Have you ever been tied on a hospital bed?

This is quite a traumatic experience and I would appreciate hearing of yours. I was tied up ( the kind like a diaper with ties that go underneath the bed and you can't get up even for your need to go to the toilet). I went through this after an attack of epilepsy and for my protection the nurse said, I was tied for three everlasting days in that position because they thought I had tried to get up which was not the case. I sleep with my feet hanging at the end of the bed. And everyone knows how horrible that can be when you need to go and you have to hold it until someone comes and they don't... The result is extremely humiliating and some employees are not very nice in handling you. I wouldn't wish that to happen to my worst ennemy!
Have you ever had to go through this ?
Thank you very much for sharing.

As a doctor, I can tell you that the only reason to do this is for the protection of the patient or others. We have to fill out a lot of paperwork to authorize it, and the order has to be renewed every 24 hours to prevent a person from being tied up indefinitely without being evaluated.
If you were mentally alert enough to voice your objections to being restrained clearly, the nurse had no right to keep you tied up. I have treated people with epilepsy, and never once had them tied up. (The only people I have ordered to be restrained were in states of delerium that caused them to behave in uncontrolled and dangerous ways.)
Although I don't advocate frivolous lawsuits against hospitals, you may want to consult with an attorney. Forcibly restraining a mentally competent person against their stated wishes is a crime, or at the least medical neglect.

I SO SORRY THAT YOU HAD TO GO THROUGH THIS. I HAVEN'T HAD IT DONE BUT HAVE SEEN OTHERS.

Yea. I've been tied to a hospital bed multiple times. Never for three consecutive days though. It sucks. A lot. I'd rather not go into descriptions of my condition. It makes me angry. I hope neither of us go through that again.

I've never been restrained in a bed, although as a nurse I have used restraints with patients for various reasons. Although I must say as a professional I would have objected in your case, and wouldn't have blamed you if you had. We had to have a doctors order to use restraints, and I don't recall ever using them on patient with epilepsy, or on a lucid patient for that matter. The bed rails should have provided you plenty of protection from falling from the bed in the case you had a seizure, and the last thing you should do with a seizing patient is restrain them in any manner. So your restraints were inappropriate on several levels and I fully agree you should feel outraged. For starters, you should have been asked to consent to them, and had the option to not use them and sign a release in the event you were injured. I can't imagine them being needed during the day, when there should be ample staff on duty to assist you, and at night I'm not even sure they would be justifiable. If I were you, I would take this matter up with the hospital adminstration and a lawyer, and if your doctor agreed to this treatment I would certainly change doctors. What you describe is maltreatment, and should never be allowed to happen again. I don't know what their explainations are, but it is not acceptable medical practice to restrain a lucid patient and force them into that sort of situation.