Several blood pressure and heart-related medications have just been prescribed for my mother. She started taking them last night and she has been hallucinating today. She is in and assisted living facility, but today she thought I had been there and left without telling her I was leaving. She was panicking because she thought she was alone. When I told her that I was still at work, she couldn't understand how that was possible. Could this be caused by the new medications? To my knowledge, she hasn't had any hallucinations in months prior to today.
I recommend you take your mom to the doctor right away. I do not know the full symptoms of dementia, but halucinations is a stage of Alzheimer's and I know some individuals can move from dementia to Alzheimer's.
I encourage you to reach out to a doctor to have your mom checked. My mom is on blood pressure medicines and we have no issues like that at all.
Good luck!
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