Mother still climbs in chairs to move pictures on her walls in the Memory Care home so I don't want her to fall if she is dizzy from her meds. She has been very aggressive over the last 3 weeks and is convinced she is being held hostage and that her house is across the street. We have to do something.
She goes to sleep about 3 am and rises with the sun. She's on Zoloft in the morning when she will take it, and she is refusing the Benadryl that used to help her with her runny nose and going to sleep at night. By 9 pm when they are giving her the pills, she is really ornery, and thinks they are trying to poison her!
Ideas for a non benzodiazapine drug to help? Our doc is ready to drug her into zombiehood and I am not ok with that.
Surprise, I am so pleased that this trial seems to be working out well. Don't be discouraged if you later have to try something else. Try to just be glad there is something else to try.
Found out our doc has his father in law seeing a geriatric specialist for dementia, but up in the city. We are far from the city, and it would be really difficult for my husband to take off enough time to accompany us up there, to drive and to protect me. I asked about a particular therapy, which his FIL had been given! So Doc recently prescribed Melatonin to get her sundowner's better, and Ambien for sleep. She has not called me since she has been on them the last two weeks! I am very excited with this development.
Trial and error. Sigh.
Start with sites like this then graduate to the PDR ( Drug Version) and talk to pharmacists also. Good Luck. There are multiple problems in this case with this patient.
While hiding the meds in somwthing sweet is a great ides, her symptoms might require something more than benadryl.