AreThese Night Terrors or Is It Just Insanity? Is This Even Included in Parkinsons? Any Tips?
Thursday, July 8th, 2010 at
11:09 pm
★The Lexinator★ asked:
My grandma is 84 and living with (we thought) controlled Parkinsons disease. The night before last night, my grandmother talked in her sleep NON STOP. We would wake her up and she would claim someone was in the room with her or she would think she was somewhere else.Then we would go back to bed, and she’d just start talking again. There were times when she would scream really loud and when we checked to see what was happening, she would claim a man is attacking her. We checked the room, nothing. Last night she did the same thing. And she seriously doesn’t stop talking AT ALL. And today, shes having these loud conversations and/orhallucinations — and shes not even asleep, just awake in broad daylight. Shes also been unable to move without a part of her shaking uncontrollably, and while I know she has Parkinsons, its never been this bad before. Her talking/screaming is keeping us all up at night — we have thin walls.
My grandma is 84 and living with (we thought) controlled Parkinsons disease. The night before last night, my grandmother talked in her sleep NON STOP. We would wake her up and she would claim someone was in the room with her or she would think she was somewhere else.Then we would go back to bed, and she’d just start talking again. There were times when she would scream really loud and when we checked to see what was happening, she would claim a man is attacking her. We checked the room, nothing. Last night she did the same thing. And she seriously doesn’t stop talking AT ALL. And today, shes having these loud conversations and/orhallucinations — and shes not even asleep, just awake in broad daylight. Shes also been unable to move without a part of her shaking uncontrollably, and while I know she has Parkinsons, its never been this bad before. Her talking/screaming is keeping us all up at night — we have thin walls.
What do you think?
Tagged with: Insanity • Loud Conversations • Night Terrors
Filed under: Parkinsons
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Talk to her Dr, this is caused by her medications more than likely. You must know that Parkinson’s symptoms fluctuate and change. Sun downers, and sleep walking and insomnia can all be caused by the medications. Check with her Dr about sleep aids or change in dosages. Good luck, I know from experience that this can be very hard to deal with.
Gee…
Sounds like Alzheimer’s or complete dementia.
Your poor grandma..
Did she used to be like this a few years ago?
Because if she was fine say 10 years ago and never experienced these symptoms before but now she can’t overcome them, you can bet it’s either Alzheimer’s or Dementia, two both VERY common, degenerative diseases that progressively get worse with time.
Parkinsons doesn’t include the symptoms you mentioned that’s a motor-neural disease that affects your ability to control your body, it’s not a psychological/mental problem that affects your state of mind.
Hope this helped you and god bless.
alzheimers disease sounds likely, she could be reliving something in her past over and over. i am a nurse and have seen the constant talking and disoriention in patients with alzheimers time and time again, its sad
I would check with her Parkinson’s Dr. This sounds like her meds may need adjusting. I have repeatedly heard stories of this sort with PWP. There comes a time when the medicines begin overacting and it seems like it happens overnight (it really happens over time but we just don’t see the slow build up). I know of a couple of people with Parkinson’s that had been placed in a home because of Alzheimer’s or some such incurable and or unmanageable disease only to have their medicines changed and suddenly Alzheimer’s disappeared. Check with her PD Dr and have him/her adjust or change some of her medicines. Late stage Parkinson’s is not a fun thing for either the Parkinson’s patient or the caregiver(s).