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Welcome to the discussion @smoky - I am glad you found us! You will likely see by reading through the many posts on here your feeling of being "crazy" is shared by so many others. Just knowing there are others out there - many others in fact - who have experienced what you are experiencing can be healing in itself. What are some of the symptoms of PICS that you are experiencing if you feel open to sharing with us?

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Hi Annie. I ended up in the ICU from a horrible reaction to a pain med. prescribed for severe back pain. After 6 six weeks,some of the symptoms of PICS that I have are hallucinations or memories of the ones I had while in ICU (I don't know which), severe short term memory loss, the ability to speak sentences in the correct order only if I can think of the words, pain, dizziness, walking with a cane after using a wheel chair then walker, now cane, headaches. That's all I can think of at the present. I ended up with a trachea that after speaking with the doctors will remain for life. I am hoping to speak with "someone" at the hospital to set up or produce a pamphlet or something to give to those who are subjected to this syndrome. I think it would be a more proactive way to deal with this than to let the patient or family have to endure the side effects of the ICU.