On TV, it seems like someone in a coma wakes up right away, looks around, and is able to think and talk normally.
But in real life, this rarely happens. When coming out of a coma, a person probably will be confused and only slowly respond to what's going on. It will take time for the person to start feeling better.
Whether someone fully returns to normal after being in a coma depends on what caused the coma and how badly the brain may have been hurt. Sometimes people who come out of comas are just as they were before — they can remember what happened to them before the coma and can do everything they used to do. Other people may need therapy to relearn basic things like tying their shoes, eating with a fork or spoon , or learning to walk all over again.
They also may have problems with speaking or remembering things. Over time and with the help of therapists, however, many people who have been in a coma can make a lot of progress. They may not be exactly like they were before the coma, but they can do many things and enjoy life with their family and friends.
Larger text size Large text size Regular text size. What Can Cause a Coma? The year-old woman said: 'For some reason 60 years kept running through my head, like I was years-old.
I could tell I was in the hospital because of the room and I had a neck brace on, so I tried to stand up to walk to a mirror and realised I couldn't walk. I didn't know what to do or how to find out what happened so my third bright idea was to look at the back of my hands to see if they'd aged a lot. After seeing that they looked about the same, she decided to go back to sleep. I knew there was nothing I could do and was tired, so I just decided to go back to sleep.
User l2ob, who was in a coma for three weeks due to a traumatic brain injury, wrote: 'I don't remember waking up. I actually don't remember the whole first week and a half after waking up, so I only go off of how people tell me I was. I guess it made me paranoid during that time? During the day I was having loving and warm hallucinations while my family, close friends and loved ones were around me during visiting hours. But when they had to leave my visions because very dark and completely unbelievable however, to me, they were extremely convincing.
I'm talking genuinely convincing things that were happening to me. To the point where I still question if maybe it genuinely did happen to me.
For weeks after I had awful nightmares, really really graphic stuff and some very very emotive nightmares. In a heartbreaking story, Reddit user Schlike, aged 17, told the thread about their experience of waking up from a coma following a house fire when they were six. Their brother died in the blaze. They said: 'I think I was in a coma for about a month. I remember going to bed the night before the fire happened in the room I was sleeping in at night. I remember getting this box of letters wishing me well and had no idea the amount of time I had missed.
The Reddit user said they had some 10, letters from well-wishers in their town, and claimed the family had even made it onto the Pope John Paul II's personal prayer list. The views expressed in the contents above are those of our users and do not necessarily reflect the views of MailOnline.
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Waking up was the most painful moment of my life, and I just started crying and then couldn't even cry it hurt so bad. I think that had more to do with injuries sustained to my neck and head than the coma, but that is what it was like.
After an hour, my body was used to the pain and I was totally normal, albeit very weak, hungry, and thirsty. I used context clues to figure out I was in the hospital. It was frightening. After about five minutes, I decided to go back to sleep.
I was very upset to learn this after the fact. Meanwhile, in my dreams, we had a champagne brunch. It was excellent. I was also a superhero who could fly and fought my enemies on the rims of volcanoes. And then I woke up, and not only could I not fly but my buddy Oprah had betrayed me into retirement. I was crushed. It was confusing and horrible at the same time. When I woke up, I thought the nurses were torturing me and that I needed to escape.
I started hallucinating a lot and couldn't even understand that I was in the hospital. Another one I had was about the nurses encasing me in concrete. I was paralyzed, so that's just how my brain processed it. I was aware of people talking to me and being with me, I just couldn't communicate, and my brain processed everything in this weird dream world.
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