Re: Re: Update RE my nada's situation

[Guest guest]

From what I learned in pharmacology class, a lot of the antipsychotics can

have adverse reactions on the elderly. Many medications have to be used

with caution in them.

I also hope she will keep the pdoc appointment. They will be able to best

assess her and figure out the best course of treatment for her.

Mia

On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 11:26 PM, christine.depizan <

christine.depizan@...> wrote:

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[Guest guest]

" It's like a cancer of the psyche " Well said, Annie.

I too hope there is something they can do for her. Have they ruled out

dementia or Alzheimers? Again, from what I remember (and I could be wrong),

antipsychotics are contraindicated in persons with either.

It could be possible that her BPD has just taken a turn for the worse, but

could it also be possible that now her BPD is getting worse due to other

brain abnormalities?

Keep us posted Annie. Like you, I hope she will go to that pdoc

appointment.

*HUGS* Mia

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[Guest guest]

Annie,

Any way you could get her to an opthamologist and neurologist? She could be

hallucinating from Bonnet syndrome. It causes hallucinations that seem so real

people can't be convinced they aren't.

Also, urinary tract infections in the elderly, which often present without the

typical symptoms we younger people suffer, cause the most dreadful sudden onset

dementia and hallucinations.

My mother did take Zyprexa in her 80s, but it wasn't for hallucinating.

I really feel for you. It's so hard to handle an aging bpd parent.

Em

Sent from my blueberry.

> Hi Joy,

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> I remember your handle! I hope things are going OK for you RE your own nada's

situation.

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> My nada is in her early 80's and recently, in addition to her long-standing

bpd trait of: " Transient, stress-related paranoid ideation, delusions and/or

severe dissociative symptoms " (and her chronic negativity, and her being so

easily upset and angered, and her re-writing history) she has started having

visual hallucinations. She's been seeing people that aren't there.

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> Nada asked my Sister one day , " Who is that man over there and why is he

rolling a barrel up the street? " (Nobody was on the street at all.)

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> Late one night a couple of weeks ago, nada was convinced that there was a

large film crew around the back of her building and they were busily setting up

for a shoot; dozens of people milling around. This time she became upset, so

much so that her apartment building manager thought maybe he needed to call an

ambulance for her. Sister was able to manage that incident, and since then nada

has seen her primary care doctor and gotten a prescription for antidepressants.

We're hoping she'll go to see the psychiatrist her pc doctor recommended; he

made an appointment for nada.

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> As complicated and painful at my relationship with my mother is, so much so

that I can't endure having contact with her now, it really saddens me to hear

that she is now suffering from frightening hallucinations. That sounds like a

living hell to me, like a nightmare that she can't wake up from, and I wouldn't

wish that on anybody.

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> -Annie

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[Guest guest]

Annie,

Any way you could get her to an opthamologist and neurologist? She could be

hallucinating from Bonnet syndrome. It causes hallucinations that seem so real

people can't be convinced they aren't.

Also, urinary tract infections in the elderly, which often present without the

typical symptoms we younger people suffer, cause the most dreadful sudden onset

dementia and hallucinations.

My mother did take Zyprexa in her 80s, but it wasn't for hallucinating.

I really feel for you. It's so hard to handle an aging bpd parent.

Em

Sent from my blueberry.

> Hi Joy,

>

> I remember your handle! I hope things are going OK for you RE your own nada's

situation.

>

> My nada is in her early 80's and recently, in addition to her long-standing

bpd trait of: " Transient, stress-related paranoid ideation, delusions and/or

severe dissociative symptoms " (and her chronic negativity, and her being so

easily upset and angered, and her re-writing history) she has started having

visual hallucinations. She's been seeing people that aren't there.

>

> Nada asked my Sister one day , " Who is that man over there and why is he

rolling a barrel up the street? " (Nobody was on the street at all.)

>

> Late one night a couple of weeks ago, nada was convinced that there was a

large film crew around the back of her building and they were busily setting up

for a shoot; dozens of people milling around. This time she became upset, so

much so that her apartment building manager thought maybe he needed to call an

ambulance for her. Sister was able to manage that incident, and since then nada

has seen her primary care doctor and gotten a prescription for antidepressants.

We're hoping she'll go to see the psychiatrist her pc doctor recommended; he

made an appointment for nada.

>

> As complicated and painful at my relationship with my mother is, so much so

that I can't endure having contact with her now, it really saddens me to hear

that she is now suffering from frightening hallucinations. That sounds like a

living hell to me, like a nightmare that she can't wake up from, and I wouldn't

wish that on anybody.

>

> -Annie

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