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Post ICU Nightmares / Hallucinations
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@flagal22, I want to welcome you to Connect, and to thank you for reaching out to others by sharing your experience.
I congratulate you on your liver transplant a couple of months ago. I am a liver and kidney transplant recipient and I also spent some time in ICU prior to my transplant. I did not have the dreams or hallucinatioins, but I did experience memory gaps that left me confused and unsettled. I had to ask my husband to fill in the details afterwards. It sounds like the dreams/hallucinations occurred during your time in the ICU. Were you conscious or aware of anything else during your ICU time? Were you frightened when you realized that they were not reality? Do you know whether this was a result of Hepatatic Encephalopathy (HE) that many liver transplant patients have experienced?
I want to invite you to the Transplant Group where you can meet other new and experienced transplant recipients. How are you doing since your transplant?
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@rosemarya I had the dreams in the ICU and after moving to the liver floor. My memory issues began 7 months before my transplant with a severe episode of hepatic encephalopathy, I was totally incoherent one morning, my husband took me to the hospital and it took 2 1/2 days until my ammonia level was lowered and I was discharged. I did not have a great memory after that including after my transplant. I would ask the same questions over and over. Luckily, I no longer have this problem.