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Hi, I just wanted to introduce myself. My name is Keli and I have

recently (within the last week) brought my mother to live at my house

as we have decided that she can no longer care for herself. She had

been in hospital for 2 weeks with a severe and resistant infection

and what tehy termed " altered mental state " . Well her mental state

had not been good for several months and her doctor had continued to

treat her as if all of her symptoms were related to her several

health issues. This time though her dementia has continued even after

all of her other problems have been stablized. He diagnosed her with

Vascular Dementia but after doing my own research it seems that many

many many of her symptoms are like LBD. The only real difference is

that her hallucinations are not visual for the most part, at least

not anymore. It seems now that most of the hallucinations are

auditory. I read somewhere that this is not completely uncommon but

for the most part everything else I've read has said that visual

hallucination are kind of necessary to make a diagnosis of LBD. Does

anybody else have a LO that experiences mainly auditory

hallucinations? How did you first cope when your LO was diagnosed.

How do you continue to cope with the delusions and everything else. I

feel as if I am going to lose my sanity as my mother continues to

lose hers. I feel as if she is living in " hell " inside of her own

mind and there is nothing anyone can do. No medications have worked

thus far. Is there anything that anybody knows that actually does

help? I thank you all so much for your time. God bless you all.

Keli