Mum started on Risperidone 8 weeks ago and I thought we had a break through. Unfortunately the screaming/shouting/banging episodes have started again, everyday for the last week lasting 1-2 hours. Mums neighbours have had enough I think but I don't know what to do. Mum doesn't know she is doing it and cannot think why she might be doing it. She says she is not in any kind of pain . The confusion seems to have got much worse over the last 2 weeks and she is struggling to string a sentence together or one that makes sense at least and she has completely forgotten my Dads side of the family. When I mention my Dad ( he passed away 9 years ago) she doesn't know who I am talking about , I have to call him by his first name.
Mum is also getting angry when I say things like we need to take your shoes off as your ankles are swelling up and this week she got really angry with me as she was taken to the doctors by her carer for a water sample to be taken which she refused to do. She says she isn't happy that she is getting told what to do and when and what not to do. It's like another person , her face changes and she looks quite vacant and scary.
I was told before mum started on Risperidone that if it didn't work then there was nothing else that could be done.
Ideally I would love to have a live in carer but they are so expensive and I have broached the subject of mum going to live in a home but she gets angry and says she will run away.
What do I do? Neither myself nor my brother have room for her to live at our houses, not that it would work anyway as I have 3 children.
Please can someone advise me how to proceed, I don't know what questions to ask of whom or what answers there could be and I'm struggling to cope at the moment.
Mum is also getting angry when I say things like we need to take your shoes off as your ankles are swelling up and this week she got really angry with me as she was taken to the doctors by her carer for a water sample to be taken which she refused to do. She says she isn't happy that she is getting told what to do and when and what not to do. It's like another person , her face changes and she looks quite vacant and scary.
I was told before mum started on Risperidone that if it didn't work then there was nothing else that could be done.
Ideally I would love to have a live in carer but they are so expensive and I have broached the subject of mum going to live in a home but she gets angry and says she will run away.
What do I do? Neither myself nor my brother have room for her to live at our houses, not that it would work anyway as I have 3 children.
Please can someone advise me how to proceed, I don't know what questions to ask of whom or what answers there could be and I'm struggling to cope at the moment.