"jmcquown" > wrote in message
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> "PeterL" > wrote in message
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>> "jmcquown" > wrote in
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>>> "Omelet" > wrote in message
>>> news >>>> In article >,
>>>> "Cheryl" > wrote:
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>>>>> Not sure how to take that, but I'm glad she's in good spirits!
>>>>
>>>> Hospital psychosis sucks. I went thru that with my Aunt.
>>>>
>>>> It's all the crap they pump into your veins imho.
>>>> --
>>>> Peace! Om
>>>>
>>>
>>> Yeah, they kept telling me how "demented" my mother was when she was
>>> in the hospital. She wasn't demented before they got their hands on
>>> her. She wasn't demented when she got home, either. They sent
>>> scripts for THIRTY medications home with her. WTF?!
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaark!!!! She would have rattled when
>> she walked!!!
>>
>> *30* meds??? That's obscene!!
>>
>>
>> Most of those would have been.... "Oh, you have to take *this one* to
>> counteract the effects of that one, and then you have to take this one
>> to counteract the effects of *that one*....... etc, etc!!"
>>
>>
>> --
>> Peter Lucas
>> Brisbane
>> Australia
>>
>
> It was ridiculous. Her gerontologist had reduced her prescriptions from
> nine down to three based on lab work, then in the hospital they ramped her
> back up to nine and handed me prescriptions for thirty by the time they
> sent her home. It's no wonder she was seeing my dead father walking
> around the halls of the hospital and was getting combative with the
> hospital staff. The day she did come home they didn't give her meds. Her
> doctor came to the house and ticked off all the reasons why she didn't
> need this, this, this, that, nor that, nor... basically got her back down
> to three plus a low dose (baby) aspirin. Not only was she no longer
> "demented" she could also eat spinach and broccoli, which, with the
> coumadin they had put her back on in the hospital she wasn't supposed to
> eat. It was one of the few things I could get her to eat in the end. I
> wasn't about to give her a drug that would limit her food intake even
> more.
>
> I miss her. She was a very sweet woman.
>
> Jill

Who prescribed all these excess pills? It would not have been "the
hospital." Anything in a hospital--even an aspirin--would need a doctor's
prescription, at least in my experience. I went through many of the same
problems as you did with regard to too many prescriptions for my mother,
some of which caused horrendous side-effects or were contraindicated.
Still, I needed to work back through each physician to determine the source.
As I said, it's not really "the hospital." I do agree, though, that the
multiplicity of physicians, nurses, aides, technicians, etc. somehow seems
to result in far too much medication for many patients, especially the
elderly.

MaryL