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Post-Intensive Care Syndrome (PICS) - Let's talk

Intensive Care (ICU) | Last Active: Sep 16 7:52pm | Replies (609)
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Hi Shae,
I was in ICU in 2017 with septic shock. I definitely experienced PICS. My symptoms were hair loss, peeling skin, my nails came off - everything grew back 🙂 I also experienced PTSD. I went to counseling, joined a Post-Sepsis facebook group and every year on the anniversary of my illness I read my medical records and notes from that experience. Almost 5 years later, I still think about it. But - last year I didn’t read my medical records, I am no longer in counseling and I can think about my experience as something that happened to me, it isn’t who I am.
To summarize - get help for PTSD, find a group that went through what you did. With time you will start feeling like yourself pre-ICU ❤️

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ds1958 | @ds1958 | Jun 21, 2022

Its exactly 1 yr since my husbands open heart surgery and over 2 week ICU stay. He had ICU psychosis and no one would discuss it with me in the hospital...they just kept saying "he'll be fine once he gets home. Well he's not. He's been depressed and has no energy or strength. None of his Drs offer any help...most saying "I've heard of it but don't know how to help". His surgeon refused to discuss it and basically ignored me. A few months ago he started having nightmares about what it was like for him in ICU. To him he was living in Dante's Inferno and being tortured. No one seems to know how to help him or what to do.
Where did you find help? He seems to be getting worse not better.

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