- Risperdal

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Hi :

Not that I'm a terrible lot of help in relation to this drug - I

don't think my dad is on that one. But I wanted to let you know that

you're not alone in your mom's delusions.

When dad has these 'spells' he sometimes refuses to eat because he

thinks that we're poisioning him. There are also non-existent

children around that he refers to - often if we're in the car, he'll

look to the back seat and ask where the children went. Sometimes at

home he'll look around and be very upset because they've disappeared

on him. He thinks these kids are his, although at 33, I'm his

youngest child.

Fortunately, Dad is pretty good about taking his pills. But

unfortunately, while they've come up with some drugs that help us

cope (like Seroquel), it only helps sometimes.

I don't know how long your mom has been on this drug, but if she

recently started on it, I'd give her a few weeks on it at least to

let her system adjust to it, it might just need some time to get

going. And what works for some doesn't work for all, your mom may

need more time with it than others. Maybe she needs more food for it

to work, although I'm not sure how you can fix that one!

Good luck and hang in there, we'll be here...

KD

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> Hi again:

>

> Not sure how long we should expect to see a difference in Mum's

> delusions with this drug. We were visiting today and Mum is still

> convinced that the health care staff is poisoning both the

patients

> and the children (there are no children). If this was just a case

of

> a vivid dream I think I could handle it, but she is truly

> frightened. Nothing my sisters or I say seems to help. How long

> should we try this drug before we ask to try something else?

>

> This is all really new to us. Mum is not a medication taker so

> giving her any pills is a challenge in itself. Putting it her

food

> or drink doesn't help much as she doesn't eat or drink enough to

keep

> a bird alive especially as all the food has acid or some other

poison

> sprinkled on it.

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