is not the problem. I was just wandering if other people had had it as a symptom of being hypo? I've read that it can be along with other psychological probs. I'm not sure whether to mention it to the dr because it might not help my cause. He's still investigating with numerous blood tests, hopefully they'll show something up.

[greygoose in reply to Winegum2]

If I were you, I wouldn't mention that particular symptom! It's not one of the well-known ones, and given that they don't even know the well-known ones, there's little chance of him knowing that one. And given that they just love and excuse to send you to a psy rather than prescribe levo, I would keep quite about anything to do with the brain. Just my opinion, of course...

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It could have been a visual migraine.

[LuckyKat]

Hi Winegum2, I've just been reading about magnesium and remembered a post about hallucinations so I looked you up. You might find this interesting reading:

healyourselfathome.com/HOW/...

Regards, Katy

[Winegum2 in reply to LuckyKat]

Thanks LuckyKat!!

[bobsmydog]

Funny you should say that!

I swear I've been seeing someone out of the corner of my eye walking past my shed in the garden where I work. I've put it down to odd light from the windows but now I'm not too sure???