My experience with sepsis
Im just gonna share a bit of my story with sepsis. On March 1st I was in the hospital for a suicide attempt. I had been battling Guillain-Barré Syndrome and gave up. Due to my GBS they determined I needed a Foley catheter after straight cathing 3 times. Within 30 minutes I began feeling sick. Just overall off. I had a fever first 104. Then the 140s heartrate. I told the nurse and was told it was all anxiety. Last thing I remember was looking at the monitor and seeing my heartrate at 157 before passing out. For 6 hours I lay there unconscious with no one caring that 2h after a catheter insertion I had a high fever and high heart rate. Eventually my BP was taken and I looked at notes it was 63/28. Rapid response immediately called and I was shipped to the ICU. For 36 hours they tried to wake me doing various things such as sternum rubs and nothing got me. March 3rd I woke up and was hooked up to machines and dizzy. lightheaded with blurry vision. My kidneys got hit pretty hard. Nothing else interesting happened.
April 12th I felt this overwhelming wave of dread and needing to die. Within an hour of it coming on I was overdosing on sleeping pills. I arrived to the ER pretty quick because my mom found me and within 30 minutes 104 fever. They knew that wasn't supposed to happen so they began running bloodwork and shortly after my heartrate spiked to 130s. Shortly after my BP plummeted and I was in septic shock again. It was determined I had a UTI that caused 2 kidney infections which then caused sepsis. For 2 weeks I kept attempting suicide in every way I could even with a 1:1 sitter. Eventually the antibiotics began working and since then I have had 0 suicidal thoughts. Unfortunately during that time I was committed to the state due to them thinking I had just lost my mind and now im on a stay of commitment for 6 months.
My point of the post was to point out how much sepsis can affect your brain. Its very untacked about.