Re: Drugs for dad after fall

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Hi Sheri,

I'm sorry to hear that your father had a serious fall recently.

A good place to find info on medications is rxlist.com or drugs.com.

Both finasteride and tamsulosin are meds given to men for treatment

of prostate problems. Does your father have prostate

problems? Sometimes these meds are given to men prior to an LBD,

MSA, or PD diagnosis because the men are suffering from incontinence

and its presumed to be caused by an enlarged prostate rather than a

neurodegenerative disorder.

I would question these medications:

Trazadone 25mg QD

Ambien 5mg QD

Seroquel 50mg BID

Why does he need to be on Seroquel? Why does he need to be on both

Trazadone and Ambien? All three of these medications are sedating,

and typically one on its own is sufficient for sleep. (Giving

Seroquel for the purposes of sleep is rather over-kill.) Is your

father heavily-sedated??

I would question these medications:

Norco 325 mg Q4H

Tylenol 325 mg PRN

Norco is a narcotic. So presumably your father can tolerate a

narcotic. But it also contains Tylenol. If the Tylenol is given

PRN, will that be too much Tylenol in a given day? Tylenol is toxic

in large doses. Those are the only pain meds on the list (as far as

I can tell....I'm a layperson).

Good luck,

Robin

>2c. Re: Drugs

> Posted by: " Sfarinha@... "

> Sfarinha@... farinhasheri

> Date: Sat Jan 1, 2011 11:59 am ((PST))

>

>Hi Norma, thanks for this feedback. I will share with my Mom and my

>sisters. I'm not sure why either except it is what the dr has

>ordered. It could be some are pain pills from when he fell and broke

>his ribs. My Mom plans to talk with the adminstrator next week and

>the dr too to discuss his meds.

>We too felt that it was a lot of meds but we aren't experts so tis

>why I wanted to share here.

>Thank you,

>

>Sheri A. Farinha

>________________________________________________________________________

>2a. Re: Drugs

> Posted by: " Norma " Normal@... normalanne

> Date: Sat Jan 1, 2011 7:15 am ((PST))

>

>Sheri - These are way too many medications. Though I don't know

>what the first two are--and they may be necessary for something

>else--taking Depakoe AND Trazadone AND Seroquel AND Ambien are too

>much. I can't imagine how he is functioning. How could any of us

>function normally with all of these meds? Besides everything else,

>Ambien should never be given to anyone with LBD or to any elderly

>person. They react badly to it. Please try to find a doctor who

>will listen to you. Bring them information from the LBDA website if

>they don't have knowledge. If he was upset, our doctor has

>recommended finding out why first--before giving meds. I don't mean

>to sound harsh, but it's always upsetting to hear that the only way

>to stop someone's upsetment is with drugs.

>

>

> >

> > Hi Lori, thanks for this info. To clarify, (now that I got more

> info from my sister) Depakote is one of the meds he has been taking

> but usually at noon. There's a lot of meds he is prescribed to be

> taking. In fact, I finally got a list of all his meds so sharing below:

> >

> > Finasteride 5mg QD

> > Lisinopri 20mg. QD

> > Exelon 95mg/24hr QD

> > Docusate 100mg BID

> > Trazadone 25mg QD

> > Ambien 5mg QD

> > Depakote 250mg BID

> > Tamsulosin 0.4mg QD

> > Seroquel 50mg BID

> > Norco 325 mg Q4H

> > Tylenol 325 mg PRN

> > Magneisum oxide 800mg PRN

> >

> > Thanks,

> >

> >

> > Sheri A. Farinha

> >

> >

> > Re: Re: Drugs

> >

> > Hi,

> >

> > Depakote is used for seizures, migraines and bipolar mood

> disorder (manic depressive). They must have felt he was

> manic. They definitely needed a doctor's prescription for this

> one, BUT, some of the placements have standing orders for certain

> types of meds. They are usually things like tylenol, so I would be

> curious how they got to use Depakote...I would have to ask,

> myself. From what reading I've done, it isn't that uncommon to

> prescribe Depakote to LBD patients and it is safer than the

> anti-psychotics. I'm sure others will know more, however, as I'm

> fairly new to LBD myself (my Dad).

> >

> > Lori

> > Re: Re: Drugs

> >

> >

> >

> > Greetings all,

> > Thanks for all who share daily. I appreciate it.

> >

> > My Dad has LBD, and was in hospital recovering from a bad fall

> where he had broken 6 ribs, then onto skill nursing home for rehab.

> Just recently he was placed in a Long Term Care facility and my

> Mom, sisters and I have been taking turns with shifts to be with

> him daily. He's been on Seroquel. Apparently yesterday morning he

> was upset so the staff gave him depicote (sp?). Tho it took longer

> to work, he did well with it, and did not appear as sleepy. I'm not

> familiar with this drug so I thought to check with everyone here to

> see if you know abt this kind - depicote?

> >

> > I'm concerned when " new meds " are given and not sure if this is

> something commonly happens but seems to me they would have to have

> dr approval. And what's more, I feel like medications are not

> consistent in terms of time given and etc. Esp when he acts up and

> becomes upset and agitated.

> >

> > Its been a long hard road. Esp over Christmas.

> >

> > Thanks,

> >

> > Sheri A. Farinha

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