That being watched in hospital makes me feel uneasy

You can't. You're not the only patient there and she is a professional doing her job. Ridiculous.

Are you taking the pee. They are monitoring you FYI doing there job

Completely understandable to feel like that OP- it's a weird situation to be in. However family members of mine have witnessed unobserved hypos, seizures etc on hospital wards- so much better to be watched. My gran actually fell and had a subarachnoid brain haemorrhage in hospital because they were understaffed and not able to watch her.

I'm guessing it's so they can describe the seizures in addition to the EEG results? In your normal every day life you're not going to have an EEG machine on so it'll be helpful if your friends, family and colleagues know what a seizure looks like.

Unless everyone on the ward has tonic clonics- in which case I would have thought the machines you're hooked up to would alert ward staff to an emergency?

Completely natural to feel uncomfortable in this situation. You know it’s for your own good, but you are allowed to say you don’t like it. I hope you get the information you need from this investigation.

I had telemetry a few years ago at Kings, it was such an odd experience and felt like I was in a science experiment with all the wires attached to my head. Mine was video so every little thing, bar using the loo, was monitored, recorded whilst at the same time being watched in another room. I tried to immerse myself in reading so I could block what was going on. I also did some rather difficult crochet to keep my mind occupied

Horrid for you OP. Unfortunately, it's obviously necessary. You must be feeling ill physically with lying down all the time and being uncomfortable.

You're under observation and it really is awful, I was in ICU and I was right next to the desk and I was frightened. They moved me to the HDU and did the same thing.

Kindly, it's for your own good. It might save your life.

I hate being watched too, but sometimes it's absolutely essential to get you well. I hope you feel better soon.

I agree with @MumbleBumbleAppleCrumble, try to change your thought process from being watched to being monitored.
I was in hospital last year, kidney stone (absolute agony) the whole experience was pretty awful.
The care given was beyond excellent but the heat, the noise, the being woken up to be monitored or being woken up by other patients 😬
We had a nurse who sat in our ward on a laptop tapping away all night.
The only respite from the pain, in between the morphine, was sleep and I didn't get much of that!
You have my sympathy, hope you get home soon.

I’d feel strange too, OP. I’ve always found sleeping on a ward hard anyway and knowing someone was watching would be even weirder. But you will get tired enough at some point to fall asleep and after a few nights you’ll get more used to it and find it easier.

Hope things cool down and the observations help you get the treatment you need.

Nurse doing her job. Whatever next?

Oh bless you , completely understandable. There might be good reason , but doesn't mean that you feel comfortable with it .

I can relate! I’ve had the same.

She’s probably there to observe you. I had to be admitted for a week of epilepsy monitoring and had eyes on me 24/7 until I was discharged. It was a bit odd, though my experience was slightly different. I (fortunately) had it done in the States and didn’t have to deal with wards and other patients. It was a private room with a camera so the person watching me was in another room instead of right there with me. They did speak to me once or twice through the camera when I was doing things I wasn’t supposed to. It felt a bit invasive the first day but after that it didn’t bother me. At least, not compared to all of the stuff glued to my scalp and the seven neurologists popping in at random. 😂

It’s definitely a boring time though. Hopefully you’re able to pass the time and they get the data they need. 💐

My DF was admitted to hospital after a fall a couple of months ago. Double hip fracture. He has cognitive decline. He got out of bed twice in the middle of the night and fell & was found later. He is in a much worse state now. I wish someone had been watching him.

Not me but I may be unusual. I feel vunerable sleeping in a sort of public place, but having a nurse in the room is like having a "body guard" and gives me a sense of security. Hope your do sleep and your seizures soon can be controlled. .

Hospital wards can be a bit weird, especially at night. There are a lot of strange bleeping noises, various comings and goings, someone pops by every now and then to do your obs, there's a cannula in your hand or arm with who knows what going through it (obviously they tell you, but good luck remembering) and the presence of death isn't that far away. You aren't well and you really need to sleep, but again, good luck. So no, you aren't being unreasonable to feel uncomfortable and it's not surprising that discomfort is fixed on this particular nurse. You might even be noticing things more because you've won Hospital Lottery and been put on a nice, quiet bay rather than one seething with Chatty Cathys. But remember, the nurse is there for you and your bay mates and she's keeping you safe. Try to find an angle where you can't see her and close your eyes.

Much, much better you have somebody watching over you than what happened to me in the middle of the night when I was in hospital: A very old lady got out of her bed and I awoke with her face in mine. I was in such a deep sleep. When I awoke, I didn’t know where I was or who the person was. It was so frightening.

Nope I wouldn’t like it. I’m an inpatient loads In hospital and the only time I sleep is when the curtains are closed. If someone was watching me I wouldn’t sleep.

I was in ICU a few years ago after major surgery and I had my own nurse at night who literally sat at the end of my bed. If I moved at all he immediately jumped up and asked me if I was ok!
It felt very strange but I did feel very cared for. The surgery was only 5 weeks after my cancer diagnosis and I was terrified.
When he stood at the side of my bed it felt like I was at the bottom of a well and was looking down at me from a great distance.
I blame that on the vast amounts of morphine I was on!!

God, it sounds really difficult to me. I would find being watched really hard. I had sleep problems at one point and was supposed to sleep while being monitored at a sleep clinic, and I just couldn’t get to sleep!

I’m a nurse and have to do this although with the elderly but can completely understand! We’d never want to make anyone feel uncomfortable, you’ll know it’s for safety reasons especially with seizures so I know you don’t need telling that that’s the reason. On my ward, we group the patients most confused or at risk of falls together so we can bay tag where possible which is high supervision but we also do the same when anyone’s got brain injury or prone to seizures but I do understand it’s out of the ordinary to have someone watch you sleeping

In all seriousness though, it’s always worth asking the question. She may absolutely need to be there as additional safety and monitoring, but she may also not need to be there in such an intense way and doesn’t realise how disruptive it is to your rest.

I laughed out loud at the duck comment 🤣

Being watched would seem weird to me to, however the nurse is probably just staring into middle distance for now and thinking about their shopping list.

Surely though as you say yourself, you’re ‘there to be monitored’…
That’s not to say it isn’t a difficult situation and might make you feel weird, but then my experience of hospitals is that most of things they do to patients to test them or make them better are the sorts of things, given the chance, you’d rather not do: having bloods taken, endoscopies, catheters, MRIs, nil by mouth, drugs, surgery, etc., etc. Medics can do incredible things, but they are yet to invent a medical procedure that is enjoyable or even particularly comfortable.

It’s not like it’s a big brother situation she’s not watching you because she’s bored or something. you are getting the care that is required in your case that’s a nurse who is sitting up all night for you all. some patients get left alone whilst nurses are seeing to other patients. I didn’t say you were being ungrateful I was saying be grateful that a nurse is available.

It is an uncomfortable feeling but it is necessary. I hope you get some answers.