Sudden onset dementia following a morphine overdose

Trishdud

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Oct 29, 2014
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In July the family went on holiday leaving mum in the care of the nhs. Sadly she received a morphine overdose that stopped her breathing and sent her into a coma. She now has dementia and its been so hard to see her normal one day and a person we no longer know the next day. I can't begin to tell about the terrible abuse she has given us, calling her granddaughter a prostitute for one thing? I'm devastated. Has anyone else experienced such a dramatic overnight change and how did you cope? Is it normal dementia behaviour to be so preoccupied with death and debauchary?
 

Onlyme

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Welcome to talking point.

To answer your question in our case yes to both. Mum tells me some dreadful things that everyone around her has done. I am a mass murderer and a prostitute in my spare time!
 

Trishdud

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Oct 29, 2014
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Welcome to talking point.

To answer your question in our case yes to both. Mum tells me some dreadful things that everyone around her has done. I am a mass murderer and a prostitute in my spare time!

And is your mother also aggressive? My mother hits the staff and other patients and sees things that aren't there.
 

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