{"id":4901,"date":"2025-04-08T10:08:12","date_gmt":"2025-04-08T10:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/4901\/"},"modified":"2025-04-08T10:08:12","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T10:08:12","slug":"woman-who-was-in-a-coma-for-18-days-reveals-chilling-sensation-she-experienced-while-unconscious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/4901\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman who was in a coma for 18 days reveals chilling sensation she experienced while unconscious"},"content":{"rendered":"

A woman who was put in a medically-induced coma for 18 days has revealed what it really feels like, including whether she could hear anything and if she experienced time at all.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Beffy, from South Wales, also described the ‘deep state of psychosis’ she experienced when she came back around in a viral X\/Twitter<\/a> post that has garnered nearly 18 million views at the time of writing.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The 30-year-old, who was diagnosed with Crohn’s Disease in 2014, wrote: ‘Lots of people have questions about being in a coma and I have absolutely no issue with answering any of them.’\u00a0<\/p>\n

The first misconception she addressed was that being in a coma feels like ‘being asleep’, with Beffy explaining: ‘My mind was active and I fully believed I was in Australia and I was panicking in my head because of the spiders.’\u00a0<\/p>\n

She explained that this was strange considering Beffy had never travelled to the continent.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Beffy shared that she kept ‘experiencing seeing bright lights whilst in my coma and they hurt my brain’, adding that she is now ‘triggered’ by harsh lighting.\u00a0<\/p>\n

‘I thought I was going to die,’ Beffy continued, while recalling being ‘reintubated and induced into my second coma’ after her lungs began failing.\u00a0<\/p>\n

‘It was like walking up a steep hill but I couldn’t breathe at all,’ she said, adding it was the ‘scariest thing I’ve ever experienced’.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"(Stock <\/p>\n

(Stock image)\u00a0A woman who was put in a medically-induced coma for 18 days has revealed what it really feels like, including whether she could hear anything and if she experienced time at all<\/p>\n

\"Beffy, <\/p>\n

Beffy, from South Wales, also described the ‘deep state of psychosis’ she experienced when she came back around in a viral X\/ Twitter post that has garnered nearly 18 million views at the time of writing<\/p>\n

When she was brought back from the coma, Beffy was in a ‘deep state of psychosis’ that was marked by a number of frightening hallucinations – including the appearance of a ‘creepy figure standing behind my bed’.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Beffy imagined that the doctors and nurses treating her were ‘taking me underground to perform rituals on me’ and that they were ‘getting off with each other’.\u00a0<\/p>\n

‘I thought they had taken me to Morrisons, to a car showroom, to a bowling alley,’ she continued. ‘I thought the nurses were smuggling in alcohol to drink while on shift.\u00a0<\/p>\n

‘It was wild.’\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Beffy later admitted she was blown away by the reaction to her tweet while encouraging X users to ask her any other questions they might have – noting nothing is ‘off limits’.\u00a0<\/p>\n

She clarified that she didn’t experience ‘time whilst in my coma’ before adding her second time felt like ‘five minutes’ when, in reality, she was out for a week.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Beffy also shared: ‘I couldn’t feel anything sensory. I was catheterised, so didn’t need to pee.’\u00a0<\/p>\n

In the comments section of her tweet, which racked up over 225,000 likes, Beffy later explained she was placed in a medically-induced coma after she ‘developed sepsis’ as a result of taking the wrong medication for Crohn’s Disease.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"\" \"When <\/p>\n

When she was brought back from the coma, Beffy was in a ‘deep state of psychosis’ that was marked by a number of frightening hallucinations – including the appearance of a ‘creepy figure standing behind my bed’<\/p>\n

‘I have Crohn’s Disease, have done for 11 years, and the medication I was taking was not working for me,’ Beffy wrote. ‘This led to my bowel perforating and I developed sepsis.’\u00a0<\/p>\n

Beffy runs a blogpost called ‘Beffy with the Bad Belly’ where she shares her experiences living with Crohn’s Disease – including being rushed to hospital after she ‘collapsed a few days into January…when attempting to go to the toilet’.\u00a0<\/p>\n

