My husbands grandmother is 84. We live together. She has suffered from paranoid schizophenic and depression for at least 30-40 years. She is such an active person and so nice to be around when she is on her meds. Mostly around holidays she quits her meds and either gets dilusional or gets weak and u have to take care of her all day every day. She doesn't do anything for herself. We start giving her the meds and she will get better in a few weeks. It's been close to 2 weeks or a little after and nothing has changed. Is it possible she will not come out of it?????Anyone else go through this?
2007-11-03 14:56:55 · 3 answers · asked by momma whitley 2 in Health ➔ Mental Health
Hello momma whitely,
I am 75 yrs old and was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia over 40 years ago. I have been able to live a fairly normal life because I have had TLC from medical staff and family and have religiously taken my med's. I knew to take them from what my mother told me while I was off them over 40 years ago. She told me that I was a different and enjoyable person when I took my pills. This jolted me into realizing they were necessary for normal behavior and to stop the distress I felt when off them.
If you can approach your husband's grand mother and firmly and politely tell her something like this she may realize it is necessary to take the pills for her and her family's sake. When you are off the pills you don't feel good so it is important to get her to become aware that taking them is necessary for her to feel well. Also realize that 84 is an age when other infirmities can become a problem which the med's won't help. It takes time for the anti=psychotics to become effective after one has been off them.
2007-11-03 20:06:34 · answer #1 · answered by Mad Mac 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'm so sorry. I really do know how you feel having a family member with an illness like that. Sometimes the medication does not work right away or at all if she has been on the same medication for many years. You should bring her to the hospital and the doctors should try to find a new medication that works. I do hope she gets better.
Bless you and your family for being so loving and there for your husbands grandmother. It is so good of you all.
2007-11-03 22:31:03 · answer #2 · answered by htamboer 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Notify her MD. I'd also consider giving her the medication rather than relying on her to take it. Maybe put it in a daily "pill taker" They have each day and the pills for each day. That way you will know whether or not she takes her medication (unless she hides that she is not taking it).
How great for the grandmother that she has family concerned about her.
2007-11-03 22:09:42 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