Hi,
Both my mum (mainly my mum) and I care for my dad who is in early-mid stages. At the moment, we are having massive issues with anger, he is so angry all the time ranting and paranoid/delusional. Hev regularly takes it out on my mum to the point where we have now had some violent outbursts. He is always very sorry afterwards/is very confused about the whole thing and he has always refused to take medication apart from his Alzheimer tablets. I have had a very bleak chat with him where I have told him we need to stabilise his mood if we can, we need to try otherwise he cannot continue to live with my mum and he has agreed to try.
I have arranged a GP appointment for us on Monday and I have told him I will come with him so we can discuss a mood stabiliser as its becoming unsafe for him to be with my mum and also his moods are so interchangeable its horrible for him also (I understand this is sadly part and parcel of the disease to a degree).
I am wondering, has anyone had this happen and if so what medication have you tried that worked/didn't work? Obviously I will leave it to the GP also but from what I am reading some of the more obvious drugs and even those mentioned on this website appear to make things worse.
If anyone has any positive (or negative) experiences of the use of mood stabilisers that they could share I would be so grateful. I am very worried about my mum.
Thank you
Both my mum (mainly my mum) and I care for my dad who is in early-mid stages. At the moment, we are having massive issues with anger, he is so angry all the time ranting and paranoid/delusional. Hev regularly takes it out on my mum to the point where we have now had some violent outbursts. He is always very sorry afterwards/is very confused about the whole thing and he has always refused to take medication apart from his Alzheimer tablets. I have had a very bleak chat with him where I have told him we need to stabilise his mood if we can, we need to try otherwise he cannot continue to live with my mum and he has agreed to try.
I have arranged a GP appointment for us on Monday and I have told him I will come with him so we can discuss a mood stabiliser as its becoming unsafe for him to be with my mum and also his moods are so interchangeable its horrible for him also (I understand this is sadly part and parcel of the disease to a degree).
I am wondering, has anyone had this happen and if so what medication have you tried that worked/didn't work? Obviously I will leave it to the GP also but from what I am reading some of the more obvious drugs and even those mentioned on this website appear to make things worse.
If anyone has any positive (or negative) experiences of the use of mood stabilisers that they could share I would be so grateful. I am very worried about my mum.
Thank you