The consultant visited and said there is no cure, only medications that ease the hallucinations but the medications come with side effects. That said, I would like to share what has been happening. After reading this - my real question is, does anyone know what drug might be offered in the future and what the side effects might be, please?
Probably about last September, mum came to my room to tell me that my 24 year old daughter was fast asleep on her computer chair (which had transformed into a bed, at the same time, what mum was seeing was all blue. This happened on and off occasionally, with stray cats, dogs, girls, boys all coming and going. Consultant said that whilst these hallucinations were not distressing it was best to do nothing (to avoid side effects of medicines).
Gradually they have got worse. This week was particularly bad culminating at 6.00pm yesterday afternoon when she was watching Eggheads on TV. She came through to say that I had to come and see them all because there were so many of them and it would be awful if they all left at once.
Apparently, in mum's eyes, there were three people sitting on the computer chair, three on her armchair, many on her bed, some on the computer table and others just standing in what space was left. They were all talking amongst themselves, discussing the rights and wrongs of the contestants answers on Eggheads.
Until yesterday I had always been able to make these people go away, by gently moving a cushion, or sitting on a chair, and mum would b amazed that they had gone and would gradually accept that they were the "blue people" that she had discussed with the consultat. But yesterday nothing worked. It wasn't that she couldn't understand why I couldn't see them, (we never got to that stage), it was that she couldn't understand why I was trying to stand in the middle of them when there was no room to do so. Eventually she got very distressed and put on her coat to leave the house.
She never did leave the house. I played the "stay calm" game and after a couple of hours she finally took off her coat and had a little tea. The people seemed to go of their own accord. She does understand that they could not have been real, she came to that conclusion herself, but that leads, of course, to the understanding that she is going mad. Her thoughts, not what anyone would say to her. At bedtime she asked where my daughter was. I said she had just, just, gone to bed. Apparently she had been asleep in mother's room again.
As I say, I thought I would share this with you. I just have to handle it as best I can.
Nightowl
Probably about last September, mum came to my room to tell me that my 24 year old daughter was fast asleep on her computer chair (which had transformed into a bed, at the same time, what mum was seeing was all blue. This happened on and off occasionally, with stray cats, dogs, girls, boys all coming and going. Consultant said that whilst these hallucinations were not distressing it was best to do nothing (to avoid side effects of medicines).
Gradually they have got worse. This week was particularly bad culminating at 6.00pm yesterday afternoon when she was watching Eggheads on TV. She came through to say that I had to come and see them all because there were so many of them and it would be awful if they all left at once.
Apparently, in mum's eyes, there were three people sitting on the computer chair, three on her armchair, many on her bed, some on the computer table and others just standing in what space was left. They were all talking amongst themselves, discussing the rights and wrongs of the contestants answers on Eggheads.
Until yesterday I had always been able to make these people go away, by gently moving a cushion, or sitting on a chair, and mum would b amazed that they had gone and would gradually accept that they were the "blue people" that she had discussed with the consultat. But yesterday nothing worked. It wasn't that she couldn't understand why I couldn't see them, (we never got to that stage), it was that she couldn't understand why I was trying to stand in the middle of them when there was no room to do so. Eventually she got very distressed and put on her coat to leave the house.
She never did leave the house. I played the "stay calm" game and after a couple of hours she finally took off her coat and had a little tea. The people seemed to go of their own accord. She does understand that they could not have been real, she came to that conclusion herself, but that leads, of course, to the understanding that she is going mad. Her thoughts, not what anyone would say to her. At bedtime she asked where my daughter was. I said she had just, just, gone to bed. Apparently she had been asleep in mother's room again.
As I say, I thought I would share this with you. I just have to handle it as best I can.
Nightowl