My mum was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s in February.
Yesterday afternoon she started talking. The same things over and over and over. Telling us how to put sugar in the sugar bowl, then the name of the music she was listening to followed by an explaination of who they are (David Bowie), then explaining that she knows “things” and telling us a list of the things she knows. Dad took her to the hospital at about 3am to see if they’d do an MRI or something, the rang a few hours later to say they don’t know what to do but can we come and collect her as she can’t stay in hospital When we went to get her, she was still talking but also now every touch/bump in the road on the drive home/move she makes she reacts like she’s frightenEd or hurt even though she is neither.
Now,17 hours after it started, she’s still going. Talking about anything and everything that pops into her head. We tried getting her into bed and leaving her alone, she just starts calling/talking to us even though we are downstairs.
It seems like she just NEEDS to talk, constantly, like she cannot stand silence.
Can anyone relate to this? Is there anything we can do?
Yesterday afternoon she started talking. The same things over and over and over. Telling us how to put sugar in the sugar bowl, then the name of the music she was listening to followed by an explaination of who they are (David Bowie), then explaining that she knows “things” and telling us a list of the things she knows. Dad took her to the hospital at about 3am to see if they’d do an MRI or something, the rang a few hours later to say they don’t know what to do but can we come and collect her as she can’t stay in hospital When we went to get her, she was still talking but also now every touch/bump in the road on the drive home/move she makes she reacts like she’s frightenEd or hurt even though she is neither.
Now,17 hours after it started, she’s still going. Talking about anything and everything that pops into her head. We tried getting her into bed and leaving her alone, she just starts calling/talking to us even though we are downstairs.
It seems like she just NEEDS to talk, constantly, like she cannot stand silence.
Can anyone relate to this? Is there anything we can do?