I had sepsis AMA

[Thankyouplease]

There seems to be a report of someone dying from this every day in the news. A lot of people don’t know the signs or symptoms.

So did I - a week in intensive care and it was touch-and-go.

💐 from a fellow survivor and well done for trying to raise awareness.

Me and DS both had it after his prem birth. I only found out because I read his notes or I wouldn't of known. Similarly Dsil only found out dneice had it at a follow up GP appointment, hers was due to a urine infection she was only 1 at the time.

I've heard hospitals don't like admitting it in this day and age but unsure how true this is but this was 2 separate hospitals (Darlington and James Cook)

How did you end up with up? And did hospital/the GP inform you what you had?

I'm terrified of sepsis. I can't say I had it because I don't know and I was never hospitalised so unlikely but I had a chest infection that wouldn't clear and I felt dreadful with it. Temperature going up and down, felt like I was dying.
I went back and forth to the GP who told me 'just a virus' in the end I ended up with diarrhoea and went back to the GP who grudgingly took a blood test but said the runs were unrelated.
Next day I had a phone call saying to get back ASAP where I was given 2 different types of antibiotics.
I often wonder if it was or if it would have been fatal had it been?
Anyway my question is what would you suggest if I ever felt that ill again?
The diagnosis was pneumonia eventually.

I’d had ongoing ‘issues’ for a while but wasn’t getting anywhere with my GP. One day I started to feel very very unwell. Within the space of a few hours I was freezing cold and couldn’t get warm no matter what I did and had a horrible sense that something was seriously wrong. I phoned 111 who asked me to get to A&E but I wasn’t able to move. They sent an ambulance and it went from there. I wasn’t actually told I had Sepsis it just came up in conversation with one of the consultants one day which stuck me as really odd. It was almost as though they glossed over it. A lot of IV antibiotics, a big operation and 11 days in hospital and I survived. I now know that one of the recognised symptoms is ‘a sense of impending doom’ or feeling as though you might actually die and this is exactly what I experienced.
Unfortunately I lost a close family member to sepsis a year later.

Other symptoms are:

Not needing a wee all day

A very low or high temperature

A meningitis like rash that doesn’t disappear under pressure

Confusion and or slurred speech

Being very drowsy or difficult to wake

Swelling or redness around a cut or wound

There are so many symptoms that can be dismissed as something else which does make it quite hard to diagnose.
I’d advise everyone to make themselves aware of all of the symptoms and always ask a medical professional ‘could it be sepsis?’

I have had it too (during child birth) and I also had the 'I'm going to die' feeling. It disappeared instantly as soon as the antibiotics went in.

I had it after c section. I was at home and rang the hospital ward and explained the symptoms. They told me to come in with overnight things for us ‘just in case’ and when I got there they said before even examining me that I was being admitted. They put me on the spesis treatment pathway straight away. My trust is very hot on spesis.

I actually didn't know half those symptoms despite having and family having it so Thankyou for that OP.

I had the impending doom feeling I was deliriously begging DH to call a priest in for last rites and I'm 5 year lapsed .

I was on holiday this month and fell I grazed my hand badly within 9 hours I had infection red all around and a red line started travelling up my arm I knew immediately I needed antibiotics. I had lymp nodes removed in that arm a few years ago so knew I was not to get cuts on hand or arm. Antibiotics sorted me out. I knew what red line meant!

I had it too, following a bout of mastitis when my baby was 9 days old. I also had the ‘I feel like I’m going to die’ feeling, and didn’t know it was a thing until after I’d recovered and got home.
I had PTSD following it, it can affect you for a long time.

When you were at your worst, how aware were you of what was going on around you? (My Mum has sepsis and she was hallucinating badly at one point....)

@BatleyTownswomensGuild was your Mum put in an induced coma? I had sepsis and had terrible hallucinations but only when in an induced coma. They still haunt me five years on.

My DF had it twice. The hospital were obviously aware of the risks as there were posters and decals floor to ceiling saying consider is it sepsis?