My mom lives in an assisted living facility and has been exhibiting angry/confrontational behavior with residents. The facility suggested we have her doctor prescribe an anti-anxiety drug. The doctor prescribed seroquel, an anti-psychotic. There is disagreement between my siblings whether this is a dangerous drug or not that dementia patients should not be taking (as written on the internet).
Seroquil can be very effective for individual patients or it can have nasty side effects so once again it is trial and error
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I agree about finding out what was causing the behavior. Today is the first time I ever realized it!!!
My mother in law was chugging down her soda (1/3rd bottle) so fast just because she wanted a new bottle (20 oz). It got so bad that we took her off of soda and gave her flavored waters.
Well 2 months later she decided to grab my 2 liter of Pepsi out of the fridge and drink straight out of the bottle sneaking. Then we started noticing her grabbing our cups and sneaking a sip when she thought we weren't paying attention.
So today I thought to myself, she must be craving soda! I was at the store and thought maybe a 12 pack of caffeine free soda like Sprite might not be bad. So I bought it for her.
I brought her in the kitchen and said lets make a deal, don't drink our drinks or out of the 2 liter anymore and I will give you 1 Sprite a day. She was thrilled like a little kid who just got her best birthday present.
I never tried to take things away but she was being OCD about her soda in the past and taking it to such an extreme that it wasn't healthy for her. Just like when she smoked cigarettes and had 3 burning in her hands at the same time lol.
When you start with a very low dose, that is typically to make sure the body doesn't have a bad reaction from it. Often there is no expectation that the low dose will solve the problem. That's why I'd see it through until the dose is where the doctor wants it to be.
But I also don't think someone should stay on a drug indefinitely when it clearly isn't doing any good. Give it a little more time, but not forever!