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Nightly forays: What are your suggestions about nighttime activity?
Caregivers: Dementia | Last Active: Feb 28, 2023 | Replies (13)Comment receiving replies
Hi, Merry @merpreb Tough stuff for sure! While they may not work for you, here are a couple things that helped me. My wife was on a two-hour pattern for years, but she’d never been a sound sleeper.
One of the early things I did was get a hospital bed for my wife. The rails kept her from wondering.
I placed old style store door bells on our doorframes so I’d hear the jingle if she opened certain doors. We didn’t have s security system at the time.
I found overnight support very hard to find and too expensive for our means. I hope you find it different in your area.
I ended up working closely with her neuro doc to adjust her daily meds regimen to help her with an initial longer sleep period, which I then took advantage of.
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Wow, thank you. I'll get some bells for sure. So far he hasn't shown any inclination to leave the house but if he's this active now I certainly anticipate it.
When he gets up I follow and I can't sleep because he's noisy. Our house is small so I don't know how it would work with another person here.
I start weaning off of prednisone this Monday and I know that at some point I'll be doing a face plant into a very deep sleep.
We still have about 10 days till his first neuro appt so the only meds he gets are the ones I give him, his vitamins and the pain pill I got for possible kidney stones.
I finally gave him 3 mgs of melatonin which is more than he usually takes and he slept great. So tonight I'll start with that until I can talk to his Dr.
Would you please explain to me more about 2 hr pattern.
I'm so glad that you wrote me, Scott.
Merry