Hi All
Mum since being admitted to the assessment ward of the local hospital has become much worse.
When admitted she was extremely agitated, but was continent, could talk (not sensibly, but understandable words), could walk and her posture was OK for her age and condition
Now, she has to be wheeled in an armchair, is wearing incontinence pads and and he leaning forwards, last week she listing to one side and another day she was falling backwards.
I am told she is still very agitated.
The medication she is now prescibed I think is Diazepam family. It seems to me as if she is, as the saying goes drugged up to the eyeballs. If this is the case and it is to give Mum some relief from the torture she was suffering, then I suppose it is the worse of the two evils.
Does anyone have any experience of this and did their relative eventually get weaned off the high dose of seditives to a more appropriate dose?
Panorama programme?
Mum had been taking quietiapine for apporx 18 months, but then refused medication and so was prescribed risperidone, which she had for approx 10 days -2 weeks and everything went pear shaped.
Mum has always been anxious, but after risperidone it was chronic and things didn't improve after stopping this med. even with the introduction of Diazepam.
I feel Mum has been given more medication than enough now and I would like some way fo telling if her great deterioration is the illness or the medication?
Thanks for listening, reading?
Alfjess
Mum since being admitted to the assessment ward of the local hospital has become much worse.
When admitted she was extremely agitated, but was continent, could talk (not sensibly, but understandable words), could walk and her posture was OK for her age and condition
Now, she has to be wheeled in an armchair, is wearing incontinence pads and and he leaning forwards, last week she listing to one side and another day she was falling backwards.
I am told she is still very agitated.
The medication she is now prescibed I think is Diazepam family. It seems to me as if she is, as the saying goes drugged up to the eyeballs. If this is the case and it is to give Mum some relief from the torture she was suffering, then I suppose it is the worse of the two evils.
Does anyone have any experience of this and did their relative eventually get weaned off the high dose of seditives to a more appropriate dose?
Panorama programme?
Mum had been taking quietiapine for apporx 18 months, but then refused medication and so was prescribed risperidone, which she had for approx 10 days -2 weeks and everything went pear shaped.
Mum has always been anxious, but after risperidone it was chronic and things didn't improve after stopping this med. even with the introduction of Diazepam.
I feel Mum has been given more medication than enough now and I would like some way fo telling if her great deterioration is the illness or the medication?
Thanks for listening, reading?
Alfjess