I just experienced this yesterday waking up in the recovery room, so that's basically how I found this video, I woke up upset and I was recalling or imagining things that did not happen inside the recovery room, I imagined that I was trying to leave and having a fight with the staff, then I'm sure that I was adjusting my bed position and a nurse was asking me where I'm going, and I told her the same, and I'm pretty sure that interaction was real, other than that, I just held it in and did not do anything, it's a bit odd cause this was my third time undergoing general anesthesia, first time this happened, not sure if it's age related coz there's a big gap between those happening.

I’ve just had heart surgery I was on life support for 11 days In that time I had the most disturbing dreams I’ve ever known I had been all over the country uk Till I got in a aeroplane. With 4 nurses in it After a while one nurse said to me Pick a window your going out Why I asked I’ve done nothing wrong Your girlfriend pinched my boyfriend and your paying for it After a massive struggle I held on to one of the nurses and we all fell out But we fell gently to the ground on like a parachute Landing in a field I got up and walked out just with my theatre gown on Saying I’ve just been thrown out of a plane Someone took me back to hospital I was in a+e on my own very quiet All of a sudden the curtains flew open the nurses were there trying to stab me I was shouting and trying to scramble backwards away from them Someone heard and they left During this time I’m told my blood pressure had reached 200 over something I had loads more dreams visions whatever they are All as terrifying as the first Involving my 14 year old son shouting for help and me frantically looking for him My sister came at this time and said you were absolutely frantic shouting his name Not only when I was out of it when awake I was seeing things like a bird sat on my feeding bottle holder I’ve never been so terrified in all my life I still tremble at night trying to come to terms with it 4 weeks after surgery the dreams remain vivid in my mind In precise detail and fear I’ve come to terms with some of it A lot still remains in my mind Delirium is very real and very very frightening Both for me and my family I woke up with a pair of white cotton boxing gloves in my locker Which I couldn’t understand Turns out I kept pulling all the pipes out whilst having these visions I hope and pray I didn’t hurt anyone because I’m the opposite of nasty I’m worried sick when I see the surgeon on the 4 th of December I hope I can explain these terrible dreams to him and hope he understands

Thank you for the video. My dad age 56 is going through this right now. We are trying to bring him back to earth

I hade a weird experience and I'm glad I was alone . The bleeding after surgery lasted 54 minutes 3 bags of plasma 1 bag magnesium. I can't remember the following two days . When I came too I was lost !

My son is going through this right now thank you for making this video

This was good to hear. I thought I was the only one experiencing this after open heart surgery.

I had a quadruple bypass earlier this year. My “delirium” if you will, came about by the Propofol and Hydrocodone 10. I saw things I’d never expected to see. Bugs on the wall and floor. A squirrel on the ceiling eating the bugs. I thought I was in a hotel and continually asked my wife “when are we checking out?”. I had an episode the day we got home. When I went to bed I had taken more pain meds and I woke up around 2am. I had to pee bad and had no idea where I was. I got out of bed and for whatever reason I thought I was in a whorehouse. I stopped at the foot of the bed, still not knowing where I was, and pulled it out and started peeing on the floor, which turned out to be our bedroom. My wife woke up, heard me taking care of business, and she came up out of the bed like a wildcat. It was not a good night.

So glad I came across this video..Thanks Terry!

I had horrible delirium after 4 way bypass. I thought I had been kidnapped by the nurses and moved into a home. They had painted and fixed this room to look like my hospital room but I was chained to a bed and they wouldn't give we me aby medicine nor answer my questions. I freaked out anytime one if the nurses came ear me thinking that they wer going to inject me with something to kill me. In my mind I was locked up somewhere and would never see my family again. That lasted 2 days. I had a very rough surgery with complications and spent 29 days in ICU. I dealt with other issues and delirious thoughts.. but that one about being kidnapped really did a job on .e.

