excessive sleep

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What is precisely meant by this?

My husband was fairly reasonable. Than after one of his wanders he got a

UTI (urinary infection), which put in 2 hospitals for 4 weeks (with a

week's break in between). He just couldn't wake up and couldn't walk.

Then a week out of the hospital, he wandered off for about 4 hours and came

home on his own, and started to get drowsy, until finally he couldn't walk

again or he couldn't be woken up to walk. I got some antibiotics for him,

which seemed to help for about 3 days, but then he started getting

unwakable again. So, I sent him to the hospital again. The hospital seem a

bit annoyed. They say all it was is constipation. I of course panic a bit

because our rented flat has stairs and the bathroom is in between 2 floors.

Does this sound like LBD or is it something else (perhaps in conjunction

with LBD)? I mean there's excessive sleep (as in being overtired, whether

for a reason or not) and then there's this unwakable, debilitating sleep.

Is this LBD or something else?

Also, during his UTI episode, they finally started him on Rivastigmine.

Could it be causing all the trouble?

Any thoughts are greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Olga