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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
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
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Hi @merpreb, my husband (Alzheimer's, diagnosed four years ago) doesn't wander from the bedroom, but did start talking in his sleep at night, which kept me awake. He was having full on business meetings. His neurologist prescribed 3 - 6 miligrams of melatonin. I started him with 3 mg, but he wouldn't get out of bed the next day. I split the pills in half now. He speaks in his sleep a lot less and makes fewer bathroom trips as well. He also takes 20 mg of Citalopram a day, an anti-depressant, for what were obsessive behaviors.