Hello everyone I found this forum yesterday and the warmth and support that I read on here has prompted me to write. I`ve been really worried about my mum for ages and finally last Thursday got a diagnosis of Alzheimers at first I was ok as up to that point I felt so guilty that I was starting something that I couldn`t stop and that it was all in my head that I felt vindicated but since then I`m in bits.
My mum has always dominated me and is fiercely independent which makes things difficult and due to worries about Mum and being made redundant I`ve been off sick with acute stress reaction though so far I`ve avoided medication I suppose what I`m trying to say is that I`m not coping very well and can`t speak about all this without crying whilst at the same time despising myself for being so weak ( I always prided myself on being a strong lady ). Mum has been prescibed medication but after a couple of days she started saying that someone was ringing her up and saying horrible things to her and that she`d rung 1471 and copied down the number which I recognised as her sisters number which is ex directory and therefore wouldn`t register on 1471 at the same time she`s really down saying she isn`t dippy and she doesn`t think I believe her about the phone calls so I`m reassuring her that I do but don`t know if this is the right thing to do.
Could it be a side effect of the tablets.
I`m really sorry to go on at such length but I don`t know if my reaction is normal or if I`m just being a complete baby. By the way I`m an only child although my husband and two children are wonderful but we non of us have much knowledge
Thankyou for any feedback you may give me
Jeanie
My mum has always dominated me and is fiercely independent which makes things difficult and due to worries about Mum and being made redundant I`ve been off sick with acute stress reaction though so far I`ve avoided medication I suppose what I`m trying to say is that I`m not coping very well and can`t speak about all this without crying whilst at the same time despising myself for being so weak ( I always prided myself on being a strong lady ). Mum has been prescibed medication but after a couple of days she started saying that someone was ringing her up and saying horrible things to her and that she`d rung 1471 and copied down the number which I recognised as her sisters number which is ex directory and therefore wouldn`t register on 1471 at the same time she`s really down saying she isn`t dippy and she doesn`t think I believe her about the phone calls so I`m reassuring her that I do but don`t know if this is the right thing to do.
Could it be a side effect of the tablets.
I`m really sorry to go on at such length but I don`t know if my reaction is normal or if I`m just being a complete baby. By the way I`m an only child although my husband and two children are wonderful but we non of us have much knowledge
Thankyou for any feedback you may give me
Jeanie