Post Operative Delirium

[marycartwright]

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

[jonwetenkamp]

Thank you! Such great information! One of my patients was going through this and I went searching for more answers. Thank you!

[erickthornton]

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.

[emmawicker]

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.

[Eludinium]

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

[biancalawrence]

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?

[GiordanoBruno]

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.

[drsuessl]

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 ❤❤❤

[anybenfotiamine]

Could it be that they haven’t processed their anesthesia?

[thomasshafer]

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

[flowerpower]

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??!

[penrar]

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

[SJ]

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?

[DamienRoweArts]

The whole world needs to know about delirium, Google it, ask about it, read about it