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Please don't rely on the AL to monitor and adjust LOs meds. All they do is tell a Dr. what they are seeing and he prescribes. You may want to take the list of meds to your pharmacist and ask if any interact with each other.
Sorry to say, Drs sometimes just keep prescribing to try and solve a problem. Its the pharmacist that catches what shouldn't be taken together.
I am assuming LO has a neurologist. You need to call him/her and explain what is going on. I would say what LO is doing is an anxiety. My Moms was humming which got worse as the days went by.
Be aware too that in the elderly medications don't leave the body as quickly as in a younger person. They can build up.
Later, when she became non-verbal, she had a few terrifying episodes of anxiety, and at those times the smallest doses of Xanax were administered. Even the smallest doses caused her to sleep for as much as 30 hours at a time, which I hated, but I came to understand that it was somewhat better than the horrid agitation that she sometimes suffered.
I’m not a fan of “cocktails”, and her medical team at the time wasn't either. Almost 6 years on Zyprexa was discouraged by the manufacturer, but it worked for her.
Although these are extreme behaviors caused by his Alzheimer's, there should be something that can be done to lessen symptoms.
Just because the hospital took him off his meds doesn't mean it was the right thing to do.
His primary care physician should be on this!
And sometimes the squeaky wheel gets the grease!
God bless!!