This past week has been terrible I'm feeling like all the stuffing has been knocked out of me
My poor Mom is sectioned in a psychiatric assessment ward, I noticed last Tuesday evening when I visited that she was walking stooped over and shuffling which is totally not like her, she has good mobility always on the go. I mentioned it to a nurse because I was worried it might be from the Risperidone that she had recently started taking, the nurse said she would mention it to the doctor and I went home.
I had only been home a short while when I received a call from the ward to say that Mom had been pushed over by another patient. Mom was in agony couldn't stand or walk, an ambulance had been called and she had to go to A&E, they thought she had broken her hip.
I went with her to the hospital, after they did X-rays they said there was no breaks, Mom was sent back to the ward still in agony, we got back at 4.30am.
The ward returned Mom back to A&E the next morning beacause Mom was still in really bad pain, still couldn't walk and had high blood pressure of 217, went back in with Mom hours later they moved her into CDU she was there till she was sent back to the ward in the early hours of Friday morning with painkillers.
Mom is walking but again still in pain but thankfully not as bad as it was, I'm really concerned because when I visited tonight she is again walking all bent over almost like she can't lift her head up and shuffling along hardly able to walk, her voice sounds different, her eyes look droopy, she couldn't even lift her head to look at me, she wasn't even asking me to go home which she has done for the every day for the last 7 weeks!
She isn't eating, has pains in her stomache, I had mentioned to the nurses she had really dark coloured urine in hospital which she usually has with a UTI, so I thought she might have one but they didn't think so, tonight she went to the toilet while I was there and her urine was still whiskey coloured and smelt bad, but the nurses said it was because she hasn't been to the toilet a lot
Im sorry for the long post, I really would appreciate any advice I'm so worried about her, could Risperidone cause her to be bent over and shuffling like this?
My poor Mom is sectioned in a psychiatric assessment ward, I noticed last Tuesday evening when I visited that she was walking stooped over and shuffling which is totally not like her, she has good mobility always on the go. I mentioned it to a nurse because I was worried it might be from the Risperidone that she had recently started taking, the nurse said she would mention it to the doctor and I went home.
I had only been home a short while when I received a call from the ward to say that Mom had been pushed over by another patient. Mom was in agony couldn't stand or walk, an ambulance had been called and she had to go to A&E, they thought she had broken her hip.
I went with her to the hospital, after they did X-rays they said there was no breaks, Mom was sent back to the ward still in agony, we got back at 4.30am.
The ward returned Mom back to A&E the next morning beacause Mom was still in really bad pain, still couldn't walk and had high blood pressure of 217, went back in with Mom hours later they moved her into CDU she was there till she was sent back to the ward in the early hours of Friday morning with painkillers.
Mom is walking but again still in pain but thankfully not as bad as it was, I'm really concerned because when I visited tonight she is again walking all bent over almost like she can't lift her head up and shuffling along hardly able to walk, her voice sounds different, her eyes look droopy, she couldn't even lift her head to look at me, she wasn't even asking me to go home which she has done for the every day for the last 7 weeks!
She isn't eating, has pains in her stomache, I had mentioned to the nurses she had really dark coloured urine in hospital which she usually has with a UTI, so I thought she might have one but they didn't think so, tonight she went to the toilet while I was there and her urine was still whiskey coloured and smelt bad, but the nurses said it was because she hasn't been to the toilet a lot
Im sorry for the long post, I really would appreciate any advice I'm so worried about her, could Risperidone cause her to be bent over and shuffling like this?
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