Tinkering With the Meds

Recently, Dad had a few doctor’s appointments that resulted in various physicians deciding to mess around with his current drug regiment. There was no major reason for the tinkering as Dad has been doing really well for the most part. However, it was decided to ween him off one “bad” drug but in order to do that, another one had to be added (Remeron)… why, I don’t really know but I think it partially has to do with the Remeron helping him to sleep at night. So that all started and then he had an appointment with his Neuro. The Neuro wasn’t too pleased to learn of the addition of Remeron. Like us, he didn’t understand why one needed to be added in order to ween Dad off of the other drug. So, we stopped the Remeron and Dad’s restless nights came back in to effect. At the same time, Dad’s blood pressure was frighteningly low and so it was finally decided that his (unnecessary) blood pressure medicine was no longer needed. The slow process of weening him off of the drug began. Also, Namenda has been cut out of Dad’s daily regiment for now, but that will also be added back eventually. For some reason, Dad seems to do poorly when he takes Namenda even though the drug is suppose to have little side effects. Whenever we add it in to Dad’s regiment it’s like he gets more confused and is in a constant haze. Anyway, as you can tell, there is a lot going on with Dad’s meds and it’s a recipe for disaster! All the adding and subtracting of drugs in basically one go wrecked havoc on Dad’s system and so things were a little difficult for a bit. His delusions and hallucinations came back and this time my Husband was and still is, to some degree, the brunt of them. The Hubs takes it all with a grain of salt but it’s quite frustrating and a bit sad when the Hubs has been so wonderful to Dad. Anyway, things are slowly getting back to “normal” and Dad seems to be doing much better, now that some time passed. It was a bit rough for a bit but hopefully it’s behind us and only improvement is in the cards for us.