My 81 year old mother lives in with me and she has moments of dizziness. I am not sure if it is a faux illness as I have seen many "symptoms of illnesses" only to be forgotten and she is well two minutes later. I don't want to brush it off it is something, but her Dr seems to think its due to the three kinds of BP medicine she takes daily. We give her Claritin each day. She was given Meclizine but we never started her one that.
Mom's also on Namenda XR and Donepezil.
Has anyone seen these similiar dizzy spells from those with dementia/Alzheimer's?
Depending on the dosage, she could be reacting to the effects of those BP meds, as well as the other cocktail of drugs. I'd get her to her cardiologist or whoever's prescribing the BP meds fairly quickly.
That happened to my mother, as my parents were just entering "the Doctoring Stage". The cardio wasn't as attentive as he should be, left her on the same dose of BP med and didn't check often enough (he was a jerk and we fired him after my sister and I became involved).
One evening Mom became dizzy, light headed and ended up in the ER, where the dosage of BP med was lowered, as the ER doctor determined that was the cause of her dizziness and lightheadedness.
Regardless, one of the docs should be monitoring her meds more closely.