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> He was pretty "normal" before the surgery but after it he couldn't walk and thought the hospital staff attacked him with dogs during the night. Apparently de
by tcj_phx 10y ago
> He was pretty "normal" before the surgery but after it he couldn't walk and thought the hospital staff attacked him with dogs during the night.
Apparently delirium is a common side effect of whatever they do in hospitals. I came across this link last month:
"Delirium: A Surprising Side Effect of Hospital Stays -- Often misdiagnosed as dementia, it can cause hallucinations and delusions" - http://www.nextavenue.org/delirium-a-surprising-side-effect-of-hospital-stays/ http://www.nextavenue.org/delirium-a-surprising-side-effect-...
If you're lucky they'll feed you coconut oil (short saturated fatty acids are easily burned in the cells for energy) and the dementia will pass. If you're not lucky they'll give you "anti-psychotic" drugs to sedate you, or other interventions that ruin the metabolism. Many treatments have the side effect of ensuring the patient will never recover.
- illumin8 10y agoOut of curiosity, how does coconut oil help with "delirium"?
- tcj_phx 10y agoMy thinking is that delirium is probably a symptom of impaired metabolism and/or malnourishment and/or insulin resistance. When a person's mitochondria can't make enough ATP to keep them going, sometimes they become delirious/psychotic [1]. Coconut oil is useful because of its high proportion of medium chain triglicerides. Longer fatty acids have to be transported with carnitine to be metabolized in the mitochondria. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medium-chain_triglyceride#Medical_relevance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medium-chain_triglyceride#Medi... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatty_acid_metabolism#Fatty_acid_catabolism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatty_acid_metabolism#Fatty_ac... The alcoholic brain tends to be insulin resistant, and uses acetate (a breakdown product of ethanol) as fuel, because glucose isn't available, or isn't can't be delivered to the mitochondria in sufficient quantity. [1] Thus, without careful assessment and history, delirium can easily be confused with a number of psychiatric disorders or long term organic brain syndromes, because many of the signs and symptoms of delirium are conditions also present in dementia, depression, and psychosis. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delirium https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delirium (IMHO, doctors distinguish between "delirium" and "psychosis" because they don't realize they have similar etiologies.)
- spangry 10y agoTo be honest, is seems more likely the 'delirium' is actually mild psychosis brought on by excess dopamine in the PDF in particular. Many Parkinson's medicines treat some of the cognitive deficits it can cause with stuff like L-Dopa and other 'pro dopamine' drugs. Given the brain is progressively becoming more 'dysfunctional', some abnormal brain functionality + excess synaptic dopamine is probably psychosis waiting to happen. However, I'd personal take the intermittent low level psychosis any day if it meant retaining my brain, retaining 'me', for just a bit longer. Also yeah, as stated elsewhere: Parkinson's + anti-psychotic meds == dangerous and egregious medical malpractice. Anti-psychotics are basically an anti-cute for Parkinson's, given the generally work by attenuating dopamine prevalence in various synaptic clefts.