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Started with mild dementia. Could converse like they had all their life, drive a car, go shopping, etc.. Then within 2 or so weeks of having a simple outpatient procedure (maybe with anesthesia) went fast into full blown mania with crying, anxiousness, discomfort, not sleeping for days, became 500% more frail. Within days after the anti-psychotic medication (given about 3 weeks after mania started) symptoms mostly went away and patient was 90% like normal. Now over a year later having mania again but not as severe.

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I feel elders have a difficult time post-anesthesia, perhaps age is not factored in with administration of drugs. Could this person benefit from a dosage adjustment? .....rather than starting a new drug as each drug carries with it different side effects. If they have done well on this particular anti-psychotic then a dosage change might be better. Just my opinion.