Has anyone self discharged from hospital?

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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

It depends on individual circumstances obviously, but I would definitely advise you stay there.

That said, I can't judge as I discharged myself after having my 4th baby.
I'd just gone through a traumatic delivery in the ambulance (he shot out feet first).
The paediatrician had examined my baby and said his facial features resembled Down's.
Baby was taken straight to special care unit on arrival.
I just wanted to get back home to my other children. I think I was in a state of shock.
The midwives encouraged me to stay (I'd just had stitches for a slight tear), but I was completely distraught.
They were really nice about it. Gave me the forms to sign and called me a taxi. This all happened within 2 hours of me arriving at the hospital.

I didn’t discharge myself but after my second born I lost 2 liters of blood during labour and my body wasn’t recovering from it . I had been in the hospital for 3 nights and wasn’t sleeping at all . I had my newborn with me as I was nursing . My husband was at home with our first born and I missed them terrible . I cried my eyes out and asked if I could recover at home as I would sleep better . At first they said no but then they came back to me and agreed I could go home overnight as long as I came back to the hospital during the day . It really helped me and I’m so thankful they allowed that . It’s worth asking if anything can be done .

Don't discharge yourself. I had a thyroid storm over 4 years ago and nearly didn't survive. Spent 5 weeks in an induced coma in ICU then another 3 months on rehab wards learning how to walk, talk, eat etc again. In ICU I had to be resuscitated and ended up having a tracheostomy.

Please stay and get treatment. The alternative is unthinkable!

Yeah twice after each baby.. it’s not prison.

They checked the babies and wanted me to stay to check stitches after like 2 days I just said no thanks and packed up my shit. A midwife appeared the next day at my house.

No drama.

DD when she was at uni self discharged, she was admitted with uncontrollable seizures (she already had a diagnosis of epilepsy), DD spent three days hooked up to an EEG to measure her brainwaves so could not have a shower and was behind on Uni work.

She was disconnected from the EEG in the morning but spent hours waiting around for a doctor to go over what happened so she just discharged herself and then went through outpatients the following week. She lived with uncontrolled seizures for nearly a year so there was no point in wasting a hospital bed and her missing uni.

Ask to be prescribed a sleeping tablet for tonight OP. On the few occasions I've been in hospital I've done this (apart from when I had a new baby) and it does help.
Everything is so much worse when you haven't slept.

Hope you get well soon

Thanks all, I'm going to stick it out