Thank you so much for sharing and for taking such interest in delirium. I had severe delirium in ICU and for weeks and run a delirium support group on Facebook. There is such a need for more delirium awareness for patients and their loved ones xx
Thank you so much for this. I came here looking for causes of post op delirium and how to help a pt through it and this video was fantastic and extremely helpful.
Thanks for info. I just had heart valve surgery. I woke convinced everyone was trying to kill me and that they had lured my sister to hospital and killed her. I felt I was strapped to machines and was being tortured. It took me days to shake these feelings.
I can remember waking up from surgery and screaming from pain and trying to pull out my ventilating tube because it felt like I couldn't breathe, I also remember my mum thought that I was just making weird hand movements but I was trying to spell out 'I can't breathe' because I couldn't speak although i don't know if that's delirium or from the pain and breathing tube
In my late fifties I had a perforated bowel, peritonitis and high toxicity. After a 5hr operation I spent 2 weeks on a different planet! I saw cats, hail in the ward, weird voices and people that had died walking in my ward. I was totally functional. I could eat, speak, surf the internet on my phone (wasn't walking though), but was in this world that I swore was real even weeks later. Five years later, fully recovered but I still have the occasional flashback to the things I saw. Sometimes triggered by smells or sounds. Wondered if this ever disappears and will therapy help?
A fight/fight response isnt something you chose to activate, it has to be triggered by the body/environment interacting. If you have had your brain put into stasis for hours, your mind isn't at full speed by the time you wake up. Parts of your mind which are subconscious, like fight or flight response are more easily triggered by confusing stimulus which the mind doesn't have the capacity to interpret accurately.
The many anti rejection medications had me hallucinating, visually, and hearing things. I thought I had lost my mind. I can’t even say the things I saw. I thought staff were trying to torture me. I thought that maybe I had died and was in hell. My family and friends didn’t understand. I knew that if I kept quiet their torture may ease up. After a few days it just occurred to me that these feelings were leaving me and the visuals stopped. Honestly, this was the hardest part of having a transplant. I heard that it happens more often with lung patients. I wish I had been warned of the possibility. Now it’s been 10 years. No sign of rejection. We are doing well ❤❤❤
74 year old mother had surgery 2 weeks ago (intestinal blockage) coming out of surgery with delirium which has shifted to moderate/acute Alzheimers symptoms wandering all night lost and wants to go "home". How can this happen and when does this end??!
Hello. Just wondering how your mom is doing? My 74 yr old mom is currently experiencing the same thing. Hoping this gets better and hope your mom has improved.
@@sweetsouthernliving2477 She is about the same. The dementia has improved very slightly but since surgery she has not come back around. Requires 24/7 supervision now and cannot drive. (She once found the car keys and drove to the nearest city) that wasn't fun trying to loccate her. It seems she was on the "borderline" of dementia with mild symptoms and the surgery threw her capacity over the edge. She is confised most of the time. Each individual is different. Dont give up hope its possible over the following weeks/months she will improve. Keep in touch!
@@leftofpunk one month later my dad unexpectedly died. While they were doing CPR on him with family surrounding the theater she walked down the ICU corridor to "go for a coffee". Her husband was literally dying in front of us and she was going for a coffee. Mentally shot. She now lives minutes away from my step sister. In an apartment alone. She calls no one and refuses to answer the phone. So, deteriorating slowly. Delirium mixed with endless wandering at night. You?
@@flowerpower3011 I'm so sorry for your loss. That's terrible. My mother in law was just taken off the vent and meds this morning. My wife reports she didn't recognize her and called her by a different name. Said she wants to just die and didnt care if anyone needed her. It's really scary right now.
No thank you for this video my grandma just had colon cancer surgery she's 82 and was totally fine and all of a sudden these types of things started happening to her. I just left the hospital because they moved her to ICU and I have been crying going crazy I thought she had a stroke. They tested her for like a stroke they said but they said she didn't have one I didn't know what was going on I thought she was for sure dying. She is taking off all of her equipment she keeps telling me that there's cats running around and babies on the ceiling and I just feel so terrible. Seeing that lady in the video try to get out of the bed is the exact thing my grandma did she said let me go home I got to get up she started screaming. That lady in the video is exactly what my grandma is doing. I guess my grandma has this but the hospital for some reason has not told me that this is the case it should be pretty obvious
Hello my mom just had a blood clot surgery in brain and yesterday she just came home.. but after coming home she started seeing abnormal vision like some unreal figure standing there..can anyone tell if this is the symptoms of delirium?
Thank you! Such great information! One of my patients was going through this and I went searching for more answers. Thank you!
Can you tell me what you did to get him better
Thank you so much for sharing and for taking such interest in delirium. I had severe delirium in ICU and for weeks and run a delirium support group on Facebook. There is such a need for more delirium awareness for patients and their loved ones xx
Me too. It’s awful ❤️
Can you give me name of the group please, I had same experience!