She also opened up about the relief of getting an accurate diagnosis despite struggling with ‘stomach problems’ for most of her life – with\u00a0 Beffy writing that her GP ‘tried to palm me off with IBS or constipation’ for two years.<\/p>\n

It was only after a private consultation with a gastroenterologist ‘and numerous MRIs, stool samples, and colonoscopies’ that Beffy received her Crohn’s Diagnosis in 2014.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Commenting under Beffy’s post, several X users praised her for discussing her time in a coma openly and honestly, with one person writing: ‘You are truly a warrior with [a] big heart.’\u00a0<\/p>\n

Others left more questions for her to answer, including whether Beffy still got her periods while she was in a coma.\u00a0<\/p>\n

‘No, I think due to all the trauma my body was going through, my periods stopped and, as of February this year, they’ve just come back.’\u00a0<\/p>\n

Another asked whether Beffy was able to ‘perform higher-level thinking’ in her comatose state or ‘was it more like you were in a dream where you just kind of react to the situation(s) your brain made up?’<\/p>\n

\"\" \"Commenting <\/p>\n

Commenting under Beffy’s post, several X users praised her for discussing her time in a coma openly and honestly<\/p>\n

The latter, Beffy confirmed.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Others who have been in a coma previously shared what it felt like on a Reddit thread that received over 6,000 responses.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Some people reported they had ‘no recollection of being in a coma’ at all, with one user writing: ‘I had a seizure and was in a medically induced coma for three days when I was 17.\u00a0<\/p>\n

‘To be honest I don\u2019t remember anything. I remember fading in and out of the anesthesia trying to pull my breathing tube out and and that my hands were restrained to the bed so I couldn\u2019t.\u00a0<\/p>\n

‘When I woke up and was coherent I couldn\u2019t recall anything from actually being in the coma. They had even moved me to a hospital over 100 miles away. It was really just nothing but black.\u00a0<\/p>\n

‘No dreams, no lights, no voices, just nothing.’<\/p>\n

Another person shared that they were in a coma for 11 days after suffering a severe brain injury.\u00a0<\/p>\n

‘I don’t remember being in a coma or waking up from a coma,’ they continued. ‘I lost several years of memories prior to the coma and my brain didn’t really start to “retain” information again until six weeks after I cam out of the coma.’\u00a0<\/p>\n

However, a third Reddit users revealed she ‘had nightmares the entire time’ as a result of the ‘medicine they were using to knock me out’.\u00a0<\/p>\n

She recalled how she dreamed ‘I had been kidnapped by a nurse and was a victim of sex trafficking’ or how ‘my drug addict aunt had her friends rob my sister and her husband’.\u00a0<\/p>\n

‘I thought I was constantly being grabbed by people under my bed.’\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

What is Crohn’s Disease?\u00a0\u00a0 <\/p>\n

Crohn’s disease is an agonising digestive condition that blights the lives of 115,000 people in Britain and as many as 1.6 million in the US.<\/p>\n

Symptoms include abdominal pain, diarrhoea and potentially dangerous weight loss. Magician Dynamo is a famous sufferer.<\/p>\n

Eight out of ten patients will need a part of the intestine removed as it becomes so damaged it prevents digestion.<\/p>\n

Its cause is still not known and there is currently no cure but some with the condition have considered their diet to be a factor.<\/p>\n

However, bacteria is already known to play a major role in causing Crohn\u2019s disease, in addition to genetics and diet.<\/p>\n

Conventional treatment is with drugs that suppress the immune system’s production of a protein called TNF, which causes inflammation.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman who was put in a medically-induced coma for 18 days has revealed what it really feels…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4902,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[186,92,368,105,1797,2511,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-4901","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health","8":"tag-australia","9":"tag-dailymail","10":"tag-femail","11":"tag-health","12":"tag-morrisons","13":"tag-reddit","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114301796912173823","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4901\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}