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My husband experienced Delerium for 4-5 weeks and it was very scary. Delerium can cause other complications and even death. They used medication to get him out of this state of mind. It was the scarest thing ever. It is a very serious condition that can last for a few hours or days; but, can continue for months. I learned more about it because of watching my husband suffer. Our story is way to long to share; but it is one I hope no one else has to experience.

I grew up in the 1970's and did a lot of recreational drugs back then. I had much the same experience after my OHS. On 3 occasions I didn't know where I was in the local supermarket and I big hardware store. I recognised right away I was off my trolley on the pills they give me. It's not really so difficult to cope with at all

Yeah. I had heart surgery a month ago. Had delirium for 3 days. So weird and yet so real. Kids outside my room stealing my belongings. A frog in my room. Red letters floating off a switched off TV screen. Red mist coming from my hands. And lots more. So real at the time.

I did that too

Thank you I am getting ready to go in myself and I am scared and feel terrible about it. That this is coming on to my family

Sounds like a reaction to anesthesia.I had two open heart surgery in five months never an issue

Terry I had my Open Heat Surgery (rebuild Aorta, Replace Aorta Valve and CABG for the "widow maker" LAD") a Month ago. I share some of your experience and still each day I wake up and have to orient myself to where I am. especially the day of the week. Falling is another problem (Balance and weakness in muscle tone). I could go on and on about my thoughts during delirium but it would serve no purpose except to say, you may have it and be ready, don't be afraid. Glad I was born in the 50's experimenting in the 60's. It sort of settles you down and say "Enjoy, this will pass"

5 weeks of delerium for me after open heart surgery that lasted 10 hours. Horror show. I couldn't tell reality from delerium. Delerium dreams are still crystal clear to me.

I had delirium after my heart surgery and let me tell you that was the scariest experience of all my life. It was like making a nighmare open eyed for 5 days.

Miss you daddy........

Thank You!! For sharing this!!!

Thank you for this video

This resonates with me. I told my wife ‘look mush you’ve got to get me out of here!’ She was sitting by my bed in hospital and I was looking out over over a road junction in a desert location. Peculiar to say the least. I’m still vague. Any idea how long the mental recovery will take?

I saw black bugs on the floor, ceiling walls then I saw one of my cats leaving my room. Now I knew the bugs were not real, it still was upsetting. The nurses reassured me this was common and after three days they were gone. Presenters seem to avoid the pain issue, the pain was the worst I have ever experienced and coughing, oh my gosh, excruciating. But the worst is gone in a few weeks but if you lift something, reach for something you will have pain for a few days. You have to remember your sternum was sawed in half then retractors used to pull all those muscles, ligaments nerves apart. There lies the pain I am having after at 2 months. Be careful.

I thought I was underneath a car and people were whispering to me thousands of them but I didn't understand a word they were saying I certainly didn't enjoy the experience

I had this - a voice in my head just said "this ain't real"

Thank you for sharing. I too suffered from terrible delirium. They had to change my ICU bed for a low rise with crash mats. I have a Facebook delirium support group and everyday I fight for delirium awareness x

