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Spouse with cognitive problems and finances
Caregivers: Dementia | Last Active: Dec 30, 2022 | Replies (290)Comment receiving replies
My husband has dementia and take a lot of pills. Often his first batch of pills in am he often vomit them. I’ve started taking his pills awau until he has eaten something. I’m not sure yet if it helps. Then often when he eats a meal he starts coughing. I ask him if he is chocking and he says he just has a tickle in his throat. I am worried one of these times he will aspirate and I’m in a wheelchair and will not be able to help him. He often coughs after drinking water as well.
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Bill does the coughing bit after taking pills, drinking water, eating, etc. A speech therapist wanted him to have a test done as he was sure a valve in his throat wasn't working correctly - and could cause him to aspirate but Bill refused. During the couple of times the therapist was there Bill had to cough up a big pill which had gone down the 'wrong' tube. Not a pretty sight. I try to get him to take just one at a time but he insists on doing most of them at once - or won't take them. Although he has always loved taking pills - family always joked that there wasn't a pill he didn't like. I have to take D3 - his doctor said he didn't need it - but Bill insisted it be added to his daily pill taking and that was years ago.
I think his dementia started even before 2013. He would always get mad/upset easily but by 2010 it seemed to increase a 100 fold. He would get upset at the weirdest things. Some commercials would drive him up the wall - into swearing, etc., yet he would insist on watching them. And he would get mad at me if I didn't agree how terrible they were (I always tune commercials out). Seemed so strange to ruin an evening (every evening at that point) over a commercial. Bill used to do commercials as well. Would be fun seeing him on TV in one, or seeing him in the Princess cruise brochure. Maybe that is why he has a strong reaction to commercials. At least now with the new med he no longer seems to notice them.
Wishing you and your husband the best.