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It happens. My grandfather fell off his roof onto concrete and suffered a bad broken arm. His subsequent prescription and continued use of opiate painkillers ex
by causi 4y ago
It happens. My grandfather fell off his roof onto concrete and suffered a bad broken arm. His subsequent prescription and continued use of opiate painkillers exactly coincide with the onset of his dementia, one he didn't recover from even after getting off the drugs.
My grandmother was prescribed Wellbutrin for a few months after my grandfather died. A decade later she suffered a fall and was hospitalized. In the hospital the doctors for whatever reason started giving her Wellbutrin again. She spent the next month subject to intense psychosis, not knowing where she was or who was in the room with her, thinking she was being attacked, thinking there was a party going on in the hallway. We were probably less than a week from institutionalizing her when my aunt noticed the unneeded medicine she was being given. After they stopped giving it to her she was back to normal in less than 48 hours.
- sva_ 4y agoPyochosis is not dementia. Very different things. But I hear what you're saying.
- mywittyname 4y agoThey can be conflated, even by professionals. Something similar happened with my grandma, she had to sell her house and move into a nursing home because what was diagnosed as dementia. Afterwards, a specialist realized that it was her medications causing dementia-like symptoms, and after adjusting them, she became a completely normal again.
- feet 4y agoMedication causing dementia symptoms is also not psychosis. Psychosis is a very specific state of mind, not something to just describe general mental illness
- DiggyJohnson 4y agoThis is nonsensical reply that misses the key point of this thread. Nobody here is claiming that psychosis = dementia. Almost the exact opposite. The only way your comment could be relevant is if you’re trying to claim that nobody has ever been misdiagnosed with dementia due to psychosis-like side-effects from prescription medications.