My cousin had her bowel resection july 18th and from the second she woke up, she was having paranoid thoughts and hearing voices and thinking the nurses were talking about
her and making fun of her. She would walk down the hall and just stand there and stare into space and when I asked her what she was doing , she would say "do hear that!!!! they are talking about
me." She even told the doc all this and he just brushed it off as nerves and stress from surgery, and just medicated her more. Under the medication, she didn't hear the voices.
Anyway, she was released on thursday the 26th and after the what medication she recieved taht day in the hospital wore off at home, she just went completely pyshco out of control, walking in circles with a glaze over her eyes and saying "NO,NO,NO" over and over again, and saying "get out of my head", "get out of my head". She was in her own world like we didn't even exist. We took to the ER and they said it was a condition called delierium which usually only happens in older people who have anethesia. My cousin is only 34.
They said it usually goes away after time maybe a few weeks, and as long as few months, but they said just to be safe, we should see an shrink. The ER doc prescribed an anti psyhcotic drug ziprasidone to remove the voices until we could see a shrink. We gave it to her friday and saturday it worked great at reducing and eleminating the voices, but it started causing her now to jerk and twitch uncontrollably. Reading about that drug, that is one of its side effects. Last night she didn't want the drug because she wanted to know if the voices would come back without the drug. So far nothing, all last night and today, no voices. Now the problem is she can't sleep.
After seeing this and what she has gone through, I don't think I ever want anethesia ever again.
Has anyone had a bad experience like this or similar with anethesia?
On the good note, they removed 10cm of terminal illium with the valve. The doc said pathology samples done during surgery up stream of the massive inflammation show no signs of active CD. Downstream in the colon also show no signs of active CD as did the rectum. The only cd that was found , was that in that small 10 inch section removed , and it was only a very small amount of CD. The surgeon also found no fistual anywhere and he said the large abscess she had prior to surgery was probably caused by the appendix and not anything related to CD. He said the appendix and intestine were fused together in one large massive lump of inflammation, so he suspects the real problem all along was the appendix and not the CD.
Right now, her BMs are almost 90% normal, a little soft, but no D and she has no more stomach pain.