My open heart surgery to repair a large ATAA and save my aortic valve was a year ago. I can relate to everything this man says. I awoke with the breathing tube down my throat and my hands restrained. I remember seeing the clock on the wall and it was shortly before 7 am. My surgery had been the previous day, beginning at 6:45 am so this was literally 24 hours later. I'd been on a closed group of people who were going through diagnosis of ascending aortic thoracic aneurysms and we'd shared a lot of experiences. One woman whose surgery was a month beore mine contacted me privately and told me "you ben my prayer warrior and I'll be yours". We agreed to share our progress with this group after our surgeries too and she sent me a three minute video of herself, right after her surgery at the Mayo, with her niece who is a CICU nurse explaining to her husband every wire, tube and machine she was attached to. It was a godsend for my husband and son who were there when I was having my surgery and they say me for the first time. She'd told me to expect to 'breathe through a straw' which I miraculously remembered that morning. My husband had been sent back to the hotel to get some sleep and he needed it but waking up without him there was very terrifying. I was three years old when I was in a very bad accident and had to be hospitalized for surgery several times. One time I was in a ward and my hands were restrained and the bandages from surgery had come down over my face. I heard someone in the room and began asking for help as I was coming to. She said "I can't help you. I'm the heart nurse". And she left. I'm sure someone did come back but the terror of being alone rushed back to me and now I WAS the heart patient, 62 years later! The nurse in the CICU had put a cool wash cloth over my eyes and forehead but it slipped down onto my face and I was right back in the terror I felt as a little kid. I tried tapping on the part of the bed rail I could reach but it was plastic. The nurse turned towards me and took my hand. I began spelling letters into his hand and he understood what I was saying. He let me itch my nose and took the cloth off my face. I calmed down. He began telling me that they were going to get rid of the tube but first put some meds in through my tube, which I remember going down my throat from my nose and I was struggling to swallow rather than relax and just let the meds let gravity happen. I thought about the straw comment from my friend and it helped me calm down. I had wild moments that I thought "Oh my God! I haven't had my surgery yet! Why am I here so long!" I had my surgery at UF Shands which is 7 hours from my home. I had to hang around after the 6 days I was in the hospital for another 5 days before I had my release meeting because most complications happen within that first week and we did NOT want to have to turn around and drive back. So waking up that post release time in a room that wasn't home with walls painted about the same color of the hospital room was very disorienting. All the drugs, the trauma, the cooling and the bypass machine along with a very long surgery HAS to take a toll! But I have had a really successful recovery this past 14 months and was released by my surgeon a few weeks ago. Now will just be followed by my in town cardiologist with annual echo. What a wild ride all of this was, beginning was being diagnosed with a birth defect (BAV) and realizing this aneurysm was very big and could have killed me had it not been found. The emotions of all of this are another chapter! My goal is to help anyone else who has to experience this as much as I can.

Its terrifying how really the hallucinations are. After my Kidney and liver transplant i was in the ICU for a month and the first delusion was being at the bottom of a deep deep pitch black hole with a tiny rectangle of light at the top where I could hear doctors and nurses talking to me, its as if I was looking up from the bott of a vent shaft. Than I came to was taken off the ventilator but spiked a fever and was put back on and I swear I went to sleep in the ICU and woke up in what looked like my grandparents basement... this is where it gets insane.. I saw everyone around me as giant ice cream cones that were trying to eat me but I couldnt move or speak. When my parents came in to see me they looked normal (in retrospect its prob bc I recognized their voices). My mom told me I pleaded and begged her to get me out of my grandparents basement away from them, I was seeing spiders dropping down on webs from the ceiling and she told me at one point I told her "this place is disgusting look!" And as i said that I gestured like I was pulling someone out of my mouth and she told me I held up my empty hand saying "look at these spiders". It just so happened one of the nurses suggested my parents pulling out either a mirror or a cell phone camera and turning the front camera on and letting me see myself in the hospital and when my Mom did this it was like my grandparents basement melted away and the ice cream cone people all turned into the actual hospital and staff. I spend the next literally 3 days constantly apologizing to the docs and nurses for my behavior, shortly after they moved me to a room with a window and that really helped a lot. Ive done hallucinogenics as a teen and nothing compares to how real ICU delusions can be.

My 13th yr old grand daughter just experienced this, she scared her mom , and the staff. She was crying and asking for her dad who passed a little over a year ago .she didn't recognize her mom.

Watch the documentary ‘Pumphead’ is a documentary feature film exploring patient experiences following major heart surgery - how to understand these experiences and how to live with them. Through the stories of eight ex-patients, including the filmmaker himself, this documentary indicates the complex diversity of emotional and cognitive changes that often occur after open-heart surgery, simultaneous with physical recovery. In particular the film focuses on the phenomenon of "post-traumatic growth" which often co-exists with psychological challenges and is triggered by them. Postperfusion syndrome, also known as "pumphead", is a constellation of neurocognitive impairments attributed to cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) during cardiac surgery ...' - Wikipedia

