Tomorrow is Monday. I dread it so much, because Mondays are always my mother's worst days. My mother's dementia is something I can't find anything about. It cycles. One day it is like she acts like Stage 6 and holding onto life by a thread. The next day she acts like Stage 3-4 and acts pretty normal for a woman with dementia. It has gotten to be predictable, cycling in severity on each day. Mondays are the worst. Tuesdays okay. Wednesdays bad. Thursdays okay, Fridays bad. Saturdays okay. Sundays are the only days that are off-schedule. We go to church on Sunday, so it is an up day. Then comes Monday.
What is going on? Doctors don't pay much attention when I ask. They don't know. I can't find anything about dementia cycling in severity so regularly as this. Does anyone else out there go through this or have any clues as to what might be going on? It would be nice to find out if there is some help for it, so I wouldn't dread MWF so much.
She has bi-polar.
I don't think she has Alzheimer's dementia, but something between Fronto-Temporal and Vascular.
Some days she will know my husband & son's names (never my daughter).
Some days she won't say a word. Some days she will eat and be conversational with the hospice pastor or nurse. Some days she throws everybody out of her room. Some days she sleeps all the time.
I liken it to watching a car rust. Some of it shows on the outside, a lot we can't see Until the bumper falls off.
My mother is taking Zoloft now. It doesn't seem to have any effect on her at all. Celexa was the same way. Why Remeron made her hypomanic and Zoloft doesn't, I don't understand. I'll have to read about the other neurotransmitters that are affected.
I was thinking on the days when she was sitting up and alert that it had tired her out so much that is why she would sleep all of the next day. Or if the nurses are giving her a higher dose of whatever to keep her from climbing out of bed or the recliner. My Mom forgets she can no longer stand up.