Helping Those Who Care for Parkinson's Patients
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My husband woke up this morning totally dillusional and refusing his to take his meds or eat because he thinks I'm poinsoning him. Any suggestions on how to get him to eat and take meds? Thanks |
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| Do you have another family member or a neighbor he trusts? Perhasp they could help. If you have any yougurt that is sealed take it to him and show him and either he can open it or you can open it in front of him. The meds can go into that. Don't let this make you feel bad. One of the last things my husband said to my son while I was in the room was "get that woman away from me". It is what it is. Sorry you are going through this. |
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When my FIL's psychosis was escalating, he thought that the nursing home was poisoning him. He was making them count out every pill and tell him what it was for before he took them. It got to the point that he became violent and tried to hit anyone who was trying to help him. This happened just prior to when he was checked into the hospital to get his medications balanced correctly. They started Clozapine which helped him tremendously with his paranoia. It took a good 4-5 weeks to get things stabilized. Keep in mind that we experienced a huge escalation of behavior issues related to his paranoia just prior to this. When he went into the hospital, he thought he had been kidnapped. He also thought that there were snipers hiding in every corner and even coming out of the walls. The paranoia for him was terrible. He was a very frightened man until the meds were balanced. Hopefully your situation is completely different and it will correct itself quickly. -Jenny |
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| Thanks for all the incite into this terrible disease. By yesterday afternoon he was back to "normal" and had no recollection of what had happened. His next visit to the nuero is in 2 weeks and I am going to bring up this issue. He had mentioned putting him on antipsycotics before but the side effects seemed too awful.. I guess it's a toss up as to what's worse, The cause or the cure. |
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I happened to meet a geriatric psychiatrist at a party and picked his brains a bit about antipsychotics. He said his experience is that a very low dose of some antipsychotics can help a lot with hallucinations/delusions with minimal side effects. I believe he mentioned Risperdal as the first one he tries. My dad's neurologist seems very uninformed about the use of psychiatric medications for PD and I've been thinking I might need to take Dad to see this psychiatrist. |
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hi! this is a clear sign of hallucinations. My mum used to have the same conditions, thinking nurses and docs are all out to poison her. Once, she thought her medicine is all glass and she spit it out. in the end, she has to be put on tube cos she can't eat anything at all. In the end the doc reduce her dosage of madopa and hallucinations stopped but body became very stiff. recently i asked her if she has any recollections of her hallucinations, she said she didn't remember at all. |
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| I think I will mention the meds to the neuro and see what he says. My husband too has no recall of the hallucinations or what he was doing. I wish I could do the same, it would make it easier on me!! Unfortunately, I am here with my bruised and battered psyche trying to keep it together for both of us. |