This is very helpful -- my Dad recently went through bypass surgery and we were not sure why he is having these memory lapses

I was given fentanyl for post operative, pain (CABGx4), it worked for the pain but put me up the pole and I was gabbling away and my medical training was twisting my perception was disjointed and obscure, it took three days to land back where I took off from. Detailed in the extreme but not connected to reality, my brain was dreaming my body was believing it. Pain is indescribable to those that have not had a continual and abundant supply given to them. I was moderate compared to a man in a nearby bed who was paranoid and verging on violence most of his waking time. It seems so strange to feel what it does to the mind. However when pain relief is no there the anguish and fear takes over and the torture rules everything. A week later things have gone until the pain floods in a wave and it needs controlling NOW. Pre warning is required but not given to us, simple thought preparation might have helped me .

I was in a coma for 18 days i felt like id been to a different world and stayed there for a quiet long , id seen as well my younger age and older age, when i dreamed that my dad died, my uncle died, my gf father's died ! That made me wake up from dreaming and I was confused about why it happened, how have they died ?? Since i wana find the truth out and cause of thier death ! That really woke me up from a coma, ,i kept asking my mom where's my uncle my dad why they are died ? My mom said they 're alive ,they're alive ,i couldn't believe my mom on it til we called them over messenger and ya ,i was just dreaming and all the scenes in my dreams are not real. Im ok now almost 70% of my strength has backed.

Glad I’m not the only one.I was out for three days or more with it They gave a CT to see if I had a blood clot in the brain

I experienced this in 2019 and boy was it rough. I'm due to have open heart surgery again in about a month now, and have to say that experience is aittle anxiety provoking for this next surgery.

I was totally unaware of this possibility. I am a 65 yr old professional and what some may consider "moderately well adjusted." But if I were to completely describe what I was experiencing 3 wks ago after heart surgery I sound totally off. I went to a place mentally that left me feeling confused, frightful, and desperate. When I first woke up, and any time I would sleep in the hospital while on the drugs, I would go back to an "alternate reality" that was hard to shake when I woke up. A psychedelic abyss without a guide.

I have had open heart surgery 8 .5 weeks ago. Sure wish i had seen this before my surgery.

I would go insane upon waking up, I just can’t imagine my heart being operated on and I never want it to happen. So I always do yearly check ups and eat healthy as much as possible with little chest days

I remember this well after my surgery. I guessed it was a combination of anesthesia and the Morphine they put you on for the pain afterwards? I could look at a nurse one second, at one end of the ward, blink and see the same nurse at the other end as if she'd teleported.

So good to hear someone else talk about this. I knew NOTHING about this phenomenon and after heart transplant was convinced 8 years had gone by and that my sister had sold me to a factory in China where I was being prepped to be turned into sauce for chicken nuggets. This was my reality for 6 days.

Google - Pump Head Syndrome - I had open heart surgery my life changed after that but now im scared

I found this video while I am trying to find what has happened to my dad, sad part his the hospital staff is not so cooperate and I can't shift him to another, he had his hip surgery yesterday. Please help me how to make him better ( I am doing everything possible to make him home and alert ) but he talks about going home or ending him self as suicide because he have parkinson and he thinks he is in alzeirmer last stage

Odd I knew exactly where I was after my heart surgery and that I was put in ICU then a regular room I had some fuzziness immediately after surgery as they were waking me up but that was all

I wish I had been warned before my dad’s surgery… thank you so much for sharing ❤️

Thank you for sharing this my father is going through this right now and its the worse thing I have ever encountered.

wow - i woke up after recovering from surgery and thought there was no one else in the hospital (middle of the night so no one was around) - so i tried to remove my tubes when a voice in me said, "this isn't real" and I snapped out of it. It could happen to anyone! So strange.

Thanks for sharing ! My dad had the same operation, he's going trought delirium now. I will go see him everyday

I had delirium after having my hip replaced. Don't remember what happened right after surgery but my same day surgery turned into a 6 day stay. Never knee that this was a possibility after surgery. Glad you are ok now.