Has anyone self discharged from hospital?

[ImanAccountant]

I'm in a ward with a woman who is snoring like a train, someone is being sick every 15 mins, someone's monitor is alarming, I can't cope.

My headphones are dead, I'm struggling so much at the moment.

The urge to throw something at the snoring woman is huge. I'm exhausted, I'm here for thyroid toxicity as I've been diagnosed with hyperthyroidism and I am fairly unwell, today is the best I've felt for a while fbh

Please don’t discharge yourself, you do need to be there.

Wards can be really challenging. Have you spoke to the nurses to see if there’s any chance you can be moved?

If not they should be able to find you some ear plugs for nighttime - they make a massive difference.

I have but I had recovered. I know how frustrating hospital is though, ugh, the noise! But if you need to be there you do need to be there. Try to stay if you can, this time of night is the worst

I feel your frustration! Start coughing really loudly
I was in hospital last month for 3 days, I thought I was going to jump out the 5th floor window

Can you ask the nurse for a sleeping pill?

Are you receiving treatment or tests at the hospital that can’t be done at home?
If you aren’t in hospital would you die or experience permanent damage?

@Luredbyapomegranate tbh I don't know. I'm being monitored on a machine for hr but I can do that at home.

I'm on medication 4 x a Shan but again I can do that at home. I asked earlier if I could leave and the doctor said if I dies at home the hospital would have left it's self open to liability if they didn't keep me in.

He also said I could develop heart failure from the hormone levels. But then said I could go home tomorrow morning if I wanted to

It wouldn't be too bad if it wasn't a bank holiday as I'm meant to be due a consultant review at the weekend but he's not in til Tuesday so I'd have to stay til then

You’d be very silly to self discharge. Ask your nurse for a sleeping pill or some earplugs, but please make sure you aren’t rude to the staff. Everyone I ever had self discharge when I worked in a hospital setting was breathtakingly rude to staff in the process.

I hope you feel better soon

@WhackingPhoenix I would never be rude to staff. I'm a nurse myself max. Never been a patient though and it is eye opening! I never hear this when I'm working

You're a nurse. Okay. What would you say to yourself if you were your patient?

@nocoolnamesleft let me find you some ear plugs or maybe a sleeping tablet and get a grip (in a nicer way)

Sometimes wards have those welcome pack things with earplugs. You could ask in the morning for sleeping pills and they’d have all day to sort them out. It doesn’t hurt to ask if you can be moved away from the snoring patient. I hate to share this (I’m a nurse) but sometimes if a patient makes a fuss/speaks up nicely but persistently we will accommodate them if possible. It’s also not too late at night to ask for earplugs, eye mask or anything else that might help :-)

[quote ImanAccountant]@nocoolnamesleft let me find you some ear plugs or maybe a sleeping tablet and get a grip (in a nicer way) [/quote]
Ok, well you know what to do..

I self discharged after having my daughter. Less than 24 hours after having a c section. The care was awful and actually damaging to myself and my daughter. 20 months on and it still affects me.

And, do ask about being moved, make a polite fuss as PP says. It’s sometimes possible - also the nurse card should help here, surely?!

I have asked for some ear plugs and got some plus an eye mask

@ImanAccountant

I have asked for some ear plugs and got some plus an eye mask

Excellent. Really hope that helps.

Can you ask if you could be discharged and return daily to be ambulatory emergency care unit or day unit? We do that for patients on IV antibiotics.

Has your pituitary been checked?

I discharged myself after having ds, had been in HDU for nearly 3 days & then dumped in a room on ante natal with no care so I asked my parents to bring the car seat, packed my bag & told them I was off, they tried to make me wait for the ward round but I told them I was going, my tablets turned up within 5 minutes & we were off. The midwife who supervised us leaving tried to have the contraception talk with me as we were walking out the door, I told her the only way I was coming back was to be sterilised. I never had to sign anything.

Yes - but because I was going to be kept in overnight simply because the pharmacy had yet to produce some mysterious medication... when I finally got someone to check that medication it was a/ an antibiotic that b/ I can't have anyway ... So they found a dr to suggest one I could have, agreed I could get it from my own pharmacy.. but wouldn't discharge me as the dr who had dealt with me earlier (and prescribed the ab i couldn't have) had said not to...

So I fucked off home.

In your situation, no, I wouldn't - hospital is shit when you feel like crap and theres some noisy bugger rattling away, but better annoyed and alive in a safe place than home and dead in comfort!

Yes. This filthy, stinking hospital in Cheltenham a totally moronic doctor, the smell was unbearable, they kept using the wrong notes, there was one nurse across 2 wards, blood smears on the furniture and generally disgusting and vile. I had gallstones bit walked out in great pain, flew home and had immediate surgery in a proper hospital. I feel nauseous even thinking of that place.

I have. It was after birth of DC. Nurse/midwife had said first thing in morning I was good to go but I was being given a big iron prescription and they wanted me to see dr before I went. It got to 9pm and i realised they werent going to get to me. It was too warm and was having to blow a fan in DC face to get them to bf, DH wasnt allowed to stay, so I self discharged. Mw & nurse made it clear my decision was not unreasonable!

No, but I kept trying to escape when I had Encephalitis and security had to capture me .

I got a bit of sleep. My thyroid ts4 is 67 and I have antibodies so my body is attacking my thyroid and causing all the symptoms I've had. Mental!

@WhackingPhoenix

You’d be very silly to self discharge. Ask your nurse for a sleeping pill or some earplugs, but please make sure you aren’t rude to the staff. Everyone I ever had self discharge when I worked in a hospital setting was breathtakingly rude to staff in the process.

I hope you feel better soon

Interesting, almost as though they were having a common experience prior to that.