NON-anticholinergic bladder medications?

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Doing further research today, I learned that LBD folk are sensitive to

medications for bladder issues such as nocturia, overactive bladder,

spasm, etc. which are anticholinergics (which most of the effective

medications for this purpose seem to be).

Mom has been on several of these medications, including Detrol and

Ditropan (which are on the list in the files section as BAD, BAD, BAD).

Currently she is on Enablex - and in researching it I learned that it,

too, is an anticholinergic.

I am going to be switching Mom to a new primary doctor who is a geriatic

internist. Her current doctor refuses to include me in her medical

decision making and will not inform me of medication changes or

additions. The nursing home is very good about calling but the doctor

has told Mom that I am stubborn and difficult to deal with - so he

doesn't. He doesn't like my refusal to allow prescription of meds which

will be bad for Mom and he has no particular knowledge of LBD (and seems

uninterested in educating himself).

Does anyone have experience with a medication for overactive bladder

which is working for their LO? Mom has some personal issues about

" wetting herself, " so we need the medicine...but I will be working to

convince her that wearing an undergarment and dealing with wetness at

night is much less of an issue than hallucinations, delusions and

confusion which are the result of the medication to put a stop to the

nocturia.

By the way, Mom's newest thing is her decision to " retire " from

" working " at the nursing home where she resides. She is a retired RN

and is positive that they want her to take charge of the evening shift

(which was the shift she worked for years in a nursing home). She's

very worried that they will be angry with her, but she's decided she's

ready to let others take care of her rather than her taking care of

them. She's also worried about where she will sleep and whether she'll

be given meals, so she calls me often to get reassurance that her room

and board are paid and her bed is hers and she can eat all she wants.

However, just in case they won't let her stay, she's called to ask if

she can stay in my garage, and to find out when the bus will be coming

by to get her. She is very grateful that I will back her up in tellling

the nursing home she's retired, and that I am taking care of the issue

of her room and her food.

The Seroquel hasn't put a stop to her occasional confusion but it has

greatly reduced her paranoia and fear. I am very happy about that. Now

it is my goal to get her off any medications to which she is sensitive

and which make the LBD symptoms worse. Any help folks here can give me

with the bladder medication issue will be greatly appreciated.

And Happy Mother's Day to all the moms and grandmoms, and moms of the

daughters who are on this list!

jacqui