Does anyone have experience or advice 're dealing with obsession in someone with ftd?
You may have seen from other posts that my husband has sore on both forearms that he is constantly picking at with scissors or tweezers. He is convinced these have been caused by flea bites from our cat. He believes that the fleas have burrowed into his skin and he has pulled some out. I have seen no evidence of fleas on the cat or the furniture and nobody else has been bitten and my grandson often plays on the floor when he's here. I have treated the cat and sprayed his chair twice. Every morning as soon as he gets up he inspects the cushion on his chair and picks off any black bits that he finds. He then inspects his white dressing gown. Every time he has an itch he tells me he is being bitten but there is no evidence if bites.
This has been going on for months now. The doctor has given him a cream to wash with and to use as a moisturiser and she told him to stop picking! They began to improve but he is now picking again with a vengeance so they are looking very red again. He had a course of antibiotics too.
Every time I tell him to stop picking he says it's not hurting me and it's his body. This afternoon I'd had enough so I said well if it's your body don't expect me to care and to keep putting your cream on! I know it was the wrong thing to say but I'm so sick of seeing him constantly picking. He got upset and then started acting the victim which is what he always did before he was diagnosed and we argued about something. I was upset but vented my feelings on the washing up!
Well I've just put the cream on AGAIN!
I've talked to the GP several times and she just says it's very common. I wonder if there's any medication that would stop humbling so obsessed and stop him picking. I'm desperately in need of a break but I'm worried a care home won't take him for respite if he has these sores.
Any advice please.
You may have seen from other posts that my husband has sore on both forearms that he is constantly picking at with scissors or tweezers. He is convinced these have been caused by flea bites from our cat. He believes that the fleas have burrowed into his skin and he has pulled some out. I have seen no evidence of fleas on the cat or the furniture and nobody else has been bitten and my grandson often plays on the floor when he's here. I have treated the cat and sprayed his chair twice. Every morning as soon as he gets up he inspects the cushion on his chair and picks off any black bits that he finds. He then inspects his white dressing gown. Every time he has an itch he tells me he is being bitten but there is no evidence if bites.
This has been going on for months now. The doctor has given him a cream to wash with and to use as a moisturiser and she told him to stop picking! They began to improve but he is now picking again with a vengeance so they are looking very red again. He had a course of antibiotics too.
Every time I tell him to stop picking he says it's not hurting me and it's his body. This afternoon I'd had enough so I said well if it's your body don't expect me to care and to keep putting your cream on! I know it was the wrong thing to say but I'm so sick of seeing him constantly picking. He got upset and then started acting the victim which is what he always did before he was diagnosed and we argued about something. I was upset but vented my feelings on the washing up!
Well I've just put the cream on AGAIN!
I've talked to the GP several times and she just says it's very common. I wonder if there's any medication that would stop humbling so obsessed and stop him picking. I'm desperately in need of a break but I'm worried a care home won't take him for respite if he has these sores.
Any advice please.