Thank you so much for this. I came here looking for causes of post op delirium and how to help a pt through it and this video was fantastic and extremely helpful.
Thanks for info. I just had heart valve surgery. I woke convinced everyone was trying to kill me and that they had lured my sister to hospital and killed her. I felt I was strapped to machines and was being tortured. It took me days to shake these feelings.
I can remember waking up from surgery and screaming from pain and trying to pull out my ventilating tube because it felt like I couldn't breathe, I also remember my mum thought that I was just making weird hand movements but I was trying to spell out 'I can't breathe' because I couldn't speak although i don't know if that's delirium or from the pain and breathing tube
In my late fifties I had a perforated bowel, peritonitis and high toxicity. After a 5hr operation I spent 2 weeks on a different planet! I saw cats, hail in the ward, weird voices and people that had died walking in my ward. I was totally functional. I could eat, speak, surf the internet on my phone (wasn't walking though), but was in this world that I swore was real even weeks later. Five years later, fully recovered but I still have the occasional flashback to the things I saw. Sometimes triggered by smells or sounds. Wondered if this ever disappears and will therapy help?
A fight/fight response isnt something you chose to activate, it has to be triggered by the body/environment interacting.
If you have had your brain put into stasis for hours, your mind isn't at full speed by the time you wake up. Parts of your mind which are subconscious, like fight or flight response are more easily triggered by confusing stimulus which the mind doesn't have the capacity to interpret accurately.
The many anti rejection medications had me hallucinating, visually, and hearing things. I thought I had lost my mind. I can’t even say the things I saw. I thought staff were trying to torture me. I thought that maybe I had died and was in hell. My family and friends didn’t understand. I knew that if I kept quiet their torture may ease up. After a few days it just occurred to me that these feelings were leaving me and the visuals stopped. Honestly, this was the hardest part of having a transplant. I heard that it happens more often with lung patients. I wish I had been warned of the possibility.
Now it’s been 10 years. No sign of rejection. We are doing well ❤❤❤
thank the lord for nurses!!
74 year old mother had surgery 2 weeks ago (intestinal blockage) coming out of surgery with delirium which has shifted to moderate/acute Alzheimers symptoms wandering all night lost and wants to go "home". How can this happen and when does this end??!
Hello. Just wondering how your mom is doing? My 74 yr old mom is currently experiencing the same thing. Hoping this gets better and hope your mom has improved.
@@sweetsouthernliving2477 She is about the same. The dementia has improved very slightly but since surgery she has not come back around. Requires 24/7 supervision now and cannot drive. (She once found the car keys and drove to the nearest city) that wasn't fun trying to loccate her. It seems she was on the "borderline" of dementia with mild symptoms and the surgery threw her capacity over the edge. She is confised most of the time. Each individual is different. Dont give up hope its possible over the following weeks/months she will improve. Keep in touch!
@@flowerpower3011 any better 10 months on?
@@leftofpunk one month later my dad unexpectedly died. While they were doing CPR on him with family surrounding the theater she walked down the ICU corridor to "go for a coffee". Her husband was literally dying in front of us and she was going for a coffee. Mentally shot. She now lives minutes away from my step sister. In an apartment alone. She calls no one and refuses to answer the phone. So, deteriorating slowly. Delirium mixed with endless wandering at night. You?
@@flowerpower3011 I'm so sorry for your loss. That's terrible. My mother in law was just taken off the vent and meds this morning. My wife reports she didn't recognize her and called her by a different name. Said she wants to just die and didnt care if anyone needed her. It's really scary right now.
Could it be that they haven’t processed their anesthesia?
The kind of Sedation absolutely plays a role in this.
The whole world needs to know about delirium, Google it,ask about it ,read about it
No thank you for this video my grandma just had colon cancer surgery she's 82 and was totally fine and all of a sudden these types of things started happening to her. I just left the hospital because they moved her to ICU and I have been crying going crazy I thought she had a stroke. They tested her for like a stroke they said but they said she didn't have one I didn't know what was going on I thought she was for sure dying. She is taking off all of her equipment she keeps telling me that there's cats running around and babies on the ceiling and I just feel so terrible. Seeing that lady in the video try to get out of the bed is the exact thing my grandma did she said let me go home I got to get up she started screaming. That lady in the video is exactly what my grandma is doing. I guess my grandma has this but the hospital for some reason has not told me that this is the case it should be pretty obvious
Hello my mom just had a blood clot surgery in brain and yesterday she just came home.. but after coming home she started seeing abnormal vision like some unreal figure standing there..can anyone tell if this is the symptoms of delirium?
It may be, but you should take her to the emergency of the hospital ASAP
So that's what that was after I had surgery. Woke up with six WWL nurses pinning me down! Thought I was just a bit evil on the inside haha